Jackie Cooper

Cooper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1501 Vine Street. De Sica died in Paris on November 13, 1974. The title comes from Norman Taurog's threat to shoot young Jackie's dog if he couldn't cry in Skippy. One of his best-received is La Ciociara (Two Women) (1961): Sophia Loren won the Oscar for her performance, and critics widely regard the film a classic. His autobiography, Please Don't Shoot My Dog, was published in 1981. His meeting with Cesare Zavattini was a very important event: they wrote together some of the most celebrated films of the neorealistic age, like Sciuscià (Shoeshine) and Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves). Later in the 1970s, he found renewed fame as Clark Kent's editor, Perry White, in the Superman feature film series starring Christopher Reeve. The company performed mostly light comedies, but they also staged plays by Beaumarchais, and worked with famous directors like Luchino Visconti.

It was his television acting that convinced him that he could become a director, and he successfully moved behind the camera, to become one of the busier television directors, for which he won Emmy Awards. In 1933 he founded his own company with his wife Giuditta Rissone and Sergio Tofano. Cooper had problems finding roles as he became an adolescent, and he served in World War II, so his career was at a nadir when he starred in two popular television series, The People's Choice and Hennesey. Born into poverty in Sora (Frosinone), he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923. He began a long on-screen relationship with actor Wallace Beery in such films as The Champ (1931), The Bowery (1933), Treasure Island (1934), and O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935). Vittorio De Sica (July 7, 1901 - November 13, 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie's contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, as he felt the youngster would have a better future in features. Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) (1970).

The movie catapulted young Jackie into superstardom. Caccia alla volpe (After the Fox) (1966). His first non-Our Gang role was in 1931, when his uncle Norman Taurog hired him to star in Skippy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor (the youngest actor ever to receive the nomination). Matrimonio all'italiana (Marriage Italian-Style) (1964). He conntinued to appear in Our Gang for two more years, becoming its main character. His most notable Our Gang shorts explore his character's crush on Miss Crabtree, the schoolteacher played by June Marlowe. Ieri, oggi e domani (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) (1963). Born in Los Angeles, California the nephew of director Norman Taurog, Cooper first appeared in the movies in Boxing Gloves in 1929, one of the Our Gang comedies. Boccaccio '70 (segment La riffa) (1962).

Jackie Cooper (born September 15, 1922) is an American actor and director, one of the few child actors who managed to transition into an adult career. La Ciociara (Two Women) (1961). L'oro di Napoli (The Gold of Naples) (1954). Umberto D (1952). Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan) (1951).

Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (1948). Sciuscià (Shoeshine) (1946). I bambini ci guardano (The Children Are Watching Us) (1942). Teresa Venerdì (1941).

Maddalena, zero in condotta (1940). Grandi magazzini (1939). Rose scarlatte (1939). Il signor Max (1937).

Gli uomini che mascalzoni (1932).