This is fun to read 13 years later, because we’ve since seen Ke Huy Quan achieve big things.
Some posts have not aged well.
Oof. Yeah, that’s a sad one.
I don’t think Missy Gold (Katie Gatling, “Benson”) and Tina Yothers (Jennifer Keaton, “Family Ties”) have been mentioned.
Hands down, Coogan’s biggest impact on the Film industry is the law named after him. He made millions as a child star, yet when he became an adult he discovered that his parents had spent virtually all of it.
Coogan Law prevents this abuse from happening now. And not just in California.
It does kinda suck that he paid a huge price to protect others who came after.
That song is such a Mandela Effect for me. I could have sworn I heard it in high school, and I graduated in 1991.
I was watching To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) last night and was again impressed by the young actors in it, especially Mary Badham (“Scout”). It looks like she did not act very much after the movie was released, though she appeared in about a dozen productions over many years. She appears to have been quite successful in other areas and has a family.
Did a search, and it looks like I didn’t mention her the first time around, so:
Lillian Gish.
Didn’t smoke, rarely drank, lived to 99, and made 105 films. No one is sure the number of her live performances, since in some cases, the records just aren’t there. She also was in episodes of many, many TV shows. She appeared on The Defenders as well as The Love Boat.
She started appearing on the stage at age six, an that where DW Griffith first saw her, when she was 19. Very soon, she made her first film, with Griffith.
After making His Double Life in 1933, a sound film which she didn’t think came off well, she returned to the theater. She accepted a few cameos and some parts on TV-- of note, she spotted the script of A Trip to Bountiful as a diamond in the rough, agreed to make a TV movie based on it, in 1953, and then went on to star in it on Broadway-- but then in 1955, she appeared in what is considered a powerful “comeback”: Night of the Hunter, as Rachel Cooper.
If she had a rough adolescence, she was through it by the time Griffith discovered her. She talks about her youth having been very regimented, and directors and her mother could demand any hours or anything else of her. Albeit, I think she did say her mother treated her better than other stage mothers did their children.
Probably to busy to crash and burn.
Anyway, I wrote her a fan letter when I was 17, and got a personal answer, so, decent person, too.
@Cartooniverse You replied to my post 13 years later. I have thoughts about what you wrote but will wait to post them until 2039. 
I saw her in a production back in 2022. She played the old woman neighbor of Scout.
Collin Wilcox was also in To Kill A Mockingbird, as the girl who was allegedly molested. I remember her best as the grieving widow in an episode of Columbo.
Collin Wilcox (actress) - Wikipedia
For a long time, I thought she had played Scout, but I know now that I was mistaken.
A much needed laugh !! And not for nothing, but wouldn’t it make for a more paced and genteel world if everyone waited 13 years before launching into their replies? (Depending on just when you posted, I didn’t even wait 13 hours. For shame, for shame.)