Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!pam From: pam@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: RE: Re: Jackie Coogan -- F.I.P. Message-ID: <200@cepu.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Mar-84 13:20:45 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.200 Posted: Sun Mar 11 13:20:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 20:23:32 EST References: <3000014@ucbesvax.UUCP> Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA Lines: 6 Jackie Coogan's greatest claim to fame was *NOT* his role in the Addams Family tv series. It was the California law (known as the Coogan Act) which requires independent legal review of child performers' contracts and resulted from Coogan's bankruptcy at a tender age when his mother and step-father "mishandled" the funds Coogan received as one of the first child movie stars.