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| | Interview: Shots in the dark: for some child actors, the dream doesn't last forever - Movie Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | De Wilde, who was Oscar-nominated for his performance, was 9 when he made the movie in the summer and early fall of 1951, already an acclaimed veteran of 492 Broadway stage performances of The Member of the Wedding; he won a special Golden Globe for his work in the 1952 film version. |
 | | The gossip columnist Hedda Hopper apparently called him "the king of child actors." After Shane, he had his own TV series, Jamie (1953), and was in another 11 films, including Blue Denim (1959) and Hud (1963). |
 | | Looking him up in a film encyclopedia in the early '80s, I was shocked to learn he'd been killed from injuries sustained in a road accident in Denver, where he was to appear in a stage production of Butterflies Are Free, at age 30 in 1972. |
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