When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen (1989)

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Documentary
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A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien, and numerous others along with interviews.

When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen

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Cast

Baby Peggy
Baby Peggy as Self (as Diana Serra Cary) Died 2020 · San Diego, California, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery, October 29, 1918 – February 24, 2020), known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, autho...
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper as Self Died 2011 · Los Angeles, California, USA Jackie Cooper (September 15, 1922 –May 3, 2011) was an American actor. He is best known for his role of Perry White in the Christopher Reeves Superman films (1978–1987). He with the Navy in the South...
Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall as Self Died 1998 · London, England, UK Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-American actor, director, and photographer. He is best known for portraying Cornelius and Caesar in the origin...
Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills as Self Age 80 · Marylebone, London, England, UK Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting c...
Margaret O'Brien
Margaret O'Brien as Self Age 89 · San Diego, California, USA Margaret O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American film and stage actress. Although her film career as a leading character was brief, she was one of the most popular child actors in cinema histor...
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney as Self Died 2014 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, producer, and radio personality. In a car...
Director Dick Carter
Cast Baby Peggy, Jackie Cooper, Roddy McDowall, Hayley Mills, Margaret O'Brien, Mickey Rooney, Dean Stockwell, Angela Cartwright, Darryl Hickman, George McFarland