When they were young

[Philosophe_rouge]

I thought it might be interesting to assemble a sort of list/collection of what actors are chosen to play younger versions of more popular performers. It's done often in bio-pics and a lot of old Hollywood films.

An example would be something like;

Frank Coghlan Jr. played James Cagney as a wayward youth in The Public Enemy

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/vlcsnap-00011.jpg

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/vlcsnap-00049-1.jpg

Frank Coghlan Jr. grew up to look like;

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/FrankCoghlanJr_Billy_Batson.jp g

[Philosophe_rouge]

Julie Allred played Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/69407-21054.gif

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/awhateverhappenedtobabyjanedav iscra.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane-bet.jpg

Same movie, different character.

Gina Gillespie as Joan Crawford,

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/awhateverhappenedtobabyjanedav is-2.jpg

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/awhateverhappenedtobabyjanedav is-1.jpg

[Philosophe_rouge]

Peggy Ann Garner (a rather prolilfic child actress back in the day) as a young Joan Fontaine, in Jane Eyre (1944)

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/hbdh9n5by7m9vv21rqn6.png

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/zglsaygd35eo80xi629u.png

Peggy Ann Garner all grown up:

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/pag-003.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/cq53e9c023dd35a903_landing.jpg
(Second from the left)

[Philosophe_rouge]

Dickie Moore as Gary Cooper and Virginia Weidler as Ann Hardin in Peter Ibbetson (1935)

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/aGaryCooperCollectionDVDreview Pe-1.jpg

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/aGaryCooperCollectionDVDreview Peter.jpg

and

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/annharding.jpg

Dickie Moore grew up to look like;
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/3273611.jpg

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/dickie.jpg

Virginia Weidler
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/weidler1.jpg

[megladon8]

Very neat thread idea.

Is it just me or did Frank Coghlan Jr. grow up to look like Rick Astley?

[Stay Puft]

Frank Coghlan Jr. grew up to look like;

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/FrankCoghlanJr_Billy_Batson.jp g

Shazam!

Great thread, rouge.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Sharyn Moffett as Laraine Day in The Locket (1946)

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/sharynmoffettinthelocket.jpg

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/larraine.jpg

[Philosophe_rouge]

Very neat thread idea.

Is it just me or did Frank Coghlan Jr. grow up to look like Rick Astley?
I definetely see the resemablance.


Shazam!

Great thread, rouge.
Ha! Exactly.

[Philosophe_rouge]

This one might be my favourite

Donald O'Connor as Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939)
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/38child.jpg

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/12541304-12541307-large.jpg

Donald O'Conner grew up to look like...

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/Annex-OConnorDonald_10.jpg

[Philosophe_rouge]

Jennifer Connelly as a young Elizabeth McGovern in Once Upon a Time in America

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/OneDeborah.jpg

Jennifer Connelly all grown up

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/JenniferConnellyis.jpg

[megladon8]

Both Jen and I think Jennifer Connelly is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

We also both agree that she looked better about 10 years ago, before she started starving herself skinny.

She has a nice full, curvy figure and wears it very well.

And wow, they actually picked a good match in Once Upon a Time in America. A rare case where it seems plausible that the child actor would have grown up to look that way.

I still need to see that movie.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Both Jen and I think Jennifer Connelly is one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

We also both agree that she looked better about 10 years ago, before she started starving herself skinny.

She has a nice full, curvy figure and wears it very well.

And wow, they actually picked a good match in Once Upon a Time in America. A rare case where it seems plausible that the child actor would have grown up to look that way.

I still need to see that movie.
Yea, Connelly is incredibly beautiful.

I thought so tooo, probably the best match I've encountered yet. The ressemblance is actually quite remarkable, a great piece of casting... at least as far as visuals go.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Frankie Burke as a Young James Cagney and William Tracy as a young Pat O'Brien

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/3-5.jpg
Burke (left) and Tracy (Center)

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http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/CagneyJamesAngelsWithDirtyFace s_01.jpg


Burke grown up;
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/FBbathingsuit1.jpg

Tracy grown up;
http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/aahenrytwo.jpg
(right)

[Ezee E]

Fell in love with Connelly the second I saw The Rocketeer. Couldn't see most of her movies until I got older though.

[Wryan]

Frankie Burke as a Young James Cagney and William Tracy as a young Pat O'Brien

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss181/missemmaknight/3-5.jpg
Burke (left) and Tracy (Center)

Actually, this is incorrect. That scene in Angels was from the present day, not from the past prologue, although the two kids they picked to play the young Cagney and O'Brien were indeed spitting images.

EDIT: I found some tiny pictures...

Burke:
http://frankieburke.net/FBghost.jpg
(Look at that Cagney-lookin fucker!)

Tracy:
http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/tracyw1.jpg

Both:
http://i.cdn.turner.com/v5cache/TCM/Images/Dynamic/i79/angelswithdirtyfacespretzelleg s_vd_120x60_040720090254.jpg

Burke's Cagney impersonation was also quite flawless.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Damn you're right Wryan, it's been so long since I've seeen the movie, and I was too lazy to get the DVD :/ I'll see about fixing that

[Wryan]

Post more! This is a cool thread. :P

How bout Frailty, Dragonheart's Thewlis, Citizen Kane, Reign of Fire...

[MadMan]

Post more! This is a cool thread. :P

How bout Frailty, Dragonheart's Thewlis, Citizen Kane, Reign of Fire...Frailty featured some of the best child acting I've seen in quite some time. I was really impressed.

Great thread btw :cool:

[baby doll]

And wow, they actually picked a good match in Once Upon a Time in America. A rare case where it seems plausible that the child actor would have grown up to look that way.

I still need to see that movie.Too bad Connelly so completely upstages McGovern as an actress. And the main character, Noodles, and his boy friends seem to age thirty years in the time he's in prison. Maybe it's a character thing: I mean, if I looked like James Woods in his late 30s when I was in my early 20s, I'd have anger management issues, too.

Maybe this is off-topic, but I read today that one of the slumdog kids had his house demolished in a slum clearing. Also, I read a while go that the little girl was having trouble readjusting to life in the slums after going to the Oscars and sleeping in a nice hotel with a real bed. Plus there was the video of one of the kids being beaten because he didn't want to talk to reporters who were paying his father. I mean, the movie made like 300 million dollars, but Danny Boyle can't do anything to help these kids that he exploited?