Figure 1.--Jackie Coogan was box office dynamite. Thus his parents tried to keep him a little boy as long as possible. Here we see Jackie Coogan as Johnnie O'Day in 'Johnie get your hir cut'. It was a film vehicle made just for him so the cutting of his trade-mark bangs could be imprtilized on film. Jackie wears a sailor suit, st the time a style for younger boys. at the time

"Johnie get your hair cut,' was a highly publicized silent movie where popular child star Jackie Coogan gets his trade mark page boy bangs cut when he turned 12 years old, all captured as part of the film. It was an event of great intetest to the movie going public. The film was directed by B. Reeves Eason (Sr.) and Archie L. Mayo. Jackie played Johnnie O'Day. The cast in addition to Jackie included Mattie Witting (Mother Slap), Maurice Costello (Baxter Ryan), Pat Hartigan (Jiggs Bradley), James Corrigan (Pop Slocum), Bobby Doyle (Bobby Dolin), Knute Erickson (Whip Evans), and Harry Carey (??). Harry Carey and James Corrigan were both importnt stars. It was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures production. The film was a vehicle for Jckie and the screen story was written by Gerald Beaumont. Jackie's fathet was the Production supervisor, a way of keeping the parents happy. The plot is about an orphan who is adopted by a kindly elderly racehorse owner. Johnnie attemps to pay back his benefactor by training to become a jockey ride so he can win an important race. The film was shot at Tanforan Race Track (now Tanforan Shopping Center), just south of San Francisco.

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