| 词条 | Jackie "Butch" Jenkins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins | image = Jack Jenkins in The Human Comedy trailer.jpg | imagesize = 250px | caption = Screenshot from the trailer for The Human Comedy, 1943 | birth_date = {{birth date|1937|8|29}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, U.S | death_date = {{death date and age|2001|8|14|1937|8|29}} | death_place = Asheville, North Carolina, U.S. | birth_name = Jack Dudley Jenkins | yearsactive = 1943–1948 }} Jackie "Butch" Jenkins (August 29, 1937 – August 14, 2001) was an American child actor who had a brief but notable film career during the 1940s. CareerBorn Jack Dudley Jenkins in Los Angeles, the son of actress Doris Dudley, Jenkins made his film debut at the age of six in The Human Comedy (1943) as Ulysses Macauley after an MGM talent scout saw him playing on a Santa Monica beach and admired his high spirits.[1] His performance as Mickey Rooney's younger brother (The Human Comedy) was well received and Jenkins was cast in a succession of films. He was given star billing for the 1946 film Boys' Ranch. Inspired by the real-life ranch in Texas, which provided a home and education to underprivileged boys, MGM promoted the film as a successor to Boys Town (1936). It co-stars James Craig who also appears in Jenkins' first film, The Human Comedy, as well as in his next film, Little Mr. Jim. Jenkins' other films include National Velvet (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), The Bride Goes Wild (1948) Summer Holiday (1948), and his final film Big City (1948). Jenkins was one of several popular child actors at MGM during the early 1940s, and was educated at the studio's school along with other youngsters under contract to the studio such as Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, Claude Jarman Jr. and Darryl Hickman. He was regarded as a "scene-stealer" and was notable among the studio's child stars for not being conventionally "cute". He was described by film writers Sol Chaneles and Albert Wolsky as "an audience favourite as an all-American boy [with a] space between his teeth, freckles and a tousled mop of hair – a marked contrast to the pretty children who usually appeared on screen."[1] Pauline Kael wrote approvingly of his effectiveness as a performer, saying that his appearance as a five-year-old who enjoys waving at trains in The Human Comedy helped elevate the film, while his performance in National Velvet made him "the little brother of everyone's dreams".[2] In 1946 exhibitors (movie theater owners) voted him the second-most promising "star of tomorrow".[3] Later life & deathJenkins retired from acting at the age of eleven, after he developed a stutter,[4] and as an adult recalled his film career fondly and without regret. He did state, however, that he had not particularly enjoyed acting and had never expected to make a career of it. Later described as a "businessman-outdoorsman", Jenkins established a successful career away from Hollywood and lived for many years in Dallas, Texas, before moving to western North Carolina in the late 1970s.[5] There he built a home "on the side of a steep mountain", where he resided with his third wife, Gloria.[5] On August 14, 2001, he died at age 63 in Asheville, North Carolina. Filmography
Notes1. ^1 {{cite book |last= Chaneles |first= Sol and Wolsky, Albert |title= The Movie Makers |year= 1974 |publisher= Vineyard Books, New York |isbn= 0-7064-0387-8 |pages= 279}} 2. ^{{cite book |last= Kael |first= Pauline |title= 5001 Nights at the Movies |year= 1982 |publisher= Zenith, London |isbn= 0-09-933550-6 |pages= 260 and 407}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17994035 |title=The Stars of To-morrow. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=10 September 1946 |accessdate=24 April 2012 |page=11 Supplement: The Sydney Morning Herald Magazine |publisher=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news| title = Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins| publisher = New York Times| url = http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=35451| accessdate = 2007-06-10 | first=Manohla | last=Dargis}} 5. ^1 Mastrangelo, Joseph P. (1978). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/04/23/butch-jenkins-a-child-star-at-age-9-a-retiree-at-10/dade4980-32e9-4c8c-ac33-437254a0c0ca/ "Butch Jenkins - A Child Star At Age 9, a Retiree at 10",] The Washington Post, April 23, 1978; retrieved November 3, 2017. Bibliography
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