VINTAGE CLAUDE JARMAN JR. CHILD ACTOR YEARLING PHOTO ORIGINAL SIGNED AUTOGRAPH B

Description: CLAUDE JARMAN JR CHILD ACTOR SIGNED 8X10 INCH PHOTO FEATURING A SCENE FROM HIS KEY FILM THE YEARLING FROM 1955 Claude Jarman Jr. (born September 27, 1934) is an American former child actor. Contents1Early life and career2Filmography3References4Further reading5External linksEarly life and careerJarman was born in Nashville, Tennessee.[1] As a child, he acted in productions of the Nashville Community Playhouse's Children's Theater.[2] Jarman was 10 years old and in the fifth grade in Nashville when he was discovered in a nationwide talent search by MGM Studios, and was cast as the lead actor in the film The Yearling (1946).[3] His performance received glowing reviews and he received a special Academy Award as outstanding child actor of 1946 as a result.[4][5] He continued his studies at the MGM studio school,[6] and made a total of 11 films. By the time he reached his early twenties he chose to leave his film career behind. Republic Studios cast him in a couple of B-movies, but discouraged, he moved back to Tennessee to finish college at Vanderbilt University. Following coursework in pre-law at Vanderbilt, Jarman appeared in Disney's The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), which was his final movie. After that, he served three years in the U.S. Navy, doing public relations work.[7] Jarman moved to working behind the scenes. He ran the San Francisco Film Festival for 15 years (1965–1980) and was known for his in-depth retrospectives of movie stars and directors. He was Executive Producer of the music documentary film Fillmore (1972), about rock impresario Bill Graham. He returned to acting with a role on an episode of the television production Centennial (1978). Jarman was a special guest as a past acting award winner at both the 1998 and 2003 Academy Awards Ceremonies.[6] He served as Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco. He founded Jarman Travel Inc. in 1986 to serve the travel needs of corporations and executives.[1] Jarman married his first wife, Virginia Jarman, in 1959. They had three children together, Elizabeth, Claude III & Murray, before their 1968 divorce. Jarman married his second wife, Maryann, in 1968. They had two daughters together, Natalie and Vanessa, before their 1983 divorce. Jarman married his current wife, Katharine, in 1986, and has twin daughters Charlotte and Sarah with her.[6] In 2018, he wrote a book about his life titled My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood. FilmographyYearFilmRoleOther notes1946The YearlingJodyAcademy Juvenile Award1947High BarbareeAlec (age 14)1949Intruder in the DustChick MallisonRoughshodSteve PhillipsThe Sun Comes UpJerry1950Rio GrandeTrooper Jefferson 'Jeff' YorkeJohn Wayne's sonThe OutridersRoy Gort1951Inside StraightRip MacCool (age 16)1952Hangman's KnotJamie Groves1953Fair Wind to JavaChess1956The Great Locomotive ChaseJacob ParrottAndrews' Raiders USA: TV title1979CentennialEarl GrebeThe Winds of Death - TV miniseries episode Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude was the son of a railroad accountant. With no intentions of becoming a screen actor at the time, 12-year-old Claude Jarman, Jr. was discovered during an MGM nationwide talent search for their upcoming film, The Yearling (1946), and won the coveted role of Jody Baxter in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic story. The critics raved over Claude's tremendously moving debut, and the boy was awarded a miniature Oscar on Academy Awards night. His family moved to California permanently, and Claude studied at the MGM studio school while being built up as a child star. Sad to say, his film success would not last all that long. He seemed to lack the requisite good looks and natural boyish appeal necessary to forge on ahead. His follow-up films were mediocre, however, including High Barbaree (1947) with Van Johnson, The Sun Comes Up (1949) with Jeanette MacDonald, and Roughshod (1949) starring Robert Sterling. His next best role would be in Intruder in the Dust (1949) with David Brian and Juano Hernandez, but it wasn't enough to sustain his career. By the early 1950s, MGM was loaning him out to Republic Studios in minor programmers and the now-awkward teen lost ground rapidly. Discouraged, Claude returned to Nashville to complete high school and then attended Vanderbilt University where he took a pre-law course. Following his studies, he served three years in the Navy. By the time he returned to Hollywood in 1959, he found no film work at all but did manage to guest on a few TV shows. He later moved to behind-the-scenes work and made minor strides as a producer and film-festival executive director. He once served as director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco. Claude Jarman Jr. will be 80 on Sept. 27. He doesn’t look it. He doesn’t act it. He doesn’t live it. Many years ago I saw a movie with a youngster named Claude Jarman Jr. in a starring role. The movie, which came out in 1946, was The Yearling. It was based on a story about a backwoods kid named Jody who adopts a fawn and bumps up against the realities in the life of an impoverished family. Gregory Peck played Jody’s father. NATIONWIDE TALENT SEARCHMGM Studios conducted a talent search for an unknown kid to play Jody. Jarman, son of a railroad accountant, was 10 years old and living in Nashville, Tenn. His only acting experience had been in school plays. The studio sent him to Hollywood for a screen test and he got the part. His terrific reviews won him a Special Juvenile Academy Award for his performance. With that success, the Jarman family moved to Southern California, and for almost a decade Claude Jarman Jr. was in 10 movies. GOLDEN AGE OF MGMSeveral other kids received Juvenile Oscars. Shirley Temple was the first in 1935. Jarman got his in 1947. Others were Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, and Hayley Mills, who won the last one in 1960. At that point, the Motion Picture Academy did away with kids’ Oscars, and gave out the big ones regardless of the actor’s age. Retroactively, in 1983, they gave Jarman the big one. Now a tall, blue-eyed, senior citizen with a full mop of silver-gray hair, and rangy in the Gary Cooper mold, Jarman reflected on those Hollywood years. “I was lucky. It was the Golden Age of MGM, and I was part of it.” Asked what he thought of his success at the time, Jarman said, “I had nothing to compare it to. I thought, Doesn’t everyone have this? I had my own dressing room, my own makeup person and wardrobe person. I went to a two-room school on the MGM lot. “There were about 12 kids under contact to MGM. Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Margaret O’Brien, and Dean Stockwell among others,” he recalls. Adult stars were frequently matched romantically by MGM to gain press excitement. Occasionally, the studio arranged publicity photo dates for kid actors, and it arranged several for 13-year-old Jarman with 10-year-old Margaret O’Brien. “Hardly Richard Burton-Elizabeth Taylor stuff,” Jarman says. JOHN WAYNE TO LASSIEFollowing his success in The Yearling, Jarman appeared with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars like Van Johnson and June Allyson in High Barbaree in 1947, and Jeanette MacDonald and Lassie in The Sun Comes Up in 1949. Later, Jarman was picked for a young adult role in the big John Ford movie Rio Grande, starring John Wayne, who played a cavalry officer, and Jarman played his son. “That was my favorite film to work in. It was filmed on location in Moab, Utah, and I got to ride horses, which I loved,” Jarman remembers. Another high point was a 1952 film, Hangman’s Knot, which starred Lee Marvin. “I was 17 at the time. Marvin was a larger-than-life tough guy. He befriended me, and we rode around Hollywood in his red Thunderbird convertible,” Jarman says. There were a few other films like The Great Locomotive Chase, but that was about the end of Jarman’s Hollywood career. He was growing up, and few youngsters make the transition to major adult roles. NEVER BEEN TO SAN FRANCISCOThe family moved back to Nashville in 1950, where Jarman finished high school and studied prelaw at Vanderbilt, graduating in 1956. Having been in the university’s Officer Candidate School, he joined the Navy, became a lieutenant (j.g.), and served three years. “Because I was colorblind, I was assigned to the P.R. staff and wound up in Hollywood, this time not as an actor, but as a member of the Armed Forces P.R. office, where I worked with studios making movies about the Navy,” he recalls. “My wife was from Birmingham, Ala., so when I was discharged we moved there, and I got a job with an advertising agency. One client I worked for was the John Hancock Insurance Company, which decided to open an office in San Francisco. They offered me a job there and I accepted. I had never been to San Francisco,” Jarman says. THE DORENBUSH DAYSImmediately he met Glenn Dorenbush, a charismatic tippler, bar philosopher, and publicist. Dorenbush, always quotable, had an inside track with San Francisco columnist Herb Caen, so top saloons like Perry’s and the Washington Square Bar & Grill employed him to get their names in the papers. Jarman was quotable himself and had that magic Hollywood background. Overnight he became part of San Francisco’s well-lubricated saloon culture. Though not much of a drinker, he enjoys the sociability of bars and counts several bartenders among his friends. FILM FESTIVALSoon Jarman became involved with the San Francisco International Film Festival, founded in 1952, and one of the oldest events of its kind in the country. He was named to a film selection committee that included Shirley Temple, writer and nightclub owner Barnaby Conrad, and novelist Herb Gold. Jarman and Temple were on opposite sides of a controversy over the Swedish film Night Games, which had overtones of sexual perversity, lesbianism and incest, then considered highly controversial. Jarman voted to screen it; Temple denounced it as “pornography for profit,” but while the others had watched the film, she had not. Night Games was shown and the world did not end. Later that year Jarman was named executive director of the influential event. In 1974, Mayor Joseph Alioto tapped Jarman for director of the city’s cultural affairs department. He oversaw operations of the opera house and other civic arts organizations as well as the film festival. Jarman took another shot at acting, appearing in an episode of the TV production Centennial. He also served as executive producer of the well-regarded “rockumentary” on Bill Graham and the Fillmore Auditorium. And, to bring you up to date on that earlier magical period in Jarman’s life, he appeared as a past Oscar winner at both the 1998 and 2003 Academy Awards ceremonies. A LONG WAY FROM NASHVILLEAlways a dedicated social saloonist, Jarman hung out at the Washington Square Bar & Grill and played shortstop for proprietor Ed Moose’s quirky softball team, Les Lapins Sauvages. Once again he enjoyed the limelight. In 1980, he was recruited by the Shaklee Corporation to run its public relations and travel departments. In 1986, he founded and operated his own travel agency until earlier this year, when he finally shut it down. These days Jarman is sitting back and smelling the roses of a career that took him from Hollywood actor to San Francisco public figure. Most weekdays he hangs out in North Beach, perhaps having lunch with buddies at Capp’s Corner or Original Joe’s. An Academy Award Oscar sits on the mantelpiece in his Marin County home. He has seven children, including two daughters with his present wife Katherine. Asked the inevitable question, “What if?” he concludes: “If I had not been picked for that role in The Yearling, I would probably still be in Nashville.”

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