Most annoying child actors

[faginsgirl]

Hi.



Whenever I see Bonnie Langford I always cringe as I still think of her as an annoying child actor. Also not British. sorry, but Jodie Foster has ALWAYS got on my wick



Are they any child actors who you cant bare to watch? Bless thier cotton socks



xx

[DB7]

I find most child actors (in films) to be annoying brats who ruin many a good film. Top of my list would be Bobby Henrey in The Fallen Idol; Ralph Richardson should have grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and shoved his foot up his backside.

[penfold]

Which would have been too good a fate for Jackie Cooper; particularly after his performance in The Champ, opposite Wallace Beery in 1931....it makes my teeth itch. In comparisom Bobby Henrey is a delight. Best child performer/performance; has to be Jackie Coogan in The Kid......

[faginsgirl]

How about the young Tracey in corronation street?



She was never very popular!



xx

[Wicked Lady]

Child actors are a funny lot - they're either adorable like Jackie Coogan or you want to shove them in a sack and hurl them off a bridge.



The most annoying child actor, to my mind, was the little girl playing Scarlett's daughter in Gone With The Wind. I clench every time she's on the screen.

[cully]

name='faginsgirl']Hi.



Whenever I see Bonnie Langford I always cringe as I still think of her as an annoying child actor. Also not British. sorry, but Jodie Foster has ALWAYS got on my wick



Are they any child actors who you cant bare to watch? Bless thier cotton socks



xx

Hated Bonnie as a child actress, like her now.

Loved Jodie as a child actress, don't much like her now.



Hang on, Nancy, are you saying Bonnie Langford isn't British?? What is she then?

[faginsgirl]

No, sorry, just amazingly bad punctuation



xx

[Gary D.]

name='Wicked Lady'] The most annoying child actor, to my mind, was the little girl playing Scarlett's daughter in Gone With The Wind. I clench every time she's on the screen.

Without going to IMDb, I think the girl was Ann Todd (not the British actress). If I'm correct, off the top of my noggin, she played in Trouble With Father, Stuart Irwin's situation comedy in the 1950's. Also, wasn't she Leslie Howard's daughter in Intermezzo?



I was checking out Rex Thompson, trying to find out what happened to him, and one of the bloggers said he was 'very annoying.' I liked him--just because his diction was precise (as was Roddy McDowell's) and he didn't say, 'Awesome' every other sentence. I thought Skippy Homeier's voice was very annoying--screeky--in Tomorrow the World.



One person I really can't stand is Margaret O'Brien--sorry to her fans out there. I have had to give up Meet Me in St. Louis because I can't put up with all that sugar.

[Gary D.]

name='DB7']I find most child actors (in films) to be annoying brats who ruin many a good film. Top of my list would be Bobby Henrey in The Fallen Idol; Ralph Richardson should have grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and shoved his foot up his backside.

I should have mentioned Bobby in my previous post. The Fallen Idol is one of my favorite British films of the 1940s. I thought Henrey was good in it--what's not to like about him? The best Oliver Twist, I think, was John Howard Davies, certainly better than the 'angelic' Mark Lester.

[MB]

Presumably none of you have children..



I always find it saddening how some of the childless can be so brutal about the young.



I have to say, I find a number of adults annoying, but I'd be concerned if I got to the point where I wished physical harm on them.



EDITED to put in 'some' - as I know that doesn't go across the board.

[penfold]

name='MB']Presumably none of you have children..



I always find it saddening how some of the childless can be so brutal about the young.



I have to say, I find a number of adults annoying, but I'd be concerned if I got to the point where I wished physical harm on them.



EDITED to put in 'some' - as I know that doesn't go across the board.

I think I can be safe in saying that Steve (DB7) was not actually advocating Ralph Richardson (dead 20 years) actually kicking Bobby Henrey (now 69) if only for reasons of implausibility.

I have to say, I find it maddening how some parents can be so sanctimonious about the childless.

We're talking about child performers and performances, and how irritating some are. Not advocating the slaughter of the innocents.

[MB]

I'm not being sanctimonious - I'm giving you my opinion.



I find it offensive - I think it is meant to be offensive - so don't be surprised if some people take offense.

[MB]

Hey - I thought there was free speech here..meaning that people can say what they like and other people can say they are offended by it and so on.



I'd rather people said they didn't agree with something I said or found something I did annoying rather than festering about it or never speaking to them again etc.

[SirOllyBolly]

I believe I heard on the radio many years ago an anecdote attributed to Noel Coward. He was taken to see a nativity play of which the first act consisted mainly of an over-acting young girl and a real donkey that defecated on-stage at regular intervals.



At the end of the act, Coward's host apologised for the donkey's behaviour and asked what he thought of the young girl? Coward's reply went along the lines of "... the act would have been much better if the latter was inserted into the former"

[penfold]

name='MB']I'm not being sanctimonious - I'm giving you my opinion.



I find it offensive - I think it is meant to be offensive - so don't be surprised if some people take offense.

And I'm giving you my opinion - you're being sanctimonious. And that too, is unbecoming.



If you can't imagine that Steve's comment and my adjunct - that long-dead people should have given someone a kick up the backside was not to be taken entirely seriously, well, I don't know what to think of your world view. There are more important things to take offense at....like reality.



Thank you for editing out that insult - not that it bothered me; but it's untrue, as I have never met the bloke, so why would I bother??



To get back On Topic...are there really no child performers/performances that you could live without???

[MB]

Noel Coward went to 'Italia Conti' - home of the most annoying child actors...



Yes, children can be annoying - but this kind of thing makes me go yeeeuch.

[CaptainWaggett]

name='SirOllyBolly']I believe I heard on the radio many years ago an anecdote attributed to Noel Coward. He was taken to see a nativity play of which the first act consisted mainly of an over-acting young girl and a real donkey that defecated on-stage at regular intervals.



At the end of the act, Coward's host apologised for the donkey's behaviour and asked what he thought of the young girl? Coward's reply went along the lines of "... the act would have been much better if the latter was inserted into the former"

Coincidently this quote is actually about Bonnie Langford, mentioned upthread, who appeared as Scarlett's daughter in a disastrous stage musical of Gone with the Wind c1972 (not to be confused with the recent disastrous stage musical of Gone with the Wind), rather than a nativity play. Coward, of course, was a noted child actor himself - famously he was Slightly in a very early production of Peter Pan.



I thought John Howard Davies was excellent in Oliver Twist but hopelessly miscast in Tom Brown's Schooldays - they must have had to struggle to find a boy more weedy looking than him to play Little Arthur. But the chap who played East was really excellent (though, sadly, IIRC, committed suicide when he was still young)

[MB]

name='penfold']And I'm giving you my opinion - you're being sanctimonious.



If you can't imagine that Steve's comment and my adjunct - that long-dead people should have given someone a kick up the backside was not to be taken entirely seriously, well, I don't know what to think of your world view. There are more important things to take offense at....like reality.



And as for toadying .....why?? I've never met the man, never spoken to him, we owe each other nothing. He's a friend of a friend. The same way that you and I have never spoken or met. So get to know me a bit better before flinging insults about.

OK, sorry Penfold.



I wasn't picking on DB7 in particular- although he did start it - I thought the throwing the lifeless body from the bridge comment was particularly choice, actually.

[faginsgirl]

name='MB']Hey - I thought there was free speech here..meaning that people can say what they like and other people can say they are offended by it and so on.



I'd rather people said they didn't agree with something I said or found something I did annoying rather than festering about it or never speaking to them again etc.

Well thats true, but the thread certainly wasn`t put there to offend ANYONE!



And No, I don`t have children.



xx

[MB]

No I wasn't taking offense at your thread - although I did wonder why you hadn't posted in the 'Childhood' thread and then put this up instead. I thought it might be some low level female rivalry or perhaps you just find me annoying. The latter of which, I don't mind.



But no offense Faginsgirl. I wouldn't take any of the above too seriously though as I have been a bit paranoid and annoying of late.



But I don't take any special 'I'm better than you are' thing about being a parent. I just got knocked up at 19 and you lot didn't - some people might see that as a good thing.



Anyway, please -continue...unfettered..all of you..