List of Crap #130: Top 50 Kid Stars, Prodigies, and Beyond

[George-2.0]

#14: Hayley Mills
42 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #3 (George-2.0)

Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress. The daughter of Sir John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and younger sister of actress Juliet Mills, Mills began her acting career as a child and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in the British crime drama film Tiger Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Disney's Pollyanna (1960) -the last time that honor was given- and Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress in 1961. During her early career, she appeared in six films for Walt Disney, including her dual role as twins Susan and Sharon in the Disney film The Parent Trap (1961). Her performance in Whistle Down the Wind (a 1961 adaptation of the novel written by her mother) saw Mills nominated for BAFTA Award for Best British Actress.

During the late 1960s, Mills began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more mature roles. The age of contracts with studios soon passed. For her success with Disney, she received the Disney Legend Award. Although she has not maintained the box office success or the Hollywood A-list she experienced as a child actress, she has continued to make films and TV appearances, including a starring role in the UK television mini-series The Flame Trees of Thika in 1981, the title role in Disney's television series Good Morning, Miss Bliss in 1988, and as Caroline, a main character in Wild at Heart (2007–2012) on ITV in the UK.




#13: Haley Joel Osment
45 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #9 (ColeStratton)

Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor. After a series of roles in television and film during the 1990s, including a minor part in Forrest Gump playing the title character's son (also named Forrest Gump), Osment rose to fame as a prominent child actor for his performance as a young unwilling medium in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller film The Sixth Sense, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He subsequently appeared in leading roles in several high-profile Hollywood films, including Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Mimi Leder's Pay It Forward, and Secondhand Lions, alongside Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. He played Davis Cable in Last Stand at Saber River alongside Tom Selleck in 1997.

He made his Broadway debut in 2008 in a short-lived revival of David Mamet's play American Buffalo, starring John Leguizamo and Cedric the Entertainer. Osment is also known for his voice-roles of Sora since 2002 at the age of 14 and Vanitas since 2010 in the Kingdom Hearts video games, as well as his later roles in comedies such as Sex Ed and The Spoils of Babylon.




#12: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
46 points on 2 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #3 (MartyS (Gromit), CJones)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

The Austrian-born wunderkind first took up the harpsichord when he was just 3 years old. He composed his first piece of published music at age 5, and by his teen years, he had already written several concertos, sonatas, operas, and symphonies. Mozart and his sister Maria Anna—herself a musical prodigy—traveled widely through Europe exhibiting their talents in royal courts and public concerts. From Bavaria to Paris, audiences marveled at the boy wonder's ability to improvise and play the piano blindfolded or with one hand crossed over the other. During a 1764 stopover in London, he was even tested and examined by a British lawyer and naturalist named Daines Barrington, who was awestruck by the 8-year-old's ability to sight-read unfamiliar music "in a most masterly manner."

Mozart would eventually grow into one of Europe's most celebrated and prolific composers. Before his untimely death at age 35, he composed more than 600 works, many of which are acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is considered among the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence on Western music is profound. Ludwig van Beethoven composed his early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote: "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years"

[George-2.0]

Brian Keith played fathers or a fathering Uncle to 3 of our Child Stars, Pamela Franklin in A Tiger Walks, Johnny Whitaker in Family Affair, and Hayley Mills in The Parent Trap... though he's kind of an asshole in Parent Trap, actually he was kind of an asshole in A Tiger Walks too, not really a warm and cuddly dad.

Anyway, Mills was THE young star of the 60s, and as a kid, I absolutely loved The Parent Trap (a rewatch as an adult wasn't as rewarding, still... memories and all). She left an impression in her first picture, Tiger Bay. And was good in Pollyanna (age 13) and The Chalk Garden (17 when she filmed it). But my favorite movie and one of her best performances was in Whistle Down the Wind.

In later teen roles, I like The Family Way and Sky West and Crooked (probably her best acting, IMHO) and of course, there was That Darn Cat and The Trouble with Angels, so all told, I was (and still am) a Hayley Mills fan.

[George-2.0]

#11: Nadia Comăneci
46 points on 2 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #2 (MartyS (Gromit))

Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner (born November 12, 1961), known professionally as Nadia Comăneci, is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976 at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games (1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal), she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comăneci won two more gold medals and attained two more perfect 10s. During her career, Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.

Comăneci is one of the world's best-known gymnasts and is credited with popularizing the sport around the globe. In 2000, she was named as one of the Athletes of the 20th Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. She has lived in the United States since 1989, when she defected from then-Communist Romania before its revolution in December that year. She later worked with and married American Olympic gold medal gymnast Bart Conner, who set up his own school. In 2001 she became a naturalized United States citizen, and has dual citizenship, also maintaining her Romanian citizenship.




#10: Bill Mumy
46 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #4 (MartyS (Gromit))

Charles William Mumy Jr. (born February 1, 1954) is an American actor, writer and musician and a figure in the science-fiction community/comic book fandom. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, when he was credited as Billy Mumy—an era which included his appearing on television in The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and on film in Dear Brigitte, followed by an iconic three-season role as Will Robinson in the 1960s CBS sci-fi series Lost in Space.

He later appeared as lonely teenager Sterling North in the Disney film Rascal (1969) and Teft in the film Bless the Beasts and Children (1971).

In the 1990s, he performed the role of Lennier in all five seasons of the syndicated sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 and narrated A&E Network's Emmy Award-winning series Biography.

Mumy is also known for his musical career as a guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer: he is an Emmy nominee for original music in Adventures in Wonderland (1991). As a musician, Mumy performs as a solo artist, an occasional guest performer, and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes. From 1988 through the 90s he performed at the San Diego Comic-Con and other comics-related events as part of the band Seduction of the Innocent (named after the titular book by Fredric Wertham) along with Miguel Ferrer, Steve Leialoha, Max Allan Collins and John "Chris" Christensen. The band released one CD, The Golden Age.




#9: Gary Coleman
48 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #6 (stethacantus)

Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor, comedian, and writer. One of the highest-paid child actors in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" and received several accolades throughout his career, including two Young Artist Awards and four People's Choice Awards.

Coleman was best known for his role as Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), for which he received the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Comedy Series. He was the star of the animated-show The Gary Coleman Show (1982) where he voiced Andy LeBeau, and also voiced Kevin in Waynehead (1996–1997). He made his film debut with On the Right Track (1981); his other films include the comedies Jimmy the Kid and The Kid with the Broken Halo (both released in 1982).

Despite having a successful acting career, Coleman struggled financially in later life. In 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business adviser over the misappropriation of his assets, only to declare bankruptcy a decade later. On May 28, 2010, Coleman passed away due to an epidural hematoma.

[stethacantus]

What would a LOC be without someone on the list you completely forgot about and should have had on your list.  I would have had Chloë Grace Moretz on my list had I not forgotten she existed. Perhaps I overlooked her because her performances were very mature, like she was in her early 20s wen she was between the ages of 14 and 17. Also, she was sexually attractive in many of her early roles, which something you would rather not be feeling when watching a minor. I would not be surprised if it was announced she had lied about her age to get parts meant for child actors, and was actually around 18 when she did 30 Rock and Kick-Ass. So it is no wonder I didn't think of Hit Girl when I was compiling my list.

I only had the one Corey on my list. The reason being, that although they were in a couple of classic 80s movies together ( if you want to count Dream a Little Dream as a classic, otherwise just Lost Boys ), Corey Feldman had the better resume of solo films, as well as played memorable characters in those solo films. I also don't really think of the Two Coreys as a legitimate team, but rather a marketing gimmick.  Someone realized two of the actors in The Lost Boys were named Corey, and from that point on every time Feldman or Haim were up for a role in a film, the casting director decided to offer a part to the other Corey. The only film that seemed legitimately written for them as a team as child actors was License to Drive which was pure 80's garbage.

I think Gary Coleman is a very underrated comedic actor. If you want to see him at his best, track down the episodes of The Jeffersons  and Good Times that he did just prior to Diff'rent Strokes. He was an outstanding insult comedian in both those show, and after just a few guest spots was being offered his own sitcom. Unfortunately that sitcom was Diff'rent Strokes which toned down his character, then eventually completely neutered it after the first season. From that point on he was type casted in family films where he was expected to be cute rather than funny.

[George-2.0]

To quote Ricky Ricardo, "Aye Yai Yai Yai Yai!" And that was my worry with this topic, not woke culture but statements like what I just read. I get what you're trying to say and I know some kids have been disturbingly sexualized. And yes, Moretz has done mature roles with violence and such.

But thing is, she wasn't around 18, she was 13 and looked it. The words "sexually attractive" should be verboten with this subject, with people of that age. Personally, she wasn't 'that' to me, not even close, I saw a kid, period.

I beg you, please edit that post, the opening paragraph.

[stethacantus]

To quote Ricky Ricardo, "Aye Yai Yai Yai Yai!" And that was my worry with this topic, not woke culture but statements like what I just read. I get what you're trying to say and I know some kids have been disturbingly sexualized. And yes, Morez has done mature roles with violence and such.

But thing is, she wasn't around 18, she was 13 and looked it. The words "sexually attractive" should be verboten with this subject, with people of that age. Personally, she wasn't 'that' to me, not even close, I saw a kid, period.

I beg you, please edit that post, the opening paragraph.

I am talking about the low end of the spectrum of sexually attractive.  The Julie Andrews in Sound of Music end of the spectrum, not the Madonna end.  I know the discussion of minors and sex has become a controversial topic in America,  but I am not one to pretend people don't become attractive until they reach their age of consent birthdate then magically change when the clock hits midnight. There is a gradual biological change that begins around 10 called puberty, and some people mature a lot sooner than others. Of course we could go on pretending the only years in history girls under the age of 18 were ever attractive  just happened to be the same years you were in Middle School and High School,  but that just isn't true. If it was, then Tracy Lords would never have successfully scammed the porn industry., along with millions of her fans who unwittingly bought and rented what suddenly became child porn. Personally, my preferences are older than teenagers, with very few exceptions. This was even the case when I myself was a teenager as the celebrity women I wanted to "date" were in their 30s. But in my opinion, there is no harm in recognizing anyone underaged  as attractive if they look mature. Actually dating them is another story.

[George-2.0]

Your trying to spin it, but applying the words "sexually attractive" to a 13-year old is troubling.

And acknowledging attractiveness, like telling your young ring bearer and flower girl at your wedding that they look very handsome or pretty in their dresses and suits is one thing; but thinking, "man, they're sexy!" that's quite another.

I'm glad you at least recognize that dating them would be wrong.

Anyway, I tried to dance around the landmines, but I finally stepped on one. I knew it was there, movies, for example, reflect life, all life, the good and the terrible. And sometimes you watch a film where a kid is sexualized - but that doesn't mean I'm at home thinking the same. Iris in Taxi Driver, for example, isn't sexy, she's sad.


So I'm just going to wrap this up, get it over and done with as I feel rather 'disturbed' right now, to say the least.

[George-2.0]

#8: Fred Savage
50 points 3 on of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #5 (Pak-Man)

Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976, pictured center) is an American actor and television director, known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988 to 1993). He has earned several awards and nominations, such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in The Princess Bride, and voiced Oswald the blue octopus in Oswald.

In later years, he has directed and produced numerous episodes of television series, such as Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Hannah Montana, and Phil of the Future, as well as the primetime series Ugly Betty and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. More recently, Savage returned to acting in the television series The Grinder, as well as the Netflix series Friends from College.




#7: Drew Barrymore
50 points on 6 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #7 (ColeStratton)

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American film actress, producer, and director. She is a member of the Barrymore family of American actors and granddaughter of John Barrymore. She first appeared in an advertisement when she was 11 months old. Barrymore made her film debut in Altered States in 1980. Afterwards, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and appeared in a couple of Stephen King adaptations (Firestarter & Cat's Eye).

Following a turbulent childhood that was marked by drug and alcohol abuse, Barrymore wrote the 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. She successfully made the transition from child star to adult actress with a number of films including Poison Ivy, Bad Girls, The Wedding Singer, and Lucky You.

In 1995, she and business partner Nancy Juvonen formed the production company Flower Films, with its first production the 1999 Barrymore film Never Been Kissed. Flower Films has gone on to produce the Barrymore vehicle films Charlie's Angels, 50 First Dates, and Music and Lyrics, as well as the cult film Donnie Darko.

A recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Barrymore appeared on the cover of the 2007 People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful issue. Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, she has donated over $1 million to the program. In 2007, she became both CoverGirl's newest model and spokeswoman for the cosmetic and the face for Gucci's newest jewelry line. In 2010, she was awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens.




#6: Christina Ricci
51 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #3 (Pak-Man)

Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for playing unconventional characters with a dark edge. Ricci is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Satellite Award for Best Actress, as well as Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, and Independent Spirit Award nominations.

Ricci made her film debut at the age of ten in Mermaids (1990), which was followed by a breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel. Subsequent appearances in Casper and Now and Then (both 1995) brought her fame as a "teen icon". At 17, she co-starred in The Ice Storm (1997).

Her career has continued on in TV, stage, and film, and while known predominantly for her work in independent productions, Ricci has appeared in numerous box office hits – to date, her films have grossed in excess of US $1.4 billion.

[George-2.0]

And now, the final 5



#5: Our Gang/The Little Rascals
59 points on 4 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #5 (George-2.0)

Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals) is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. The films were created by studio executive Hal Roach, who was best known as the man behind the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The series was produced in various formats from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles. The series broke new ground by portraying white and black children interacting as equals.

The franchise began in 1922 as a series of silent short subjects, it entered its most popular period after converting to sound in 1929. Production continued at the Roach studio until 1938 when the studio's Our Gang production unit was sold to MGM, which produced the comedies until 1944. Across 220 short films and a feature-film spin-off, General Spanky, the Our Gang series featured over 41 child actors as regular members of the cast.

Some of the Roach-produced films were re-released to theaters and syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals. New productions based on the shorts have been made over the years, including a 1994 feature film, The Little Rascals, released by Universal Pictures.

George McFarland as Spanky (1932–1942) became the face of the Rascals for later generations who watched the shorts on TV, as did Carl Switzer as Alfalfa (1935–1940), Darla Hood (1935–1941), and Billie Thomas as Buckwheat (1934–1944), who received an added jolt of attention when Eddie Murphy played him as an adult in a series of skits on SNL.

[George-2.0]

#4: Judy Garland
60 points on 4 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #8 (stethacantus)

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, vaudevillian, and dancer. With a career spanning 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.

Garland began performing in vaudeville as a child with her two older sisters and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM and is remembered for portraying Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli.

Two of Garland's most critically acclaimed roles came later in her career: she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in A Star Is Born (1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). She also made record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated television series, The Judy Garland Show (1963–1964). At age 39, Garland became the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry.

Note: This website covers shorts she made with her sisters... www.thejudyroom.com/filmography/gumm-sisters-shorts/ - she also did a few musical shorts without her sisters, "Every Sunday" (1936) where she paired with another young star in the making, Deanna Durbin, was pretty special.

[George-2.0]

A surprise at #3?



#3: Bobby Fischer
63 points on 3 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #2 (CJones)

Robert James Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion.

A chess prodigy, at age 13 he won a game which was dubbed "The Game of the Century". At age 14, he became the youngest ever U.S. Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster (GM) up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship.

At age 20, Fischer won the 1963/64 US Championship with 11 wins in 11 games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. He won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament by a record 3½-point margin, and won 20 consecutive games in the last seven rounds of the Interzonal and in the Candidates Matches, the latter including two unprecedented 6–0 sweeps. When the first official FIDE rating list was published in July 1971, Fischer was the highest-rated player by a wide margin.

Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, it attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international governing body, over one of the conditions for the match. Under FIDE rules, this resulted in Soviet GM Anatoly Karpov, who had won the qualifying Candidates' cycle, being named the new world champion by default.

After forfeiting his title as World Champion, Fischer became reclusive and sometimes erratic, disappearing from both competitive chess and the public eye. In 1992, he reemerged to win an unofficial rematch against Spassky. It was held in Yugoslavia, which was under a United Nations embargo at the time. His participation led to a conflict with the US government, which warned Fischer that his participation in the match would violate an executive order imposing US sanctions on Yugoslavia. The US government ultimately issued a warrant for his arrest. After that, Fischer lived as an émigré. In 2004, he was arrested in Japan and held for several months for using a passport that the US government had revoked. Eventually, he was granted an Icelandic passport and citizenship by a special act of the Icelandic Althing, allowing him to live in Iceland until his death in 2008.

Fischer made numerous lasting contributions to chess. His book My 60 Memorable Games, published in 1969, is regarded as essential reading in chess literature. In the 1990s, he patented a modified chess timing system that added a time increment after each move, now a standard practice in top tournament and match play. He also invented Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960, a chess variant in which the initial position of the pieces is randomized to one of 960 possible positions.

[George-2.0]

#2: Shirley Temple
78 points on 5 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #4 (CJones)

Shirley Temple (Apr 23, 1928 - Feb 10, 2014) was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to superstardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing, and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy, and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there they bought it. Shirley was box-office champion for the consecutive years 1935-36-37-38, beating out such great grown-up stars as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper, and Joan Crawford. By 1939, her popularity declined. Although she starred in some very good movies like Since You Went Away (1944) and the The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), her career was nearing its end. Later, she served as an ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia.

It was once guessed that she had more than 50 golden curls on her head. Her mother, Gertrude Temple, did her hair in pin curls for each movie. Every hairstyle had exactly 56 curls.

[George-2.0]

#1: Jodie Foster
93 points on 6 of 8 lists - Highest Ranking: #3 (Fred Garvin)

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and director. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she worked in television and made her film debut with Disney's Napoleon and Samantha (1972). Following appearances in the musical Tom Sawyer (1973) and Martin Scorsese's comedy-drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Foster's breakthrough came with Scorsese's psychological thriller Taxi Driver (1976), in which she played a child prostitute; she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other roles as a teenager include the musical Bugsy Malone (1976) and the thriller The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976), Disney's Freaky Friday (1976), and Candleshoe (1977).

She soon took a break from acting to attend Yale, then returned to resume her career, and has gone on to become one of our most respected actresses, winning Oscars for The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused.

Congrats Jodie, your the top of the charts.

[George-2.0]

And this is the end, my friends. One final list before I go.

Top child stars without a single vote: Margaret O'Brien (that's a big name star we all forgot), The Olsen Twins, Daniel Radcliffe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Freddie Highmore, Jay North (TVs Dennis the Menace), Baby Marie, and Baby Peggy (both, with Coogan, were the big child stars of the 1920s - before them, came actors like Marie Eline, aka the "Thanhouser Kid", who was active from 1910-14, and the Flugrath sisters, who worked with Edison pictures. 2 of the 3 sisters eventually changed their last names and had careers as adults, the biggest star was Viola Dana (who, btw, dated Buster Keaton), she made over 100 films, sadly, most of them are lost)

On multiple lists, but missed the 50: Debbie Gibson - 2 lists, 21 points; Ricky Schroder - 2 lists, 10 points; Jody Sweetin - 2 lists, 8 points

[RVR II]

Wasn't going to participate but I figured I would submit a surprise list

1-Wil Wheaton
2-Noah Hathaway
3-Clint Howard
4-Seth Green
5-Bill Mumy
6-Brian Bonsall
7-Brook Shields
8-Fred Savage
9-Danny Bonaduce
10-Christian Slater
11-Shannen Doherty
12-Dana Plato
13-Adam Rich
14-Gary Coleman
15-Winona Ryder
16-Donny Osmand
17-David Cassidy
18-Debbie Gibson
19-Erin Moran
20-Ron Howard
21-Drew Barrymore
22-Emmanuel Lewis
23-Ricky Shroder
24-Aileen Quinn
25-Corey Feldman

Thanks again for taking over George