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Was it the fact that my dad and his family

Was it the fact thatmy dad and his family, the Barrymores, were actors? I've suddenly...

Child Star • 2024

Was it the fact that
my dad and his family, the Barrymores, were actors? I've suddenly become quite important.
[chuckles] [Drew] I was always studying my family
and the old black-and-white movies. - [Demi] Mm-hmm.
- [Drew] So Shirley Temple was - the child star of that era.
- [Demi] Yeah. Yeah, I also looked up to Shirley Temple as a young child performer
and was just like, "I wanna be that someday. I wanna be
the youngest and the best at what I do." [singing]
♪ Hey, what did the blue jay say? ♪ [Leah Plunkett]
Children have been part of the workforce for an incredibly long time. [narrator] Half a million children
are working as young as 5, work 14 hours a day for
as little as three cents an hour. [Leah] But in 1938,
the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act was the first set of comprehensive
federal legislation that had wage, hour,
and workplace condition laws for the whole country

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Was it the fact that my dad and his family,

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the Barrymores, were actors?

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I've suddenly become quite important. [chuckles]

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[Drew] I was always studying my family and the old black-and-white movies.

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- [Demi] Mm-hmm. - [Drew] So Shirley Temple was

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- the child star of that era. - [Demi] Yeah.

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Yeah, I also looked up to Shirley Temple

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as a young child performer and was just like,

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"I wanna be that someday. I wanna be the youngest and the best at what I do."

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[singing] ♪ Hey, what did the blue jay say? ♪

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[Leah Plunkett] Children have been part of the workforce

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for an incredibly long time.

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[narrator] Half a million children are working as young as 5,

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work 14 hours a day for as little as three cents an hour.

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[Leah] But in 1938, the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act

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was the first set of comprehensive federal legislation

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that had wage, hour, and workplace condition laws

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for the whole country.

Duration

61 seconds

Views

109

Timestamp in Movie

00:09:47

Uploaded

Apr 07, 2025

Genres

Production

OBB Pictures,Walt Disney Television Alternative,DLG,SB Projects

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Movie Summary

Examine how some of the most well-known former child stars, such as Lovato, deconstruct the highs and lows of growing up in the spotlight and how their ascension to fame, riches, and power affects their futures.