Jackie Coogan As a child star (famous in The Kid with Chaplin), Coogan earned as much as $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother Lilian and step-father Arthur Bernstein for cocaine and heroin. He sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. The legal battle did, however, bring attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor’s Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill or the Coogan Act. This requires that the child’s employer set aside 15% of the child’s earnings in a trust, and codifies such issues as schooling, work hours and time-off
Home / Questions / A landmark legislation in the 1930s in the US that is designed to protect a child actor’s earnings by depositing some of them in trust funds was named after which ‘kid’?