Claude Jarman Jr., who won a Juvenile Academy Award for his heart-warming performance as the boy who adopts an orphaned fawn in the 1946 MGM classic Al-HawliHe died on Sunday. He was 90 years old.
His wife, Katie, said Jarman died in his sleep of natural causes at his Marin County home in Kentfield, California. THRScott Feinberg.
In the 1949 films, Jarman starred with Janet MacDonald in Lassie The sun is shininghe played the brother of a runaway rancher (Robert Sterling) in rough He re-cooperated with yearling Director Clarence Brown portrays a young man trying to prove the innocence of a black man Intruder in the dustbased on the novel by William Faulkner and filmed in Oxford, Mississippi.
A year later, he played the son of a cavalry officer (John Wayne) in the film John Ford Rio Grande (1950).
Born on September 27, 1934, Jarman was a 10-year-old son of a railroad accountant in Nashville when Brown came into his fifth-grade classroom on Valentine’s Day 1945 while randomly visiting schools in the South to scout children for their goals. Al-Hawli.
“Next thing, they called three days later and said, ‘Get ready to leave for Hollywood in a week,'” Jarman said He pointed out In a 2016 interview with Alan K. Rod for the Film Noir Foundation.
He was soon set to play Jody Baxter, the only son of Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman’s characters, in… Al-HawliAdapted from the 1939 book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kennan Rawlings.
He said it took him about two years in Florida to finish the film. One shot with a deer took 115 frames to make the film. To promote this feature, he once walked a tied deer down Fifth Avenue in New York.
At the 1947 Academy Awards, Jarman received the Juvenile Academy Award from Shirley Temple at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. He was the seventh youngster to receive the mini-trophy, 12 years after Temple claimed the first. (Years later, the Academy presented him with a regular-sized Oscar, which he proudly displays in his home.)
He was asked what he thought of his success in those early days during a 2014 interview with Marina Times“I have nothing to compare it to,” Jarman replied. “I thought, ‘Doesn’t everyone have this?'” I had my own dressing room, my own make-up person, and my own wardrobe person.
He attended school in the MGM area, where his classmates included Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Powell, Margaret O’Brien, and Dean Stockwell. And while he was making rough At RKO, he and Natalie Wood studied together.
Back at MGM, he appears in flashbacks as the younger version of Van Johnson’s character, the pilot lost at sea, in High barbarian (1947).
In April 1949, he appeared with more than fourteen MGM stars, including Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Errol Flynn, Esther Williams, Judy Garland and Lacey in a photo commemoration. 25th anniversary of the studio. He was the last person alive from that famous shot.
Jarman returned to Nashville in 1950 to finish high school but appeared in it Hangman’s knot (1952), starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed and Lee Marvin, and directed by Roy Huggins. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1956, the same year he starred in the film Fess Parker. The Great Locomotive Chase.
He returned to Los Angeles as a publicity assistant for the Armed Forces, worked with studios to produce films about the Navy, then moved to San Francisco in 1963 as an employee of John Hancock Insurance.
From 1965 to 1980, Jarman chaired the San Francisco International Film Festival. He received the festival’s George Gund III Craft of Cinema Award in 2019 for “elegantly parlaying his success as a young actor to promote the art of cinema, bringing the industry and the Bay Area community together in ways that resonate to this day.”
Jarman also produced a 1972 documentary about music promoter Bill Graham and the Fillmore Auditorium, and starred one last time in the NBC miniseries from 1978 to 1979. Centenary.
writing, My Life and the Last Days of Hollywoodpublished in 2018.
In addition to his wife (third), survivors include his children, Claude III, Murray, Elizabeth, Vanessa, Natalie, Sarah, and Charlotte, and eight grandchildren. He will be buried in Nashville, and a celebration of his life is being planned in San Francisco.
