"Please don't shoot my dog."

Jackie Cooper:
His childhood as a movie star, he has made abundantly clear in the autobiography he published early this month, was not fun. Written with Dick Kleiner, the book, ''Please Don't Shoot My Dog,'' gets its title from the trick played on him by his grandmother and by Norman Taurog, the director of ''Skippy,'' the movie that made him a star in 1931. In order to force him to cry for a scene, his dog was dragged off the set by his grandmother and then ''shot'' by a security guard. Even though the dog was miraculously restored to life after the scene, the boy remained hysterical - vomiting and crying for hours until a doctor was summoned to give him a sedative.


Read it when it came out!

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/16/arts/cooper-a-star-at-8-but-happier-at-58.html?pagewanted=all