Charles Eaton Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Charles Eaton (June 22, 1910 - August 15, 2004) was an American juvenile stage and film performer, and the most important performing male member of the clan once referred to as The Seven Little Eatons. The siblings, all appeared, at one time or another, in The Ziegfeld Follies each year between 1918 through 1923. On stage from early childhood, Eaton made his Broadway debut, with his sister Doris, in 1918's Mother Carey's Chickens. He achieved the latter distinction in a 1928 Broadway production called Skidding which ran for 472 performances. Eaton would act in ten Broadway shows in total,... MORE

Charles Eaton (June 22, 1910 - August 15, 2004) was an American juvenile stage and film performer, and the most important performing male member of the clan once referred to as The Seven Little Eatons. The siblings, all appeared, at one time or another, in The Ziegfeld Follies each year between 1918 through 1923. On stage from early childhood, Eaton made his Broadway debut, with his sister Doris, in 1918's Mother Carey's Chickens. He achieved the latter distinction in a 1928 Broadway production called Skidding which ran for 472 performances. Eaton would act in ten Broadway shows in total, including The Awakening, The Ziegfeld Follies of 1921, in which he shared the stage with W. C. Fields, A Royal Fandango, with Ethel Barrymore, Peter Pan, and Tommy. He also performed at vaudeville's storied Palace Theatre; toured in plays like Don't Count Your Chickens with Mary Boland; and acted in a dozen, mainly forgettable films in the late 1920s and early 1930s He began his film career in 1921, playing Wallace Reid as a child in Forever (1921), the first screen version of Gerald du Maurier's play Peter Ibbetson. He successfully made the jump to 'talkies', and starred opposite Helen LESS