Jackie Cooper is the youngest person to have ever been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards; For his role in Skippy (1931), at just 9 years old. Mainly due to this crying scene.

Sadly, Cooper was not acting. Director Norman Taurog, Jackie’s uncle, was not satisfied with his performance. When screaming at and threatening his nephew didn’t work, he had a crew member bring Jackie’s dog backstage and fire off a prop gun. Making the boy think his dog had just been shot. He then made Jackie perform the scene, only revealing after his dog was unharmed.

Jackie continued to cry for hours and began throwing up. Only stopping when a doctor was called in to pump him full of sleep medication.

Look look!  And here I thought there was no other Bobby picture out there we’d never seen before!  This was apparently taken during the “date” he and Natalie Wood went on when he was 17, but didn’t make it into the spread.  They’re picking out records together.  Who of us would’ve loved to have been in Natalie Wood’s place on that date when we were that age?  (Of course, many of you still are…)