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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:36:12 -0500
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In article <0063bec7$0$8036$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
phinney@backpacker.com wrote:
> Amahl,
> Thanks for the great post. Wasn't Chet one of the first Amahl's?
> Phinney
Chet Allen was THE first, on the original NBC broadcast directed by
Menotti. You got me to wondering what had become of him, and I found
this on Wikipedia:
"Allen failed to make the transition into adult acting and was
frequently admitted to psychiatric hospitals because of recurring
depression. The author is unable to find his birthplace, but he procured
his Social Security number in New Jersey, presumably when he joined the
Columbus Boychoir. Allen spent his last years in Columbus, Ohio. When
Menotti visited him there, in either 1982 or 1983, he found a bitterly
unhappy young man for whom life had been a series of repeated
disappointments. 'No one could have helped him enough,' Menotti later
maintained. In 1984, at the age of forty-five, Allen committed suicide
by taking five times the fatal dosage of a prescription anti-depressant."
After watching that first broadcast of "Amahl" with my parents and my
grandmother, I expressed an interest in singing on TV. I was only five
or six at the time, so I don't remember the details, but somehow I wound
up on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour singing "You Are My Sunshine."
Considering what became of Chet Allen and loads of other child stars, I
guess it's just as well I didn't win.
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