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All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story
''All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story'' is a 2012 biography written by Patrisha McLean and published by Faces, Incorporated. The book was released on June 19, 2012. It is McLean's first written, but second published, work. It is the only published biography of Brandon deWilde since his death in 1972.
==Summary and themes==
''All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story'' covers mostly chronologically the life of Brooklyn-born Andre Brandon deWilde, growing up in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, then moving to Manhattan with his parents after a series of events catapulted him from a typical 7 year old American school boy to a national phenomenon as a child prodigy theatre and film actor that eventually earned him the tag of "one of America's most heartrending cultural icons".〔(RememberingBrandon.net )〕〔McLean, Patrisha, ''All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story'' c. 2012, Faces, Incorporated ISBN 978-1936447121〕
McLean writes how deWilde achieved fame as the "tow-headed, gap-toothed boy" who starred in the films ''The Member of the Wedding'' (1952) and ''Shane'' (1953), the latter which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination, at age 11, for uttering the immortal words, "Shane, come back", to Alan Ladd. He continued into adulthood with similar successes, until an obsession with music and a dependence on drugs brought his career to a self-imposed standstill. In a twist of the child actor's curse, deWilde's problems arose not from a lack of work, but rather from a continuation of it. Well into his late 20s his youthful features had him performing roles as teenagers and college students. First married in 1963 at age 21, the union lasted until 1969, producing one son, Jesse. A second marriage in 1972, turning drug-free and a return to the stage were all cut short when deWilde was killed in a motor vehicle accident at age 30.〔〔(Brooklyn Daily Eagle / Gifted Young Brooklynite )〕
Through personal interviews, public records, published accounts and deWilde's own words, McLean weaves her story from the time prior to his parents meeting through the aftermath and void left after his death. As reported on the RememberingBrandon.net website, "McLean's 2012 interviews with deWilde's elusive widow, Janice Gero, illuminate the dark period of Brandon's life with a candor and honesty heretofore unknown. 'We were so poor we went to the grocery store and were actually taking bags of beans and were putting them inside our clothes to get something to eat,' recalls Janice. 'I never forget it because I had never stolen anything'".〔
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