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. First married in 1963 at age 21, the union lasted until 1969, producing one son, Jesse. Well into his late 20s his youthful features had him performing roles as teenagers and college students. 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. 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. 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 of 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. It is the only published biography of Brandon deWilde since his death in 1972.Īll 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 seven-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". It is McLean's first written, but second published, work. All Fall Down, The Brandon deWilde Story is a 2012 biography written by Patrisha McLean and published by Faces, Incorporated.
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