Jon Whiteley, who received an honorary juvenile Oscar for his performance in the 1953 British drama 'The Kidnappers', has died
A native of Scotland, he got one of the tiny trophies for his turn in the 1953 drama 'The Kidnappers.'The KidnappersHis death was announced by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, where he served as a teacher and art historian for 38 years.
Whiteley was 8 when he and fellow Scotlander Vincent Winter starred as boys being raised by their grandparents in 1900's Nova Scotia following their father's death. The children then find an abandoned baby and decide to raise her on their own. Whiteley and Winter were each given a juvenile Oscar for their work. In 1934, Shirley Temple was the first to receive one of the smaller statuettes — Bob Hope called it an "Oscarette" — and Hayley Mills, in 1960, the last. Among the other eight to be so honored: Deanna Durbin, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien and Bobby Driscoll.
Whiteley's folks would not allow him to attend the Oscars in 1954, so the trophy was mailed to him. "I remember when it arrived, hearing it was supposed to be something special, I opened the box and I was very disappointed," he
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