Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography (57 page)

Angelina appeared in her first movie,
Lookin’ to Get Out
, with her father and Ann-Margret when she was just five. It was a family affair; her mother, Marcheline, who had recently divorced Jon Voight, played a girl he tried to woo, while Stacey Pickren was cast as a prostitute.
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Startled by lurking photographers, Angelina clutches her father’s legs for protection. Even though he was divorced from Marcheline, Jon Voight continued to see his children regularly.
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Angelina’s mother loved to buy her expensively embroidered or delicate antique dresses. Her daughter loved to climb trees and slide down mud banks. Shortly after this picture was taken, in June 1980, Angelina was climbing a nearby tree. It was the beginning of the end for her long dress.
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Angelina was always protective of and maternal toward younger children. She took a special shine to Sean Stogel, then three, teaching him how to blow bubbles and, in later life, how to ditch his girlfriends.
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Bill Day, who was Marcheline's partner for eleven years, Marcheline, and young Angelina, aged six, celebrate Easter 1982 on the grounds of the Beverly Hills Hotel by dressing in Hawaiian regalia, in celebration of the family holiday they had enjoyed on the island.
Courtesy of Bill Day

Jon Voight watches his son, James, practice hoops. Besides basketball training, Voight helped coach James and Angelina for the school soccer team.
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Angelina, known as Angie as she grew older, with her mother at their apartment on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills in December 1987. Marcheline was an absolute perfectionist, spending hours carefully decorating the Christmas tree to her satisfaction.
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Angie and her friend Chris Landon, the son of
Little House on the Prairie
star Michael Landon, were voted the couple with the best legs by their fellow classmates at El Rodeo School in Beverly Hills. For a time the couple were inseparable friends, united in part by the fact that both had famous fathers.
El Rodeo School Yearbook

During her final year at El Rodeo School, Angie was reluctantly taking acting classes, mainly to please her mother. Although she was not much interested in the profession at the time, it seems her friends believed in her. Her friend Evelyn Ungvari suggested to budding artist Windsor Lai that he sketch her. “One day she is going to be famous,” she told him.
El Rodeo School Yearbook

When she was ten, Angie enjoyed her first walk down the red carpet, for the 1986 Oscars, where her father was nominated for his starring role in
Runaway Train
. Her startling white angel dress was clearly chosen by a mother who still thought she was in kindergarten.
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Two years later, Angie was wearing her favorite color, black, the twelve-year-old just entering her punk phase. She has no memory of the night she joined her father and brother at the 1988 Oscar awards ceremony.
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