monkeefan
05-11-2012, 01:32 PM
May 1, 1988: 28-year-old Marie Osmond (born on October 13, 1959 in Orem, Utah, USA) performs a duet with 18-year-old Kirk Cameron (born on October 12, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA) on a song written for Bob Hopes 85th birthday later that month (Bob was born Leslie Hope in London, England, UK on May 29, 1903 and died on July 28, 2003 in Toluca Lake, California of pneumonia at the ripe old age of 100; he was raised from ages 4 years up in Cleveland, Ohio as an American citizen after his family left England behind).
Like Ive probably stated many times earlier (more than even I can remember), I used to believe, like most of you, that Kirks IMDB listing of his date of birth as October 12, 1970 WAS correct until I learned differently from his E! True Hollywood Story episode broadcast in 2001.
To recap, I will once again tell you the life story and career of Kirk Cameron as I remember hearing it from his E! True Hollywood Story episode.
The year is 1968. Richard Milhous Nixon, aged 55, is elected U.S. President; the Vietnam War is in full effect; and a 24-year-old rising middle-school gym teacher named Rob Cameron (born on November 29, 1943 in California, USA) met and fell in love with a 17-year-old high-school senior named Barbara Bausmith (born on June 8, 1950 in New Jersey, USA).
Before the year is up, Barbara discovers she is pregnant with her 1st baby.
Rather than let the baby be born out-of-wedlock, Rob and Barbara married on June 22, 1969, 5 1/2 months into the pregnancy.
3 1/2 months later, a blue-eyed baby boy, Kirk, was born in Los Angeles on October 12, 1969.
By 1974, after the 4th of July holiday, Rob and Barbara learn they are expecting again; the following Spring, a blue-eyed baby girl, Candace, was born on April 6, 1975.
In early 1979, at the request of Barbaras friend/Cameron family neighbor Fran Rich (whose 10-year-old son Adam was a regular on TVs Eight is Enough), Barbara began taking 9-year-old Kirk and 4-year-old Candace out to acting auditions, with Kirk making his acting debut in a Count Chocula commercial (per his 2008 memoir Still Growing) and Candace making her professional acting debut in a never-broadcast Mutual of Omaha commercial (per Candaces IMDB entry, which incorrectly lists her year of birth as 1976).
By 1982, 12-year-old Kirk & 7-year-old Candace graduated to bit parts on network TV, with Kirk appearing on such shows as Lou Grant, Bret Maverick, & Herbie, the Love Bug and Candace appearing on TVs St. Elsewhere.
Later that year, per the December 3, 1986 issue of People Magazine with the then-recently deceased Archie Leach (known professionally as Cary Grant) on the cover, 12-year-old Kirk earned irreversible partial facial damage as a result of a skiing accident.
In 1983, 13-year-old Kirk made his regular series debut on a short-lived drama series airing for 10 episodes called Two Marriages.
In September 1984, just shy of his 15th birthday, Kirk auditioned for the role of the eldest teen son Mike Seaver on a sitcom pilot called Growing Pains, based on the true story of its creator, Neal Marlens, as a teenager in Long Island, New York 10 years earlier, where Neals mother, in real life, was a Psychiatrist, and his father was a real-life managing editor for Newsday.
Kirk walked away with the job after asking his employers, Is this show a comedy or what?
Joining Kirk in the cast by March 1985 were Alan Thicke (born on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Canada); Joanna Kerns (born on February 12, 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA); 15-year-old Elizabeth Ward (born c. 1969); and 9-year-old Jeremy Miller (born on October 21, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA).
After the original pilot taped in April 1985, produced and distributed by Warner Bros. TV, Ward had to leave the show, replaced by a 15-year-old actress who had originally auditioned for the role but initially didnt get it--Tracey Gold (born on May 16, 1969 in New York City, New York, USA).
Growing Pains made its debut on September 24, 1985 at 8 p.m. on the ABC Television Network; though the ratings were low in its rookie season (when it aired after Whos the Boss?), in January 1986, Marlens quit and was replaced as showrunner by the trio of Dan Guntzelman, Mike Sullivan and Steve Marshall.
By September 1986, 16-year-old Kirk Cameron was a bona-fide teen idol, earning 10,000 fan letters a week; however, per Kirks 2008 memoir Still Growing, that wasnt enough to prevent him from learning, soon after celebrating his birthday that year, that his parents were getting divorced.
In the Spring of 1987, 11-year-old Candace Cameron taped the pilot for a sitcom pilot called Full House (which interestingly featured character actor John Posey as Danny Tanner before the pilot was reshot after Bob Saget took his place as Danny Tanner) for Miller-Boyett Productions & Lorimar TV.
In the Summer of 1987, 17-year-old Kirk was cast opposite 52-year-old Dudley Moore (born on April 19, 1935 in Dagenham, England, UK; died on March 27, 2002 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA of pneumonia after a 2 1/2-year battle with Progressive Supranuclea Palsy) and 16-year-old Sean Astin (born Sean Duke on February 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California, USA) in a feature film for Tri-Star Pictures (now part of Sony Pictures) called Like Father, Like Son.
During a break from filming the movie, Kirk was invited by his then-girlfriend, aspiring actress Leanna Creel (born on August 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA) to attend the Church where her father served as Pastor.
Soon after attending the Church, Kirk said a silent prayer pertaining to the impending divorce of his parents, If there IS a God, I NEED to Know, and turned away from his lifelong Atheism and became a devout Christian.
In May 1988, 17-year-old Mike Seaver graduated from the fictional Thomas E. Dewey High School; weeks later, 18-year-old Kirk graduated in real life from Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Soon afterwards, his parents reconciled and eventually remarried.
After graduating from high school, 18-year-old Kirk was cast opposite actress Jami Gertz (born on October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) in a movie for Columbia Pictures called Listen to Me as two college debate team members who fall in love--a role that transferred, briefly, to real life.
Also in the movie was Moon Unit Zappa, whose cousin, Lala Sloatman, was born in Winter Park, Florida on October 12, 1970.
Listen to Me was released on May 5, 1989 and faired poorly at the multiplex.
Later that year, just shy of his 20th birthday, Kirk met and fell in love with aspiring actress/model Nancy Mueller (born on December 4, 1963 in Buffalo, New York, USA), known professionally as Chelsea Noble, after she was cast on Growing Pains as a potential love interest for Mike Seaver--a role that transferred soon afterwards to real life.
On July 20, 1991, 21-year-old Kirk and 27-year-old Nancy were married in Nancys hometown of Buffalo, New York in a private ceremony.
The following Spring, after 7 years, ABC canceled Growing Pains because of its tiredness of Kirks christianity.
In the years since, Kirk & Nancy have become the proud parents of 6 kids, 4 adopted and 2 biological, and live in Los Angeles.
Heres the link to the video: http://www.osmondmania.com/Television/Appearances/B/BobHope_May88.html
Like Ive probably stated many times earlier (more than even I can remember), I used to believe, like most of you, that Kirks IMDB listing of his date of birth as October 12, 1970 WAS correct until I learned differently from his E! True Hollywood Story episode broadcast in 2001.
To recap, I will once again tell you the life story and career of Kirk Cameron as I remember hearing it from his E! True Hollywood Story episode.
The year is 1968. Richard Milhous Nixon, aged 55, is elected U.S. President; the Vietnam War is in full effect; and a 24-year-old rising middle-school gym teacher named Rob Cameron (born on November 29, 1943 in California, USA) met and fell in love with a 17-year-old high-school senior named Barbara Bausmith (born on June 8, 1950 in New Jersey, USA).
Before the year is up, Barbara discovers she is pregnant with her 1st baby.
Rather than let the baby be born out-of-wedlock, Rob and Barbara married on June 22, 1969, 5 1/2 months into the pregnancy.
3 1/2 months later, a blue-eyed baby boy, Kirk, was born in Los Angeles on October 12, 1969.
By 1974, after the 4th of July holiday, Rob and Barbara learn they are expecting again; the following Spring, a blue-eyed baby girl, Candace, was born on April 6, 1975.
In early 1979, at the request of Barbaras friend/Cameron family neighbor Fran Rich (whose 10-year-old son Adam was a regular on TVs Eight is Enough), Barbara began taking 9-year-old Kirk and 4-year-old Candace out to acting auditions, with Kirk making his acting debut in a Count Chocula commercial (per his 2008 memoir Still Growing) and Candace making her professional acting debut in a never-broadcast Mutual of Omaha commercial (per Candaces IMDB entry, which incorrectly lists her year of birth as 1976).
By 1982, 12-year-old Kirk & 7-year-old Candace graduated to bit parts on network TV, with Kirk appearing on such shows as Lou Grant, Bret Maverick, & Herbie, the Love Bug and Candace appearing on TVs St. Elsewhere.
Later that year, per the December 3, 1986 issue of People Magazine with the then-recently deceased Archie Leach (known professionally as Cary Grant) on the cover, 12-year-old Kirk earned irreversible partial facial damage as a result of a skiing accident.
In 1983, 13-year-old Kirk made his regular series debut on a short-lived drama series airing for 10 episodes called Two Marriages.
In September 1984, just shy of his 15th birthday, Kirk auditioned for the role of the eldest teen son Mike Seaver on a sitcom pilot called Growing Pains, based on the true story of its creator, Neal Marlens, as a teenager in Long Island, New York 10 years earlier, where Neals mother, in real life, was a Psychiatrist, and his father was a real-life managing editor for Newsday.
Kirk walked away with the job after asking his employers, Is this show a comedy or what?
Joining Kirk in the cast by March 1985 were Alan Thicke (born on March 1, 1947 in Kirkland Lake, Canada); Joanna Kerns (born on February 12, 1953 in San Francisco, California, USA); 15-year-old Elizabeth Ward (born c. 1969); and 9-year-old Jeremy Miller (born on October 21, 1975 in West Covina, California, USA).
After the original pilot taped in April 1985, produced and distributed by Warner Bros. TV, Ward had to leave the show, replaced by a 15-year-old actress who had originally auditioned for the role but initially didnt get it--Tracey Gold (born on May 16, 1969 in New York City, New York, USA).
Growing Pains made its debut on September 24, 1985 at 8 p.m. on the ABC Television Network; though the ratings were low in its rookie season (when it aired after Whos the Boss?), in January 1986, Marlens quit and was replaced as showrunner by the trio of Dan Guntzelman, Mike Sullivan and Steve Marshall.
By September 1986, 16-year-old Kirk Cameron was a bona-fide teen idol, earning 10,000 fan letters a week; however, per Kirks 2008 memoir Still Growing, that wasnt enough to prevent him from learning, soon after celebrating his birthday that year, that his parents were getting divorced.
In the Spring of 1987, 11-year-old Candace Cameron taped the pilot for a sitcom pilot called Full House (which interestingly featured character actor John Posey as Danny Tanner before the pilot was reshot after Bob Saget took his place as Danny Tanner) for Miller-Boyett Productions & Lorimar TV.
In the Summer of 1987, 17-year-old Kirk was cast opposite 52-year-old Dudley Moore (born on April 19, 1935 in Dagenham, England, UK; died on March 27, 2002 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA of pneumonia after a 2 1/2-year battle with Progressive Supranuclea Palsy) and 16-year-old Sean Astin (born Sean Duke on February 25, 1971 in Santa Monica, California, USA) in a feature film for Tri-Star Pictures (now part of Sony Pictures) called Like Father, Like Son.
During a break from filming the movie, Kirk was invited by his then-girlfriend, aspiring actress Leanna Creel (born on August 27, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA) to attend the Church where her father served as Pastor.
Soon after attending the Church, Kirk said a silent prayer pertaining to the impending divorce of his parents, If there IS a God, I NEED to Know, and turned away from his lifelong Atheism and became a devout Christian.
In May 1988, 17-year-old Mike Seaver graduated from the fictional Thomas E. Dewey High School; weeks later, 18-year-old Kirk graduated in real life from Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Soon afterwards, his parents reconciled and eventually remarried.
After graduating from high school, 18-year-old Kirk was cast opposite actress Jami Gertz (born on October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) in a movie for Columbia Pictures called Listen to Me as two college debate team members who fall in love--a role that transferred, briefly, to real life.
Also in the movie was Moon Unit Zappa, whose cousin, Lala Sloatman, was born in Winter Park, Florida on October 12, 1970.
Listen to Me was released on May 5, 1989 and faired poorly at the multiplex.
Later that year, just shy of his 20th birthday, Kirk met and fell in love with aspiring actress/model Nancy Mueller (born on December 4, 1963 in Buffalo, New York, USA), known professionally as Chelsea Noble, after she was cast on Growing Pains as a potential love interest for Mike Seaver--a role that transferred soon afterwards to real life.
On July 20, 1991, 21-year-old Kirk and 27-year-old Nancy were married in Nancys hometown of Buffalo, New York in a private ceremony.
The following Spring, after 7 years, ABC canceled Growing Pains because of its tiredness of Kirks christianity.
In the years since, Kirk & Nancy have become the proud parents of 6 kids, 4 adopted and 2 biological, and live in Los Angeles.
Heres the link to the video: http://www.osmondmania.com/Television/Appearances/B/BobHope_May88.html