Editing Jackie Cooper (section)

==Early life==
John Cooper Jr.<ref>''California Birth Index, 1905–1995''. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California; accessed January 22, 2015.</ref> was born in Los Angeles, California. Cooper's father, John Cooper, left the family when Jackie was two years old.<ref name="shoot" /><ref>{{cite book| title=Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business|last=Harmetz|first=Aljean| publisher=Knopf| year=1983| isbn=978-0-3945-2886-1| page=[https://archive.org/details/rollingbreaksoth00harm/page/108 108]| url=https://archive.org/details/rollingbreaksoth00harm/page/108}}</ref><ref name="TWS">{{cite news| url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/jackie-cooper-usn_610036.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123114208/http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/jackie-cooper-usn_610036.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 23, 2011| title=Jackie Cooper, USN| author=Matus, Victorino| date=November 22, 2011| newspaper=[[The Weekly Standard]]| access-date=October 2, 2013}}</ref> His mother, Mabel Leonard Bigelow (née Polito), was a stage pianist.<ref name=NYTobit/> Cooper's maternal uncle, Jack Leonard, was a screenwriter and his maternal aunt, Julie Leonard, was an actress married to director [[Norman Taurog]]. Cooper's stepfather was C. J. Bigelow, a studio production manager.<ref name=shoot>{{cite book| last=Cooper| first=Jackie| title=Please Don't Shoot My Dog| publisher=Penguin Group| year=1982| pages=[https://archive.org/details/pleasedontshootm00coop/page/9 9, 32, 35-38 (explanation of the title), 40–42, 44, 54–61]| url=https://archive.org/details/pleasedontshootm00coop/page/9| isbn=978-0-4250-5306-5| url-access=registration}}</ref> His mother was Italian American (her family's surname was changed from "Polito" to "Leonard"); Cooper was told by his family that his father was Jewish. The two never reunited after he had left the family.<ref name=shoot/><ref>{{cite book| last=Harmetz| first=Aljean| title=Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business| publisher=Knopf| url=https://archive.org/details/rollingbreaksoth00harm/page/108/mode/2up?q=cooper| year=1983| page=108| isbn=978-0-3945-2886-1| url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://wise.fau.edu/~jdennis/_private/sample02.htm |title=Love Laughs at Andy Hardy: The Adolescent Arcadia, 1880-1940 |work=Invention of the Teenager |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=November 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126111436/http://wise.fau.edu/~jdennis/_private/sample02.htm |url-status=dead |first=Jeffrey P. |last=Dennis}}</ref>