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movie portrayals of adolescents  

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  • During the first decades of cinema, adolescents sporadically had roles in many American films, such as Seventeen (1916), Harold Teen (1928), and Wild Boys of the Road (1933). However, a more coherent genre of teen film was just beginning to form when young stars like Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney achieved fame in the late 1930s. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Adolescents, Movie Portrayals of]

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