
Jandi will play the part of the wife when she was a child.Īlmost every day during the school year Jandi does her homework in the car as she and her mother drive the 1 1/2 hours from their home in Lancaster, Calif., to auditions in and around Hollywood.
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Elmo's Fire") in a movie about drug abuse, "Less Than Zero."Īlthough the contract has not been signed, her agent assured her she has a lead role in an NBC made-for-television movie about the first blind couple permitted to adopt a child. Jandi will play a poor Appalachian girl in the horror movie "Pumpkinhead," and the little sister of Andrew McCarthy (of the Brat Pack in "St. Jandi spent 25 five-hour days in a sound studio recording the tapes for Julie, a technologically advanced doll that will be able to recognize its owner's voice and respond to questions and actions. In September a computerized talking doll named "Julie," using Jandi's voice, will be marketed by Worlds of Wonder, the same company that makes the Teddy Ruxpin talking bear. A teacher who doubles as a social worker watches out for children on the set. Linda Clark said she learned that, in California, a child with a D on a report card cannot work for the next school semester. Sunday afternoon Linda shared her experiences as the mother of a child actress with local parents whose children have show business aspirations.Īmong those attending were friends of the Swansons, Linda and Paul Clark, and their son, Kevin, a Wiley Post Elementary School student who studies with Darby.

"We owe Richard everything," Linda said from the Midwest City home of her mother, Olga Purett. Jandi continued to take classes until moving to California last summer. Item Description: In person signed (at age 15) 8X10 black and white photo of child/teen star Jandi Swanson who was in the films Ladybugs (1998) and.

At the time Jandi was doing some commercials, and Linda thought the summer acting classes might help her daughter.
