But what’s even more intriguing? Discovering that some of today’s biggest stars were just as charming as youngsters. Below, explore a gallery of old Hollywood celebrity baby pictures and scenes from childhood that are sure to evoke a collective “Aww!”
Prepare to be enchanted by the mini versions of Hollywood’s elite, captured in moments of innocence and whimsy before they were famous.
Baby Jamie Lee Curtis (1959)
Seen here with her mom, “Psycho” actress Janet Leigh, and older sister Kelly
Celebrity baby pictures: Baby Carrie Fisher with her parents (1957)
Here with her parents, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, on the cover of Modern Screen magazine
Baby Debbie Reynolds
Young actress Patty Duke
Baby Sean Astin with mom Patty Duke
Celebrity yearbook photos – Usher (Usher Raymond IV)
Young Toni Braxton
Christina Aguilera as a child
Young George Clooney
Celebrity yearbook photos – Tom Cruise
Stephen King
Justin Timberlake as a child
Jake Gyllenhaal
Celebrity yearbook photos – Bruce Lee
Vanessa Williams as a child
Young Bob Hope
Young Elizabeth Taylor on right
Young Gregory Peck
Yvonne De Carlo as a child
Muhammad Ali as a baby (1940s)
Samuel L Jackson as a baby (photo repaired and enhanced)
William Holden as a child
Celebrity baby pictures: Fred Astaire as a child dancer
A young Natalie Wood
Baby Shaun Cassidy
Celebrity baby pictures: Baby Tom Selleck
Actor Cary Grant as a toddler/preschooler
Young Elliot Gould
Young Gene Hackman
Celebrity baby pictures: Baby James Dean
Baby Elvis Presley with his parents
Baby Frank Sinatra in 1916
Celebrity baby pictures: Baby Deborah Kerr
Little Miss Judy Garland (when she was still Frances Gumm)
Baby Gene Kelly around 1913
Young James Caan
Celebrity baby pictures: Baby Robert Redford
Baby Ryan O’Neal
David Niven’s baby picture
A star’s son has pictures of vintage celebrities as children
Article excerpted from Newsweek (October 1976)
Like a lot of restaurateurs, David Niven Jr. has adorned the walls of his London eatery, Drones, with pictures of his famous friends.
But in Niven’s gallery, some friends are stark naked, some are riding tricycles, others are in costume — and all are under 12.
There are Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, long before he swept her off her feet in “Daddy Longlegs.” There is the little, big-eyed, Natalie Wood. There is the debonair Edwardian Cary Grant, accompanied by an adoring and shapely chair.
“I remembered Sardi’s collection of caricatures,” says the Drones’ owner, whose own father’s picture is featured among the babes on the wood. “So I decided to have a collection of baby pictures.”
Baby Debra Paget
Actress Lesley Caron on a tricycle
Baby Jerry Lewis
