That week the casting director was looking for a child for a movie called The Journey, a Cold War drama starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr. Rance was struggling to build a career in Manhattan when he mentioned to a casting director that he had a little boy who loved to act. Jean had once tried to break into theater in New York as a teenager. Rance's ambition was to be a singing cowboy like Roy Rogers, but unfortunately, he couldn't sing.
Rance and Jean Howard met in an acting class at the University of Oklahoma just after the end of World War II. And to judge from their loving and evocative account of their very different lives, what distinguished their childhoods from almost every other performer they knew-and indeed, almost every other major child performer in Hollywood history-was their upbringing at the hands of loving, moral, self-sacrificing parents. In the 1960s, when they were kids, these brothers were both major TV stars-Ronny as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show and Clint as the friend of a bear on Gentle Ben.
“Who grows up on a soundstage hanging out with Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, or with a trained bear? And what are the ways that particular childhood forever informed the choices I would make as a husband, father and filmmaker? We’re excited to share the story of how our parents pulled this off- raising two show-business kids who had no clue that their lives were out of the ordinary while rooting them in a loving, slightly off-beat family.And then there's The Boys, the joint memoir by Ron and Clint Howard. “When our dad passed in 2017, Clint and I began reflecting upon our lives and realized that while our childhoods seemed normal, they were anything but,” Ron Howard said in a statement. Likewise, although Clint snagged roles on Star Trek, Gentle Ben and other shows (including guest-star slots alongside his brother), his acting career petered out when he was an adolescent, sending him into a period of struggle and crisis. Although Ron found success on The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, he describes in the memoir the stress that came with his newfound fame and the bullying he endured by his peers. The book will examine the brothers’ Hollywood childhoods, beginning with their careers as child actors. The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family will be published October 12th by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard and his brother, actor Clint Howard, have written a memoir together.
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