Anlle 1ackson made her acting debut at age six<br > ¡®)11 the rickety back porch of a shanBr i13 rural<br > Penllsylania¡ªllet first producer a fifteen¡ªyear£®old<br > l 1]Ulatto gM and her audience coal miners£¬a nurs¡ª<br > ing mother，and the countrY store locals of the back¡ª<br > woods mining town£®InEarlyStages，her charming<br > childhood menloir，she tells the fetching£¬poignant<br > tale of how a spunl(¡¢£¬little red¡ªhaired kid made her<br > way£®fi-OH]a backyard talent show to Broadway£¬to<br > 1)ecome one of the most accomplished and<br > respected actresses of our time£®<br > Anna Jane Tackson was born in 1925 in a small<br > town on the outskirts of Pittsburgh£®From an early<br > age£¬this youngest of three daughters was tugged<br > between the radically diverse immigrant traditions<br > of lmr parents£ºller Croatian father¡¯s free¡ªthinking<br > Socialism and her mother¡¯S superstitious Irish Cath¡ª<br > olic conventionalism£®¡°Citizen¡±Tohn Jackson Was a<br > llairdresser，gardener，amateur musician£¬and self<br > styled philosopher who nurtured an exuberant<br > curiositY in his daughters as reverently as coreopsis<br > in his garden¡£His disregard of middle£®class conven¡ª<br > tions and an irrepressible wanderlust that landed<br > the family in one ramshackle house after another<br > propelled Anne¡¯s vexed mother on frequent flights<br > home tO her mother，children in tow£®At¡°Ma¡¯am¡¯s?¡¯<br > Anne witnessed the solemn rituals¡ªthe christen£®<br > ings£¬Wakes£¬and funerals that her father called<br > ¡°black magic hocus¡ªpocus¡±Ò»and Great-Aunt Nell<br > Tudy¡¯S mystical¡°powers£®¡±<br >£® Against this backdrop of a warm but trying family<br > life£¬Anne ioyed in a country girlhood spent catch¡ª<br > ing butterflies£¬pinning old curtains around her<br > lmad to costume for a play with her sisters£¬and<br > re¡ªenacting old movies on the tar paper garage roof£®<br > Even then£¬Anne knew she wanted to be an actress£®<br > In 1933£¬the Jackson family pulled up stakes once<br >