Given the drift at the top of this zombie I'll allow myself a pair of pop singers. Helen & Lucille Western were probably America's first child actors 'gone bad'.

Helen (1840-1868) was better known as her character Eva (Evangeline St. Clare) from Uncle Tom's Cabin much the same way today's generations grew up with Miley Cyrus as 'Hannah Montana'.

Both Western sisters starting butching it up on stage as soon as they got old enough to choose their own material. Helen went cavorting around town at all hours with the likes of John Wilkes Booth. Shocking! Parents were aghast but the soft porn cabinet cards just kept flying off the racks.

Of course the changes to cork-face after the 1863 New York draft riots prove American audiences have had a short attention span from the git-go. Neither sister died of old age.