Angela was born in Altrincham, Cheshire, England and moved to Los Angeles, California with her family when she was 3 years old- She worked as a child fashion model and by the time she was four, Angeia was well known by top photographers and appeared on magazine covers and numerous advertisements. At the age of 3, she made her fiIm debut in Somebody Up There Likes Me as Paul Newman's daughter, followed by another part in the movie Something of Value with Rock Hudson. Danny Thomas signed Angela when she was 4 to play his daughter Linda on the television series Make Room for Daddy. The series ran for 2 years, during which time Angela also starred in Lad: A Dog, a movie for Disney. Following the Danny Thomas series, she was cast as Brigitta in the movie The Sound of Music. In 1965, she was offered tle roie of Penny Robinson in Lost in Space a television show that ran for 3 years. In the years following, Angela guest starred in numerous television shows, commercials and movies.
Angela married in 1976 and raised two children. In 1981, she wrote a nationally acclaimed book, My Book: A Child's First Journal. She also conceptualized and contributed to Transparent Art, a book on how to use transparencies in art. She has written numerous articles on photography and altered art techniques for art magazines and taught classes on her unique art techniques.
While pursuing her passion for art and photography, Angela authored her book Mixed Emulsions: Altered Art Techniques for Photographic Imagery, which expiores her hand-painted photography and her unique altered art techniques. Two other books followed: In This House: A Collection of Altered Art Imagery and Collage Techniques and In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative. Recently, Angeia collaborated on The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook with her movie von Trapp siblings from the movie The Sound of Music. Together they gathered their personal photographs, home movies and memorabilia to create a one of a kind scrapbook, sharing their story of making the movie with their fans around the world, and celebrating the 5oth Anniversary of the movies release in 2015.
Angela has written numerous articles for magazines on photography and altered art techniques and her art has been licensed for numerous products. She has also pioneered and produced an original clothing line that incorporates her hand painted photo art on natural, easy to wear art.wear.
To be released in October, 2014: Styling the Stars; Lost Treasures from the Twentieth Century Fox Archive, Angela's passionate project that offers an exclusive glimpse inside Hollywood's Twentieth Century Fox Studio archives, with never-before-seen photographs and behind the scene images.
Coming in 2015 is On Purpose, a fantasy adventure novel Angela has been co-authoring with Lost In Space pal Bill Mumy.
ABOUT HER BOOK STYLING THE STARS
In the early days of Hollywood cinema, the impeccable style of stars like Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, and Julie Andrews was the result of meticulous hairstyling, makeup artistry, and elaborate costume design. Once camera-ready, actors would pose for photographs to ensure that their appearance remained consistent throughout the filming process—photographs never intended for the public eye.
Styling the Stars: Lost Treasures from the Twentieth Century Fox Archive (Insight Editions / $75.00 / October 2014) is a stunning collection of never-before-seen continuity photographs, offering readers an intimate, candid look at Hollywood’s Golden Age and beyond written by beloved actress Angela Cartwright (The Sound of Music, Lost in Space) and Tom McLaren, with a foreword by Maureen O’Hara (Miracle on 34th Street).
Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs of more than 150 actors, including Hollywood’s most iconic personalities—such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Paul Newman—Styling the Stars also shares revelatory stories about Twentieth Century Fox classics, including Miracle on 34th Street, The Sound of Music, Cleopatra, Valley of the Dolls, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and more.
Readers will find photographs of Shirley Temple as she runs a brush through her trademark curls, Marilyn Monroe as she’s styled for There’s No Business Like Show Business, Cary Grant as he suits up for a swim, and Paul Newman donning a six-shooter, among hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs that capture the evolution of Hollywood style from the 1930s to the early 1970s. Styling the Stars is a gorgeous collector’s volume of film and fashion photography, as well as an invaluable compendium of movie history.