Marcie leeds biography books

If you're like us (and our mums), you can't think of the movie Beaches without crying.

Once you've wiped the tears and composed yourself, however, we'd like you to focus on the two child stars who almost stole the show from their more famous older on-screen counterparts.

Mayim Bialik and Marcie Leeds played the younger versions, respectively, of Barbara Hershey and Bette Midler's characters Hillary and Cecelia, or 'CC'.

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Just 13 at the time, the young actresses well and truly capturing the spirit of the two Hollywood icons.

Their unforgettable early scenes in the 1988 movie set the characters' years-long friendship in motion.

While smoking under the boardwalk in Atlantic City, CC spots Hillary wandering lost on the beach, unable to find the hotel s