Everyone loves a “rags to riches” story – especially in Hollywood and all its stories of a talented, young kid plucked from an underprivileged life and thrown into super stardom. But what about the “rich to richer” celebrities? Not every A-List actor or Billboard pop star waited tables to scrape by until they got their big break. Some of them had more than a little help from their well-connected family or a top-notch theater programs at elite (and expensive) colleges. Click through this gallery to find out who had it a tad easier breaking into the fame game over other stars who struggled to find fame.

The film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s best-selling book is poised to ignite the careers of its cast into a whole new stratosphere. The eclectic cast includes several Academy Award nominees, some first-time performers, and even a rock star (yeah, that’s Lenny Kravitz!). Snakkle’s gone into the vault to find images of the film’s main cast back when they were just trying to break into the biz, and boy, are they adorable! Take a look…

Parents often want their kids to go into the family business. There are father and son quarterbacks, and father and son combos in all sorts of sports. When your mom or dad is in the music business, you don’t always follow in the parental footsteps. Then again, sometimes you do. Here are a variety of then-and-now photos of famous music superstars and their kids, many of whom have music careers of their own and a few who went a different route.