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Post by mtw12055 on Mar 24, 2008 10:42:57 GMT -5
Ever wonder who those two twins in "Party Fever" and "Football Romeo" are? According to IMDB, their names are Billy Mauch and Robert J. Mauch.
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Post by bigshotjones on Mar 24, 2008 12:38:06 GMT -5
They don't look much alike. I've seen that before, but the available photos of the Mauch twins (who did indeed claim to have made an "Our Gang" appearance) are not very convincing.
On the other hand, they are about the right age.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Mar 24, 2008 15:55:03 GMT -5
They don't look at all like the Mauch twins to me.
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Post by mtw12055 on Mar 25, 2008 20:06:20 GMT -5
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Post by bigshotjones on Mar 25, 2008 21:04:26 GMT -5
I had to look up to see who the other fat kid was. According to IMDB, "Bobby Dean" died in 1931. Anyone with any info on him?
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Post by mtw12055 on Mar 26, 2008 8:23:52 GMT -5
I had to look up to see who the other fat kid was. According to IMDB, "Bobby Dean" died in 1931. Anyone with any info on him? The only thing I know about him is that he was the original choice to replace Joe Cobb as the fat kid. |
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Post by ymymeatemup on Mar 26, 2008 11:22:13 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the Jean Darling link. I wonder if Maltin & Bann's inclusion of Jean's name in their "Spook Spoofing" cast list is on account of that photograph. The MGM silents don't seem to be 'incomplete' the way the Pathes are, so it seems likely that Jean simply posed for a photograph when those visitors were around. This seems to be essentially the same thing that happened with "Olympic Games." But, of course, when it comes to any silent Our Gang, there might be a few feet of additional footage out there waiting to be discovered.
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Post by mtw12055 on Mar 26, 2008 13:29:26 GMT -5
I think the MGM silents being more complete than the Pathes is due to the fact that the MGM silents were part of the original Little Rascals TV pacakge, and not part of those TV series with the edited Our Gang silents.
I'm not sure how many photos with Jean Darling in "Olympic Games" were taken, but I recall one photo that was sold on eBay at one point. I refer to it as "Harry Spear's intiation". It shows Jean watching Farina, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, and Scooter Lowry getting ready to throw Harry in the mud puddle that was used in this film.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Mar 26, 2008 13:51:07 GMT -5
I looked through my collection of downloaded eBay images and found the photo you're referring to. It's strange that Jean and Scooter are not in the available version of "Olympic Games," since it seems to be a fairly cohesive film the way it is. Jean has mentioned that she and Farina (perhaps others?) got sick during the making of this short. I can't remember which childhood disease she said it was. I have a theory that footage was shot with Jean and Scooter, and then various kids got sick and the studio decided to start over again with the filming. But, of course, a more complete print could very well make mincemeat out of this theory.
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Post by mtw12055 on Dec 3, 2014 17:15:49 GMT -5
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Post by bigshotjones on Dec 5, 2014 19:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by bigshotjones on May 15, 2017 14:33:16 GMT -5
The above link to the newpaper article with the pics is dead now, but I'm a little more confident in the 'Our Gang' twins being the Shaw twins. The 1940 census shows them born in New York, their parents being Albert and Victoria Shaw, and Albert's occupation listed as 'actor'.
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Post by littlejoecobb on Aug 7, 2017 1:13:30 GMT -5
Today's Desert Sun had this Obit for Harold Shaw.
Harold Shaw
November 22, 1922 - July 25, 2017
Harold Shaw left this world on July 25, 2017. Harold was born along with his twin brother Jerry on November 22, 1922 in New York City. Their father Al Shaw and Sam Lee were in Vaudeville. Jack Warner asked them to come to Los Angeles and do short skits. Victoria Shaw and Betty Lee were Ziegfeld Follie girls. Harold and Jerry went to Fairfax High School where they were tennis stars, they were undefeated. Harold and Jerry were in the Air Force from 1942-1946 in Germany.
Harold married his lovely bride Barbara 60 years ago. They have a daughter Abbe Flemming and her husband John, their son Steve and wife Heidi, and granddaughter Haleigh.
Harold and Jerry appeared in "Little Rascals Our Gang Movies". They announced the "Football Game" and they were in the last 10 shows. They also appeared in "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" movies.
They are together now.
To view and sign this guestbook, please visit: desertsun.com/obituaries
Published in The Desert Sun from Aug. 5 to Aug. 6, 2017
Sadly, I couldn't get them to run an Obit for Len Landy who also lived out there!
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