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Post by pinopade on Jun 3, 2008 12:56:14 GMT -5
I'm sure this is Sidney Kibrick, and I suspect that might be Tommy Bond behind him. This is from "The Kid's Last Fight" on the restored and colored authorized release of the Baby Burlesks ("The Shirley Temple Storybook Collection: The Early Years.") I guess they weren't violating their "Our Gang" contracts, because they weren't credited and probably weren't paid either for this very brief appearance.  |
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jun 4, 2008 1:34:39 GMT -5
Definitely Sid on the left. I don't think that's Tommy on the right, though, as this would have been around the time he joined the Gang, and he's missing most of his baby fat in this shot. Not to mention that his hair is longer in his earlier Our Gang appearances, which were released at the same time as this film. In any event, Sid wasn't contracted to Roach for another couple of years, and if he had been then this would have been a loan-out situation - unless his contract was non-exclusive. I'd bet that none of these kids appeared as extras in any film without monetary compensation, either to the kid or to Roach.
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Post by pinopade on Jun 4, 2008 9:03:50 GMT -5
And here, in another Baby Burlesk, is a boy who appeared in several of them. Does he look like another possible Roach loan-out?  |
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Post by pinopade on Jun 11, 2008 10:50:21 GMT -5
Is there any place on the Internet where I can find pictures of Tommy Bond from 1932 or '33? I'd like to see what he looked like then.
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Post by zootmoney on Jun 11, 2008 18:13:02 GMT -5
He was in Kid From Borneo and Mush & Milk during that time period
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Post by zootmoney on Jun 11, 2008 18:15:34 GMT -5
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Post by pinopade on Jun 12, 2008 12:12:19 GMT -5
Thanks. I guess that isn't Tommy in the shot I had.
The other one I posted above, the boy holding a gun, was one of the Baby Burlesk regulars and is believed by some to be Georgie Billings of Our Gang. ("Darby.")
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jun 12, 2008 18:48:20 GMT -5
I think you're probably thinking of Georgie Smith. I don't know the Baby Burlesks well enough to say, but it's definitely not Georgie Billings. I also believe the nickname 'Darby' was misheard by Maltin and/or Bann when compiling their cast listings. Georgie's (screen) mother calls him 'Georgie' in the film, but if you're not listening closely enough, it sounds like 'Darby.'
I must say, the boy in the middle (background) of the top shot looks really familiar, but I can't think of who he is.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 12, 2008 20:25:48 GMT -5
I think you're probably thinking of Georgie Smith. I don't know the Baby Burlesks well enough to say, but it's definitely not Georgie Billings. I also believe the nickname 'Darby' was misheard by Maltin and/or Bann when compiling their cast listings. Georgie's (screen) mother calls him 'Georgie' in the film, but if you're not listening closely enough, it sounds like 'Darby.' I must say, the boy in the middle (background) of the top shot looks really familiar, but I can't think of who he is. Looks to me like it might me John Collum. |
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Post by pinopade on Jun 16, 2008 16:02:38 GMT -5
Also, this boy was in most of the Baby Burlesks. Does he look to you like Philip Hurlic?  |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 16, 2008 18:43:50 GMT -5
I can't tell for sure if that is Philip Hurlic, but whoever the boy in that picture is, I think he was also in a few of the final films in the Mickey McGuire series. In that series, he was called "Lucky", which was Philip Hurlic's stage nickname.
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Post by rascalwatcher on Jul 6, 2008 13:57:48 GMT -5
Philip Hurlic also appeared in the ONLY talkie not to feature either Farina, Stymie, or Buckwheat - and if I remember correctly (and without referring to Maltin's Manual), it was Hurlic's only Our Gang appearance, right?
Can't think of the title but I do remember it was the episode where it was Darla's father's (played by Johnny Arthur) birthday, or as he put it, "natal anniversary". When I was a young kid, not knowing the continuity of the series, I had always thought that was Stymie in that episode.
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Post by mtw12055 on Jul 6, 2008 17:07:32 GMT -5
I think I saw Philip Hurlic making cameos in a couple of other Our Gang films. I'm pretty sure he's one of the black audience members in "Our Gang Follies of 1936", and I think he was also in "Cousin Wilbur".
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Post by RJH on Jul 24, 2008 20:24:43 GMT -5
Something I know! Philip Hurlic replaced Buckwheat in "Feed 'em and Weep." Philip was also in both Our Gang Follies of 1936 and Our Gang Follies of 1938, as well as "Cousin Wilbur," which I had to look up.
One more thing, Farina wasn't in the first episode, "Our Gang," making that and "Feed em and Weep" the only two that none of Farina, Stymie, and Buckwheat were in. Of course Ernie Morrison was in that first short.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jan 18, 2011 12:46:12 GMT -5
One more thing, Farina wasn't in the first episode, "Our Gang," making that and "Feed em and Weep" the only two that none of Farina, Stymie, and Buckwheat were in. Of course Ernie Morrison was in that first short. Here I go resurrecting an ancient thread, but....You can also add "A Quiet Street" to the list, since Farina wasn't in that. But as you indicated, if you add Ernie Morrison to the list of names, then only "Feed 'Em And Weep" is missing any of the regular black kids. Another interesting factoid: of the 221 Our Gang films, only 21 have neither Farina nor Spanky, and only 7 of those 21 are missing Buckwheat. |
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