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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 18, 2010 21:46:08 GMT -5
Does anybody have any information on the "Mickey McGuire" series. I put most of the information that I already have into this wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_McGuire_(film_series) If anybody has anything else to add I would really appreciate it. I am particuarly interested on more specifications on the films, as well as identifying certain cast members (both kids and adults) that haven't already been mentioned. If anybody has any pictures of casting directories that indicates somebody who appeared in this series, would they be able to post them on here?
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Post by mtw12055 on Nov 23, 2010 20:41:14 GMT -5
And would anybody happen to have any of these films?
1927 Mickey's Circus Mickey's Pals (complete version) Mickey's Eleven (complete version) Mickey's Battle
1928
Mickey's Parade Mickey's Nine Mickey's Little Eva Mickey's Wild West Mickey in Love Mickey's Triumph Mickey's Babies Mickey's Rivals Mickey's Athletes
1929
Mickey's Menagerie Mickey's Last Chance Mickey's Brown Derby Mickey's Northwest Mounted (complete version) Mickey's Initiation Mickey's Midnite Follies Mickey's Big Moment Mickey's Strategy
1930 Mickey's Master Mind Mickey's Whirlwinds Mickey the Romeo Mickey's Merry Men Mickey's Winners Mickey's Musketeers Mickey's Bargain
1931 Mickey's Crusaders Mickey's Diplomacy Mickey's Side Line
1932
Mickey's Busy Day Mickey's Travels Mickey's Holiday Mickey's Golden Rule
1933
Mickey's Big Broadcast (complete version) Mickey's Disguises (complete version)
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 8, 2011 1:45:47 GMT -5
I'm still in the process of completely familiarizing myself with this film series. I can rattle off the names of a number of the main players, but I haven't advanced as far when it comes to the identification of actors who played obscure roles in the shorts. It would be so much easier, of course, if the Mickey McGuire series had an informational website like TheLuckyCorner.com devoted to its content, but if such a site (or anything even remotely similar) exists, I've yet to find it. From what I can tell, this seems to be the main (if not only) Mickey McGuire DVD release being produced today: www.mickeyrooneyfanclub.com/apps/webstore/products/show/335166 That would appear to be twenty-seven out of the original sixty-four (by my count) films, and I'm not sure if there's an official release around today that carries any of the others. I still have a lot of reading to do to catch up on the history of the series, but if I come across any information that I think you probably don't have, I'll let you know about it.
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 8, 2011 18:06:24 GMT -5
I'm still in the process of completely familiarizing myself with this film series. I can rattle off the names of a number of the main players, but I haven't advanced as far when it comes to the identification of actors who played obscure roles in the shorts. It would be so much easier, of course, if the Mickey McGuire series had an informational website like TheLuckyCorner.com devoted to its content, but if such a site (or anything even remotely similar) exists, I've yet to find it. From what I can tell, this seems to be the main (if not only) Mickey McGuire DVD release being produced today: www.mickeyrooneyfanclub.com/apps/webstore/products/show/335166 That would appear to be twenty-seven out of the original sixty-four (by my count) films, and I'm not sure if there's an official release around today that carries any of the others. I still have a lot of reading to do to catch up on the history of the series, but if I come across any information that I think you probably don't have, I'll let you know about it. Thanks very much! Actually, I bought the 27 film series off of ioffer a couple of years back. A good deal of the information I put on the wikipedia article came from the films on this set. About half the films on that set were from VHS copies released by a company called Virgil Films. Included in this set were two of the films without Rooney. The other half derived from a great DVD set (that I also have) that was released by 8thman around 2006. I also recently bought a DVD from Video Classics contatning two nearly complete films and two incomplete films, and the picture quality was pretty bad.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 9, 2011 1:11:57 GMT -5
Are there more comprehensive credits to the Mickey McGuire films contained in this set than there usually are in the commonly seen Our Gang prints, or was gleaning information from the set of twenty-seven films more a matter of confirming the presence of actors and characters with whom you were already basically familiar?
On the Mickey Rooney Fan Club site that sells the Mickey McGuire DVD package there's no mention of any of the films being incomplete, but judging from the list of titles that you're still seeking, my guess is that at least some of them are cut short. Mickey's Northwest Mounted, for example, and Mickey's Eleven. Are any of the films in the series considered truly lost, or are there just the same kinds of issues that plague ardent fans of the Our Gang silents, issues with finding wholly intact copies of some of the available shorts?
Out of curiosity, what is the "Bonus Surprise Episode" included in the DVD set?
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 9, 2011 16:33:29 GMT -5
Are there more comprehensive credits to the Mickey McGuire films contained in this set than there usually are in the commonly seen Our Gang prints, or was gleaning information from the set of twenty-seven films more a matter of confirming the presence of actors and characters with whom you were already basically familiar? On the Mickey Rooney Fan Club site that sells the Mickey McGuire DVD package there's no mention of any of the films being incomplete, but judging from the list of titles that you're still seeking, my guess is that at least some of them are cut short. Mickey's Northwest Mounted, for example, and Mickey's Eleven. Are any of the films in the series considered truly lost, or are there just the same kinds of issues that plague ardent fans of the Our Gang silents, issues with finding wholly intact copies of some of the available shorts? Out of curiosity, what is the "Bonus Surprise Episode" included in the DVD set? The information that I was referring to mostly involved confirming the presence of certain actors. From the set being sold by the Fan Club, "Mickey's Eleven", "Mickey's Northwest Mounted", "Mickey in School", "Mickey's Disguises", "Mickey's Clean-Up" (I'm still trying to figure out what the real title for this film is), and "Mickey's Charity" are all incomplete. I'm not entirely sure, but "Mickey the Detective" may also be slightly incomplete. Most of the silents included in that set were TV prints from either the "Mischief Makers" series or "Those Lovable Scallawags with their Gangs" series. Most of the incomplete talkies were taken from the feature film complication "Mickey the Great". My copy of this film doesn't include "Mickey's Clean-Up" in it, but I'm fairly sure that it was originally included. I'm also trying to figure out what the real title for "Mickey's Press" is. Like I said in the wikipedia article, a number of these films were re-issued well into the 1940s, and it appears that a good deal were given new titles (though I can't confirm this entirely, deductive reasoning makes me pretty sure about it). It's hard to say whether or not any of the films are truly lost, mainly because of the small amount of people actually having an interest in this series. This is mainly due to the fact that these films are rarely exposed nowadays. The bonus surprise episode is "Mickey's Champs", but the quality of this particular print is awful. The picture is blurry, and the sound is hard to distinguish unless you turn up your volume enough. The last few seconds are missing, making the film's resolution somewhat hard to figure out.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 10, 2011 1:33:37 GMT -5
I read through the Wikipedia article, which has filled in some significant gaps for me in regard to the Mickey McGuire series. I notice that many of the individual films, themselves, also have short articles pertaining to their specific content. Did you write these, as well? If so, it must have been a fair amount of work.
I hadn't known before about the 1931-32 switch involving Mickey Rooney, Marvin Stephens and Donald Haines. I'd imagine that changing out the actor who plays the lead role in the series wouldn't have been a decision that was taken lightly. It's hard to imagine Hal Roach suddenly turning Leonard Landy into Alfalfa and Gary Jasgar into Percy, but I guess that would be roughly akin to what happened, for a couple of films, in the Mickey McGuire franchise.
As Dickie Hutchins might say...
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 10, 2011 16:23:40 GMT -5
I read through the Wikipedia article, which has filled in some significant gaps for me in regard to the Mickey McGuire series. I notice that many of the individual films, themselves, also have short articles pertaining to their specific content. Did you write these, as well? If so, it must have been a fair amount of work. I hadn't known before about the 1931-32 switch involving Mickey Rooney, Marvin Stephens and Donald Haines. I'd imagine that changing out the actor who plays the lead role in the series wouldn't have been a decision that was taken lightly. It's hard to imagine Hal Roach suddenly turning Leonard Landy into Alfalfa and Gary Jasgar into Percy, but I guess that would be roughly akin to what happened, for a couple of films, in the Mickey McGuire franchise. As Dickie Hutchins might say... Remarkable! As a matter of fact, I did create the pages for the individual films. I'm still not sure about the reasoning behind Rooney's temporary drop from the series. This may have been around the time he had his name legally changed to Mickey Rooney. Another possibility (though I really doubt this one) is that Rooney was injured during the filming of "Mickey's Thrill Hunters". From watching that short, the kids were put in some pretty risky looking stunts that Hal Roach wouldn't even attempt. I've also seen at least two shorts in which Jimmie Robinson (Hambone) was absent, and his character was portrayed by another actor. Jimmie Robinson also has a noticeably smaller part in the short "Mickey's Movies". There's another African American character in this short named "Little Chocolate" (!) who appears to have been a temporary replacement for Hambone. In "Mickey's Movies" we also learn the connection between "Katrink'" and "The Mighty Katrinka" (a character from the original Toonerville comics). Katrink' is supposed to be Katrinka's "kid brother". I've also been very curious about the location shooting for these shorts. While watching the short "Mickey's Stampede", I noticed that the area where the kids' football field is located looks offly similar to the area leading to the "He-Man Woman Haters"' clubhouse in the 1994 Little Rascals remake. According to an article on the film, "some of the original locations have been used, with filming in Burbank neighborhoods unchanged since the '20s and '30s". But as we know, Our Gang wasn't filmed in Burbank.
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 10, 2011 21:42:50 GMT -5
I recently looked at a casting directory for Marvin Stephens and his older brother Arthur, and this leads me to think that Arthur might have played the role of Katrink' in the Mcguire series before Marvin signed on. I can't confirm this, but Arthur looks offly familiar.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 16, 2011 0:38:46 GMT -5
Did Douglas Scott have a brother who might have done some acting? In the 1931 movie Cimarron, a young actor named Reginald Scott has a very small role (Yancey Cravat II) as the son of Douglas Scott's character (Cim Cravat) after Cim has grown to adulthood. Douglas Scott plays the part of Cim until he reaches the age of about five or six, I would guess. Cimarron is the only screen credit listed for Reginald Scott on IMDB. Here's a Youtube link to the part of the movie in which Reginald Scott appears as Yancey II. He enters the scene (for only a few seconds, though) shortly after the 2:35 mark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHw9fqOPA4&feature=related
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Post by littlerascal4891 on Feb 16, 2011 14:13:31 GMT -5
I hop I'm not straying too off-topic here, but Mickey Rooney was in the news today and I thought of this thread. This article was featured on MSN today today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41609446/ns/today-entertainment/?GT1=43001. Apparently Mickey's stepson is verbally abusing him and depriving him of food and medication. If this is true, I hope that everything turns out okay for Mickey. It made me sad to see this.
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 16, 2011 19:43:46 GMT -5
Did Douglas Scott have a brother who might have done some acting? In the 1931 movie Cimarron, a young actor named Reginald Scott has a very small role (Yancey Cravat II) as the son of Douglas Scott's character (Cim Cravat) after Cim has grown to adulthood. Douglas Scott plays the part of Cim until he reaches the age of about five or six, I would guess. Cimarron is the only screen credit listed for Reginald Scott on IMDB. Here's a Youtube link to the part of the movie in which Reginald Scott appears as Yancey II. He enters the scene (for only a few seconds, though) shortly after the 2:35 mark: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEHw9fqOPA4&feature=related It's possible that Reginald could be related to Douglas. But I can't really tell from this clip because of the Youtube quality.
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 16, 2011 19:45:21 GMT -5
I hop I'm not straying too off-topic here, but Mickey Rooney was in the news today and I thought of this thread. This article was featured on MSN today today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41609446/ns/today-entertainment/?GT1=43001. Apparently Mickey's stepson is verbally abusing him and depriving him of food and medication. If this is true, I hope that everything turns out okay for Mickey. It made me sad to see this. I hope it's not true. It's very sad to hear poor Mickey being mistreated like that. If it is true, I wonder if his wife can do anything about it.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Feb 17, 2011 0:07:07 GMT -5
It's possible that Reginald could be related to Douglas. But I can't really tell from this clip because of the Youtube quality. Actually, it's difficult to get a clear look at Reginald Scott during his few seconds onscreen in Cimarron even when watching the movie on regular television. The version of the film used by Turner Classic Movies is somewhat grainy, and Reginald Scott is just too far away from the camera to be able determine with any level of confidence if there might be a physical resemblance between him and Douglas Scott. The only thing I could note is that his hair didn't appear to have the same loose curls as that of his possible brother. I first saw the article about Mickey Rooney and the reported friction with his stepson earlier today online. It's always hard to tell what's really going on when parts of a family drama become public, and it's easy to get the wrong impression from what information is available. I wonder where former Mouseketeer Mickey Rooney, Jr. comes into play in all of this, as I've heard before that he's in charge of the Rooney Entertainment Group. Mickey Rooney seems to be pretty strong and able to assertively maintain control over his own affairs, though. I wouldn't mind seeing him stick around in the acting business for another ten or twenty years. :-)
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Post by mtw12055 on Feb 17, 2011 19:37:03 GMT -5
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