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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Mar 5, 2013 18:32:14 GMT -5
I saw this photo listed on eBay and I couldn't resist buying it. It's definitely an old photo, not some modern reprint, and on the back in pencil is written 'Ginger' Our Gang. I've watched quite a lot of Our Gang shorts (all the talkies and several of the silents) but I don't recognize this boy. He looks a little like some photos of Scooter Lowry but he also bears some resemblance to Husky Hanes, although Husky is younger in all the previous photos that I've seen of him. Anyone have any idea who this boy is? Attachments:
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Post by collibosher on Mar 5, 2013 23:08:10 GMT -5
Looks like Harry Spear.
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Mar 6, 2013 8:54:52 GMT -5
It could be Harry Spear I guess, it's difficult to be certain from the angle the photo is taken from. Scooter's hair does seem much darker in most of the photos that I've seen of him but there is some resemblance to this one. Attachments:
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Post by ymymeatemup on Mar 10, 2013 19:12:13 GMT -5
Definitely Harry Spear. He played "Ginger" in the Juvenile Comedies prior to joining Our Gang.
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Mar 11, 2013 10:01:13 GMT -5
Thanks for that. I had sort of hoped that it might be Harry but I couldn't place which Our Gang short it might be from. I just did a quick search and found that Harry was in a short called Sea Scamp with 'Big Boy' in 1926 and Harry's character was called Ginger so I guess the still is from that. Attachments:
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Post by Buppster on Apr 12, 2018 5:28:19 GMT -5
I just watched Sea Scamps last night and I can confirm beyond all doubt that your photo was a publicity shot for that short. Harry Spear, listed in the cast as Ginger, wore exactly the same clothes in the short as he did in your photo, although he didn't play a saxophone at any point in the short.    |
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Post by mtw12055 on Apr 12, 2018 10:40:24 GMT -5
I just watched Sea Scamps last night and I can confirm beyond all doubt that your photo was a publicity shot for that short. Harry Spear, listed in the cast as Ginger, wore exactly the same clothes in the short as he did in your photo, although he didn't play a saxophone at any point in the short. View AttachmentView AttachmentView AttachmentI don't recall for sure but I think it was either a generic publicity still, or one from "Bachelors' Babies." |
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Post by Buppster on Apr 12, 2018 12:19:31 GMT -5
I think that you're probably right and it's simply a coincidence that Harry Spear was wearing the same clothes in Sea Scamps. In both shorts he was supposed to be an orphanage kid, so presumably that suit of clothes was probably intended to represent his 'best clothes,' which he'd have worn for special occasions, which makes sense for both Sea Scamps and Bachelors' Babies. On closer inspection of the OP photo the saxophone that Harry Spear is playing is a toy one, which would fit in with the Christmas theme of Bachelors' Babies. I've also seen a photo of Big Boy playing the same toy saxophone in the same room, so presumably the saxophone might have been involved in the plot? The room isn't one that appeared in Sea Scamps and, as I also wrote elsewhere, there was no saxophone in Sea Scamps at all. Fireworks and a flying fish, yes but no sign of a saxophone.  |
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