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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jun 30, 2013 14:45:11 GMT -5
Hi zootmoney, Thanks for posting the great pics with Scooter, Mary & Johnny in them. I'd never seen either of those before. MovieKids has Marvin Trin listed as part of the cast of Hi Neighbor! It certainly looks like him in the background of this capture.  |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 30, 2013 15:21:01 GMT -5
He was in "Hi'-Neighbor!". I meant that I believe that was his only appearance, despite what some sources claim. I probably should have worded that post better.  |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 30, 2013 15:45:21 GMT -5
Stymie, Darla, and Bill Thomas, Jr. (Buckwheat's son). Incidentally, does anybody know what year this was taken? Somewhere between '76 and '79, I'm sure. |
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jun 30, 2013 16:34:04 GMT -5
mtw12055 : My fault for not making it clear. I was replying to ymymeatemup when I posted the picture of Marvin Trin in Hi Neighbor! MovieKids lists him as being in six Our Gang shorts including The First Round-Up. I've included a picture from it and it looks like it might be him to me. 
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 30, 2013 16:47:09 GMT -5
The kid in "The First Round-Up" is Billy Wolfstone, yet another kid that people often mistake for Marvin Trin. Oddly enough, the film's cutting continuity calls him "Marvin".
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jun 30, 2013 16:53:43 GMT -5
Perhaps the Our Gang occasional role 'Marvin' was like the role 'Spud' or the Mickey McGuire role 'Stinky', one that was played by several kids?
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Post by mtw12055 on Jun 30, 2013 16:56:12 GMT -5
Perhaps the Our Gang occasional role 'Marvin' was like the role 'Spud' or the Mickey McGuire role 'Stinky', one that was played by several kids? I generally think of the two Spuds as two different characters. Ditto for the two Buckwheats. (though Stinky was definitely the same character throughout the McGuire series). Perhaps whomever prepared the cutting continuity goofed. After all, Georgie Billings was called "Wheezer" in the cutting continuity for "Bedtime Worries". |
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jun 30, 2013 19:51:33 GMT -5
Who cares if he pulled a grumpy face on very rare occasions, he's still one of my favorite Rascals of the lot.  |
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Post by scotty1958 on Jun 30, 2013 20:19:23 GMT -5
Alfalfa will always be my favorite, along with some others, but of course I'll always respect the master of mischief and comedy... Spanky  He never fails to make me laugh. And then of course there's that long lost rascal...  Oh wait, that's me as a boy back in the early 1960's when I was watching "The Little Rascals" on TV. My middle name is Scott and my parents took several pictures of me with a crooked hat. Hmmm... Thank you very much to Scotty Beckett for letting me use his mug as my avatar for awhile, but now I'll use my own childhood pic. I was a bit of a rascal myself back in the day, but I guess not as cute as Scotty B. Oh well... |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jun 30, 2013 23:08:09 GMT -5
Who cares if he pulled a grumpy face on very rare occasions, he's still one of my favorite Rascals of the lot. Switzer, you are a treasury of good Harry Spear images. :-) Several that you've uploaded here are ones I had never previously seen. |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 1, 2013 0:05:24 GMT -5
Thank you very much to Scotty Beckett for letting me use his mug as my avatar for awhile, but now I'll use my own childhood pic. I was a bit of a rascal myself back in the day, but I guess not as cute as Scotty B. Oh well... Maybe no one could hope to outshine Scotty Beckett, but the early 1960s you could have at least held your own. :-) Just judging from the photographs, you seem to have had that Gangster air about you that simply can't be taught. Even if Scotty would have emerged victorious in a "cute" contest, you wouldn't have been left far behind. ;-) |
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jul 1, 2013 0:21:57 GMT -5
Just to clarify some of the "Bubbles" confusion. Maltin & Bann ALSO thought Edmund Corthell and Billy Wolfstone looked like Marvin Trin (actually Strin, but the studio got the name wrong, too), which is why they list Marvin for both "For Pete's Sake" and "The First Round-Up," as well as any later films that had fat boys that looked remotely like Marvin. All of the Internet references to Marvin are copied from their book.
I'm still in the process of researching the payroll ledgers, but I can verify that after "Hi-Neighbor," Marvin did not work in the series again during 1934 or 1935. I've gotten through most of 1936, and his name hasn't turned up again, so he probably only made that one appearance.
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Post by scotty1958 on Jul 1, 2013 4:16:09 GMT -5
Thanks! I'm looking up at a big TV tower that was right next to our property BTW. In fact my father ran a small TV station in those days, and we lived on the property. I have a feeling Scotty and I would have been pals if we had grown up together.  Here I am back in the day surrounded by girls. Phooey!  |
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 1, 2013 8:38:27 GMT -5
And of course the photo that led me to join this forum in the first place is an absolute favorite. Is he cute? Cuter than a basket load of kittens.  |
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Post by Hard-boiled Harry on Jul 1, 2013 8:39:34 GMT -5
Who cares if he pulled a grumpy face on very rare occasions, he's still one of my favorite Rascals of the lot. Switzer, you are a treasury of good Harry Spear images. :-) Several that you've uploaded here are ones I had never previously seen. I just wish I had some more, they aren't so easy to come across. |
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