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Post by Buppster on Mar 17, 2018 7:09:54 GMT -5
It seems that these days Andy Shuford has become a largely forgotten and seriously underrated kid actor.    |
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Post by Buppster on Mar 19, 2018 7:35:52 GMT -5
I recently bought this vintage photo on eBay. As I'd expect, while most of the kids have their right arms raised Harry has his left arm raised. However what I didn't expect to see was Wheezer with his left arm raised too. Was Wheezer also left handed or was he merely mimicking Harry?  |
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Post by Buppster on Mar 19, 2018 12:15:00 GMT -5
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Post by Buppster on Mar 25, 2018 17:30:06 GMT -5
With so many 'favourite' photos in this thread I thought that I'd do something a bit different and instead of following suit I'd post my least favourite Our Gang photo. So here it is.  |
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Post by imnotallenhoskins on Mar 25, 2018 21:20:47 GMT -5
I don't think that's as bad as this one  |
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Post by RJH on Mar 25, 2018 22:41:03 GMT -5
There's an idea. Screen shots of babies and toddlers crying for real come to mind, but I don't want to post any in a favorite photo thread. Actually, I prefer not to create and post them anywhere.
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Post by Buppster on Mar 26, 2018 4:50:58 GMT -5
There's an idea. Screen shots of babies and toddlers crying for real come to mind, but I don't want to post any in a favorite photo thread. Actually, I prefer not to create and post them anywhere. That's one of the things that makes me uncomfortable about watching early movies, and it's not just Our Gang. Malcolm Sebastian seemed to have shed a lot of real tears in the Big Boy shorts too. I posted the skeleton photo not because it's a bad picture in itself, it's actually a pretty good picture of Farina, but because it seemed a rather sad and ignoble way for Harry Spear to end his three years service with Our Gang, covered from head to toe in a costume. He may just as well have been an extra, which is essentially all he had become in that short. |
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Post by Buppster on Mar 26, 2018 5:27:16 GMT -5
He probably doesn't qualify as a 'Rascal' as he only appeared in one short, and even in that he was a member of the opposing team, but I've seen a few of Frank Coghlan Junior's earlier movies and he was a great actor. I especially liked him in The Yankee Clipper (1927) and Let 'Er Go Gallegher (1928). I think this photo might be a publicity shot for Let 'Er Go Gallegher and I like the fact that he's signed it Junior Coghlan rather than as Frank Coghlan Junior, or Frank 'Junior' Coghlan, which seems to have been how he signed later pictures.  I also really like this picture of Junior with Philippe de Lacy |
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Post by myhomeo on Mar 26, 2018 12:55:44 GMT -5
There's an idea. Screen shots of babies and toddlers crying for real come to mind, but I don't want to post any in a favorite photo thread. Actually, I prefer not to create and post them anywhere. That's another disturbing element from The Baby Burlesks. Most memorable is a moment from 'War Babies.' A kid bartender is serving 'sour milk' to his patrons. At one point, the tube is plugged up so the milk stops. When the kid looks down the tube, he's sprayed in the face. He then, clearly for real, dissolves into tears. It's painfully obvious the film-makers didn't warn the poor boy ahead of time so he wouldn't anticipate the blast. Worse, while the kid stands there screaming his head off, the camera moves past him to another kid while his voice is scrubbed from the sound track. Charming. |
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Post by Buppster on Mar 27, 2018 5:47:58 GMT -5
It was pointed out earlier in this thread that Harry Spear frequently wore mismatched footwear, generally one shoe and one boot but no mention was made of the fact that he wore odd socks too.  |
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Post by Buppster on Mar 28, 2018 11:39:20 GMT -5
Scotty and Alvin almost look like they could be related while Donald Proffitt appears to have been a disciple of the Harry Spear school of method acting. 
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Post by Buppster on Mar 29, 2018 7:20:12 GMT -5
Monty O'Grady, one confirmed appearance in Our Gang and played a great role in Mary Pickford's Sparrows (1926). Here he is in a Laurel & Hardy comedy. It's a pity that he didn't make more movies, as he was a good actor. 
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Post by Buppster on Apr 1, 2018 16:10:01 GMT -5
I just bought this vintage photo of Tommy Bond, with clenched fists, obviously fully embracing his Butch persona.  |
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Post by Buppster on Apr 5, 2018 5:37:00 GMT -5
I saw a lobby card, for sale on eBay, for the 1924 Mack Sennett comedy short " The Hollywood Kid." I'd never heard of it so I looked it up on IMDb and then did a Google Search for images from it. I found this picture, which shows Jackie Lucas as Jackie Pico the Hollywood Kid, being scrubbed against a washboard and his older brother, wearing a check shirt played by Bret 'Buck' Black. It's probably the clearest picture that I've ever seen of him.   |
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Post by Buppster on Apr 5, 2018 8:14:12 GMT -5
Courtesy of IMDb two lobby cards that include Buck Black. They're both from the same movie, called Unknown Valley (1933), so Buck would have be 18 when the movie was made.   |
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