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Post by Buppster on Jul 3, 2018 10:46:30 GMT -5
I spotted this photo on eBay earlier today. It's rather in tatty condition and it was seriously overpriced at $400. The listing has since been ended, so whether it's sold or not I have no idea but for all of its faults it's still a rather endearing photo of Jerry Tucker.  |
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Post by Buppster on Jul 3, 2018 10:50:19 GMT -5
Also listed on eBay by the same seller as the above photo of Jerry is this rather splendid one of Johnny Downs. It's in much better condition and only half the price, but that's still too much in my opinion.  |
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Post by myhomeo on Jul 3, 2018 13:56:32 GMT -5
Have to confess, I found it amusing directly under the Johnny Downs picture was a spam advert headline: 'Healing Leaky Gut.'
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Post by Buppster on Jul 4, 2018 4:18:03 GMT -5
Spam advert? I never see any adverts on Proboards, even though I've switched my AdBlocker Plus off here, other than the little banner ads at the top of each page.
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Post by Buppster on Jul 13, 2018 13:43:49 GMT -5
German postcard from New Year 1932/1933  |
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Post by Buppster on Jul 17, 2018 11:44:28 GMT -5
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Post by tboneator64 on Aug 12, 2018 9:44:55 GMT -5
Pete after being given The MGM: Our Gang Collection DVD set for Christmas. Worse still; only the 1943-44 shorts would play, with the notable exception of DANCING ROMEO (1944)! 
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Post by Buppster on Aug 27, 2018 11:31:02 GMT -5
I bought this original 1929 negative of Harry on eBay. I've reversed the colours, so that it looks like a positive print. It's an unusual pose.  |
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Post by Buppster on Aug 28, 2018 6:19:36 GMT -5
Sometimes when watching old Our Gnag shorts, due to the poor picture quality, you forget just how freckly Jay R. Smith was.  When in fact he was very, very, very freckly, with freckles on top of his freckles by the looks of it.  |
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Post by myhomeo on Sept 1, 2018 15:17:34 GMT -5
Good heavens. The bottom picture makes him look like he has some sort of skin disease. I know it's probably not that bad, but still...
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Post by Buppster on Sept 1, 2018 18:45:12 GMT -5
Good heavens. The bottom picture makes him look like he has some sort of skin disease. I know it's probably not that bad, but still... He really was that freckly... *Jay R Smith thread*   It looks like most of his freckles were on his face and lower arms, in photos of him in swimwear the rest of him seems relatively freckle free, so they must have been the result of exposure to the sun, rather than permanent freckles. Of course, living in California he'd have been exposed to a lot of sunshine. |
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Post by Buppster on Sept 2, 2018 5:37:55 GMT -5
My last two posts in this thread involved a negative of Harry Spear, in an unusual pose, and Jay R. Smith's freckles. I recently agreed to buy a collection of assorted movie stills and publicity photos from someone in the UK. They arrived in the post yesterday and, in a bizarre coincidence, among them I found, a vintage positive print of the negative that I bought of Harry Spear less than a week ago from the USA.  And a great vintage photo of Jay R. Smith, one which I've never seen before. Just look at how freckly his wrist is!   |
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Post by dchord568 on Sept 2, 2018 23:07:17 GMT -5
I am entirely inexpert when it comes to the deep issues being discussed in this thread. But there is something that has always puzzled me. Jerry Tucker gets a credit in Our Gang's "Shiver My Timbers" (released October 1931), and then doesn't reappear until his brat role in "Hi' Neighbor" (released March 1934). Granted that this is a fairly significant gap, but I have a hard time reconciling the child shown in this frame grab (from Lord Heath's site) with the Jerry we later came to know:  Is this really Jerry? It looks quite unlike the lad in the publicity photo Buppster posted a few back, which comes from less than a year later. ETA: Oops, my mistake. Looks like Jerry has small roles in "Bedtime Worries" and "Wild Poses" that pre-date "Hi' Neighbor." But in both of those, he's quite recognizable. Still a big disconnect between his look in these and "Shiver My Timbers." |
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Post by Buppster on Sept 3, 2018 4:43:01 GMT -5
He is recognisable as Jerry to me but, on the basis of your photo, I have a strong suspicion that he might have been the result of a failed genetic experiment, using the DNA of Peter Lorre and Winston Churchill.   |
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Post by mtw12055 on Sept 3, 2018 13:15:11 GMT -5
I am entirely inexpert when it comes to the deep issues being discussed in this thread. But there is something that has always puzzled me. Jerry Tucker gets a credit in Our Gang's "Shiver My Timbers" (released October 1931), and then doesn't reappear until his brat role in "Hi' Neighbor" (released March 1934). Granted that this is a fairly significant gap, but I have a hard time reconciling the child shown in this frame grab (from Lord Heath's site) with the Jerry we later came to know: Is this really Jerry? It looks quite unlike the lad in the publicity photo Buppster posted a few back, which comes from less than a year later. ETA: Oops, my mistake. Looks like Jerry has small roles in "Bedtime Worries" and "Wild Poses" that pre-date "Hi' Neighbor." But in both of those, he's quite recognizable. Still a big disconnect between his look in these and "Shiver My Timbers." It's definitely Jerry. Jerry was a freelance actor, if I'm not mistaken, so he had the freedom to go to other studios as he pleased. |
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