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Post by bmovies on Jul 18, 2023 14:45:16 GMT -5
 Here is the guy's granddaughter backing up this one. "This is my grandfather. My dad’s dad. Yes, he was ‘fats’ in Our Gang. He was born and raised in California where he filmed these. However, the true story is that he Joe Cobb were pretty undisguisable and often swapped out for the role of Chubby, but Don was mostly never credited. Therefore, he was never the one recognized for the role and left uncredited and pretty much forgotten. I grew up with stories about this and he was left pretty traumatized by his experienced working in Hollywood, mostly with being force-fed to remain chubby. This is an interesting article, but I fully have proof and old bits of media from back in the day to show the truth of it" stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2020/02/13/fats-of-the-little-rascals/ |
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Post by myhomeo on Jul 20, 2023 18:31:24 GMT -5
"Undisguisable"?
I think she meant indistinguishable.
I also find her story quite fishy. For one thing, Joe Cobb was never called Chubby. That was Norman Chaney.
It's possible he worked as a stand-in and the story got inflated over the years...
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Post by rascalstooge on Jul 24, 2023 11:38:27 GMT -5
When I saw the photo I thought he looked a bit like Curly Joe DeRita.
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Post by bigshotjones on Aug 2, 2023 13:14:30 GMT -5
I thought he looked a little like (non-Rascal) Oscar Beregi Jr. I looked him up in the newspaper archives, and found this article. Features another purported Ganger Helen Parrish. It also features some comments from Fern Carter. I don't see any obvious OG titles in her filmography, but anyone who's read "The Lucky Corner" website realizes that a ton of names were not identified in the production records. imgur.com/a/U8vnDHC |
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