Dickie standing alongside Stymie in Kid From Borneo
Spanky and Dickie in Hook and Ladder
Posted on 09/10/2015 9:50:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
Dick Moore, a public relations executive who was known as Dickie when he was a Hollywood child star, playing the movies’ first talking Oliver Twist and later giving Shirley Temple her first on-screen kiss, died on Monday in Connecticut. He was 89.
Helene Feldman, who works for his company, Dick Moore & Associates, confirmed the death but said she was not sure where it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn.
Mr. Moore was not yet a year old and evidently cute as a button when he made his movie debut in the 1927 silent feature “The Beloved Rogue,” which starred John Barrymore as the 15th-century French poet and gadabout François Villon. Young Dickie, uncredited, played Villon as an infant.
He very quickly became a busy youngster, appearing in dozens of features and short films, many before he turned 12, including “Blonde Venus” (1932), in which he played Marlene Dietrich’s son, and “The Story of Louis Pasteur” (1936), in which he played a boy saved from rabies by Paul Muni. In 1932-33, he appeared regularly in “Our Gang” shorts (the series was known as “The Little Rascals” when the films were shown on television). He was 6 when he played the title role in Hollywood’s first sound adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” (1933).
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Second Little Rascal this week, I believe.
Oh yeah, I remember him! He was the rich kid with the bad neck in the Little Rascals short “Free Wheeling”, right?
Dickie standing alongside Stymie in Kid From Borneo
Spanky and Dickie in Hook and Ladder
The same :-)
Ahhhhh....the time Stymie cured his stiff neck in his taxi. Free Wheeling.
Yes. Jean Darling was the other one.
You’re way ahead of me.
He was a beautiful little boy.
RIP
Was this one “Hi Neighbor”?
Oh my God, is Alfalfa a trans in that first photo? Just kidding folks.
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Correct you are.
“He was a beautiful little boy. RIP”
Megga dittos, can’t say it better than you did.
Tempus Fugit, RIP.
Wow his wife Jane Powell is still alive.
RIP Mr. Moore
RIP.
The Beloved Rogue 1927
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zIZyff2VZ4
Blonde Venus Trailer 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVoZcVgYUoM
The Story of Louis Pasteur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAuDvMiuLHo
Oliver Twist (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86VClCodYLA
Miss Annie Rooney | Shirley Temple | 1942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNpMZt_TiE
Little Rascals Hook and Ladder 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI4f9vFeqE8
First appearance of Dickie Moore and the third Pete the Pup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Gang_filmography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie_Moore_(actor)
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