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Dickie Moore, Child Actor Known for a Screen Kiss, Dies at 89 (little rascals)
nytimes.com ^ | september 10, 2015 | bruce weber

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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dickiemoore; hollywood; littlerascals; obituaries; obituary; ourgang; thelittlerascals
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I think hes more well known for the little rascals comedies than for giving Shirley temple her first on screen kiss.
1 posted on 09/10/2015 9:50:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Second Little Rascal this week, I believe.


2 posted on 09/10/2015 9:52:28 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: lowbridge

Oh yeah, I remember him! He was the rich kid with the bad neck in the Little Rascals short “Free Wheeling”, right?


3 posted on 09/10/2015 9:55:16 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: lowbridge

Dickie standing alongside Stymie in Kid From Borneo

Spanky and Dickie in Hook and Ladder

4 posted on 09/10/2015 9:55:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: DemforBush

The same :-)


5 posted on 09/10/2015 9:56:05 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Ahhhhh....the time Stymie cured his stiff neck in his taxi. Free Wheeling.


6 posted on 09/10/2015 9:56:15 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: JennysCool

Yes. Jean Darling was the other one.


7 posted on 09/10/2015 9:56:34 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: DemforBush

You’re way ahead of me.


8 posted on 09/10/2015 9:57:14 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: lowbridge

He was a beautiful little boy.

RIP


9 posted on 09/10/2015 9:57:59 PM PDT by bonfire
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To: lowbridge

Was this one “Hi Neighbor”?


10 posted on 09/10/2015 9:58:45 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: lowbridge

Oh my God, is Alfalfa a trans in that first photo? Just kidding folks.


11 posted on 09/10/2015 10:02:13 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: lowbridge

Related...

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12 posted on 09/10/2015 10:02:45 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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Related...

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13 posted on 09/10/2015 10:04:34 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: DemforBush

Correct you are.


14 posted on 09/10/2015 10:06:10 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: bonfire

“He was a beautiful little boy. RIP”

Megga dittos, can’t say it better than you did.

Tempus Fugit, RIP.


15 posted on 09/10/2015 10:07:08 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: JennysCool

16 posted on 09/10/2015 10:10:39 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: lowbridge

Wow his wife Jane Powell is still alive.

RIP Mr. Moore


17 posted on 09/10/2015 10:12:44 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: lowbridge

RIP.


18 posted on 09/10/2015 10:13:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: lowbridge

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)


19 posted on 09/10/2015 10:18:58 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
You missed Jackie Cooper.
20 posted on 09/10/2015 10:23:07 PM PDT by RansomOttawa (tm)
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