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 Dietrichs 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 Hollywoods first sound adaptation of Charles Dickenss Oliver Twist (1933).
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Don’t forget, he played Robert Mitchum’s side kick in “Out of the Past”.
STEVE HAYES: Tired Old Queen at the Movies - OUT OF THE PAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alpDb32z6pA
‘Our Gang’ actor Dickie Moore Interview (1984)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgVa3c1iyw
WOW, that was great. I’ll have to watch more of his reviews.
I was just reading about him after Jean Darling died... RIP
No, thats Hook and Ladder
Yeah, but for leftists like the NYT, putting “kiss” in the headlines in hopes that readers will think about sex and, therefore, click on the story makes sense.
So was this kid . . .
. . . but he grew up to be this . . .
Rest In Peace, Li'l Dickie Moore . . . and Li'l Jackie Coogan, too.
To this day, started in the 60’s, I still watch Our Gang. I have a DVD collection of hours of shows.
All I know Dickie Moore from, the excellent 1947 film “Build My Gallows High”, oddly sometimes called “Out Of The Past”.
A fabulous film noir with Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming. If nobody is familiar with the film, then I totally recommend it. I have an obsession with film noir.
Dickie Moore works for Mitchum at his petrol station ( in American lingo, that’s a gas station ;) ) He’s a deaf-mute.
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