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To: Loyalist

Blake was Mickey... or so I thought. Last I heard Spanky was the only one that had a decent life after the shorts.


110 posted on 03/16/2005 2:02:40 PM PST by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Types_with_Fist

Blake began his career in 1939 at age six playing Mickey in MGM's Our Gang comedies (credited on screen as Mickey Gubitosi), rounding out the '40s portraying the plucky Indian boy "Little Beaver" in another popular movie series, Red Ryder.

Young Robert Blake made seven to twelve films a year for eight years straight, but, all during that time, the youngster led a desperate life - the victim of a drunken, violent stepfather who would beat him and his brother, sister, and mother mercilessly at night.

As he grew into his teens, movie roles came much less frequently. In his twenties, Robert Blake moved into television where he could pick up supporting roles on shows like Fireside Theater. He became a frequent guest on the many western series of the '60s, just as his Red Ryder theatrical shorts and Our Gang comedies were finding new life in TV syndication.

http://www.tvparty.com/mysblake.html


121 posted on 03/16/2005 2:05:11 PM PST by add925 (The Left = Xenophobes in Denial)
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To: Types_with_Fist
Blake was Mickey

In more ways than one. The name his mother gave him was Michael James Vijencio Gubitosi, but he acted under the name Mickey Gubitosi, then Bobby Blake, then Robert Blake. He had quite a career as a child actor. Until today, I didn't know he was one of the "Little Rascals"/"Our Gang" group though.

609 posted on 03/16/2005 3:35:28 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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