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Not yet seven years old, Moore was already a screen veteran when he joined the Our Gang crew in mid-1932. I first discovered Dickie Moore in the late 1970s, watching Hal Roach’s Little Rascals comedies every day after school on WPIX-11 in New York. The couple remained together until his death. firm Dick Moore and Associates is still in operation.) Moore interviewed actress Jane Powell for his 1984 book Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and married her four years later. Moore’s final film was THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (1952), in which the veteran played a soldier. In later years he appeared on radio and TV, directed and acted in New York theater, was active in Actor’s Equity, and served as an advertising creative director and public relations executive. He also had a small but memorable role as the mute “kid” in Jacques Tourneur’s seminal film noir OUT OF THE PAST (1947) with Robert Mitchum, following a tour of duty in World War II (as a reporter for Stars and Stripes). Cowen’s OLIVER TWIST (1933), William Dieterle’s THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR (1936), and Howard Hawks’ SARGEANT YORK (1941). In a screen career that spanned three decades, Moore appeared in enduring classics like Josef von Sternberg’s BLONDE VENUS (1932), Alfred E. Moore acted in more than 100 films, beginning with THE BELOVED ROGUE (1927) in which the 11-month-old Los Angeles native played John Barrymore’s character as a infant. Such a thing had never been done before in cinema, but was commonplace after the success of Our Gang.Dickie Moore, the sweet-faced child actor who gave Shirley Temple her first on-screen kiss in MISS ANNIE ROONEY (1942) and appeared in Hal Roach’s Our Gang comedies (renamed The Little Rascals for television syndication), has died at age 89. Our Gang also notably put boys, girls, whites, and blacks together in a group as equals, something that "broke new ground," according to film historian Leonard Maltin. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular kids. While child actors are often groomed to imitate adult acting styles, steal scenes, or deliver "cute" performances, Hal Roach and original director Robert F. The series, one of the best-known and most successful in cinema history, is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. In the mid-1950s, the 80 Roach-produced shorts with sound were syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals, as MGM retained the rights to the Our Gang trademark. A total of 220 shorts and one feature film, General Spanky, were eventually produced, featuring over forty-one child actors.
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MGM continued producing the comedies until 1944.
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Roach changed distributors from Pathé to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, went to sound in 1929, and continued production until 1938, when he sold the series to MGM. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a long-lived series of American comedy short films about a troupe of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together.