The so-called Red Summer of where you have riots throughout the country. And then you have the height of Jim Crow these laws that pretty much up hold segregation. So, the fact that you have black and white children on screen playing together, going to school together, playing baseball together when baseball would not be integrated for many more years is astonishing.
Roach honestly did not care. He was a producer. He wanted to make money. I think it does. I mean early Hollywood was an unconventional place. Certainly, people still complained about differing treatments of black and white patrons say in the city of Los Angeles, but at the same time the West was considered comparatively tolerant compared to other places in the Deep South for example.
And Hollywood itself was considered outside of the mainstream. So those who were attracted to Hollywood were those who were less likely to adhere to these views of separation of the races. This was series originally built around a young man named Sunshine Sammy Morrison.
Who was he and why was he the star? He was a star. He was already a well-known child star at that point. He had begun career in Hollywood when he was just a child. His family moved from New Orleans when he was a baby. He was cast as a child actor in the Baby Marie Osborne films. She was an early silent movie star. You should sign him to a contract. For the NAACP… Sunshine Sammy was a really important figure because, yes, even though he depicted a racial stereotype, he was a comparatively positive stereotype of the race in Hollywood.
That was considered a positive portrayal of the race. In the s, especially, I would say that the kids were absolutely friends off and on the set. They were already familiar with each other from just playing on the Hal Roach lot. The series ran from the s to the s. And in the s, I would say the kids still got a long but I would have to say by then the Little Rascals had become this brand. It was now staffed by professional child actors. It was more natural. By s, the Little Rascals was a big business.
It was a famous brand. And so the children, they got along but I think there was always the sense that they were off pursuing their professional careers. And someone like Stymie did mention that the parents, the stage mothers, the stage grandmothers, would get involved. Actor Dogs Is Dogs. He was married to Annie.
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Actor Bedtime Worries. He was married to Doris and Paula Jeanne Wilkinson. He died on June 30, in Actor Mail and Female. He died on May 21, in Dallas. Actress Shrimps for a Day. She was married to Jack Fries and Ben Bard.
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Timeless Classics When I was a kid in the '70s B. Me and my friends Really- everyone in my class practically! We didn't care that it was black and white. We didn't care that our folks -or even grandparents- had watched it. We didn't care that it showed an old fashioned simpler time we couldn't relate to. All we knew was that it featured an appealing bunch of kids and that it was funny as Hell!
Beale didn't understand the appeal of Chubby's entertainment oriented show and the two conflicted over the format. The silent Our Gang shorts were part of a separate syndication package, they were poorly edited with lousy music and added narration by an unknown young boy.
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