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Skippy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Norman Taurog released in USA on 25 april 1931 with Jackie Cooper

Skippy (1931)

Skippy
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Released in USA 25 april 1931
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating62% 3.1458053.1458053.1458053.1458053.145805

Skippy is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby. For his performance, Jackie Cooper, at the age of nine, became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

The film starred Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl. Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Directing (at age 32, he remains the youngest winner in this category). The film also did well enough to inspire a sequel called Sooky (1931). The film was released on April 5, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.

This film was going to be one of Universal's first MOD (Manufactured on Demand) titles released, but was withdrawn without explanation. It has yet to be announced as an MOD title.

Synopsis

Skippy (Jackie Cooper) is the feisty son of the strictly Dr. Herbert Skinner (Willard Robertson) and his wife Ellen (Enid Bennett). Skinner forbids his son Skippy to play in the pauperized Shantytown, because of the unhygenical and criminal surroundings there. But Skippy and his friend Sidney (Jackie Searl) still go to Shantytown whrere sidney meets a new boy named Sooky (Robert Coogan, Jackie Coogan's little brother). He saves the small boy Sooky from the much bigger bully Harley Nubbins (Donald Haines). Skippy and Sooky become friends. One day Harley accidentally breaks the windshield of his father's car with Skippy's yo-yo. Harley, who has a very aggressive and brute father, blames it on Skippy and Sooky. Mr. Nubbins (Jack Rube Clifford), who works as a dog catcher, takes Sooky's dog and demands that they pay him for the damages if they want their dog back. The boys gather three dollars by breaking Skippy's savings bank, but Mr. Nubbins accepts it only for his windshield. He gives them three days for getting another three dollars for a dog license and he threatens that he'll kill their dog if they don't get the money.

Actors

Jackie Cooper

(Skippy Skinner)Robert Coogan

(Sooky)Mitzi Green

(Eloise)Willard Robertson

(Herbert Skinner)Enid Bennett

(Ellen Skinner)
And :
Guy Oliver
Donald Haines
Helen Jerome Eddy
Douglas Haig
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