Dick Moore, a child star of the 1930s, who appeared in the Our Gang series and was featured in many major Hollywood productions, has passed away. He was 89.
While not as famous as Shirley Temple or Mickey Rooney, Moore was a veteran(老手) of dozens of films, many of those top-drawer productions directed by such greats as Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch and Josef von Sternberg. He also wrote a book about the child star business.
He was a member of producer Hal Roach's Our Gang troupe(班子) in 1932 and 1933, playing alongside Spanky McFarland, Stymie Beard and other Our Gang stars in such shorts as Free Wheeling, Hook and Ladder and Mush and Milk. But unlike Spanky and other Our Gang stars, Moore wasn't limited to Roach's comedies.
The handsome actor was Marlene Dietrich's little boy in her 1932 film Blonde Venus. He recalled her as “warm and friendly” but saying it made him uncomfortable when she gave him a bath. That same year he played the leading lady's little brother in Million Dollar Legs, and in the following year he got the title role in a version of Oliver Twist.
Among his many other roles were Julius Reuter as a boy in A Dispatch from Reuter's, war hero Alvin York's brother in Sgt. York, the boy that Louis Pasteur cured of rabies(狂犬病) in The Story of Louis Pasteur, and heroine Barbara Stanwyck's young son in So Big.
In 1942, toward the end of his child star career, he gave Temple her first screen kiss in Miss Annie Rooney. As a young man, he had a featured role in the 1947 classic film Out of the Past, which starred Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum. As his film career waned, he appeared in television shows such as Captain Video and His Video Rangers.
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