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6.2Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Released: 1931-04-2585 minDir: Norman TaurogDrama, Family, Comedy
Cast
- Jackie Cooper as Skippy Skinner
- Robert Coogan as Sooky
- Mitzi Green as Eloise
- Jackie Searl as Sidney
- Willard Robertson as Herbert Skinner
- Enid Bennett as Ellen Skinner
Themes
- dog
- boy and dog
- dogcatcher
- shantytown
- boys
- child protagonist
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Skippy is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film based on the popular comic strip and novel Skippy by Percy Crosby. The screenplay was by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz.
The film stars Jackie Cooper in the title role, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl. Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Best Director (at age 32, he remained the youngest winner in this category until Damien Chazelle won for the 2016 film La La Land). The film also did well enough to inspire a sequel called Sooky (1931). Skippy was released on April 5, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. For his performance, 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 was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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1931 American films1931 comedy-drama films1931 English-language films1931 filmsAmerican black-and-white filmsAmerican comedy-drama filmsEnglish-language comedy-drama filmsFilms about childrenFilms based on American comicsFilms based on comic stripsFilms directed by Norman TaurogFilms whose director won the Best Directing Academy Award