Skippy (1931 film)

Skippy (1931 film)
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Skippy

Directed by	Norman Taurog
Written by	Joseph L. Mankiewicz Don Marquis Norman Z. McLeod Sam Mintz
Starring	Jackie Cooper Robert Coogan Mitzi Green Jackie Searl
Country	USA
Language	English

Skippy is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931. The screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Don Marquis, Norman Z. McLeod, and Sam Mintz was based on the comic strip Skippy by Percy Crosby.

The movie starred Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl. Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Directing. The film also did well enough to inspire a sequel called Sooky, which is the name of the character Robert Coogan played.

Plot

The story involved Skippy's efforts to help his new friend Sooky. Sooky is played by Jackie Coogan's brother Robert. In the story Sooky lives in a shantytown.

External links

Skippy at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e The films of Norman Taurog

1920s	Lucky Boy • The Diplomats • In Holland • The Medicine Men

1930s	Troopers Three (with B. Reeves Eason) • Sunny Skies • Hot Curves • Follow the Leader • Finn and Hattie • Skippy • Newly Rich • Huckleberry Finn • Sooky • Hold 'Em Jail • The Phantom President • If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue") • A Bedtime Story • The Way to Love • We're Not Dressing • Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • College Rhythm • The Big Broadcast of 1936 • Strike Me Pink • Rhythm on the Range • Reunion • Fifty Roads to Town • You Can't Have Everything • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mad About Music • Boys Town • The Girl Downstairs • Lucky Night

1940s	Broadway Melody of 1940 • Young Tom Edison • Little Nellie Kelly • Men of Boys Town • Design for Scandal • Are Husbands Necessary? • A Yank at Eton • Presenting Lily Mars • Girl Crazy (with Busby Berkley) • The Hoodlum Saint • The Beginning or the End • The Bride Goes Wild • Big City • Words and Music • That Midnight Kiss

1950s	Please Believe Me • The Toast of New Orleans • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone • Rich, Young and Pretty • Room for One More • Jumping Jacks • The Stooge • The Stars Are Singing • The Caddy • Living It Up • You're Never Too Young • The Birds and the Bees • Pardners • Bundle of Joy • The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown • Onionhead • Don't Give Up the Ship

1960s	Visit to a Small Planet • G.I. Blues • All Hands on Deck • Blue Hawaii • Girls! Girls! Girls! • It Happened at the World's Fair • Palm Springs Weekend • Tickle Me • Sergeant Dead Head • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine • Spinout • Double Trouble • Speedway • Live a Little, Love a Little

Television	Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (with Alan Handley, Christian Nyby, Roy Rowland, King Vidor, William A. Wellman and Bud Yorkin)

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Films directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Backfire • Dragonwyck • Somewhere in the Night • The Late George Apley • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir • Escape • A Letter to Three Wives (1949) • House of Strangers • No Way Out (1950) • All About Eve (1950) • People Will Talk • 5 Fingers (1952) • Julius Caesar (1953) • The Barefoot Contessa (1954) • Guys and Dolls (1955) • The Quiet American • Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) • Cleopatra (1963) • The Honey Pot • There Was a Crooked Man... • Sleuth (1972)

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