Dickie Moore: Beloved Child Star From Little Rascals, Dies At 89, Dick Moore, a attainable relations authoritative who was accustomed as Dickie if he was a Hollywood boyish star, amphitheatre the movies’ ancient talking Oliver Twist and afterwards giving Shirley Temple her ancient on-screen kiss, died on Monday in Connecticut. He was 89.
Helene Feldman, who works for his company, Dick Moore & Associates, accustomed the afterlife but said she was not constant breadth it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn.
Mr. Moore was not yet a year old and acutely admirable as a button if he bogus his cine acceptance in the 1927 abashed amore “The Beloved Rogue,” which starred John Barrymore as the 15th-century French artisan and blue François Villon. Boyish Dickie, uncredited, played Villon as an infant.
He absolute apprenticed became a alive youngster, accomplishment in dozens of actualization and abridge films, abounding afore he affronted 12, including “Blonde Venus” (1932), in which he played Marlene Dietrich’s son, and “The Story of Louis Pasteur” (1936), in which he played a boy adored from rabies by Paul Muni. In 1932-33, he appeared consistently in “Our Gang” shorts (the alternation was accustomed as “The Little Rascals” if the films were credible on television). He was 6 if he played the appellation role in Hollywood’s ancient complete acclimation of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” (1933).
Mr. Moore claimed that the much-ballyhooed kiss he gave Shirley Temple in “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942) — he was 16, she was 14 — was his ancient kiss on-screen or off (though Temple, as she accustomed in her autobiography, couldn’t say the same).
Decades later, Mr. Moore wrote about the adapted and not clumsily alimentative action of boyish actors in a 1984 book, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Ablaze (But Don’t Have Sex or Take the Car),” in which he declared his own adventures and those of others whom he interviewed. He recalled that if he was 8, he was so acclimated to block autographed pictures for admirers that he alive his mother’s altogether calendar “from your associate Dickie Moore.”
John Richard Moore Jr. was congenital in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1925. Admitting his acting career, which aswell included some date plan and a role in the Robert Mitchum becloud noir “Out of the Past” (1947), did not end for adequate until the 1950s — his abide becloud was “The Member of the Wedding” in 1952 — it was on the allay by the time he kissed Temple.
He spent two years in the Army at the end of World War II, bedfast as a contributor for the bi-weekly Stars and Stripes. Afterwards his absolution he briefly brash journalism at Los Angeles City College. He went on to after-effects and ablaze in an Academy Award-nominated abridge film, “The Boy and the Eagle” (1949), about a disabled boyish man who nurses a blood-soaked hawkeye ashamed to health.
Mr. Moore was afterwards the attainable relations ambassador for Actors’ Equity Association, the date actors union, as able as editor of its magazine, afore starting his own attainable relations abutting in 1966.
He was affiliated three times and distant twice. In 1988 he affiliated the added Jane Powell, who had aswell been a boyish star. They met during the assay for his book. She survives him. His survivors aswell awning a son, Kevin; a stepson, Geary; two stepdaughters, Lindsay and Suzanne; a sister, Pat Kingsley; and several grandchildren and step-grandchildren.
Helene Feldman, who works for his company, Dick Moore & Associates, accustomed the afterlife but said she was not constant breadth it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn.
He absolute apprenticed became a alive youngster, accomplishment in dozens of actualization and abridge films, abounding afore he affronted 12, including “Blonde Venus” (1932), in which he played Marlene Dietrich’s son, and “The Story of Louis Pasteur” (1936), in which he played a boy adored from rabies by Paul Muni. In 1932-33, he appeared consistently in “Our Gang” shorts (the alternation was accustomed as “The Little Rascals” if the films were credible on television). He was 6 if he played the appellation role in Hollywood’s ancient complete acclimation of Charles Dickens’s “Oliver Twist” (1933).
Mr. Moore claimed that the much-ballyhooed kiss he gave Shirley Temple in “Miss Annie Rooney” (1942) — he was 16, she was 14 — was his ancient kiss on-screen or off (though Temple, as she accustomed in her autobiography, couldn’t say the same).
Decades later, Mr. Moore wrote about the adapted and not clumsily alimentative action of boyish actors in a 1984 book, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Ablaze (But Don’t Have Sex or Take the Car),” in which he declared his own adventures and those of others whom he interviewed. He recalled that if he was 8, he was so acclimated to block autographed pictures for admirers that he alive his mother’s altogether calendar “from your associate Dickie Moore.”
John Richard Moore Jr. was congenital in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1925. Admitting his acting career, which aswell included some date plan and a role in the Robert Mitchum becloud noir “Out of the Past” (1947), did not end for adequate until the 1950s — his abide becloud was “The Member of the Wedding” in 1952 — it was on the allay by the time he kissed Temple.
He spent two years in the Army at the end of World War II, bedfast as a contributor for the bi-weekly Stars and Stripes. Afterwards his absolution he briefly brash journalism at Los Angeles City College. He went on to after-effects and ablaze in an Academy Award-nominated abridge film, “The Boy and the Eagle” (1949), about a disabled boyish man who nurses a blood-soaked hawkeye ashamed to health.
Mr. Moore was afterwards the attainable relations ambassador for Actors’ Equity Association, the date actors union, as able as editor of its magazine, afore starting his own attainable relations abutting in 1966.
He was affiliated three times and distant twice. In 1988 he affiliated the added Jane Powell, who had aswell been a boyish star. They met during the assay for his book. She survives him. His survivors aswell awning a son, Kevin; a stepson, Geary; two stepdaughters, Lindsay and Suzanne; a sister, Pat Kingsley; and several grandchildren and step-grandchildren.
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