Legendary former child actor Dickie Moore, husband of famous actress Jane Powell, dead at 89, Dick Moore, a accessible relations controlling who was accepted as Dickie if he was a Hollywood adolescent star, arena the movies’ aboriginal talking Oliver Twist and after giving Shirley Temple her aboriginal on-screen kiss, died on Monday in Connecticut. He was 89.
Helene Feldman, who works for his company, Dick Moore & Associates, accepted the afterlife but said she was not abiding area it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn.
Mr. Moore was not yet a year old and clearly beautiful as a button if he fabricated his cine admission in the 1927 bashful affection “The Beloved Rogue,” which starred John Barrymore as the 15th-century French artist and bawdy François Villon. Adolescent Dickie, uncredited, played Villon as an infant.
He actual bound became a active youngster, actualization in dozens of appearance and abbreviate films, abounding afore he angry 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 accepted as “The Little Rascals” if the films were apparent on television). He was 6 if he played the appellation role in Hollywood’s aboriginal complete adjustment 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 aboriginal kiss on-screen or off (though Temple, as she accepted in her autobiography, couldn’t say the same).
Decades later, Mr. Moore wrote about the appropriate and not awfully alimentative activity of adolescent actors in a 1984 book, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Brilliant (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 active his mother’s altogether agenda “from your acquaintance Dickie Moore.”
John Richard Moore Jr. was built-in in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1925. Admitting his acting career, which aswell included some date plan and a role in the Robert Mitchum blur noir “Out of the Past” (1947), did not end for acceptable until the 1950s — his endure blur was “The Member of the Wedding” in 1952 — it was on the abate by the time he kissed Temple.
He spent two years in the Army at the end of World War II, confined as a contributor for the bi-weekly Stars and Stripes. After his acquittal he briefly advised journalism at Los Angeles City College. He went on to aftermath and brilliant in an Academy Award-nominated abbreviate film, “The Boy and the Eagle” (1949), about a disabled adolescent man who nurses a blood-soaked hawkeye aback to health.
Mr. Moore was after the accessible relations administrator for Actors’ Equity Association, the date actors union, as able-bodied as editor of its magazine, afore starting his own accessible relations close in 1966.
He was affiliated three times and afar twice. In 1988 he affiliated the extra Jane Powell, who had aswell been a adolescent star. They met during the analysis for his book. She survives him. His survivors aswell cover 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, accepted the afterlife but said she was not abiding area it had occurred. Mr. Moore lived in Wilton, Conn.
Mr. Moore was not yet a year old and clearly beautiful as a button if he fabricated his cine admission in the 1927 bashful affection “The Beloved Rogue,” which starred John Barrymore as the 15th-century French artist and bawdy François Villon. Adolescent Dickie, uncredited, played Villon as an infant.
He actual bound became a active youngster, actualization in dozens of appearance and abbreviate films, abounding afore he angry 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 accepted as “The Little Rascals” if the films were apparent on television). He was 6 if he played the appellation role in Hollywood’s aboriginal complete adjustment 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 aboriginal kiss on-screen or off (though Temple, as she accepted in her autobiography, couldn’t say the same).
Decades later, Mr. Moore wrote about the appropriate and not awfully alimentative activity of adolescent actors in a 1984 book, “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Brilliant (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 active his mother’s altogether agenda “from your acquaintance Dickie Moore.”
John Richard Moore Jr. was built-in in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 1925. Admitting his acting career, which aswell included some date plan and a role in the Robert Mitchum blur noir “Out of the Past” (1947), did not end for acceptable until the 1950s — his endure blur was “The Member of the Wedding” in 1952 — it was on the abate by the time he kissed Temple.
He spent two years in the Army at the end of World War II, confined as a contributor for the bi-weekly Stars and Stripes. After his acquittal he briefly advised journalism at Los Angeles City College. He went on to aftermath and brilliant in an Academy Award-nominated abbreviate film, “The Boy and the Eagle” (1949), about a disabled adolescent man who nurses a blood-soaked hawkeye aback to health.
Mr. Moore was after the accessible relations administrator for Actors’ Equity Association, the date actors union, as able-bodied as editor of its magazine, afore starting his own accessible relations close in 1966.
He was affiliated three times and afar twice. In 1988 he affiliated the extra Jane Powell, who had aswell been a adolescent star. They met during the analysis for his book. She survives him. His survivors aswell cover 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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