YOO-HOO - -WITH HAL ROACH ALL-STARS! UNIVERSAL - 1932.
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2014
- I recently came across an old 16mm print of YOO-HOO - a Universal 2 reel comedy from 1932 starring James Gleason. Besides Gleason, everyone else connected with the production seems to be from the Hal Roach Studios. The cast includes Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Anita Garvin, Billy Gilbert, Fred Kelsey and Frank Austin. Behind the camera too are a number of Roach luminaries: Direction by James W. Horne, story by J.A. Howe and George Stevens. It was even photographed by Len Powers.
This seems like a very deliberate attempt by Universal to bolster the quality of their shorts by this wholesale hiring of Roach cultivated talent. From what I can tell by checking out IMDB, this arrangement didn't last long. I contacted Richard W. Bann, film historian and Hal Roach Studios expert about all of this Roach talent turning up at Universal and he gave me an explanation of why this happened. It turned out that long tenured exec at Hal Roach Studios, Warren Doane, had left and was setting up shop making shorts at Universal at a time when lot of HRS talent was becoming available owing to an economy drive at the instigation of the cost-cutting studio manager, Henry Ginsberg, newly installed at HRS to watch the money there. Ginsberg felt that to save the studio money, talent like this was expendable! Well, that's show biz.
This is a very cute film. Not quite in the vein of a Hal Roach comedy, but with many nice and familiar touches nonetheless. Well worth 20 minutes of your time. Enjoy!
A word about this print: This 16mm copy of this film I have was printed in 1944 and is starting to deteriorate. It is infected with something known as "vinegar syndrome." I have stabilized the print a bit by cleaning it with a film preservation and cleaning solution called Vitafilm and it is now carefully stored, but someday my 16mm copy might be rendered unwatchable. Only time will tell. This film also had its share of damaged sprockets which I have repaired the best I could. The film runs fine and only jumps a bit 3 time or so during the course of its 20 minutes running time. - Комедії
Stumbled on this searching for episodes of The Little Rascals. I enjoyed that (smiled the whole time) and the adult male lead was funny and heartwarming, also felt a little sadness that wheezer died so young.
Excellent stuff, Barry! Thanks very much for posting!
the boy on the little rascals
I've enjoyed every acting roll I've seen by James Gleason. I didn't know about this one.
Thank You for posting it! My favorite scene: JG teaching Wheezer "The Lord's Prayer".
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I hope you've made several copies of this for posterity, Barry. I look at all the old silents which are classified as "lost" and it makes me tear up. What a tremendous loss for silent era film buffs. 😪
we need to see more.and realize the story hasten changed..great story..thank you.
Cute. You know it's the early worm that gathers all the moss. Lol.
This was just great!! Thanks so much for uploading :)))
Scoutcat is the woman anita garvin by any chance?
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this rarity!
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This is an amazing find! Thanks for sharing! Sad for Wheezer here, as he was considered a bit too old for the Our Gang!
Billy Gilbert--HA!
He really wasn't though. For reasons that will forever be left unknown it seems, he was prematurely fazed out of the series. Some have said that it was growing tensions between Wheezer's overbearing father and the studio heads, but that's only a rumor really. Whatever the reason, the bottom line is Wheezer had proven numerous times that he was more than capable of carrying an Our Gang short. He had so much personality, and an unmatched natural chemistry with his frequent costar Stymie Beard. Wheezer's slow fad into the background is always painful to watch, especially during the uneven Dickie Moore era.
I also heard about his father, I recently found out they were from my home town where his father worked as a grocer previously. I heard his father tried to keep him small by not feeding him so he could continue with the little kid roles for as long as possible, or some such story, I had been in The Sons of the Desert for years & met many Gang members & even Roach himself, but no one even seemed to know Robert Hutchinson was buried up here! I mean it was news to me & some of are members seem to ferret these things out. I know his parents were seperated & I thought he came back up here to live with his mother, but I may have to do some research & find out some more now!
When Spanky was hired, Wheezer was slowly phased out. Spanky later upstaged everybody but Stymie.
This is a classic Short but classic
I really liked it also
WHEEEEEEEZZZZERRRR!
I l❤️ ve little rascals all of them 💞🙋🏾♀️
that was awesome. i dont know who that actor was but i love him now. jimmy Gleason? i hope you take comfort in the fact that even if your film deteriorates it is online forever. Black small pox indeed
Yes, preserving it with a digital version was the idea.
Gotta love james! The hardest softest man. In all of movie dom!
A 90 year old movie is still better then anything on TV today lol I see Dead people 🤣
Could the blonde at 8:49 by chance be Beatrice Curtis who played Charity in the Three Stooges short, "Back to the Woods"?
Neither of those two men know the Lord's Prayer. Just as likely, the writer, director and producer didn't know it either. It isn't 'Now I lay me down to sleep...' SMH
It begins 'Our Father who art in Heaven...'
WOW you can definitely tell this is a pre-code movie! Pin ups, child abuse, gay characters, body odor.....
I'm her daughter hey daddy
4BeansInAPod i’m his daughter it should be haha.. hi dad :)