Skippy

Skippy (1931)

"Love's so beautiful I feel like giving somebody a sock on the jaw."

Skippy, 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.

Date of release
1931-04-25
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (27)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Drama, Family, Comedy
Director
Norman Taurog

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 4. Including: Academy Award for Best Director

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.

Production

In the scene where the dog dies, director Norman Taurog needed to get his nephew, Jackie Cooper, to cry, so he told young Jackie he was going to kill his own dog by dragging the dog off set (with the assistance of Cooper's grandmother) and then having a security guard "shoot" the dog. Cooper did the scene, but despite finding the dog was not harmed, he was still hysterical for hours afterward to the point of needing a sedative.

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