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Skippy is a 1931 American comedy drama film produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Norman Taurog, the movie features a cast including Jackie Cooper, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl, and Robert Coogan. The screenplay was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Norman Z. McLeod, and Don Marquis, with music composed by John Leipold and cinematography by Karl Struss. The film is presented in black-and-white with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
The production belongs to the Pre-Code Hollywood movement and runs for 85 minutes. Its narrative keywords include a dog, a boy and dog, a dogcatcher, and a shantytown. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. It won the Academy Award for Best Director. The work has been recognized in the Academy Award Best Director collection.
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6.2Skippy, 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.
Cast
- Jackie Cooper as Skippy Skinner
- Robert Coogan as Sooky
- Mitzi Green as Eloise
- Jackie Searl as Sidney
- Willard Robertson as Herbert Skinner
- Enid Bennett as Ellen Skinner
Themes
- dog
- boy and dog
- dogcatcher
- shantytown
- boys
- child protagonist
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Ratings
IMDb
6.3/10
951 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
- Year
- 1931
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Rated
- Passed
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Norman Taurog
- Written by
- Norman McLeod , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Don Marquis , Sam Mintz
- Based on
- Skippy , comic strip, by Percy Crosby
- Produced by
- Adolph Zukor , Jesse L. Lasky , B. P. Schulberg
- Starring
- Jackie Cooper , Robert Coogan , Mitzi Green , Jackie Searl
- Cinematography
- Karl Struss
- Music by
- John Leipold
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release date
- April 5, 1931 ( 1931-04-05 )
- Running time
- 85 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Movement
- Pre-Code Hollywood
- Director
- Norman Taurog
- Screenwriter
- Don Marquis
- Cast member
- Douglas Haig
- Composer
- John Leipold
- Producer
- Adolph Zukor
- Production company
- Paramount Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Karl Struss
- Duration
- 85
- FilmAffinity ID
- 679829
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Jackie Cooper Robert Coogan Skippy 1931.jpg
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- publication date
- 1931-01-01
- title
- Skippy
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Picture
- color
- black-and-white
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- distributed by
- Netflix
- review score
- 86%
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- Commons category
- Skippy (1931 film)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
The film stars Jackie Cooper in the title role, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green and Jackie Searl. Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Best Director (at age 32, he remained the youngest winner in this category until Damien Chazelle won for the 2016 film La La Land). The film also did well enough to inspire a sequel called Sooky (1931). Skippy was released on April 5, 1931, by Paramount Pictures. For his performance, Cooper, at the age of nine, became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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