SKIPPY

Adaptation of Percy Crosby’s comic strip featuring natural performances by child actors as Skippy and Sooky.

Skippy (Jackie Cooper) is the feisty son of the strict Dr. Herbert Skinner (Willard Robertson) and his wife Ellen (Enid Bennett) Skinner forbids his son Skippy to play in the pauperized Shantytown, because of the unhygenical and criminal surroundings there. Skippy saves the small boy Sooky (Robert Coogan) from the much bigger bully Harley Nubbins (Donald Haines)

Credits

Cast
Jackie Cooper, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl
Complete catalog record
Adaptation of Percy Crosby’s comic strip featuring natural performances by child actors as Skippy and Sooky.

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  2. Educational Film Guide 1946 — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description, catalog record
  3. Wikidata · Q426466 ↗ — color, country