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Oct 20, 2022 · This mystery-comedy from 1940 featuring B-movie star Frankie Darro and the popeyed wonder Mantan Moreland was unseen for 70 years. Recently rediscovered, it is not exactly a classic, but a pleasant way to pass an hour. Frankie in this film is a soda hop at a local drugstore who witnesses two murders with his pal Mantan.
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Dec 21, 2020 · Here are 10 things you should know about Frankie Darro, on December 22, 1917. The 1920s and '30s were the prime of his career, but he was the rare child star...
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Nov 7, 2012 · Stars: Mantan Morelan, Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae JonesDirector: Jean YarbroughTwo friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is be...
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Running time. 62 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. Up in the Air is a 1940 American comedy mystery film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds and Mantan Moreland. It was produced and released by Monogram Pictures. It was remade in 1945 as There Goes Kelly .
Above: Frankie Darro protects a film reel containing important evidence from Francis McDonald in Burn ‘Em Up Barnes (Mascot, 1934). Above: Frankie Darro prepares to clobber Bob Kortman, who has the drop on Jack Mulhall in Burn ‘Em Up Barnes. Darro’s final Mascot serial was The Phantom Empire, released in 1935. This wildly imaginative ...
Oct 20, 2022 · Frankie Darro's tough-kid adventures were a mainstay for low-budget Monogram Pictures in the late '30s and early '40s, and when two of Monogram's other series faltered, the studio lumped them into the indestructible Darro series.
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Frankie Darro was an American actor and later in his career, a stuntman. For Disney, he voiced Lampwick, the unlucky boy who turns into a donkey in the 1940 Disney animated feature film Pinocchio. Frankie Darro was born on December 22, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois as Frank Johnson, Jr.
