03 April 2026

“We went back and figured out what we would do for a beginning”

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After “The Big Show!” and “The Cobbler,” the next Our Gang production was Bob McGowan’s “The Champeen!” As Rob DeMoss explains on the Luck...
02 April 2026

Working Around Jackie Condon’s Broken Arm

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The Lucky Corner website shows that the Hal Roach Studio continued to pay Jackie Condon $40 per week throughout the summer and fall of 1922...
30 March 2026

“The 3-year-old comedian is so proud of his injury”

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The 22 Oct 1922 Portland Oregonian , and probably some other newspapers around the same time, ran this story from Hollywood: Jackie Condon, ...
09 February 2026

Another Addition to the Jackie Condon Filmography

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Discontented Wives was a five-reel melodrama directed by and starring J. P. McGowan, released in September 1921. The American Film Insti...
08 February 2026

“So completely captivated with little ‘Jackie’ Condon”

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A couple of weeks before the Los Angeles Evening Herald profiled two-year-old movie performer Jackie Condon (as quoted yesterday), the pape...
07 February 2026

“Jack’s been around again”

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Jackie Condon surely appeared in more movies before “Our Gang” than the seven listed yesterday . The 23 Apr 1920 Los Angeles Evening Hera...
06 February 2026

Jackie Condon’s Career Before “Our Gang”

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Jackie Condon was the youngest player in the first Our Gang movie ever shot in early 1922, establishing the role of the tagalong little brot...
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03 February 2026

Two More Tales of Oz

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The 2025 edition of Oziana , the International Wizard of Oz Club’s creative magazine, is now available for purchase through Lulu . This i...
30 October 2025

At Last an Our Gang/Wizard of Oz Crossover

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In 1962, as described yesterday , Starlight Musical Theatre of San Diego held tryouts for a production of The Wizard of Oz , using music fro...
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29 October 2025

The Wizard of Balboa Park

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The San Diego Civic Light Opera Association was founded in 1945. Its first show was Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado  in the Wegeforth Bowl...