Description
This black and white studio portrait capture features Scotty Beckett with hugging knees. Scotty Beckett was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the Our Gang shorts and later co-starred in Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Born in Oakland, California, Beckett got his start in show business at age three when the family moved to Los Angeles and a casting director heard him singing by chance. He was at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital visiting his father, who was recovering from an illness and was entertaining him by singing songs in Pig Latin. Nurses heard him singing and carried him from room to room on every visit to sing for other patients. A studio casting director noticed the child and told his parents he had movie potential. He auditioned, and landed a part in Gallant Lady (1933), alongside Dickie Moore. The same year, his father died. In 1934, he joined Our Gang, in which Moore appeared from 1932 to 1933. Size: 10" H x 8" W
