- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family
- Release: 1931-04-25
- Director: Norman Taurog
- Writers: Sam Mintz , Percy Crosby , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Norman Z. McLeod
- Language: English
- Stars: Jackie Cooper , Robert Coogan , Mitzi Green , Jackie Searl , Willard Robertson , Enid Bennett , Donald Haines , Helen Jerome Eddy , Carl R. Botefuhr , Beaudine Anderson
- Runtime: 85 min
- Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 1 win & 3 nominations total
- AKA: Скиппи , Skippy (United Kingdom) , Skippy , Skippy (Denmark) , スキピイ (Japan) , Pappas pojke på äventyr (Sweden) , Proezas de Skippy (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Skippy (Brazil) , Skippy (Hungary) , Skippy (India) , Skippy (United States of America)
- Plot: Precocious adolescent Skippy Skinner spends most of his time trying to get around doing those things that his parents want him to do (like brush his teeth), while doing those things his parents don't want him to do. Chief among the latter is spending time across the railroad tracks in Shantytown, instead of playing with "clean" neighborhood kids like brother and sister Sidney and Eloise. Skippy's father, Dr. Herbert Skinner, the city's head of the health board, in particular doesn't like Skippy spending time there as Dr. Skinner is a verminophobe, and believes Shantytown is dirty and unhealthy. On Skippy's latest visit to Shantytown when he meets a new friend named Sooky Wayne, he learns that Shantytown is being torn down and its poor residents have to move. And Sooky's mongrel and unlicensed (since Mrs. Wayne can't afford the $3 license fee) dog Penny is captured by the city's dog catcher. As Skippy does whatever he can to raise the $3 to get Penny back for his new friend (which includes breaking into his piggy bank, holding a variety show for the Shantytown kids, and trying to ask his father for the money), Skippy learns that one person seems to be responsible for both these problems in his life, which makes the already tenuous relationship with this person even more tenuous.
- IMDB:tt0022397
Skippy Cast · · · ALL
Norman Taurog
Director
Jackie Cooper
Skippy Skinner
Robert Coogan
Sooky
Jackie Searl
Sidney
Willard Robertson
Herbert Skinner
Enid Bennett
Ellen Skinner
Donald Haines
Harley Nubbins
Helen Jerome Eddy
Mrs. Wayne
Beaudine Anderson
Boy
Dannie Mac Grant
Boy
Douglas Haig
Boy
Payne B. Johnson
Boy
Buddy McDonald
Boy
Carl R. Botefuhr
Skippy Skinner (age 3)
Jack Rube Clifford
Dog-Catcher Nubbins
Guy Oliver
Dad Burkey