De Kelley in a Military Training Movie (1945)

[edybeast]

"Damnit, Superman! I'm a sailor, not a writer!"

[LovingScrubbies]

THX for the clip, but this is not De Kelley's first movie.

He was in Thank Your Lucky Stars in 1942 or 43, and that wasn't his first.

[JamieBarnes]

@LovingScrubbies Are you sure? I never heard of this!

[LovingScrubbies]

@JamieBarnes

GADS! I just did a search but it doesn't come up. I recall going to see TYLS at a Chuck Schaden event & a skinny boyish Dr McCoy jumped out at me. I now suspect the film was actually Variety Girl 1947 which fits your chronology. Prob is i remember content from TYLS not VG. But you must be right all along!!

[LovingScrubbies]

HOLY CRAP!

STAR TREK MEETS SUPERMAN !

[enterprisingbones]

...B'DONK-A-DONK! He looked gooooood here. It's also fun to see an actor's earliest works. <3

[ACLTony]

Hey guys, look at 4:31. Isn't that LARRY HOVIS (Sgt. Carter) from Hogan's Heroes talking with Jackie Cooper? This movie is full of cool surprises! Hovis was so funny on Hogan's Heroes.

[LovingScrubbies]

@ACLTony

That's not Jackie Cooper. It's Barry Nelson who I agree looks a little like Cooper.

That's not Larry Hovis, it's Jimmy Lydon. He played Henry Aldrich in the movies and Clarence Day Jr in Life with Father, a movie with Elizabeth Taylor as a young hottie.

[1701DRAGON]

wow-he was a hunk...

[djmbm100]

BETTY WHITE!

[minklet]

his "girl" is betty white!

[enterprisingbones]

The beginning of 50+ years of acting... What a take off. ;)

(He didn't actually start here but you get what I mean.)

[SpockLuv]

ah, so young and so cute! <3 Deforest :)

[victorygreen]

Jesus Christ!!! This is so amazing :O Who would have thought about all these cameos

[FaithfullNightmare]

aww^^he's just to cute for words

[thepen10]

Can anyone tell me where the heck I can find a copy of this on DVD??

[cbak12sg]

George Reeves played Superman on TV. This clip also features Jackie Cooper, who played Perry White in the Superman films which starred Christopher Reeve. Cooper is in the clip from 4:30, and tells the others about learning/reading.

[LovingScrubbies]

@cbak12sg

That's not Jackie Cooper, it's Barry Nelson.

[cbak12sg]

@LovingScrubbies I stand corrected.

[Duffy82076]

Ok, who can anme me ONE other movie that De and George Reeves were in?

[oregonopps]

he aged so gracefully and he was such a great looking man! and a great actor! Thank you for posting this. What a treat!

[ScottMcDaniels]

Kelley and Reeves were in the Army and assigned to the 1st Motion Picture Unit in Los Angeles during WWII.

[overallnerd]

Thank you Soooo much for posting this! Its so cool to see Deforest so.....young, so different then what I am used to seeing in Star Trek.

[McCoyFan]

Haha, milkshake. *Grins* Kelley so could've taken that guy at 4:06.

[moonblossom15]

Bones drinking a milkshake...awesome! He was so cute when he was young!

Thanks 4 posting, I heard the rumor this was out there, and I always wanted to see it.

[syredronning]

Glad you liked it! Yeah, he was very cute :))

[hypotriox]

OMG!! De's hair, and this was before fear in the night!! De looked very cute here and handsome. and kudos binkle1 that is George Reeves!! interesting; i have heard of this film, never seen it. ty for upload!

[syredronning]

You're welcome :)

[binkle1]

And there's GEORGE REEVES! He did a lot of military training films after he enlisted. However, he never got a big screen role like "Gone With the Wind" when he got back out.

[syredronning]

Interesting backstory. What a pity for Reeves.

[LovingScrubbies]

@syredronning A pity yeah. He was a very fine actor. A strong screen presence.

[ACLTony]

@binkle1 Wait a minute. Did not George Reeves play in "From Here to Eternity?" It' been a long time since I last saw it, but I think he was one of the sergeants.

[MrKelley68]

He's Soooo cute. Thanks for sharing

[syredronning]

Glad you liked it :)