{"id":802,"date":"2013-02-11T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2013-02-11T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T07:22:53","slug":"bogie-scrappy-the-inevitable-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/11\/bogie-scrappy-the-inevitable-team-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogie & Scrappy: The Inevitable Team-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Republished from a 2007 Harry-Go-Round post<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s come to this: I\u2019m no longer the most enterprising Scrappy scholar in my own family. Once again<\/a>, my sister\u2013with the able assistance of my brother-in-law\u2013has made an astonishing discovery. Namely, an appearance by Scrappy (and Margy, and Yippy) in a Humphrey Bogart picture.<\/p>\n

The film in question is 1942\u2032s All Through the Night<\/em>, and it\u2019s got an all-star cast: Bogie is joined by Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, William \u201cYou kids get out of my kitchen\u201d Demarest, Phil Silvers, Jane Darwell, Jackie Gleason, and others. The plot involves Damon Runyonesque types and Nazis; Bogie, playing \u201cGloves Donahue,\u201d has suffered the assassination of the baker of his favorite cheesecake and has been framed for (another) murder himself.<\/p>\n

A dame may be able to clear him, and Bogie has reason to think she may be at a warehouse on East 61st. He goes there with Demarest\u2026<\/p>\n

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They break into the warehouse, which is chockablock with toys…<\/p>\n

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Including a SCRAPPY, MARGY, AND YIPPY PULL TOY (!!!)\u2026<\/p>\n

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Attempting to sneak around the warehouse, Demarest accidentally gives the pull toy a kick\u2026<\/p>\n

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And it goes careening, causing Scrappy to energetically play his xylophone whilst Margy does the hula\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"A nonplussed Bogie tells Demarest to can the noisy tomfoolery…\"\"<\/p>\n

And it turns out the whole thing is the setup for a gag in which Demarest gets buried in a veritable avalanche of toys.<\/p>\n

\"\"What to make of this? If this had been a 1930s Columbia flick, I\u2019d accuse Harry Cohn of product placement. (I don\u2019t know of any Scrappy appearances in live-action Columbia pictures, but the studio sure tried every other avenue to promote the guy.) But All Through the Night<\/em> was a Warner film, made the year after the Scrappy series ended. So maybe the use of the Scrappy toy was random rather than an intentional promotional effort.<\/p>\n

In any event, I\u2019m pleased to say that The National Scrappy Gallery<\/a>\u2018s collection includes an example of the toy in question, in absolutely wonderful condition.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Republished from a 2007 Harry-Go-Round post) So it\u2019s come to this: I\u2019m no longer the most enterprising Scrappy scholar in my own family. Once again, my sister\u2013with the able assistance of my brother-in-law\u2013has made an astonishing discovery. Namely, an appearance by Scrappy (and Margy, and Yippy) in a Humphrey Bogart picture. The film in question … Continue reading Bogie & Scrappy: The Inevitable Team-Up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curios"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}