“Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra, Ra-ra-ra-ra”?
(Seriously, it’s not that good.)
??? Excuse me?
I thought he started out in film, either as the kid in Shane or as the lisping kid (Oh, oh, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a … comin’ down the street…] in The Music Man (the original).
In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if his first role was in some commercial for baby products before that.
–G!
He was, indeed, Winthrop in The Music Man (1962), when he was 8, but The Andy Griffith Show started two years earlier, in 1960, and he was with that show from its start. However, Howard also had several TV roles prior to The Andy Griffith Show.
(The boy in Shane was Brandon deWilde; that film came out in 1953, a year before Ron Howard was born.)
I remember Ron Howard from the movie “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (1963, with Glenn Ford and Shirley Jones), before he was Opie.
He actually started playing Opie on The Andy Griffith Show three years earlier (see my previous post).
They just started showing The Andy Griffith Show on the CHCH Retro block. SE1 EP 1, where Aunt Bee moves in with Andy and Opie, was on Wednesday afternoon, between The Prisoner, Hawaii Five-O, The Danny Thomas Show, and Get Smart.
My God, I love working from home! 
You’re right, of course!
Don’t feel too bad – until I started looking at IMDB and Wikipedia ten minutes ago, I was certain that he had been in The Music Man prior to playing Opie, as well.
First that came to my mind was definitely Shirley Temple, too.
Perhaps because Macauley Culkin was a one-shot wonder. (or two shots, if Home Alone 1 and 2 are treated as separate movies).
Well, outside the US and Canada, perhaps. It’s shown frequently here in Canada in December.
[hijack] I frequently catch myself singing “Oh the Amazon Prime Truck is a — comin’ down the street…”[/hijack]
She’ll be the one with her tongue sticking out. That’s her thing.
If this question had been asked 15-20 years ago the answer would have definitely been Dakota Fanning.
Who’s that?
Wow. I don’t know anyone (besides you, I guess) who does. We watch The Nightmare Before Christmas, or a Star Wars movie, or just whatever. Home Alone is, uh, not appealing.
In the early 40s Bobby Breen and Luana Patten were better known than Culkin at his peak of fame. Few would recall them today. I suspect Culkins’ fame will suffer the same fate.
In the early 2000’s if there was a movie that starred a little girl, she was the girl. Especially if it also starred a critically acclaimed older actor like Sean Penn or Denzel Washington.
News to me!
Agreed. I remember when Haley Joel Osment was the flavor of the day (much like Dakota Fanning mentioned above). Both are still working, were highly regarded in their child-acting heyday and I think were more seriously respected than Culkin. Culkin was slightly more of a pop culture figure which gives him some legs, but not nearly as prolific or as iconic as a Temple.
Never heard of her.