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Which young actors starred in The Devil Is a Sissy?
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W.S. Van Dyke
W.S. Van Dyke (standing, right) directing Myrna Loy and William Powell during the filming of The Thin Man (1934); cinematographer James Wong Howe is on the left.
The 1936 film The Devil Is a Sissy, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, starred young actors Mickey Rooney, Freddie Bartholomew, and Jackie Cooper. The dramedy follows these three boys from different backgrounds who end up attending the same school in New York.1