The inspiration for the name “Captain Spaulding” came from Groucho Marx’ part in the stage play and film Animal Crackers. It was Otis who called the family The Fireflys and who nicknamed Cutter Captain Spaulding. The two would often fight for control of the family. He and Otis quickly became close companions and rivals. Driftwood wandered into Ruggsville County. Cutter lived with Eve Wilson, even raising their daughter Vera Ellen together. She already had two children of her own, Rufus and Tiny. Charlie would refer to him as Cutter after Johnny Lee stabbed a man to death, which he would take as his name.Īround the fall of 1947, Cutter met Mother Firefly, who at the time took the alias Eve Wilson. Ding Dong a Bo-Bo using his clown character’s name.
Johnny Lee developed an interest in sideshow deformities and violent crime photography, foreshadowing his Captain Spaulding persona. Johnny Lee would soon grow very close to his adoptive brother Charlie. He spent a small part of his childhood in the Ruggsville County home for orphaned boys until being adopted by a black family. “According to his biography, Captain Spaulding was born on April 13, 1918, in Ruggsville, Texas, with the name Johnny Lee Johns. Rob Zombie took out time to write a backstory for Captain Spaulding before The Devils Rejects was released. Played by Sid Haig, Captain Spaulding is both creepy, and fascinating at the same time.
I have become obsessed with Captain Spaulding from Rob Zombies film’s ‘ House of 1000 Corpses‘ and ‘ The Devils Rejects‘. I will start the first one off with one of my favorite characters. Example, a favorite character from a movie(s), or a favorite cult classic.
#CAPTIN SPAULDING MOVIE#
I am going to start talking about other random crap on here, and one of the things I considered doing was a column about some of my favorite things movie related.
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