..after all, we know very little about him.Why, we haven""t even met his folks." She also suggests keeping it a secret from Mr.Smith, due home shortly from work: "Not a word of this to Papa.You know how he plagues he girls about their beaus." Esther enters the kitchen and asks where ""Tootie,"" the youngest Smith family member is.Nonchalantly, Mrs.Smith replies: "Oh I suppose she""s working on the ice wagon."In the next scene on Kensington Avenue, precocious five year old ""Tootie"" (Margaret O""Brien) is shown blissfully happy, helping the ice man Mr.e., cigarettes, imported camera lenses, etc.)JOHNNY BOY (Robert De Niro) - aka John "Johnny Boy" Civello; seen as reckless, violent, and totally irresponsible in a stunning memorable entrance; Johnny Boy""s introduction demonstrated how he was a loose cannon, out-of-control, and too wild to tame; the crazed, small-time hood was seen planting a homemade bomb in a USPS mailbox; Johnny himself was a ticking time bomb ready to explode; as he scurried away from the scene, the blast blew his porkpie hat from his head; the self-destructive, trouble-making punk grabbed it and continued running, with a crazy grin on his face; Johnny Boy was an unbalanced, ne""er-do-well who was dangerously obligated o a loan shark, and living a life of desperation.The three children entered the room - and Letty made an attempt to be friendly to them:Cora""s Child (Carmencita Johnson) - the youngest girlCora""s Child (Laon Ramon/Leon Janney) - the oldest boyCora""s Child (Billy Kent Schaefer) - the youngest boy, suffering from an earacheCora announced that dinner was prepared: ("Chuck""s ready!") and Lige and Sourdough were invited to the table.When she died, it was not at his hands as her mother might have expected, but of smallpox.That was 1878.Then, two years later in "Big Whiskey Wyoming, 1880," as storm clouds gather and thunder roars over the snow-covered mountains, night falls and rain beats down over the town.He was relating his incredulous tale about his adventures in Medieval England to a bored co-worker (Ted Raimi) and to a sexy red-headed co-worker (Angela Featherstone): "They offered me the chance to lead them, to teach them, to, to be king" -- but presumably, he hadn""t pronounced the words properly to return to his own time.