This collections contains all 80 of the original little rascals theatrical talkies in their. Theres no two ways about it by harold adamson and jimmy mchugh published in 1936. Produced by hal roach and released to theaters by metrogoldwynmayer, it was the 140th our gang short to be released and the first of several musical entries in the series. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the enter key is pressed. The four africanamerican child actors who held main roles in the series were ernie sunshine sammy morrison, allen farina hoskins, matthew stymie beard and billie buckwheat thomas. It is the best of the three follies films, probably featuring a bigger budget than our gang follies of 1936 and reunion in rhythm combined. This short was so wildly popular that it took two years to do its sequel, our gang follies of 1938, although our gang follies of 1937 came before it. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Listen to both songs on whosampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. Although it takes our gang completely out of the real world, it works as a kidseye view of the typical hollywood musical. General spanky was codirected by gordon douglas and fred c.
Our gang follies of 1938 the lucky corner our gang. There are some present day racial issues because of the roles of the black actors and some people have claimed. Watch little rascals season 14, episode 3 our gang follies of 1936. A followup to the musicalrevue short our gang follies of 1936, the onereel reunion in rhythm was apparently filmed under the title our gang follies of 1937. Leroy shield october 2, 1893 january 9, 1962 was an american film score and radio composer. Our gang follies of 1938 is a 1937 american musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in hal roachs our. Helping make this film superior to the other musicals is character actor henry brandon, known to laurel.
Volume 6 includes hal roach talking shorts spanning from 1935 a 1937. Our gang chronicles lives of africanamerican actors in the little. Our gang follies of 1936 our gang wikia wiki fandom. And now another clip in celebration of the halloween season, the classic skeleton dance number from the our gang follies of 1936, produced by hal roach. Six individual schools present six special presentations of our gang.
The collection, our gang comedies 19381944, is available for dvd and digital download only by mail order on the warner bros. She was an actress, known for our gang follies of 1936 1935, beginners luck 1935 and washee ironee 1934. Directed by gordon douglas as a sequel to 1935s our gang follies of 1936. Little rascals color our gang follies of 1938 1937. Not all of the musical stars in the films dream sequence were so honored, so i guess that their. He make his uncredited film debut in 1933s out all night, and. But alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over, and that opera is his true calling. Our gangthe little rascalsour gang follies of 1936 c. This is the only short where darla is referred to as cookie. With our gang, george spanky mcfarland, carl alfalfa switzer, darla hood. From 1935 to 1941, she continued to play in our gang. With scotty beckett, darla hood, eugene porky lee, george spanky mcfarland. The resultant film, using puppet animation, was one of five episodes refashioned this way, which were intended to be marketed as a television. The soundtrack for this film was used for a little rascals color special made by kingworld productions and presented by charles king.
The first our gang tworeeler since 1936 s arbor day, and the last tworeeler released by hal roach. Douglas director art lloyd cinematographer marvin hatley musical directionsupervision william h. Lach lomand, from the our gang follies of 1938 lach lomand, from the our gang follies of 1938. The music is rather impressive for a tworeel short, especially the introductory song by spanky. She died on february 11, 2005 in sonora, california. Our gang follies of 1938 is a 1937 american musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in hal roachs our gang little rascals series. He was best known for his role as alfalfa in the short subjects series our gang switzer began his career as a child actor in the mid1930s appearing in the our gang short subjects series as alfalfa, one of the series most popular and bestremembered characters. Directed by gordon douglas as a sequel to 1935s our gang follies of 1936, the tworeel short was released to theaters on december 18, 1937 by metrogoldwynmayer. Mar 17, 2014 our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Follies of 1938 starring the little rascals on vimeo. Our gang follies of 1938 1937 gordon douglas synopsis. This web page features highquality little rascals films you can play from the hal roach our gang comedies along with a complete our gang filmography. Little singer our gang follies of 1936 the pinch singer divot diggers the lucky corner second childhood arbor day bored of education two too young pay as you exit spooky hooky reunion in rhythm and glove taps.
The our gang series is notable for being one of the first in cinema history in which blacks and whites were portrayed as equals. Our gang follies of 1936 is a 1935 our gang short comedy film directed by gus meins. Our gang follies of 1936 1935 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Of scottish and german ancestry, he was named carl dean after a member of the switzer. The gang puts on their own live musical revue for the benefit of the neighborhood kids.
Carl dean switzer august 7, 1927 january 21, 1959 was an american singer, child actor, dog breeder and guide. As an adult, smith became a seventhday adventist pastor, ministering at several churches until his accidental death in 2002. The little rascals august 5, 1994, a featurelength adaptation of our gang which includes gags and situations borrowed directly from several of the original. She played darla in our gang, except for her our gang debut, in which her characters name was cookie. Lhcs our ganglittle rascals page our gang 1937 part 2. Our gang kid charles flickinger our gang kid bill cody, jr. Our gang season 14 episode 3 our gang follies of 1936. There is however, no claim that the our gang follies was great acting. Hal roach would sell the rights to the series before another effort for another sequel could be done. The final major hal roach our gang member, darla hood, shows up in follies of 1936. Msn new zealand latest news, hotmail, outlook, photos. Our offer to purchase ladeled to scriveners the property upon its fair valuation, including valuable increase due tdi hollywood, sept 1. Title card for the 1937 our gang comedy short rushin ballet.
Our gang follies of 1938 1937 our gang, george spanky. By 1936, hal roach began debating plans to discontinue our gang until louis b. Explore our gang wallpaper on wallpapersafari find more items about taylor gang wallpaper, crip gang wallpaper, rich gang wallpaper. There are some present day racial issues because of the roles of the black actors and some people have claimed the child actors were financially robbed by the adults. The short film our gang follies of 1938 is available for free download at the internet archive. Produced by hal roach and released to theaters by metrogoldwynmayer, it was the 140st our gang short to be released and the first of several musical entries in the series. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Our gang follies of 1938 is vintage little rascals, featuring spanky, alfalfa, porky, buckwheat, and darla. Our gang disambiguation, our gang film, our gang novel, our gang follies of 1936, our gang follies of 1938, our gang filmography, our gang personnel, our gangs dark oath, spanky and our gang, sunday mornin spanky and our gang song, lazy day spanky and our gang song, spanky and our gang album, spanky.
Msn new zealand latest news, hotmail, outlook, photos and. Spanky and our gang sunday will never be the same 1967 pictures 501x482. Charlie chan in honolulu 1938 r1 movie dvd cd label. Produced by hal roach and released to theaters by metrogoldwynmayer, it was the 140st our gang short to be released and the. She was born in leedey, oklahoma, the only child of music teacher elizabeth davner, and james claude hood, who worked in a bank. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The king of the crooners gets top billing in spankys production, but unfortunately alfalfa decides he wants to stop crooning and concentrate on singing opera. Nprs robert siegel talks to author julia lee about her book our gang.
Little rascals, alfalfa little rascals, little rascals cast. Kibrick made a brief nondialogue appearance as an extra in the feature film dead end, observed as one of three or so children huddled together during one of the river dock scenes. The little rascals platinum edition 88 episodes with on. Ive never actually seen the original title card for our gang follies of 1938, and im not even sure the card was originally released with the short, but ive heard that both philip macmahon and georgia jean larue were given official billing on it. In our gang follies of 1938, its sung by philip macmahon.
Our gang follies of 1936 the lucky corner our gang. The little rascals varieties may 5, 1959, a featurelength compilation featuring clips from our gang follies of 1936, the pinch singer, reunion in rhythm, and our gang follies of 1938. Created by comedy producer hal roach, the series was produced from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way, as roach and original director robert f. Producer hal roach broke new ground in the filming industry by putting boys and girls, black and whites all in equal roles, something that was unheard of in the 1920s and 1930s. Our gang films film guide englische bucher kaufen ex.
The set is available by mail order and digital download as part of the warner archive. Directed by gordon douglas as a sequel to 1935s our gang follies of 1936, the tworeel short was released to theaters on december 18, 1937 by metrogoldwyn. The very first our gang little rascals film ever made but the 3rd to be publicly released has been lost for many years and a subject of curiosity for film historians, but about half if it has been found and is shown here. Annie ross almost 20 years before lambert hendricks, and ross. Read on wikipedia edit history talk page print download pdf. Briefly digressing from our gang s new onereel format, the series december 18, 1937 release, our gang follies of 1938, was expanded to two reels and the result is often considered to be the best gang. The pinch singer rushin ballet boxing gloves mamas little pirate our gang follies of 1938 hide and shriek when the wind blows the pooch mush and milk framing youth birthday blues for petes sake. Switzer right as alfalfa in our gang follies of 1938, with fellow our gang cast members. Our gang follies of 1938 later reissued as simply follies of 1938 is a 1937 american musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in hal roachs our gang little rascals series. Gordon would go on to direct such films as the scifi classic them. But alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over. The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except theyre missing an act.
In our gang follies of 1938, its sung by georgia jean larue. Watch little rascals season 16, episode 5 our gang follies of 1938. Find link is a tool written by edward betts searching for our gang follies of 1936 0 found 169 total. The little rascals was a series of comedy shorts films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. The gang is putting on a show with alfalfa billed as king of the crooners. She made her debut at age four in the 1935 film our gang follies of 1936 and was soon given a role in the bohemian girl with laurel and hardy.
This was a syndicated series featuring the silent our gang movies with an added sound track of wurlitzer organ music and child commentators who were a boy and a girl, bobby and bonnie. This hal roach musical comedy short, our gang follies of 1936, is the one hundred fortyfirst entry in the our gang little rascals series and the fiftythird talkie. Overview of our gang follies of 1938, 1937, directed by gordon douglas, with ada lynn, joe geil, george mcfarland, at turner classic movies. But after taking a nap and dreaming of a successful future in popular music, he changes his mind and joins the. Our gang follies of 1938 is a delightful change of pace film, perhaps the best of the minimusicals, and with its huge cast, full orchestra score, elegant costuming, and richly dressed sets certainly the most elaborate. While mike fright and beginners luck were comedies with music in them, this one is mostly a musical with some comedy involved. Our gang later known as the little rascals or hal roachs rascals are a series of american comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. The little rascals vhs tape follies of 1936 and awful. From the films the voice of bugle ann and top of the town. Alfalfa is wooing darla and his hemanwomanhating friends attempt to sabotage the relationship. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Happy birthday to marvin hatley, hal roach musical director who created memorable musical cues for our gang, as well as laurel and hardy, charley chase, and others.
Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. The series was for the children growing up in that day and age. Our gang follies of 1936 1935 our gang follies of 1936. In the 1960s there was a series for children called the mischief makers. Darwood kenneth smith september 8, 1929 may 15, 2002, also known as darwood kaye, was an american child actor most notable for his semiregular role as the bookish rich kid waldo in the our gang short subjects series from 1937 to 1940. Sidney henry kibrick born july 2, 1928 is an american former child actor, most notable for appearing in the hal roach short subjects series our gang. The gang is staging their annual follies show, but king of the crooners alfalfa walks out on stage singing opera. Darla jean hood november 8, 1931 june, 1979 was an american child actress, best known as the leading lady in the our gang series from 1935 to 1941.
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