Roach changed distributors from Pathé to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, and the series entered its most popular period after converting to sound in 1929. I'm just curious if he ever kissed her. They're all here! Two further Hallmark DVD collections featured ten shorts apiece and were released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. [55], Among notable Our Gang imposters is Jack Bothwell, who claimed to have portrayed a character named "Freckles",[55] going so far as to appear on the game show To Tell The Truth in the fall of 1957, perpetuating this fraud. Shield and Hatley's scores supported Our Gang's on-screen action regularly through 1934, after which series entries with background scores became less frequent. [51], The children's work in the series was largely unrewarded in later years, although Spanky McFarland was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously in 1994. A post shared by Bug Hall (@bug_hall) on Feb 14, 2017 at 2:53pm PST. [33] After delivering the Laurel and Hardy feature Block-Heads, Roach also ended his distribution contract with MGM, moving to United Artists and leaving the short-subjects business. [17], According to Roach, the idea for Our Gang came to him in 1921, when he was auditioning a child actress to appear in a film. [2] Douglas, in particular, had to streamline his films, as he directed Our Gang after Roach halved the running times of the shorts from two reels (20 minutes) to one reel (10 minutes). The shorts did well at the box office, and by the end of the decade the Our Gang children were pictured on numerous product endorsements. In Follies of 1938, Alfalfa, who aspires to be an opera singer, falls asleep and dreams that his old pal Spanky has become the rich owner of a swanky Broadway nightclub where Darla and Buckwheat perform, making "hundreds and thousands of dollars.". They are grouped by the era during which they joined the series. Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as You Bet Your Life and The Jack Benny Show, where she appeared on October 30, 1962 as "Darla" in a spoof of the Our Gang comedies with Jack Benny (who appeared as Alfalfa ), and The Charlotte … In 1930, Roach began production on The Boy Friends, a short-subject series which was essentially a teenaged version of Our Gang. This storyline gave all the children who watched this a very positive vibe, not to mention their adult-like characters which makes it more fun. Currently, ViacomCBS, King World's latest successor, handles distribution rights. It took a year for McGowan and the gang to fully adjust to talking pictures, during which time they lost Joe Cobb, Jean Darling and Harry Spear and added Norman Chaney, Dorothy DeBorba, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Donald Haines and Jackie Cooper. A struggling novice syndication agent named Charles King purchased the television rights to The Little Rascals in the bankruptcy proceedings and returned the shorts to television. Monogram Pictures and its successor, Allied Artists, reissued the films to theaters beginning in 1950. A cena original de Alfafa e Batatinha com roupinhas de balé! He signed on to release future products through the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which released its first Our Gang comedy in September 1927. In the early 2000s, the 71 films in the King World package were re-edited, reinstating many (though not all) edits made in 1971 and the original Our Gang title cards. RHI Entertainment and Genius Products released an eight-disc DVD set, The Little Rascals – the Complete Collection, on October 28, 2008. [55] Bracken's official biography was once altered[55] to state that he appeared in Our Gang instead of The Kiddie Troupers, although he himself had no knowledge of the change. Sep 26, 2017 - Explore Sharon Amorosa's board "Darla Hood", followed by 818 people on Pinterest. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. "The Little Rascals" redirects here. [55] In 2008, a Darla Hood impostor, Mollie Barron, died claiming to have appeared as Darla in Our Gang. Tap link in bio to see all of his adorable wedding photos | #Regram: @jilldegroff, A post shared by BRIDES Magazine (@brides) on Feb 15, 2017 at 1:36pm PST. The MGM-produced Our Gang shorts, General Spanky, and the rights to the Our Gang name are owned by Warner Bros. through Turner Entertainment. [36] The series was given a permanent setting in the fictitious town of Greenpoint, and the mayhem caused by the Our Gang kids was toned down significantly. When six of the 13 shorts released between 1942 and 1943 sustained losses rather than turning profits,[38] MGM discontinued Our Gang. The King World/CBS Little Rascals package was featured as exclusive programming (in the United States) for the American Movie Classics network from August 2001 to December 2003, with Frankie Muniz hosting. Meins's Our Gang shorts were less improvisational than McGowan's and featured a heavier reliance on dialogue. He did have a decent amount of gigs after the movie, but nothing bigger than "The Amanda Show" and a … Gordon Douglas served as Meins's assistant director, and Fred Newmeyer alternated directorial duties with Meins for a handful of shorts. Upon Dickie Moore's departure in mid 1933, long-term Our Gang members such as Wheezer (who had been with Our Gang since the late Pathé silents period) and Dorothy left the series as well. Brittany Ashton Holmes (Darla) Alfalfa’s sweetheart is Darla, and in the film Darla is played by Brittany Ashton Holmes, who was born February 27, 1989 in California. Most of the collection uses the 1994 restorations, while 16 shorts are presented with older Blackhawk Films transfers as their remastered copies were lost or misplaced during preparations.[62][63]. On June 14, 2011, Vivendi Entertainment re-released seven of the eight DVD's from RHI/Genius Products' The Little Rascals – The Complete Collection as individual releases. The marriage was short-lived, lasting only four months. Carl Switzer was born in Paris, Illinois in 1927. The Our Gang series was a success from the start, with the children's naturalism, the funny animal actors, and McGowan's direction making a successful combination. In 1927, Roach ended his distribution arrangement with the Pathé company. and "Okey-doke!"[27]. [13] A later Our Gang spin-off film, Curley (1947), was banned by the Memphis, Tennessee censor board for showing black and white children in school together, a characteristic common to even the earlier shorts. The girl was, in his opinion, overly made up and overly rehearsed, and Roach waited for the audition to be over. [67] Some of the silent Our Gangs (such as Mary, Queen of Tots and Thundering Fleas) resurfaced on TCM at this time with new music scores in stereo sound; these silent Pathé Our Gangs are now being syndicated by Mackinaw Media. [37] The children's performances were criticized as stilted and stiff, their dialogue being recited instead of spoken naturally. Most casual fans of Our Gang are particularly familiar with the 1936–1939 incarnation of the cast: Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Porky, with recurring characters such as neighborhood bullies Butch and Woim and the bookworm Waldo. Sadly for fans, he didn’t marry Darla but he looks so happy with his bride that we can’t help but be thrilled for him! Our Gang entered another transitional period, similar to that of the mid 1920s. During the 1980s and 1990s, MGM released several non-comprehensive VHS tapes of its shorts, and a VHS of the feature General Spanky. In 2006, Fantagraphics Books began issuing a series of volumes reprinting the Our Gang stories, mostly written and drawn by Pogo creator Walt Kelly. Tommy Bond and Wally Albright left in the middle of 1934; Jackie Lynn Taylor and Marianne Edwards would depart by 1935. Less notable imitations series include The McDougall Alley Gang (Bray Productions, 1927–1928), The Us Bunch and Our Kids. The film was directed by Alex Zamm, and starred Jet Jurgensmeyer as Spanky, Drew Justice as Alfalfa, Eden Wood as Darla, and Doris Roberts as the kids' adopted Grandma. [3][4][5], Even when there was no talent search, the studio was bombarded by requests from parents who were sure their children were perfect for the series. The films were created by studio executive Hal Roach, who was best known as the man behind the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. Most early shorts were filmed outdoors and on location and featured a menagerie of animal characters, such as Dinah the Mule. She played in the "Little Rascals" films for a year while other actress Minnie Ruth… A number of groups, companies, and entities have been inspired by or named after Our Gang. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest I just try to look at it as mostly a fun thing. In 1983, with the VHS home video market growing, Blackhawk began distributing Little Rascals VHS tapes through catalog orders, with three shorts per tape. For other uses, see, For a detailed listing of the Our Gang child actors, recurring adult actors, directors, and writers, see, 1926–1929: New faces and new distributors, 1993-present: Cabin Fever/Hallmark VHS and DVD releases, Maltin & Bann, p. 119. Later Our Gang directors, such as Gus Meins and Gordon Douglas, streamlined the approach to McGowan's methods to meet the demands of the increasingly sophisticated movie industry of the mid-to-late 1930s. From 2006 to 2009, Legend Films produced colorized versions of twenty-four Our Gang comedies (23 Roach entries, and the public domain MGM entry Waldo's Last Stand), which were released across five Little Rascals DVDs. [13] Early in existence of Our Gang, these theater owners complained to Pathé that Morisson and Hoskins had too much screen time and their prominence in the shorts would offend white audiences. These new television prints made their debut on the American Movie Classics cable network in 2001 and ran until 2003. Many series entries were trimmed by two to four minutes, while others (among them Spanky, Bargain Day, The Pinch Singer and Mush and Milk) were cut to nearly half of their original length. 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