- #WHAT YEAR WAS THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS MADE MOVIE#
- #WHAT YEAR WAS THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS MADE SERIES#
He grew a moustache as soon as he went into the Army, because he wanted everyone to know he was a boy and not a girl.” Darla Hood THE BAT, Darla Hood, 1959ĭarla Hood, Spanky’s pal and Alfalfa’s romantic interest, did very well for herself in that she continued to entertain, first as an actress and then as a club singer. Commented Fern Carter, “Everybody thought he was a girl as a youngster, because he played the part of a girl.
The character of Farina - a girl - was played by a boy named Allan Hoskins. BIRTHDAY BLUES, bottom from left: Spanky McFarland, Dickie Moore, Dorothy Deborba, Bobby ‘Wheezer’ Hutchins (second from right), Matthew ‘Stymie’ Beard (right), top from left: Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins, Jackie Cooper, 1932 Things went so badly for him, he decided to move to Africa in the hopes of creating a new life for himself. Mickey Daniels, who played the character of Mickey, was among the early cast members. Hal Roach’s Little Rascals: (from left): Jack Davis, Allen ‘Farina’ Hoskins, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Hal Roach Sr., Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Ernie ‘Sunshine’ Morrison, c. He would be dead by May 10, 1968, of a drug overdose. 1934īy 1959, Scotty Beckett - who had played Spanky’s pal Scotty in early 1930s installments of the shorts and really did enjoy a successful post- Our Gang career for a time - had gone through two divorces and was arrested for alleged robbery, trying to bring narcotics into Mexico, carrying concealed weapons, drunk driving, jumping bail and much more. The Survivors THE LITTLE RASCALS, from left: Spanky McFarland, Scotty Beckett, ca. He died at the age of 33 in 1951 in a hotel fire that began when he fell asleep in bed with a lit cigarette.
#WHAT YEAR WAS THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS MADE MOVIE#
Photo Credit: YouTube ScreenshotĬlifton Young, who generally played tough kids in the early sound Our Gang films, went on to minor roles in a couple of dozens of movies, his credits spanning from 1927’s Three’s a Crowd to the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. The accident took place on August 31, 1948, when Billy was only 16 years old. THE LITTLE RASCALS/OUR GANG COMEDIES, Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas, Robert Blake (aka: Mickey Gubitosi), Billy ‘Froggy’ Laughlin, George ‘Spanky’ McFarland, circa 1942.īilly “Froggy” McLaughlin, who was part of the MGM years, wearing glasses and speaking in a voice that can best be described as being similar to Popeye, was struck by a speeding truck while he was riding a motor scooter delivering newspapers. The piece begins unsympathetically, “Possibly the most pathetic group of Hollywood ‘has-beens’ are the many former Our Gang child stars who flickered briefly in fame and prosperity only to come to grief as adults.” On May 6 of that year, The Republic of Columbus, Indiana published an article titled “Adult Tragedy Stalks Many of Our Gang Child Stars,” which was a pretty frank look at what had been going on with them up until that point. But by 1959 - not as arbitrary a year as it would seem - it was obvious that many of them were simply not prepared for the reality they found themselves in. In doing so, they “released” the final group of actors back into the real world as so many others had been over the years.
#WHAT YEAR WAS THE ORIGINAL LITTLE RASCALS MADE SERIES#
The second was when, 52 inferior theatrical shorts later, the new owners brought the series to an end. The first was in 1938 when Hal Roach, creator of the concept (known on the big screen as Our Gang), sold it and the contracts of his young stars to MGM. One could argue that The Little Rascals - from which the world met, among others, Spanky, Darla, and Alfalfa - suffered two deaths.