Our Gang
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The Little Rascals: A Refresher On The Rules Of Life...and later Buckwheat got singled out and each was morphed into a monkey in turn. When he was a young man, Our Gang creator Hal Roach knew the real Mark Twain. Roach brought the spirit of Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim to his timeless... In this article: Our Gang, DVD, The Little Rascals, Hal Roach, NPR, Limburger cheese, Castor oil, and RHI Entertainment |
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Hal Roach
...became less profitable and were phased out by 1936. The Our Gang series continued until 1938, when Roach sold the contracts of the Our Gang cast members and the series name to MGM. From 1937 to 1940 Roach concentrated on producing glossy...
In this article: Hal Roach, Laurel and Hardy, RHI Entertainment, Harold Lloyd, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Academy Awards, and Qintex
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Jackie Cooper
...catapulted young Cooper to super-stardom. Our Gang producer Hal Roach sold Jackie's contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in mid-1931, as he felt the youngster would have a better future in features. He began a long on-screen relationship with...
In this article: Jackie Cooper, Norman Taurog, Dog, Hal Roach, and Bewitched
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General Spanky
...selling the Our Gang unit to MGM in May 1938. When Roach bought the rights to the back catalog of Our Gang films he'd produced from MGM in 1949, he did not buy back the rights to General Spanky. As a result, the film was part of the MGM...
In this article: Hal Roach, General Spanky, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Civil War, Turner Entertainment, Phillips Holmes, Warner Bros, Rosina Lawrence, and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
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Who Killed Doc Robbin
Who Killed Doc Robbin Who Killed Doc Robbin is a 1948 film produced by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan as a reimagining of their Our Gang series. The film was one of Roach's many "streamlined" features of the 1940s, running only 55...
In this article: Hal Roach, Who Killed Doc Robbin, Curley, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bernard Carr, United Artists, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, and Robert F. McGowan
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Our Gang
...Roundup -- changing. When Hal Roach sold Our Gang to MGM, he had retained the option to buy back the rights to the Our Gang trademark, provided he did not produce any more kids' comedies in the Our Gang vein. In the mid-1940s, he...
In this article: Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Little Rascals, Robert F. McGowan, King World, and Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas
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A Pleasant Journey
...is the tenth Our Gang short subject comedy released. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922 , and continued production until 1944 . The plot revolves around the gang swapping places with...
In this article: A Pleasant Journey, Jackie Condon, San Francisco, Dog, Teacher's Pet, Hal Roach, Mary Kornman, and The Little Rascals
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George McFarland
...a personal appearance tour. In mid-1938, Hal Roach sold the Our Gang unit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who began casting for a new "team leader" character in Spanky's vein and ended up rehiring McFarland himself. He remained in the MGM Our Gang...
In this article: Spanky, Hal Roach, Dallas, Texas, George McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, and Cheers
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Short film
...as Mack Sennett out of business. Hal Roach moved Laurel and Hardy full-time into feature films after 1935, and halved his popular Our Gang films to one reel at the request of distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Roach, who could no longer afford...
In this article: Short films, DVD, Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Laurel and Hardy, United States, Movieola, BritFilms, and Newgrounds
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Gordon Douglas (director)
..., Butch , and Woim , are the most familiar in the series' twenty-two year canon. Hal Roach sold the Our Gang unit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 1938. Douglas directed two MGM Our Gangs on loan from Roach before deciding that he could not...
In this article: Gordon Douglas, Hal Roach, Bored of Education, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Laurel and Hardy, Spanky, Birthday Blues, and Big Ears
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Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Roach changed distributors from Pathé to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, went to sound in 1929 and continued production until 1938, when he sold the series to MGM. MGM in turn continued producing the comedies until 1944. A total of 220 shorts and one feature film, General Spanky, were eventually produced, featuring over forty-one child actors. In the mid-1950s, the 80 Roach-produced shorts with sound were syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals, as MGM retained the rights to the Our Gang trademark.
The series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. While child actors are often groomed to imitate adult acting styles, steal scenes, or deliver "cute" performances, Hal Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular kids. Our Gang also notably put boys, girls, whites and blacks together in a group as equals, something that "broke new ground," according to film historian Leonard Maltin. Such a thing had never been done before in cinema but was commonplace after the success of Our Gang.
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