Our Gang
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Bear ShootersBear Shooters Bear Shooters is a 1930 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 98th (tenth talking) Our Gang short that was released. Spud wants to go camping and shoot lots of bears with Jackie, Chubby, and... In this article: Bear Shooters, Our Gang, and Robert F. McGowan |
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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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Robert F. McGowan
...(1936). McGowan returned for one last Our Gang short (Divot Diggers) in 1936 , and later produced two Our Gang derived featurettes for Hal Roach, Curley '' and ''Who Killed Doc Robbin, in the 1940s after retiring from directing. He died in...
In this article: Robert F. McGowan, Hal Roach, California, Divot Diggers, Curley, Who Killed Doc Robbin, Shivering Shakespeare, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, and Paramount Pictures
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Mary Ann Jackson
...winsome miniature heroines who would populate the series before and after her tenure. In 1933, longtime Our Gang director Robert McGowan wrote in an Los Angeles Times feature that they normally preferred to cast children who had no previous...
In this article: Mary Ann Jackson, Louise Brooks, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Rudolph Valentino, Jackie Cooper, and Ruth Taylor
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Shiver My Timbers
Shiver My Timbers Shiver My Timbers is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 109th (21st talking) Our Gang short that was released. A loud sea captain tells violent stories about adventures out on the...
In this article: Shiver My Timbers, Harry Bernard, Leonard Maltin, and Robert F. McGowan
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A Lad an' a Lamp
A Lad an' a Lamp A Lad an' a Lamp is a 1932 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 119th (32nd talking episode) Our Gang short that was released. Fascinated by the story of Aladdin's magic lamp, the Our Gang...
In this article: A Lad an' a Lamp, Free Wheeling, Birthday Blues, DVD, Bobby Hutchins, and Robert F. McGowan
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Divot Diggers
Divot Diggers Divot Diggers is a 1936 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. The film was actually made in 1935. It was the 142nd Our Gang short to be released. The action takes place at an expansive California golf...
In this article: Divot Diggers, Chimpanzee, Robert F. McGowan, and California
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Norman Chaney
...has him born in 1918 or 1919. In the late fall of 1928, Our Gang producer Hal Roach and director Robert F. McGowan began to look for an overweight child actor to replace Joe Cobb in the series. Joe was twelve years of age, and the...
In this article: Norman Myers Chaney, Joe Cobb, Hal Roach, Maryland, Robert F. McGowan, Baltimore, Railroadin', Surgery, and Myocarditis
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Railroadin'
Railroadin' Railroadin' is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 88th release in the Our Gang series. The gang is playing around...
In this article: Railroadin', Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Robert F. McGowan
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Forgotten Babies
Forgotten Babies Forgotten Babies is a 1933 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 121st (33rd talking episode) Our Gang short that was released. A partial remake of the 1924 Our Gang: Cradle Robbers,...
In this article: Forgotten Babies, Cradle Robbers, and Robert F. McGowan
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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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