Spanky

...with vacation over, thousands of smiling, happy children return to school." This turns out to be as far as possible from the truth, as Spanky, Alfalfa, and the rest of the kids wait on the school steps with long faces and pouted lips.

In this article: Ice cream, Bored of Education, Our Gang, Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Gordon Douglas

...this is a remake of a 1920's silent Our Gang episode called Uncle Tom's Uncle, the main character is Spanky. Early scenes of this film were part of Spanky's screen test taken back in April 1931 during his first visit to Hal Roach Studios.

In this article: Uncle Tom's Uncle, Our Gang, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Brisbane, DVD, and Robert F. McGowan

...McFarland) and become an opera singer, famously singing "The Barber of Seville" several times throughout the film. The bulk of the film is made up of a dream sequence, in which Alfalfa imagines himself twenty years later failing as an...

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...over the decade as kids grew older and were replaced. By 1936, the cast settled in to what most people remember as the "core" cast - Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Porky and Darla, with Butch and Waldo as Alfalfa's rivals for Darla. Before Roach...

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George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland (October 2, 1928 - June 30, 1993) was an American actor most famous for his appearances in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The Our Gang shorts were later popular...

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...to participate in that treasure hunt. Spanky says he is going anyway and then is sent to bed until he learns to obey. Confined to his room, Spanky falls asleep and in his dream argues with his "inner self", who advises him to disobey his...

In this article: Mama's Little Pirate, Our Gang, Leroy Shield, Babes in Toyland, Laurel and Hardy, and Gus Meins

...it was the 147th Our Gang short to be released. During a slow day at school, Alfalfa spends penmanship class writing a note to Spanky, informing his pal that the two "little kids", Buckwheat and Porky, have firecrackers and...

In this article: Two Too Young, Our Gang, Trademark, Hal Roach, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Gordon Douglas

...Lee spilled the beans to Spanky's mom. Vowing to teach the boys a lesson, she orders Spanky and Alfalfa to remain in the house all day and look after Spanky's kid brother Junior. This turns out to be a major mistake when, while trying to...

In this article: Canned Fishing, Our Gang, Hal Roach, MGM, and Gordon Douglas

It s Spanky and Gang: Hold on to Your Beanies From left, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, Darla and Spanky. W. C. Fields is said to have been the source of the show business maxim "Never work with children or animals. " "The Little Rascals: The...

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...that often seems grittier than many feature films of the era. For many, the series' most beloved era came in the mid-1930s, when Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla and Buckweat held center stage. The "He-Man Woman's Haters Club" was born, and there...

In this article: Hal Roach, Our Gang, MGM, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, The Little Rascals, Skippy, Judy Garland, and Robert Blake