Mary Kornman

Mary Kornman

Born: December 27, 1915
Died: June 1, 1973
in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA
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Mary Kornman (December 27, 1915 – June 1, 1973) was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.

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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Mary
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
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The Our Gang Story
Title: The Our Gang Story
Character: Mary (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
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On the Spot
Title: On the Spot
Character: Ruth Hunter
Released: June 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence. Frankie and his pal, Jefferson, become involved when a wounded gangster starts to tell them where $300,000 in stolen loot is hidden, but he is murdered before he can give them all of the information. The search is on.
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Zenobia
Title: Zenobia
Character: Townswoman
Released: April 21, 1939
Type: Movie
A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.
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I Am a Criminal
Title: I Am a Criminal
Character: Alice Martin
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
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King of the Newsboys
Title: King of the Newsboys
Character: Peggy
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
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Youth on Parole
Title: Youth on Parole
Character: Mae Blair
Released: October 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Two strangers, a man and a woman, are framed for a jewel robbery and thrown in jail. After they get out, they join forces to track down the real thieves.
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Swing It Professor
Title: Swing It Professor
Character: Joan Dennis
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A music professor is fired from his job for not knowing enough about modern "swing" music. He goes to Chicago to learn more about the subject in hopes of getting his job back, but he winds up getting mixed up with gangsters.
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Reunion in Rhythm
Title: Reunion in Rhythm
Character: Mary
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
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The Calling of Dan Matthews
Title: The Calling of Dan Matthews
Character: Kitty Marley
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his real estate and business interests. Strong is an upstanding citizen who has fallen into the hands of a clever racketeer, Jeff Hardy (Douglass Dumbrille), who acts as Strong's manager of some innocent-appearing amusement places that are really secret dens of vice.
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Adventurous Knights
Title: Adventurous Knights
Character: Annette
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
David De Portola, an outstanding athlete with an abundant youthful exuberance, is raised by a wealthy American guardian. He learns that he is the heir to the throne of Translavia and is recalled to accept the Crown, which along with the freedom of the country is threatened by the impostor, Black Prince. During a forbidden outing on the town with his college sidekick, Mickey Daniels, who has been brought along to make a (unintended) bungling Major Domo, David meets the lovely Princess Carmencita who, unknown to David, is to be the wife of the new King. David rejects his crown when told he must marry a girl he doesn't know. Black Prince has no trouble detaining him until David learns that Princess Carmencita is the girl he must marry. Delighted with this prospect, he saves the country, Crown and Princess following a wild and humorous escape from his captors.
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The Desert Trail
Title: The Desert Trail
Character: Anne
Released: April 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Rodeo star John Scott and his gambler friend Kansas Charlie are wrongly accused of armed robbery. They leave town as fast as they can to go looking for their own suspects in Poker City.
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Queen of the Jungle
Title: Queen of the Jungle
Character: Joan Lawrence / Mary Lawrence
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group of explorers that are seeking African radium deposits. They are playing in the basket of the party's air balloon when the bag takes off with Joan aboard, last seen sailing over the back-lot jungle. This puts a chill on the expedition and all hands return to whence they came. The end of chapter 1, "Lost in the Clouds", finds Marilyn's balloon being shot down by the flaming arrows of a native tribe. Chapter 2,"Radium Rays", reveals that Joan survived her descent and the tribe named "the child from the sky" as their queen and priestess.A flash forward of about 18 years finds that the now-adult David has returned to Africa to search for his long-lost childhood friend.He hits the trail and is quickly captured by the tribesmen and is brought to their sadistic ruler,who turns out to be a now-grown Joan. Unaware of his or her own true ...
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Roaring Roads
Title: Roaring Roads
Character: Mary McDowell
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been over-zealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid Aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In an outburst from his confinement, he meets lovely Gertrude, and promises to race her injured-brothers car in the Big Race. Between the gangsters trying to win the race by disabling him, and his bungling bodyguards trying to bring him home safely, David has a battle to win the race and Gertrude's heart.
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Smokey Smith
Title: Smokey Smith
Character: Bess Bart
Released: April 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The parents (Horace B. Carpenter)(Vane Calvert) of Smokey Smith (Bob Steele) are murdered while traveling with a wagon train that is attacked by outlaws. Smokey swears revenge but his only possible chance lies in finding the member of the border-gang who took a ring from his father's finger. The sheriff (Earl Dwire) of a nearby border town makes Smokey a deputy after the latter saves his life when outlaws attack a stagecoach the sheriff is escorting. This enables Smokey to find the hideout of the gang that killed his parents, and he, posing as a wanted man, is able to join the gang. He soon incurs the wrath of gang-member Kent(Warner Richmond), who is jealous over the attention that Bess Bart (Mary Kornman, step-daughter of the gang-leader, "Blaze" Bart (George 'Gabby' Hayes), is showing Smokey.
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Strictly Dynamite
Title: Strictly Dynamite
Character: Party Girl (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
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Picture Brides
Title: Picture Brides
Character: Mataeo Rogers
Released: April 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.
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The Quitter
Title: The Quitter
Character: Annabelle Hibbs
Released: February 5, 1934
Type: Movie
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
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Flying Down to Rio
Title: Flying Down to Rio
Character: Belinha's Friend (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.
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Please
Title: Please
Character: Beth Sawyer
Released: December 16, 1933
Type: Movie
Two dueling suitors vie for the heart of the town’s beautiful music teacher. Features Songs: “Please”, “You’re Getting To be A Habit With Me” and “I Don’t Stand A Ghost of a Chance”.
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College Humor
Title: College Humor
Character: Amber Davis
Released: July 5, 1933
Type: Movie
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
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Maids a la Mode
Title: Maids a la Mode
Character: Model (uncredited)
Released: March 4, 1933
Type: Movie
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
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Fish Hooky
Title: Fish Hooky
Character: Mary
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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Exposure
Title: Exposure
Character: Eileen Foster - Socialite
Released: August 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A reporter runs into a pretty young girl who has inherited her father's failing business. She wants to give it up, but he tries to convince her to make a go of it.
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Wild Babies!
Title: Wild Babies!
Character: Chorine
Released: June 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Two aspiring songwriters have a weird nightmare about the jungle.
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Too Many Women
Title: Too Many Women
Character: Mary
Released: May 14, 1932
Type: Movie
College baseball player Mickey Daniels can't keep his mind on the game when he's got an eye for the ladies.
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The Knockout
Title: The Knockout
Character: Mary
Released: March 5, 1932
Type: Movie
When Mickey accidentally knocks out a local boxing champ, he is forced to take the fighter's place in a bout.
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Love Pains
Title: Love Pains
Character: Mary
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
Mickey and Grady are left behind when a new kid comes to town and all the girls fall for him.
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The Kick-Off!
Title: The Kick-Off!
Character: Mary
Released: December 5, 1931
Type: Movie
Gangsters kidnap the team's football coach in order to throw the game; Grady and Mickey try to win the game.
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Are These Our Children?
Title: Are These Our Children?
Character: Agnes "Dumbbell"
Released: November 13, 1931
Type: Movie
A tale of juvenile delinquency, about a high-school student neglecting his studies, partying hard, falling in with the wrong crowd and finally finding himself on trial for murder committed during a robbery.
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Mama Loves Papa
Title: Mama Loves Papa
Character: Mary
Released: October 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Widow Martha and widower Brandon plan to marry; their teenaged children do their slapstick best to interfere. One of "The Boy Friends" series.
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Call a Cop!
Title: Call a Cop!
Character: Mary
Released: August 29, 1931
Type: Movie
The boyfriends rush into action when the girlfriends think there's a burglar in the house.
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Let's Do Things
Title: Let's Do Things
Character: Nightclub Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
Released: June 6, 1931
Type: Movie
Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub.
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Air-Tight
Title: Air-Tight
Character: Mary
Released: May 9, 1931
Type: Movie
The college aerial club is at the airfield to inaugurate a new glider. Alabam gets a lot of teasing for being a "land lizard," never wanting to fly. Mary takes him aside to boost his spirits and offers to take his photo if he'll sit on a glider parked nearby. Dave is ready to take the club's glider up, but Mickey hooks the wrong rope to his car and pulls Alabam into the air. He hasn't a clue what to do; below, Mickey and Dave try to shout instructions while the glider's owner gives chase. What goes up . . .
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Love Fever
Title: Love Fever
Character: Mary
Released: April 11, 1931
Type: Movie
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
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High Gear
Title: High Gear
Character: Mary
Released: February 28, 1931
Type: Movie
The gang is out for a drive on a Sunday afternoon. When it starts to rain, they take shelter in an abandoned building. Unbeknownst to them, it is actually a gangster's hideout.
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Blood and Thunder
Title: Blood and Thunder
Character: Mary (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1931
Type: Movie
Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.
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Ladies Last
Title: Ladies Last
Character: Mary
Released: December 6, 1930
Type: Movie
The boys boycott the girls when they insist that the boys wear tuxedos to a big dance.
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Bigger and Better
Title: Bigger and Better
Character: Mary
Released: October 24, 1930
Type: Movie
On the train trip home from school, all the kids except Dave talk about taking a vacation trip to Lake Arrowhead; Dave wants a summer job. Alabam suggests that his uncle might hire Dave at a department store. The uncle likes Dave's attitude and tells Alabam and Mickey they should work there too. Reluctantly, Alabam takes a sales assignment in ladies' accessories, where he's charming but clueless. Mickey, lazy and on the take, sees the store detective helping himself to a chocolate bar, so he wants that job. Dave learns the hard way that the customer is always right, Mickey puts the cuffs on the wrong customer, and Lake Arrowhead looks very far away.
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Doctor's Orders
Title: Doctor's Orders
Character: Mary
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Alabam is lovesick. He tells Mickey how he can't get close to the girl of his dreams; he's overheard by Dave, a smooth operator, who insists that Alabam leave everything to him. He contrives to have Alabam and Mickey wreck Alabam's car in the girl's front yard, then he arrives, posing as a doctor, asking the residents of the house if they'll let the injured boy come inside while the doctor examines him. Meanwhile, Mickey gets a look at the girl's cousin and feigns injury so that now both lads are in beds upstairs while Dave, the doctor, conjures foul-tasting treatments. The fly in the ointment is the girl's crusty uncle, who may stand between the lads and their true loves.
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The Fourth Alarm
Title: The Fourth Alarm
Character: Mary
Released: August 11, 1926
Type: Movie
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
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Shivering Spooks
Title: Shivering Spooks
Character: Mary
Released: August 7, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang's hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang's hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. The "suckers" find out they are being cheated and run to get the cops to book the guys. The guys find out that the kids are in the house, and one dresses up in a ghost costume and chases the kids throughout the house.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Mary
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Uncle Tom's Uncle
Title: Uncle Tom's Uncle
Character: Mary / 'Eva'
Released: May 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mother thinks the back yard needs cleaning, and there are several interruptions when they lose a leading character. Mickey plays Simon Legree; Mary as Eva; Joe as Uncle Tom; and Farina essays the role of Topsy.
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Baby Clothes
Title: Baby Clothes
Character: Mary
Released: April 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for years thinking they have children. Now that he’s coming into town, the couple must find a pair of babies as soon as possible. The Our Gang kids are ready for the job, but a 27-year old midget is also in the running for the job and he doesn’t play fairly.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Mary
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops.
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Buried Treasure
Title: Buried Treasure
Character: Mary
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.
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Good Cheer
Title: Good Cheer
Character: Mary
Released: January 9, 1926
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.
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One Wild Ride
Title: One Wild Ride
Character: Mary
Released: December 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner takes his horse back, they must rely on motorists to tow them to the top of the hill so they can coast down. Little Farina borrows the car and it runs out of control all over town, causing mayhem everywhere it goes.
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Better Movies
Title: Better Movies
Character: Mary
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to ruin their business by playing pranks and even insisting the police to close them down.
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Your Own Back Yard
Title: Your Own Back Yard
Character: Mary
Released: September 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.
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Mary, Queen of Tots
Title: Mary, Queen of Tots
Character: Mary / Princess in Dream Sequence
Released: August 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for Mary, the girl of the house. He's her only friend: her parents neglect her for work and card games and her governess is humorless. Mary loves the dolls and dreams of them during her nap. While Mary sleeps, the governess throws the dolls in the dust bin. Mary wakes and goes searching - outside she runs into the very same four kids who were the dolls' models, and she thinks she's still dreaming...
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Boys Will Be Joys
Title: Boys Will Be Joys
Character: Mary
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?
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Official Officers
Title: Official Officers
Character: Mary
Released: June 29, 1925
Type: Movie
The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey gets the idea of building barricades to give our gang space to play at an intersection, but a beat cop, the nasty "Hard-Boiled" McManus, puts a quick end to that. A sympathetic constable and a detective who has kids of his own give our gang a chance to help law enforcement. The little rascals wear uniforms and keep an eye on things: Joe, for instance, eyes the bananas at Tony's fruit stand. When the now-fired McManus returns and seeks revenge, the junior police force and their adult colleagues are put to the test.
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Shootin' Injuns
Title: Shootin' Injuns
Character: Mary
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing the game, including objections from parents, and as such they decide to postpone it until the wee hours of the next morning and play it in the streets of the neighborhood. As it begins to rain during the middle of their shootout that morning, they decide to take refuge in a neighborhood house. What they are unaware of is that the house belongs to inventor W.R. Jones, who rigged it to be a "magnetic house", a demonstration for a possible amusement park attraction. Not knowing about the house's rigged contraptions leads to a lot of misadventures for the gang not related to shooting Indians as they try to figure out what's happening around them.
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The Love Bug
Title: The Love Bug
Character: Mary
Released: April 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma comes to their rescue.
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Mary
Released: March 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.
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Circus Fever
Title: Circus Fever
Character: Mary
Released: February 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the festivities.
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The Big Town
Title: The Big Town
Character: Mary
Released: January 10, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City. After seeing some of the sites on foot, they steal a 5th Avenue Bus, and are caught by the police.
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Our Gang At Home
Title: Our Gang At Home
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Using several camera tricks, the movie shows what the Our Gang kids want to be when they grow up.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Mary
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...
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The Sun Down Limited
Title: The Sun Down Limited
Character: Mary
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toughie.
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Short Kilts
Title: Short Kilts
Character: McGregor's Kid
Released: August 3, 1924
Type: Movie
As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected.
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It's a Bear
Title: It's a Bear
Character: Mary
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear. Soon the bear is stalking them!
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Jubilo, Jr.
Title: Jubilo, Jr.
Character: Mary
Released: June 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.
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Cradle Robbers
Title: Cradle Robbers
Character: Mary
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
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Commencement Day
Title: Commencement Day
Character: Mary
Released: May 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amusement as various skills of music are performed by youngsters who were probably coaxed by parents to take up the instruments used.
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Seein' Things
Title: Seein' Things
Character: Mary
Released: April 5, 1924
Type: Movie
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so much he sneaks out of the house and ends up eating several chickens. That night she puts him to bed and sure enough he begins to have nightmares that the other kids are chasing him. Basing a kids comedy around one kid having nightmares and being stalked by other kids might seem rather bizarre but this was 1924 we're talking about.
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The Buccaneers
Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Mary
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Mary
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.
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Tire Trouble
Title: Tire Trouble
Character: Mary
Released: January 12, 1924
Type: Movie
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own makeshift car with Mary, Joe, and Jackie in tow. Among the unusual gadgets: a boxing glove attached to the outside front that knocks out any passersby! When they stop where Sunshine Sammy and Farina are standing, Sammy gets punched by that glove twice and also gets hit by the front grille that moves! He's making a delivery to a rich man named J. William McAllister. This man believes he's very sick because of what his doctor and wife says but after the gang come in uninvited, they look at him and think otherwise.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Mary
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Mary
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.
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Lodge Night
Title: Lodge Night
Character: Mary
Released: July 28, 1923
Type: Movie
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshine Sammy Morrison. The film ends with a chase. The gang gets tangled up with bank robbers. Sunshine Sammy gets his uncle and his pals to chase the bank robbers with the gang riding along.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Mary
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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A Pleasant Journey
Title: A Pleasant Journey
Character: Mary
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Mary
Released: February 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
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The Cobbler
Title: The Cobbler
Character: Mary, 'Little Miss Riches'
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
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The Champeen
Title: The Champeen
Character: Mary
Released: January 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.