Carl Switzer

Carl Switzer

Born: August 7, 1927
Died: January 21, 1959
in Paris, Illinois, USA
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer was born on August 7, 1927 in Paris, Illinois, USA as Carl Dean Switzer. He was an actor, known for The Defiant Ones (1958), Our Gang Follies of 1938(1937) and I Love You Again (1940). He was married to Dian Collingwood. He died on January 21, 1959 in Mission Hills, California, USA.

Movies for Carl Switzer...

The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
Title: The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 30, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
Title: The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 20, 2011
Type: Movie
The only thing more outrageous than The Little Rascals' antics are their wild imaginations! See what happens when the Gang is left alone to guess at what those noises in the night might be in this four-film compilation of thrilling films starring our favorite little mischief-makers. See such classics as Spooky Hooky, Moan and Groan and Little Sinner - the episode that taught Spanky a lesson on why playing hooky from Sunday Mass isn't such a good idea! Featuring all of these hilarious episodes in their original black-and-white format! *Episodes: Spooky Hooky, Moan and Groan, First Roundup and Little Sinner.
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Alfalfa
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: Alfalfa (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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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Hollywood’s Children
Title: Hollywood’s Children
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Rascal Dazzle
Title: Rascal Dazzle
Character: Alfalfa
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.
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The Defiant Ones
Title: The Defiant Ones
Character: Angus
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
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Motorcycle Gang
Title: Motorcycle Gang
Character: Speed
Released: October 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A troublemaker returns to town only to find his old tearaway pals have joined a supervised motorcycle club. Friction erupts between him and the new leader about this goody-goody setup, and about the charms of gang moll Terry.
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Between Heaven and Hell
Title: Between Heaven and Hell
Character: Savage (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1956
Type: Movie
Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man.
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Dig That Uranium
Title: Dig That Uranium
Character: Shifty Robertson
Released: December 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of these new strangers, and when they mistakenly get the impression that the mine is loaded with uranium, they hatch a scheme to get rid of the boys and take over the mine.
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Track of the Cat
Title: Track of the Cat
Character: Joe Sam
Released: November 19, 1954
Type: Movie
A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the first big snowstorm of winter and an enormous panther with seemingly mythical qualities which is killing cattle.
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This Is My Love
Title: This Is My Love
Character: Customer
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.
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White Christmas
Title: White Christmas
Character: Bennie Haynes (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
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The High and the Mighty
Title: The High and the Mighty
Character: Ensign Keim
Released: July 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight - one that takes a terrifying suspense-building turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean at the point of no return.
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Flight Nurse
Title: Flight Nurse
Character: Soldier with Wounded Arm
Released: November 15, 1953
Type: Movie
In this war drama, set during the Korean War, an Air Force nurse gets involved in a love triangle on the front lines.
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Island in the Sky
Title: Island in the Sky
Character: Sonny Hopper
Released: September 5, 1953
Type: Movie
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
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The WAC From Walla Walla
Title: The WAC From Walla Walla
Character: Pvt. Cronkheit (uncredited)
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
An unsophisticated country girl accidentally joins the army.
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I Dream of Jeanie
Title: I Dream of Jeanie
Character: Freddie (as Carl Dean Switzer)
Released: June 15, 1952
Type: Movie
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
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Pat and Mike
Title: Pat and Mike
Character: Bus Boy
Released: June 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she cannot give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan, a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer, and a growing mutual attraction.
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Title: Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Released: October 5, 1951
Type: TV
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Two Dollar Bettor
Title: Two Dollar Bettor
Character: Chuck Nordlinger
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
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Cause for Alarm!
Title: Cause for Alarm!
Character: Guy with Tex
Released: March 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mailer
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Redwood Forest Trail
Title: Redwood Forest Trail
Character: Alfie
Released: September 18, 1950
Type: Movie
Forest Ranger and singing cowboy, Rex Allen, attempts to save a camp for underprivileged boys with the help of "Alfalfa " Switzer who plays one of the boys.
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House by the River
Title: House by the River
Character: Walter Herbert, office boy
Released: March 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Wealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame for the murder on his sibling. Also affected by Stephen's arrogant dementia is his long-suffering wife Marjorie.
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Alias the Champ
Title: Alias the Champ
Character: Newsboy (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George (in his only film appearance) is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron Peterson, who was already on the scene to investigate the Mob’s influence on pro wrestling.
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A Letter to Three Wives
Title: A Letter to Three Wives
Character: Leo, Second Messenger (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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Big Town Scandal
Title: Big Town Scandal
Character: Frankie Snead
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out to fix basketball.
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State of the Union
Title: State of the Union
Character: Bellboy
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
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On Our Merry Way
Title: On Our Merry Way
Character: Leopold 'Zoot' Wirtz
Released: February 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Oliver Pease gets a dose of courage from his wife Martha and tricks the editor of the paper (where he writes lost pet notices) into assigning him the day's roving question. Martha suggests, "Has a little child ever changed your life?" Oliver gets answers from two slow-talking musicians, an actress whose roles usually feature a sarong, and an itinerant cardsharp. In each case the "little child" is hardly innocent: in the first, a local auto mechanic's "baby" turns out to be fully developed as a woman and a musician; in the second, a spoiled child star learns kindness; in the third, the family of a lost brat doesn't want him returned. And Oliver, what becomes of him?
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Driftwood
Title: Driftwood
Character: Messenger boy
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.
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The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Title: The Gas House Kids in Hollywood
Character: Alfalfa
Released: August 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.
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Gas House Kids Go West
Title: Gas House Kids Go West
Character: Alfalfa
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
The second of three "Bowery Boys" rip-offs produced by bargain-basement Producers Releasing Corporation.
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It's a Wonderful Life
Title: It's a Wonderful Life
Character: Freddie Othello (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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Courage of Lassie
Title: Courage of Lassie
Character: First Youth
Released: November 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bill's separated from his litter, making friends with the wild creatures until he's found and adopted by young Kathie. An accident separates him from her, and he's drafted into K-9 duty in the trenches until battle fatigue takes its toll and he turns vicious. And even though he finds his way back home, he may be condemned as a killer.
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Gas House Kids
Title: Gas House Kids
Character: Sammy Levine
Released: October 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The Gas House Kids tackle a gang of criminals in the hope of winning the reward and helping a returning war veteran make a life with his girl.
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Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Title: Primary Flight Training: Before You Fly
Character: Mac
Released: December 12, 1945
Type: Movie
This documentary short film is intended to instruct U.S. Navy pilot trainees in the proper preparation of their airplane and their equipment prior to flight. A chief flight instructor demonstrates the correct method of holding, carrying, and wearing the parachute, but Mac, a trainee who thinks he has all the answers already, fails to pay attention and finds himself in deep trouble. Lt. Taylor, another instructor, shows a more attentive pilot trainee through the process of inspection of the plane and engine. But for every step this trainee learns well, Mac is elsewhere showing what can happen when one doesn't pay attention.
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Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
Title: Primary Flight Training: Keep It Flying, Part 2
Character: Cadet Sylvester McDribble
Released: December 12, 1945
Type: Movie
In this documentary short film for the U.S. Navy, proper spin and stall techniques for pilot trainees are explored. After Cadet McDribble nearly collides with a squadron of Navy planes because he has practiced spins through clouds, Lt. Taylor shows his student the proper way to deliberately stall the aircraft and to recover from spins.
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She Wouldn't Say Yes
Title: She Wouldn't Say Yes
Character: Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem, but frowning on the impulsive, as represented by a favorite comic strip called "The Nixie." She bumps into Michael Kent, an officer and the comic strip's author. He likes her instantly and she dislikes him. He's headed to the Pacific, sees her on the train, gets off in Chicago, and with her father's help, pursues her and hatches a plan to marry her. Meanwhile, she has her own plan to get rid of him with the help of a blond patient. Will the Nixie get into her psyche?
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Man Alive
Title: Man Alive
Character: Ignatius Lafferty (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
A reportedly dead man haunts his wife and her boyfriend.
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Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
Title: Primary Flight Training: Taxiing and Take-offs
Character: Cadet Sylvester McDribble
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
In this government documentary short film, a U.S. Navy flight instructor demonstrates to a young pilot trainee the proper methods for taxiing an aircraft at an airfield. He also illustrates proper take-off procedure and many of the common mistakes made during both these activities. The dangers of getting too close to other planes whose engines are running are also show. A young cadet named McDribble is presented with evidence of his failures to follow procedure and given punishment duty.
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Together Again
Title: Together Again
Character: Elevator Boy (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor for years and when he died, she was left to carry on and to raise his daughter from his first marriage. She lives with the daughter, her father-in-law and a housekeeper. In the town square, there was a statue of her late husband and every year since his death, they have an anniversary celebration there. This year during a thunderstorm, the statue is hit by lightning and the head falls off. The daughter insists that a new statue be erected instead of patching the old one. Mayor Crandall is sent to New York to interview the prospective sculptor, George Corday.
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The Great Mike
Title: The Great Mike
Character: Speck
Released: November 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike. Recently a horse track has been built in the area and attracts horse breeder and racer Colonel Whiteny. He takes out a subscription for delivery and meets Mike and Speck & Jimmy. Clever Jimmy talks both the Colonel and Speck into taking on the Colonel's pure bred race horses at the track with comedic results.
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Going My Way
Title: Going My Way
Character: Herman Langerhanke (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.
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Rosie the Riveter
Title: Rosie the Riveter
Character: Buzz Prouty
Released: April 8, 1944
Type: Movie
In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male workers. The situation is on the up and up as the men and women work different shifts and they are only making do because there is a housing shortage. Unfortunately, they soon begin to fight about who gets the house during certain hours. Romance ensues.
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Dixie
Title: Dixie
Character: Boy in Street (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1943
Type: Movie
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
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Shantytown
Title: Shantytown
Character: Bindy
Released: April 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
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The Human Comedy
Title: The Human Comedy
Character: Auggie (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1943
Type: Movie
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Title: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
Character: Billy Wiggs
Released: October 1, 1942
Type: Movie
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
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The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Title: The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Character: Telegram Delivery Boy
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are fighting for her freedom.
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There's One Born Every Minute
Title: There's One Born Every Minute
Character: Junior Twine
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
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Henry and Dizzy
Title: Henry and Dizzy
Character: Billy Weeks
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the replacement cash the boat's owner demands. The catch: Henry only has two days to come up with the funds, or the boat's angry owner will turn him over to the police.
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My Favorite Blonde
Title: My Favorite Blonde
Character: Frederick (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.
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Reg'lar Fellers
Title: Reg'lar Fellers
Character: Bump Hudson
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.
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Kiddie Kure
Title: Kiddie Kure
Character: Alfalfa
Released: November 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Rich 'Old Man' Bill Morton is a hypochondriac. After bringing new sugar pills to Bill Morton's house, his physician, Doctor Malcolm Scott suggested to Bill Morton's wife that adopting a child might help cure Mister Morton of his delusions. After overhearing their conversation, Bill Morton quickly invited the "Our Gang" members, (as they were at the front come to the door, offering to work and pay for a broken window pane, that had just occurred) to a lunch, in order to sour his wife's thoughts of adopting any children. Then, the unexpected occurs as Alfalfa's two twin little brothers, Tisket and Tasket got to Bill Morton's medications' table, they ate up a majority of them, leading Bill Morton to call his physician, Malcolm Scott back to his house, immediately! When, Doctor Malcolm Scott return to Bill Morton's house, he laughs at what he hears and then tells Bill Morton they are worthless sugar pills, teaching a lesson to Bill Morton he is not sick at all.
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Goin' Fishin'
Title: Goin' Fishin'
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
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Waldo's Last Stand
Title: Waldo's Last Stand
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
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Barnyard Follies
Title: Barnyard Follies
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.
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Good Bad Boys
Title: Good Bad Boys
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
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I Love You Again
Title: I Love You Again
Character: Leonard Harkspur Jr.
Released: August 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Alfalfa
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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The New Pupil
Title: The New Pupil
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
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All About Hash
Title: All About Hash
Character: Alfalfa
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get them to stop fighting.
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The Big Premiere
Title: The Big Premiere
Character: Alfalfa
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a disruption, the police send them scurrying home. Not to worry--the Our Gang stage their own premiere night in the clubhouse barn.
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Alfalfa's Double
Title: Alfalfa's Double
Character: Alfalfa / Cornelius 'Corny'
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
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Time Out for Lessons
Title: Time Out for Lessons
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor grades cause him to be suspended from play.
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Dad for a Day
Title: Dad for a Day
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
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Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Title: Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Character: Alfalfa (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go." All is not smooth sailing however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
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Dog Daze
Title: Dog Daze
Character: Alfalfa
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
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Joy Scouts
Title: Joy Scouts
Character: Alfalfa
Released: June 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough. Undeterred, the kids head off on their own unsupervised camping adventure, with comically disastrous results.
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Cousin Wilbur
Title: Cousin Wilbur
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
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Clown Princes
Title: Clown Princes
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
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Duel Personalities
Title: Duel Personalities
Character: Alfalfa (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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The Ice Follies of 1939
Title: The Ice Follies of 1939
Character: Small Boy (Uncredited)
Released: March 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
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Tiny Troubles
Title: Tiny Troubles
Character: Alfalfa Switzer
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
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Alfalfa's Aunt
Title: Alfalfa's Aunt
Character: Alfalfa
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the Spanky and the gang to save him.
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Practical Jokers
Title: Practical Jokers
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
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Football Romeo
Title: Football Romeo
Character: Alfalfa
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.
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Men in Fright
Title: Men in Fright
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
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Aladdin's Lantern
Title: Aladdin's Lantern
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa want to do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn't want to participate.
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Party Fever
Title: Party Fever
Character: Alfalfa
Released: August 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.
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The Little Ranger
Title: The Little Ranger
Character: Alfalfa
Released: August 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
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Hide and Shriek
Title: Hide and Shriek
Character: Alfalfa, alias X-10
Released: June 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.
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The Awful Tooth
Title: The Awful Tooth
Character: Alfalfa
Released: May 26, 1938
Type: Movie
When one of the Our Gang kids finds money under his pillow after losing a tooth, all the kids decide to get rich by having all their teeth pulled.
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Feed 'em and Weep
Title: Feed 'em and Weep
Character: Alfalfa
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
It's Mr. Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a special song for the unhappy man.
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Came the Brawn
Title: Came the Brawn
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his opponent.
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Three Men in a Tub
Title: Three Men in a Tub
Character: Alfalfa
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race for the hand of Darla.
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Bear Facts
Title: Bear Facts
Character: Alfalfa
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he know that Darla's father owns a circus - and a bear costume. It's time for everyone to uncover the "bear facts".
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Canned Fishing
Title: Canned Fishing
Character: Alfalfa
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and Spanky should stay with him while the parents are away. But Spanky's mom, knowing the truth, turns the tables by insisting they also watch Spanky's little brother. But taking care of little brother turns out to be more difficult than they expected.
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Scandal Street
Title: Scandal Street
Character: Bennie Nordskudder
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiancée, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with the Smith family. Nora is befriended by her next-door neighbor Austin Brown, who, unknown to his wife, is engaged in a moneymaking scheme with James Wilson.
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
Title: Our Gang Follies of 1938
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
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Mail and Female
Title: Mail and Female
Character: Alfalfa / Cousin Amelia (as Our Gang)
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in reaction to not being invited to one of the girl's parties.
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The Pigskin Palooka
Title: The Pigskin Palooka
Character: Alfalfa (as Our Gang)
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it.
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Framing Youth
Title: Framing Youth
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
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Fishy Tales
Title: Fishy Tales
Character: Alfalfa
Released: August 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
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Night 'n' Gales
Title: Night 'n' Gales
Character: Alfalfa (as Our Gang)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
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Wild and Woolly
Title: Wild and Woolly
Character: Zero
Released: July 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
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Roamin' Holiday
Title: Roamin' Holiday
Character: Alfalfa (as Our Gang)
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.
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Three Smart Boys
Title: Three Smart Boys
Character: Alfalfa (as Our Gang)
Released: May 13, 1937
Type: Movie
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness.
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Rushin' Ballet
Title: Rushin' Ballet
Character: Alfalfa (as Our Gang)
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Hearts Are Thumps
Title: Hearts Are Thumps
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.
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Reunion in Rhythm
Title: Reunion in Rhythm
Character: Alfalfa
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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Spooky Hooky
Title: Spooky Hooky
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 24, 1936
Type: Movie
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Alfalfa
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Easy to Take
Title: Easy to Take
Character: Alfred Bottle
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
To boost the ratings of a kiddie show, the host agrees to take guardianship of of a bratty boy who has a lovely older sister.
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Pay As You Exit
Title: Pay As You Exit
Character: Alfalfa
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.
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Kelly the Second
Title: Kelly the Second
Character: Boy with Stomach Ache (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
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Bored of Education
Title: Bored of Education
Character: Alfalfa
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school.
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Arbor Day
Title: Arbor Day
Character: Alfalfa
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
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Second Childhood
Title: Second Childhood
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search of it he is informed he will have to pay seventy-five cents for the broken vase. Spanly has never seen six-bit, much less having it in his pants, so he offers his and his friend's help in cleaning up the yard in exchange. Before the kids are through, they've given the old lady a new outlook on life.
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The Lucky Corner
Title: The Lucky Corner
Character: Alfalfa
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move their lemonade stand.
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Divot Diggers
Title: Divot Diggers
Character: Alfalfa
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
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The Pinch Singer
Title: The Pinch Singer
Character: Alfalfa
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
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Life Hesitates at 40
Title: Life Hesitates at 40
Character: Boy at Soda Fountain
Released: November 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.
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Little Papa
Title: Little Papa
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is asleep first.
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Sprucin' Up
Title: Sprucin' Up
Character: Alfalfa
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.
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Teacher's Beau
Title: Teacher's Beau
Character: Alfalfa
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married.
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Southern Exposure
Title: Southern Exposure
Character: Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Connie Chase receives a letter from Chaseville in Chase County, Kentucky, informing her that her lawyer husband, Jimmie, is a descendant of the Blue Grass State Chases. Assuming that they are now aristocratic heirs, they take a trip to visit their wealthy relations. They soon discover that Chaseville is a back-country hick town, and that their kin are dirt-poor illiterates who ambulate in bare feet. Nevertheless, Pappy (Charley Chase) could use Jimmie to defend him in a breach of promise lawsuit. Miss Lavinia Watkins sued him for not tying the knot, after pledging to marry her. The case is resolved as the courtroom becomes a dance floor, and everyone celebrates.
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Beginner's Luck
Title: Beginner's Luck
Character: Arizona Nightengale
Released: February 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
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The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
Title: The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
Character: Alfalfa
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
See the Gang get a lesson on piracy and playing hooky in Shiver My Timbers, watch Spanky take on Goliath and his treasure chest in Mama's Little Pirate, and see what lengths Alfalfa will go to in his quest for love in Three Men in a Tub. These classic episodes are featured un-cut and in their original black-and-white format!
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: 'Irish Eyes' Singer
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.