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Post by Natalie Sinead on Jan 25, 2019 11:14:05 GMT
I saw this on You Tube. It's an example of the harking back to the 1950s vibe of much of the 1970s and 80s. Six year old Melissa Lynn - who reminds me a lot of Darla Hood from Our Gang ("The Little Rascals") - singing "All I Want For Christmas...". None of the girls in the video clip seem to have been allowed to be in trousers for it. Putting them in fluffy dresses seems designed to invoke nostalgia in 1985 adults about the mythical Golden Age from about 1945 to 1963 when "girls looked like girls". www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI02_UJ1C6I |
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 25, 2019 14:10:08 GMT
A week or 2 ago I was reading up on Our Gang/Little Rascals. For years afterwards there were a lot of bogus "claims to fame" by people who claimed to have been stars of the series. Sometimes some were extras or appeared in similar all child film shorts, but others seem to have been attention seekers. Here's Mark Evanier's view on this, scroll to the bottom of the link for the right post, I can't seem to create an isolated link for it: Mark Evanier POV |
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Post by tom rogers on Jan 25, 2019 16:05:39 GMT
The best single source for the history of Our Gang/Little Rascals (as well as the problem of "impostors") is Leonard Maltin's book "Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals." Maltin's web-site also has a trove of information on the series along with info on the Hal Roach Studios. There was much shared history/DNA between The Rascals and Laurel & Hardy, too, which is fascinating.
"Stymie Lives!"
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 25, 2019 22:49:09 GMT
The best single source for the history of Our Gang/Little Rascals (as well as the problem of "impostors") is Leonard Maltin's book "Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals." Maltin's web-site also has a trove of information on the series along with info on the Hal Roach Studios. There was much shared history/DNA between The Rascals and Laurel & Hardy, too, which is fascinating. "Stymie Lives!" Oliver Hardy played the Dad of one of the gang in a few shorts before being paired up with Stan Laurel. |
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Post by tom rogers on Jan 26, 2019 0:36:13 GMT
The best single source for the history of Our Gang/Little Rascals (as well as the problem of "impostors") is Leonard Maltin's book "Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals." Maltin's web-site also has a trove of information on the series along with info on the Hal Roach Studios. There was much shared history/DNA between The Rascals and Laurel & Hardy, too, which is fascinating. "Stymie Lives!" Oliver Hardy played the Dad of one of the gang in a few shorts before being paired up with Stan Laurel. You are correct, sir! Ollie pops up in many a Roach silent short before he was teamed with Stan. They both had a brief cameo in the Rascals short "Wild Poses", playing a pair of kids posing for pictures for an exasperated photographer (played by the great Franklin Pangborn). Here is a link to their scene: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aexJYgTonZg |
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 26, 2019 14:16:12 GMT
Oliver Hardy played the Dad of one of the gang in a few shorts before being paired up with Stan Laurel. You are correct, sir! Ollie pops up in many a Roach silent short before he was teamed with Stan. They both had a brief cameo in the Rascals short "Wild Poses", playing a pair of kids posing for pictures for an exasperated photographer (played by the great Franklin Pangborn). Here is a link to their scene: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aexJYgTonZgThanks for that. Franklin Pangborn much later was a short lived co-host of the Tonight Show early in it's Jack Paar era. Sadly he wasn't good at ad-libbing & was quickly replaced by announcer Hugh Downs in the comic foil role. |
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