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Post by shirleymurphy on Apr 18, 2019 7:04:14 GMT -5
The female Our Gangers were often turned into little flirts. Had JonBenet Ramsey never happened, Our Gang might not be as criticized for that as it is.
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Post by malaria on Apr 22, 2019 16:42:33 GMT -5
It was tough being in second grade and learning that the girls did NOT act like that. In fourth to fifth grade... things changed, thank God. But the girls still weren't vampy, and they didn't say that Spanky was making hundreds and thousands of dollars.  Of course, this was several geological epochs ago... Brit Knee Spheres and the daughter of the achy-breaky-heart guy weren't even born yet. |
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Post by mtw12055 on Apr 22, 2019 17:52:31 GMT -5
When I was a kid (to quote Dickie De Nuet), any kind of flirting consisted of chasing your crush around the playground. Ah, childhood.
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Post by malaria on Apr 23, 2019 14:22:25 GMT -5
At summer camp, it seemed that the girls became more... adventurous.  ("Yeah, they gave 'em a brand new sledgehammer!") |
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Post by sara on May 12, 2019 15:47:33 GMT -5
Tomboy, absolutely. The "girly girls" led to some amusing story lines, but their flirtatious nature doesn't really came off as something a young kid would do. Playful, childlike teasing, I could see. I could also see the sort of reaction Mary Ann had when Jackie insisted she was his "woman." That whole scene is one of the reasons why Mary Ann is my favorite of the Gang ladies. I agree, Tomboy. Mary Ann is my favorite as well. I love the end of that scene when she kicks Jackie in the rear as he's running away and then shakes her fist at him. I like how she refused to give up on getting in to see Chubby and Joe's boxing match. I feel a little bad for Jackie that it's at his expense but it became quite obvious he was no match for Mary Ann. Dorothy runs a close second. |
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Post by malaria on May 12, 2019 16:32:56 GMT -5
My kids were very pro-Darla, and I had to break it to them gently that, no, they could NOT go see her live, as they saw Loonette (Big Comfy Couch) and other kiddie acts of their childhood.  |
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Post by rascalflats on May 13, 2019 11:24:45 GMT -5
Looking back at archived posts, I read a comment about Darla resembling a tomboy in the short-lived 1980s animated series, and on Our Gang Wiki, I read that Darla was different in the cartoon spinoff as opposed to the black and white shorts. In the original theatrical shorts and the 1994 feature length film, she was more of a "girly" girl, while in the animated series she was believed to resemble a tomboy (more like a "tag-along") and joined in on the boys' mischief - something viewers would never see in the black and white shorts, even though the boys discriminated against her in one animated episode where she later registered for a little girls' beauty pageant. Alfalfa did have a crush on Darla in all incarnations of The Little Rascals, though.
I am pro-Darla too, even though I am not a kid anymore. But I prefer Dorothy DeBorba slightly more.
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Post by malaria on May 13, 2019 16:52:44 GMT -5
Dorothy was pretty in what seemed to be an unselfconscious way. Darla eventually turned a little bit... actress-y; she played to the camera a lot more, though perhaps she was directed that way. However, the Portuguese still have John Tavares to answer for.   |
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Post by mtw12055 on May 13, 2019 17:12:09 GMT -5
Dorothy was definitely my Our Gang crush when I was growing up.
Someone sold her high school yearbook on eBay at one point... though I've misplaced the screen grab I saved. It looked as though she was experiencing the awkward puberty that so many of us 'normals' have had to deal with.
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Post by sara on May 13, 2019 18:36:27 GMT -5
Dorothy was a cutie but she was tough too. Like when she stood up to the gang for Stymie in The Pooch and in Choo-Choo! she responds to Spud pulling her curls by trying to tear his hair out.
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Post by shirleymurphy on May 14, 2019 17:39:26 GMT -5
My kids were very pro-Darla, and I had to break it to them gently that, no, they could NOT go see her live, as they saw Loonette (Big Comfy Couch) and other kiddie acts of their childhood. Darla Hood was born in 1931, so by the time Loonette (I love Alyson Court!) was around, Darla would have been in her sixties... |
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Post by malaria on May 14, 2019 17:49:43 GMT -5
Sadly, Darla died young. roughly 48 years old, in 1979... a great year for various reasons otherwise, but not on the Rascals front.  |
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Post by myhomeo on May 16, 2019 11:53:08 GMT -5
I believe you can find an album of songs performed by the grown-up Darla as a big band singer under the name Darla Hood and the Enchanters. Try Oldies.com.
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Post by malaria on May 16, 2019 17:54:18 GMT -5
Wow.
I wonder if she covered "When The Levee Breaks" and Travelin' Riverside Blues." Hell, everyone else did. Darla > Led Zep/Robert Plant?
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Post by shirleymurphy on May 17, 2019 4:43:01 GMT -5
"Darla, you speak of your servants, and your Rolls Royce... and then you talk like the daughter of the dustman!"
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