You might not have heard about the Great Flood of 1934, but we’re pretty sure you can ascertain when it happened and how bad it was from the goddamn name. A completely carefree existence, one that makes you think, “Naw, there’s no way the Little Rascals were cursed.”Īnd then some all mighty power heard that and said, “Oh fuck you, snopes, this curse is very real,” and decided to sweep the now-19-year-old teens away in a fucking biblical flood. They spent a few years with Our Gang, and then went about their lives, going to USC and becoming members of the cheerleading squad there. Winston and Weston Doty were twin child actors who were only active from 1922 to 1924. Winston and Weston Doty Drowned in a Biblical Flood at 19 He was the first of the gang to pass away suddenly, but definitely not the last. His friend, John Wilbrand, was at the wheel when he decided to pull a U-turn…which put the scooter directly in the path of a speeding truck. On August 31 st, 1948, when Laughlin was sixteen years old, he was delivering newspapers from the back of a Cushman Motor Scooter (a gift from his parents he received two weeks prior). All in all, a lovely, carefree adolescence. He made friends, studied for tests, and got himself a job. He went to school in La Puente, California. He was a part of the gang from 1940 until Our Gang stopped production in 1944, where he moved away from Los Angeles, and settled into a perfectly normal childhood. Despite assumptions that his voice was dubbed (which was the case in the 1994 remake), Laughlin actually performed the voice himself. We’re just launching right into this, aren’t we? Billy Laughlin was a child actor whose character on our Gang spoke in a guttural voice, like a frog’s. Because the rest of the gang…did not fair so well… Froggy was Killed by a Truck While Delivering Newspapers at the Age of 16 It might seem like we’re stretching that last “success story” but, honestly, given the fates that befell so many of the Little Rascals, making it to 89 is a damn impressive feat. And Sidnesy Kibrick, who played Woim for a few years, is…alive at the age of 89? Like, he didn’t really do anything Wikipedia-worthy after his brief stint as a child actor, but he’s still alive and well. Mildred Kornman, still alive and kicking at 92, was a successful fashion model who went under the name Rikci VanDusen. Jackie Cooper, who appeared in some early Our Gang films, was the youngest actor at the time to be nominated for an Oscar (at the age of 9) and had a long, lucrative film career. Of the large, revolving cast, there were some success stories. Like, we know that’s a bare minimum for just being basically decent humans, but in the 1920s it wasn’t a given that you were going to be dealing with basically decent humans. The Gang films were notable for a few reasons-they were some of the first movies that showed innocent “kid being kids” antics that actually seemed like something you’d see in real life.Īnd they were also surprisingly racially tolerant, with black and white characters interacting as friends and equals. Of the two, his work on Our Gang came first, but also was the most haunted. Hal Roach produced two smash hits in his time- Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. (Yes they fucking were.) The Original Little Rascals Cast Was Probably Cursed? Was the original Little Rascals cast cursed? We excluded things like overdoses and people who got heart attacks in their 50s because, well, we just don’t want to write a bunch of jokes about that kind of stuff today.īut we’ll leave it to you once you’ve seen the evidence. To prove so, we’re going to talk about the early, non-natural demises of original cast members in what promises to be our most depressing article yet. Sure, snopes has weighed in on this to preemptively tell us we’re wrong. But when we started looking into the actors who played iconic characters such as Spanky and Buckwheat and Alfalfa, we discovered something a little…perturbing. They remain such an important cultural touchstone that we even decided to revisit the characters in a 1994 motion picture (which, like, did only okay). From 1922 through 1944, the franchise, which you may know better as The Little Rascals, put out 220 short films and one film, featuring 41 child actors during that span. Our Gang helped define an entire era of early Hollywood entertainment. ~AFFotD Editor-in-Chief, Johnny Roosevelt “Okay guys, I don’t know who decided to write this article, but I’ve doubled our whiskey rations for it.
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