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Pete the Pup (original, 1924 – June 1930; second Pete, September 9, 1929 – January 28, 1946) was an American dog actor, who participated in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies (later known as The Little Rascals) during the 1930s, otherwise known as "Pete, the dog with the ring around his eye", or simply "Petey".
Pups Is Pups is a two-reel comedy short subject, part of the Our Gang (The Little Rascals) series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach, and originally released to theaters by MGM in 1930. [1] It was the 100th Our Gang short to be released, [2] and the first in the 1930–1931 season. [3]
Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by film producer Hal Roach , also the producer of the Laurel and Hardy films, Our Gang shorts were produced from 1922 to 1944, spanning the silent film and ...
The tune was originally written as score for a prison schoolroom scene in Pardon Us, Laurel & Hardy's first feature film as a team. [2] Shield, a musical director hired by the Roach studio on loan from RCA Victor, had been requested by Hal Roach to also write a theme for Our Gang while he was scoring Pardon Us, and when Roach came to check on progress for the theme, Shield submitted the ...
RHI Entertainment and Genius Products released an eight-disc DVD box set entitled The Little Rascals - the Complete Collection on October 28, 2008. This set includes all of the Hal Roach sound short films in the Our Gang series (1929–1938), encompassing all of the Our Gang shorts distributed to TV as The Little Rascals (save for a handful of ...
Buckwheat's lovable sidekick Porky was the youngest of the rascals cast, turning 4 during filming. Today, Zac resides in Dallas, Texas where he works in public accounting. Travis Tedford/ Spanky
Mike Fright was the first Our Gang short since Pups Is Pups to not contain the opening "Good Old Days" Our Gang theme song. Instead, it was replaced with the Leroy Shield incidental tune "Little Dancing Girl", which appeared as background music in many of the films and would be the music used for the first 4 minutes of this episode. Because the ...
Because of perceived racism toward African Americans, A Tough Winter was eliminated from the syndicated Little Rascals television package in 1971. Beverly Parrish was signed for two years to replace Jean Darling , who was dismissed six months prior, but she died suddenly a week and a half after this episode was filmed.