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    Who was the little boy who wore the baseball cap sideways?  The skinny
    one with the jeans and sneakers (not Spanky)?
    
    My youngest reminds me of him sooo much.
    
    What's Spielberg's phone number.....
    
    (only kidding)
    
    -sandy
    

    
    Was it Froggie?   Or are you thinking of Micky?  Played by
    Barretta in his younger days....damm... I can't think of his
    real-name right now..:_(
    
    Lou

    Micky - thats it!!!! Played by Robert Blake!
    
    Joyce

    Spielberg's producing this one. The director is supposed to be
    the woman who directed Wayne's World and The Beverly Hillbillies.
    
    -- Bill

    Actually the little kid with the baseball cap was Scotty, Spanky's
    friend.  Don't know who played him.

    
    Alfalfa was murdered, and I think ill times hit Spanky too.
    
    Not a pretty  scene.
    
    Buhwheat

    
    yes, Spanky died a few months ago.  Not sure about Darla or Froggy.

Spanky had a long lived local TV series in Dallas. He did just 
recently die. I thought Alfalfa committed suicide?

Of course Jackie Cooper became a big time TV producer. Not sure
if he is still alive.

Originally, Alfalfa, Spanky, Jackie, and I think Darla all came
from Oklahoma.

John

    Jackie Cooper is dead.
    
    Are we talking about the movie Rascals, or the television Rascals?
    
    E

    I believe they mean Jackie Coogan not cooper
    
    He played uncle fester in the Adam's Family tv series
    
    Jt

    That's okay.  *I* meant Jackie Coogan also.  Wasn't he in "The Littlest
    something_or_other" as a child star?  Anyway, then he went on to
    direct, and died 5 or 10 years ago.
    
    E

    Alph was a bar owner and was knifed for an arguement about fifty
    dollars.  I think he was around twenty eight when he died.  Apparently
    he had major problems after LR.  It was said he could do no wrong as
    a child, grew up a premadonna jerk, and could not cope with being a
    "nobody".
    
    Spanky did a cameo on one of the last episodes of "Cheers" and died
    a few months later.  I think he did well for himself.
    
    Buckwheat died some time back, I only remember this from SNL when
    Eddie Murphy made his character popular again.  I can't remember
    about Darla, although I thought she died, too.
    
    Robert Blake (TV's Berretta) was "Mikey" (I think) and he is alive.
    
    I wish I knew about "Froggy".

Re: a few back

'Scotty' was Scotty Beckett... he met an unfortunate demise in the 50's.

'Froggy' was killed as a teenager while riding on a highway with 2 kids
on the same bike...

Yes, George 'Spanky' McFarland passed away a few months ago.

I'll bring in my 'Little Rascals' book and update a bunch of these
names/info for all you folkes.

Be aware that the later ones with Froggy & Mickey were done by MGM and
not Hal Roach and were quite a bit inferior than the earlier ones.

I'll post the info on the book as well... it is *well* worth getting a copy
of... written by Leonard Maltin, updated about a year ago from its
original 1977 printing.

Also, Hal Roach died about 9-12 months ago... at age 100. The film
industry would have been far less rich without him... he brought us Our
Gang (aka Little Rascals), Laurel & Hardy, Harold Lloyd, etc.

Lee

    I think Darla went on to become Josephine the Plumber for Comet, or
    some other kitchen cleaner.
    
    I read that Whoopi Goldberg is suppose to have a cameo as Mrs. Wheat,
    Buck Wheat's mother.
    
    Cheers
    

    I can remember as a kid being very scared in a Little Rascals movie
    where they explored some big cave near a beach.  Anybody know which one
    that was?  
    

    First of all, "Robert Blake" IS  the stage name.  His real name, which
    was the name he used in the Little Rascals, was Mickey Gubitosi.
    
    Both Jackie Cooper and Jackie Coogan performed on the Little Rascals at
    different times.
    
    Tommy Bond, who played Butch is supposed to have an autobiography out
    any time now (or possibly for last -- or next -- Christmas), called
    "You're darn right it's Butch!"
    
    
>>    I think Darla went on to become Josephine the Plumber for Comet, or
>>    some other kitchen cleaner.
    
	Wrong child star.
    
        
>>    I read that Whoopi Goldberg is suppose to have a cameo as Mrs. Wheat,
>>    Buck Wheat's mother.
    
    Yeah, and at the end of the story he comes a Muslim and calls himself
    Kareem o Wheat
    

    Josephine the Plumber was played by Jane (Janie) Withers.
    
    

    Robert Blake also sold Dobbs the winning lottery ticket in
    "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".
    

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>    I can remember as a kid being very scared in a Little Rascals movie
>    where they explored some big cave near a beach.  Anybody know which one
>    that was?  
    
Is that the one that was actually Alfalfa's dream in anticipation of exploring 
the cave?  He wakes up just as he's about to be creamed by a big nasty ogre
who lives in the cave.  It scared me too.

Bob

    I still remember that one... !!
    
    Yumm Yumm eat 'em up !!!
    
    (M&M's I believe....)
    
    

    Apparently, this is being released July 25, and politically correct or
    not, the posters do show Stymie and BuckWheat...
    FWIW
    	None of the actors bear much physical resemblance to the original
    actors, although Alfalfa does have a prominent cowlick...
        					Jim