* In Philip Roth's second Chapter of his novel Our Gang (' 71 ), Trick E. Dixon in a fictive speech tries to claim Helsingør as US-territory and tries to convince the audience to occupy the area

Capra later became a gag writer for Hal Roach's Our Gang series and then writer for slapstick comedy director, Mack Sennett, where he began writing scripts for comedian Harry Langdon.

" Summertime Summertime " b / w " Theme From Leons Garage " ( Brer Bird 001 ) ( Dean Torrence, Released as " Our Gang ")-( GZ-DT )

Sennett developed the Kid Comedies, a forerunner of the Our Gang films, and in a short time his name became synonymous with screen comedy.

* May 17 – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang films child actor ( b. 1925 )

** Carl Switzer, American actor ( Our Gang ) ( b. 1927 )

* May 29 – Norman Chaney, American actor ( Our Gang ) ( b. 1914 )

* March 29 – Bobby Hutchins, Our Gang child star ( d. 1945 )

However, the success of television revivals for such names as Laurel and Hardy, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry and the Our Gang series in the late 1950s led Columbia to cash in again on the Stooges.

Among some of the better known polka ( and waltzes ) artists and composers include Happy Louie and Julie, Frankie Yankovic, Walter Ostanek ( Canada ), Verne Meisner, Mike Schneider, Tom Brusky, Walt Groller, Joey Miskulin, Jimmy Sturr, Kyle Redman Polka Band, and ( in combination with more modern styles ) " Weird Al " Yankovic ( no known relation to Frankie Yankovic ) and The Our Gang Orchestra.

They had first appeared together on film in On Our Merry Way ( 1948 ), a comedy which also starred William Demarest and Fred MacMurray and featured a grown-up Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer, who had acted as a child in Our Gang.

* Robert Blake ( actor ) ( born 1933 ), actor famous for later Our Gang shorts and the Baretta television series, and being accused of murdering his wife.

Studio head Leon Schlesinger suggested that Freleng do a cartoon version of the popular Our Gang films.

* Olympic Games ( film ), a 1927 Our Gang short

The series took the slot over from another black and white classic, Our Gang ( aka Little Rascals ) and was probably the last Black and White show to feature regularly in Spanish TV schedules.

Notable movies and television shows that have starred pit bulls have been Flashdance, Our Gang, Cheaper by the Dozen, the Dog Whisperer, Pit Boss and Pit Bulls and Parolees.

George " Spanky " McFarland ( October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993 ) was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.

The Our Gang shorts were later syndicated to television as The Little Rascals.

He had three siblings, Thomas (" Tommy ," who himself appeared in a few Our Gang episodes as " Dynamite "), Amanda, and Roderick (" Rod ").

Prior to joining the Our Gang comedies, " Sonny ," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread.

Portions of Spanky's screen test are included in a 1932 Our Gang entry, aptly entitled Spanky.

After his discovery at the age of three, he instantly became a key member of the Our Gang children's comedy movie series and one of Hollywood's stars.

Spanky McFarland's only starring feature-film vehicle was the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features.

Following the 1938 Our Gang short Came the Brawn, McFarland " retired " from Our Gang, beginning a personal appearance tour.

Our camp was in the center of a wide valley.

Our rolling volley swept most of the other riders from their mounts.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

Our old one blew down in a storm at the time of the pokeneu festival fifteen moons ago.

`` Our boy didn't chicken out, no sir.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

Our successors will have an easier task ''.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

Our pin-curl clips and self-locking nuts achieved dominance in just a few years time, despite substantial, well established competition.

Our presidential campaigns provide much debate and argument.

Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.

Speaking of his work with Johnny Mercer, Arlen says, `` Our working habits were strange.

Our understanding will very probably require both these commentaries.

Our state has been overrun with a gang of paid agents and retainers.

Williams also stated: `` Our peace was like the peace of a man who hath the tertian ague ''.

Later this play would be called Welcome To Our City.

That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.

Instead, he went down to New York and submitted Welcome To Our City to the Theatre Guild, which had asked him to let them have a look at it after Professor Baker had recommended it highly.

Our students want occupations that permit them to use their talents and training, to be creative and original, to work with and to help other people.

Our data indicate that these students of today do basically accept the existing institutions of the society, and, in the face of the realities of complex and large-scale economic and political problems, make a wary and ambivalent delegation of trust to those who occupy positions of legitimized responsibility for coping with such collective concerns.

Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.