Forgotten Babies (1933)While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting. Director:Robert F. McGowan |
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Forgotten Babies (1933)While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting. Director:Robert F. McGowan |
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Dorothy DeBorba | ... |
Dorothy
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Bobbie 'Cotton' Beard | ... |
Cotton
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Matthew 'Stymie' Beard | ... | |
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Harry Bernard | ... |
Officer
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Tommy Bond | ... |
Tommy
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John 'Uh huh' Collum |
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Estelle Etterre | ... |
Telephone Operator
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| Billy Gilbert | ... |
Radio station NIX announcer /
Dr. Nemo, serial character
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Dick Gilbert | ... |
Officer
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Ruth Hiatt | ... |
Telephone operator
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David Holt |
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Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins | ... | |
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Dickie Hutchins | ... |
Kid who says 'Remarkable'
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Dickie Jackson |
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While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
The greatest Our Gang short ever. 4 year old Spanky gets stuck babysitting with 6 toddlers - need I say more? It's nothing short of miraculous how Robert McGowan was able to get this on film. Included are scenes like a two-year-old standing on a table between two teetering towers of china, putting a china cup on one, watching it fall, then saying "Remarkable" on cue as the other one falls. This all in one take without any special effects or trick photography. Or how about Spanky's near-perfect retelling of a Tarzan movie, with one baby's random reaction of falling head-first off a chair and getting up unfazed. You couldn't film this today even if you had McGowan's genius. Remarkable!!