| Our Gang Follies of 1938 | |
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Written by | Hal Law Robert A. McGowan Norman Blackburn Charles Rogers[1] |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Carl Switzer George McFarland Eugene Lee Darla Hood Billie Thomas Henry Brandon |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
| Music by | Marvin Hatley Gioacchino Rossini Arthur Johnston Sam Coslow |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 21' 16" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $58,815[2] |
Our Gang Follies of 1938 (later reissued as simply Follies of 1938) is a 1937 American musical short subject, the 161st short subject entry in Hal Roach's Our Gang (Little Rascals) series.[3] Directed by Gordon Douglas as a sequel to 1935's Our Gang Follies of 1936, the two-reel short was released to theaters on December 18, 1937, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Deriving its title from the concurrent MGM feature film The Broadway Melody of 1938, Our Gang Follies of 1938 is a spoof of the Broadway Melody films and other movie musicals of the time. In the film, Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) decides to quit a pop music revue put on by Spanky (George McFarland) and become an opera singer, famously singing a pastiche song entitled "The Barber of Seville" several times throughout the film. The bulk of the film is made up of a dream sequence, in which Alfalfa imagines himself twenty years later failing as an opera singer, while Spanky owns a Broadway nightclub with a lavish floor show.
- ^ Demoss, Robert (9 November 2008). "The Lucky Corner: Our Gang Follies of 1938". Retrieved 19 November 2008..
- ^ Maltin, Leonard and Bann, Richard W. (1977, rev. 1992). The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang, p. 238. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0-517-58325-9
- ^ Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 211–213. Retrieved 3 March 2024.