Billy "Froggy" Laughlin

Tale of a Dog (1944)

Cast: Cy Raker Endfield   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

MGM's Our Gang series had fallen into such disrepute by 1944 that the studio released the series' valedictory offering, Tale of a Dog, as an "MGM Miniature." This one begins as black youngsters Buckwheat (Billie Thomas) and Big Shot (Cordell Hickman)...

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Dancing Romeo (1944)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Our Gang member Froggy (Billy Laughlin) is in love with pretty ballet student Marilyn (Valerie Lee), but she is dedicated to her art. To win Marilyn's affections, Froggy tries to pass himself off as a master terpsichorean, with the assistance of the...

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Election Daze (1943)

Cast: Robert Surtees   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

As the incumbent for the presidency of the "One for All and All for One Club," little Mickey (Robert Blake) is so certain he will win that he refuses to campaign. The situation changes radically when Mickey is challenged by political upstart Froggy...

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Three Smart Guys (1943)

Cast: Bobby Blake   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

The "three smart guys" in this one-reel MGM Our Gang comedy are Mickey (Robert Blake), Froggy (Billy Laughlin), and Buckwheat (Billie Thomas), who devise a scheme to play hooky from school and go fishing. But upon arriving at the river bank, the kids...

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Family Troubles (1943)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Our Gang member Janet Burston believes that her family is neglecting her, so she decides to run away from home. The other gang members try to help Janet get adopted (or "adapted") by a more agreeable family, choosing a kindly elderly couple (Sarah...

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Calling All Kids (1943)

Cast: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Arguably the least entertaining of all the MGM Our Gang mini-musicals, Calling All Kids finds the gang invading a local radio station to perform a revue honoring the U.S. military. Amidst such dubious highlights as a "recruting office" sketch...

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Farm Hands (1943)

Cast: Murray Alper   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Moving out of their standard small-town surroundings, the Our Gang kids visit the farm owned by the uncle of Gang member Mickey (Robert Blake). Here the youngsters attempt to milk a cow by placing two bottles under the udders and hoping that nature...

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Doin' Their Bit (1942)

Cast: George "Spanky" McFarland   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Venerable minstrel-show impresario Walter Wills makes his third and final Our Gang appearance in the one-reel comedy Doin' Their Bit. Hoping to entertain the military troops stationed in Greenpoint, Mr. Wills organizes the Our Gang kids into a junior...

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Rover's Big Chance (1942)

Cast: Ben Hall   

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Future film star Stephen McNally (here billed as Horace McNally) appears in this Our Gang one-reeler as Bill Patterson, ace director at Mammoth Studios. On the say-so of studio casting director J.D. Broderick (Bryon Shores), Patterson agrees to give a...

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