
Acting
Darla Hood
Born — Died
1931-11-08 — 1979-06-13
Place of birth
Leedey, Oklahoma, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
63 titles
Known for
7.6The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.0Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
NRThe Little Rascals, also known as "Our Gang", was an American comedy series about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together. It began as a series of short films in the 1920s, and was brought to television in the 1950s.
The Little Rascals
1929
6.2Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
The Bohemian Girl
1936
5.3Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
5.9Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
The Bat
1959
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
9.0Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
8.0The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.
Rascal Dazzle
1981
7.0Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
Classic Comedy Teams
1986
1970s · 2 titles
1950s · 3 titles
5.3Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
The Helen Morgan Story
1957
5.9Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.
The Bat
1959
9.0A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Calypso Heat Wave
1957
1940s · 13 titles
7.7On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941
7.1An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he had an opportunity to truly appreciate his existence.
Happy Land
1943
5.4A group of children put on a show in order to prove that a down and out musician was the real composer of a Broadway show's songs.
Born to Sing
1942
7.0The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
Waldo's Last Stand
1940
6.3The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
Wedding Worries
1941
6.7Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
Alfalfa's Double
1940
While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently breaks one of his windows. This mishap coincides with a plan hatched by Morton's wife to get her husband's mind off his imaginary illnesses by adopting some children.
Kiddie Kure
1940
6.7It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a disruption, the police send them scurrying home. Not to worry--the Our Gang stage their own premiere night in the clubhouse barn.
The Big Premiere
1940
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
The New Pupil
1940
5.8Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.
Robot Wrecks
1941
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
Bubbling Troubles
1940
7.3The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.
Ye Olde Minstrels
1941
6.0Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get them to stop fighting.
All About Hash
1940
1930s · 35 titles
6.2Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
The Bohemian Girl
1936
5.6Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.
The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
6.4Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
Our Gang Follies of 1938
1937
7.4It's Mr. Hood's birthday and he's looking forward to a quiet celebration with his family. But Darla's friends show up with living presents, eat his dinner, argue about Tarzan and Alfalfa croons a special song for the unhappy man.
Feed 'em and Weep
1938
6.7While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
Rushin' Ballet
1937
6.9The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
Our Gang Follies of 1936
1935
9.0Charley, his wife Rosina and their daughter Darla attend "Bank night" at their local movie theater, more eager to win the cash prize than see the picture. When little Darla is selected to choose the winning ticket, she draws her father's number. The crowd reacts angrily, thinking that the drawing is a fraud, forcing the child to choose another number. This one turns out to be her own ticket, after which a third drawing yields her mother's ticket. While pandemonium erupts in the audience, some gangsters arrive and raid the theater. A chase follows, resulting in the eventual capture of the crooks.
Neighborhood House
1936
8.0The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.
Pay As You Exit
1936
6.8Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2013.
Bored of Education
1936
7.0An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go." All is not smooth sailing however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
Captain Spanky's Show Boat
1939
Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor grades cause him to be suspended from play.
Time Out for Lessons
1939
7.2The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.
Roamin' Holiday
1937
7.0Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
Night 'n' Gales
1937
6.9Detective Alfalfa and his assistants Buckwheat and Porky try to solve a missing-candy case but find themselves in an amusement park haunted house.
Hide and Shriek
1938
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
Duel Personalities
1939
Spanky and Alfalfa want to do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn't want to participate.
Aladdin's Lantern
1938
6.2Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
Arbor Day
1936
6.3When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
Divot Diggers
1936
7.2The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.
Hearts Are Thumps
1937
6.8Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
Tiny Troubles
1939
7.0In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he know that Darla's father owns a circus - and a bear costume. It's time for everyone to uncover the "bear facts".
Bear Facts
1938
6.8Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor For A Day. Whoever becomes Mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.
Party Fever
1938
Alfalfa imagines himself as a western movie hero battling with Butch for Darla's heart.
The Little Ranger
1938
6.9The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in reaction to not being invited to one of the girl's parties.
Mail and Female
1937
5.6Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race for the hand of Darla.
Three Men in a Tub
1938
6.2The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
Reunion in Rhythm
1937
6.6While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back home, he has to prove it.
The Pigskin Palooka
1937
7.7Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
The Pinch Singer
1936
7.7Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
Fishy Tales
1937
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
Auto Antics
1939
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
Practical Jokers
1938
7.3A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search of it he is informed he will have to pay seventy-five cents for the broken vase. Spanly has never seen six-bit, much less having it in his pants, so he offers his and his friend's help in cleaning up the yard in exchange. Before the kids are through, they've given the old lady a new outlook on life.
Second Childhood
1936
6.8Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
Cousin Wilbur
1939
7.3Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
Framing Youth
1937
7.2Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his opponent.
Came the Brawn
1938
Series credits
7.6The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
7.0Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
NRThe Little Rascals, also known as "Our Gang", was an American comedy series about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together. It began as a series of short films in the 1920s, and was brought to television in the 1950s.
The Little Rascals
1929






