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Beginner's Luck

Year:
Duration:
USA:20 min
Genres:
Short | Comedy | Family
IMDB rate:
7.5
Director:
Gus Meins
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1935-02-23
Cast
Actor
Character
George 'Spanky' McFarland
Spanky
Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
Stymie
Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
Buckwheat
Jerry Tucker
Jerry (as Our Gang)
Eileen Bernstein
Our Gang member
Alvin Buckelew
Alvin (as Our Gang)
Sidney Kibrick
Our Gang member
Cecelia Murray
Our Gang member
Donald Proffitt
Our Gang member
Merrill Strong
Our Gang member
Marianne Edwards
Daisy Dimple (as Our Gang)
Pete the Pup
Pete (as Our Gang)
Ernie Alexander
Audience member
The Cabin Kids
Themselves
Bess Flowers
Friend of Spanky's mother
Charlie Hall
Stage hand
Tom Herbert
Master of Ceremonies
Ruth Hiatt
Daisy's mother
Fred Holmes
Audience member
Kitty Kelly
Spanky's mother
Leonard Kibrick
Audience member (unconfirmed)
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Audience member
Robert McKenzie
Audience member
James C. Morton
Piano player
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Arizona Nightengale
Harold Switzer
Arizona Nightengale
Snooky Valentine
(unconfirmed)
Fred Walburn
Harmonica player
May Wallace
Spanky's grandmother
Jackie White
Tap dancer
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Trivia
In a recent Internet pole ,the question was asked which scenario would be worse for Spanky. Finding out his mother has posed nude in playboy magazine as the playmate of the month a number of yrs earlier or what happened that night at the Ritz Theatre. IT came out at nearly 20 to 1 in favor of her night at thee Ritz being worse.
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It's well known that the rascals shorts usually ended with the outsider (the bully, the brat, the spoiled rich kid) being given some type of comeuppance. It seems the viewer loved to see this and loved even more when the comeuppance was delivered to an adult, such as the sissy photographer or the bumbling burglar. It seems people like to see people be made little of by children. So the art of delivering a comeuppance was a familiar one in the Rascals comedies . It's been agreed that the worst comeuppance in all the rascals shorts happen to Spanky's mother in this short.
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Although 32 at the time of the filming of this short, Kitty Kelly still looks very good. Even though she looses her dress in this short she almost for sure appeared in much less clothing as she was a Ziegfeld Follies girl earlier in her life.
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Goofs
When Spanky sees his mother has lost her dress on the curtain he rushes to get a stage prop in front of her so the audience can't see her in her underwear. Spanky's mother is frozen from the shock of the event but as Spanky pulls the stage prop in front of her he starts to move it back closer to her. At the same time you can clearly see she is moving her head closer to the top cut out section which she will eventually rest her chin on. But she is petrified.
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When Spanky's mother takes the stage pole it is about 5 feet long. When she is trying to catch Spanky it seems to have doubled in size. When she is knocking out stage lights it goes out further and takes off the piano players toupee.
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While Spanky is on stage he is been pelted with peashooters. At the end of his act his mother is trying to pull him off stage and you can see the stage floor and no peashooter pellets can be seen.
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Quotes
Spanky's mother: [Standing on the stage wings watching the gang assail her son with peashooters and the rising laughter of the audience she very nervously turns to the MC and taps him on the shoulder and says
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Master of Ceremonies: [Both Spanky's mother and Grandmother are on the stage wing totaling enjoying a harmonica performance . The MC walks over and says to the mother who is sitting on a stool
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Spanky's mother: [She finds Spanky backstage talking to Daisey] Ok Spanky you're on next.
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Faq
Q
What is the picture on the front of the stage prop ?
A
Many people think it is a cartoon caricature of a dog's body . But it is in fact the body of a lioness.
Q
Why does the Grandmother raise the curtain knowing she will catch her daughter's dress hem and humiliate her daughter by stripping her on stage?
A
The grandmother is paying her daughter back for having Spanky go through this humiliating experience.
Q
Why is the Master of Cerimonies so angered by Spanky's Mother?
A
He must have seen many like her before and when she brought Spanky to the show and he wasn't dressed to go on and then She starts putting on airs saying Spanky was too much of an artist to open a show he was really mad at her . He did give her a second chance after the first act went off but she hadn't gotten him ready by then. The MC pushed Spanky to the end of the show.
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Photos from cast
Scotty Beckett
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