“He came to our set at MGM one day to watch us rehearse. “Jack was a big star even then,” Darla pointed out. Of Jack Benny - whose The Jack Benny Program featured her on a recurring Our Gang Sketch in which he played Alfalfa and Eddie “Rochester” Anderson was Farina - she recalled in 1962 that she’d met him 20 years earlier. THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM, (‘The History of My Our Gang’, Season 13/1962), Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Darla Hood, 1950-65 On top of all of that, she began recording many commercial jingles, which turned out to be very lucrative for her. She also appeared a number of times on TV with Groucho Marx and Jack Benny. As a teen, she started a vocal group under the name Darla Hood and the Enchanters, and they had success doing background music for a number of movies, was a regular on Merv Griffin’s radio show, recorded about a dozen records, and enjoyed ongoing success as a nightclub performer. May I tell you that Alfalfa fell 32 times? I finally passed out and had to be taken to the hospital and revived.” Life Outside of the ‘Gang’ THE BAT, Darla Hood, 1959įollowing Our Gang, Darla made a few other films, but also embraced a bit of normalcy in her life as she attended Los Angeles’ Fairfax High School. The first time the truck drove away, Alfalfa fell off and I made the mistake of saying the exhaust fumes of the truck were making me sick. We had to jump on the back of the truck and cry as the dog catcher drove away. He was in a particularly ornery mood the day we were filming a dog catcher sequence. THE NEW PUPIL, from left: Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer, Darla Hood, 1940Īs she explained, if there were any behind the scenes problems, they were with Alfalfa and his attitude.
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