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1. The Topper TV Series Thorne Smith's lively characters enjoyed an international audience through a trio of popular Topper movies, and gained new fame when CBS Television produced the episodic comedy series, Topper, in 1953. Veteran character actor Leo G. Carroll was cast...
2. Our Gang Our Gang was first created in 1922 by Hal Roach. In the beginning Our Gang was silent, sound wasn't added until 1929. In 1938 Roach sold the program to MGM which continued to produce new episodes until the show was canceled in 1944. In the 1950s MGM...
3. Topper In 1937, film producer Hal Roach was in search of a screwball comedy, and chose to adapt Thorne Smith's racy novel Topper. The resulting film was a huge success with audiences worldwide. Cary Grant and Constance Bennett were cast as George and Marion...
4. Little Rascals Video Showcase The Little Rascals, also known as Our Gang, where always into something. Always fun to watch.
5. Topper Returns In the third of producer Hal Roach's Topper comedy films, most of the action takes place in an old, dark mansion, complete with trap doors and secret passageways. Roland Young returns as banker Cosmo Topper, and along with his chauffeur Eddie, offers...
6. Topper Takes a Trip In the first of two sequels to the original film, wealthy banker Cosmo Topper's life is once again complicated by ghosts. Topper Takes a Trip opens in divorce court, where Clara Topper has accused her husband of infidelity. Topper attempts to explain...
7. Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer, who was born in Paris, Illinois, on August 7, 1927, is best remembered as "Alfalfa" on The Little Rascals (originally known as Our Gang)--Spanky's skinny, freckle-faced sidekick...
8. Stan Laurel And Oliver Hardy Video Showcase Just Updated. No two know how to work with each other better than Stan and Ollie. They bring out the best of each other. They thought of themselfs as a team. Now days that will not happen. Videos come and go on youtube. I will keep changing this len...
9. Snub Pollard Video Showcase Snub Pollard was born on November 9, 1889 in Melbourne, Australia and he died on January 19, 1962. His birth name is Harold Fraser. Snub Pollard played many supporting roles in the early films of Harold Lloyd. The long-face pollard sported a Kaiser W...
10. Our Gang Video Showcase Black and White is All Right Kids today might think that black and white movies are not any fun.  I watched these Our Gang (and their later name - The Little Rascals) when I was a kid and this was during the age when anything black and white was...