The Boy Friends was a short-lived series of fifteen American

United States

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 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 short films released between 1930 and 1932. The series spun off from the much larger and well-known Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

series (also known as The Little Rascals). Like the Our Gang shorts of the time, The Boy Friends films were two-reel short subjects produced by Hal Roach

Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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 (MGM). They featured teenaged actors including some, particularly Mickey Daniels

Mickey Daniels

Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. was a juvenile actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1923, he was, along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman, and smiling "Sunshine Sammy" , a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies.-Biography:The red-haired, gap-toothed, freckled whipper snapper...

 and Mary Kornman

Mary Kornman

Mary Kornman was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.-Our Gang:...

, who as children had starred in the early silent Our Gang shorts. Grady Sutton

Grady Sutton

Grady Harwell Sutton was an American film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.-Biography:Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended St. Petersburg High School. He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films...

 was also a lead player in the series. Daniels appeared in every short, Kornman appeared in all but one.

Roach released three The Boy Friends films in 1930: Doctor's Orders, Ladies Last, and Bigger and Better. The series added seven installments in 1931: Blood and Thunder, High Gear, Love Fever, Air Tight, Call a Cop, Mama Loves Papa, and The Kickoff. Finally, 1932 saw the release of the last five films: Love Pains, The Knockout, Too Many Women, Wild Babies, and You're Telling Me. Mickey Daniels appeared in each short, as did Mary Kornman with the exception of You're Telling Me. At least some of the films in the series took place at Elmira College

Elmira College

Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...

, an actual school located in Roach's home town of Elmira, New York

Elmira, New York

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.

Characters

• Mickey (Mickey Daniels
  Mickey Daniels
  Richard "Mickey" Daniels, Jr. was a juvenile actor. Signed by Hal Roach in 1923, he was, along with fat Joe Cobb, scruffy Jackie Condon, pretty Mary Kornman, and smiling "Sunshine Sammy" , a regular in the popular Our Gang comedies.-Biography:The red-haired, gap-toothed, freckled whipper snapper...
  
  ): The main character
• Mary (Mary Kornman
  Mary Kornman
  Mary Kornman was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathé silent era.-Our Gang:...
  
  ): Mickey's girl friend
• Grady "Alabam" Sutton (Grady Sutton
  Grady Sutton
  Grady Harwell Sutton was an American film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s.-Biography:Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Sutton was raised in Florida where he attended St. Petersburg High School. He began his career during the silent film era and made the transition to sound films...
  
  ): Mickey's best friend and sidekick
• Dave (David Sharpe: Mickey and Grady's friend. He was their rival in his first short.
• Gertie (Gertrude Messinger
  Gertrude Messinger
  Gertrude Emma Messinger, , sometimes spelled Gertrude Messenger and also known as Gertie Messinger, was a B-movie film actress of the 1930s through the 1950s...
  
  ):Dave's love interest
• Dorothy (Dorothy Granger
  Dorothy Granger
  Dorothy Granger was an American actress best known for her roles in short subject comedies in Hollywood.-Career:...
  
  ): Alabam's love interest

1931

• Blood and Thunder
• High Gear
• Love Fever
• Air-Tight
• Call a Cop!
• Mama Loves Papa
• The Kick-Off!

1932

• Love Pains
• The Knock-Out
• You're Telling Me
• Wild Babies
• Too Many Women