Waldo's Last Stand is a 1940

1940 in film

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released....

 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...

short

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Edward Cahn. It was the 193rd 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...

short (194th episode, 105th talking short, 106th talking episode, and 25th MGM produced episode) that was released.

Plot

The gang (Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Mickey) offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade

Lemonade

Lemonade is a lemon-flavored drink, typically made from lemons, water and sugar.The term can refer to three different types of beverage:...

 stand. Redecorating their clubhouse

Clubhouse

Clubhouse is an American drama television series starring Jeremy Sumpter, Dean Cain, Christopher Lloyd, Mare Winningham and Kirsten Storms. The theme song is "Our Lives" by The Calling....

 as a lavish nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

, the kids stage an elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist. Unfortunately, their efforts attract only one patron

Patrón

Patrón is a luxury brand of tequila produced in Mexico and sold in hand-blown, individually numbered bottles.Made entirely from Blue Agave "piñas" , Patrón comes in five varieties: Silver, Añejo, Reposado, Gran Patrón Platinum and Gran Patrón Burdeos. Patrón also sells a tequila-coffee blend known...

—a surly, stone-faced little kid (Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, making one of his first Our Gang appearances). Spanky and the other kids try to persuade Froggy into buying a drink, even going as far as singing an impromptu song about dryness and thirst, but to no avail. The kids then come up with an idea: to put a heater under Froggy which would heat him up and force him to buy a drink. When the floor show ends, Spanky asks Froggy why he wouldn't buy a drink and the latter responds, with a Popeye-the-Sailor voice, that he doesn't have any money and that it's to hot in the clubhouse; he then leaves. Spanky then realizes that the reason Waldo had no customers (kids) was because they were all in the floor show. The entire gang, including Waldo and a donkey, laughs as the short ends.

Cast

• Darwood Kaye - Waldo
• George McFarland
  George McFarland
  George Robert Phillips "Spanky" McFarland was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   - Spanky
• Billy Laughlin
  Billy Laughlin
  William Robert "Billy" Laughlin was an American child actor. He is best known for playing the character Froggy in the Our Gang short films in its final stretch, from 1940 to 1944.-Career:...
  
   - Froggy
• Carl Switzer
  Carl Switzer
  Carl Dean "Alfalfa" Switzer was an American child actor, professional dog breeder and hunting guide, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.-Early life and family:Switzer was born in Paris,...
  
   - Alfalfa
• Mickey Gubitosi
  Robert Blake (actor)
  Robert Blake is an American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable in a California civil court for her wrongful death.-Early...
  
   (later known as Robert Blake) - Mickey
• Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
• Darla Hood
  Darla Hood
  Darla Jean Hood was an American child actress, best known as the leading lady in the Our Gang series from 1935 to 1941. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner...
  
   - Darla
• Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy
  Leonard Landy is an American former child actor, most notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1938 to 1941....
  
   - Leonard
• Janet Burston
  Janet Burston
  Janet Burston was an American child actress who was the final leading lady in the Our Gang short subjects series, replacing Darla Hood in 1942.-Career:...
  
   - Little kid in the show
• Clyde Willson
  Clyde Willson
  Clyde Willson in Omaha, Nebraska, is an American former child actor, now a retired biochemist. Clyde moved to Hollywood in 1939 and began working for Hal Roach Studios. Clyde had small roles in "Vigil in the Night", "Babes in Wonderland" and "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante"...
  
   - Little kid in the show

Dancers/Performers in the floor show:

• Patsy Anne Thompson
• Bobby Sommers
• Patsy Irish
• Lavonne Battle
• Betty Jean Striegler
• Jackie Krenk
• Helen Guthrie
• Shirley Jean Doble
• Patricia Wheeler
• Donna Jean Edmonsond