Second Childhood

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A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills... Read allA lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes fl... Read allA lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search... Read all

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Darla Hood

Darla
(as Our Gang)

Eugene 'Porky' Lee

Porky
(as Our Gang)

George 'Spanky' McFarland

Spanky
(as Our Gang)

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer

Alfalfa
(as Our Gang)

Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas

Buckwheat
(as Our Gang)

Richard DeNeut

Our Gang member
(as Our Gang)

Sidney Bracey

Hobson, the butler

Gretta Gould

Maid

Zeffie Tilbury

Grandma

Director
- Gus Meins
Writer
- Jack Jevne
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Trivia
Zeffie Tilbury tried hard to hide the fact that she was blind. She had to be helped onstage by a friend and companion.

Goofs
Just before Grandma does the "Annie Oakley" (over the shoulder slingshot trick), she can be heard calling Alfalfa "Carl," who was of course, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer - the actor playing Alfalfa.

Quotes
Grandma: I'm taking care of this, Hobson.
Spanky: Yeah, she's takin' care of this... Hobson.

Connections
Edited into A Little Rascals Color Special: Second Childhood (1966)

Soundtracks
Good Old Days
(uncredited)
Music by Leroy Shield

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9/10

Second Childhood was another hilarious Our Gang short

This Hal Roach comedy short, Second Childhood, is the one hundred forty-forth entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the fifty-sixth talkie. A rich old woman who's celebrating her 65th birthday is grouchy to her servants. Then a toy airplane stumbles into the house and Spanky arrives to retrieve it. The elderly lady demands 75 cents for the damage to her vase but Spanky instead offers to work for it with help from the gang. I'll stop there and just say the transformation of the grandma character is a sight to see here. Zeffie Tilbury-who previously appeared in Laurel & Hardy's The Bohemian Girl which also featured Darla Hood-is quite a joy as the cantankerous-turned-childlike-old lady. So on that note, Second Childhood should really please any Our Gang fan out there. P.S. This was the third consecutive OG ep to feature Darla with blond hair since she probably had just finished TBG and hadn't time to change back to her natural brunet color. Ms. Tilbury was legally blind by this time and had to be guided off-set. And this was Gus Meins' final OG short as director, graduating to features afterward before committing suicide on August 1, 1940 under pressure of scandal.