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Director
  
Sam Baerwitz

Film series
  
Our Gang

Writer
  
Sam Baerwitz

Language
  
English

6.2/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Family, Short

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
24 April 1943

Music director
  
Nathaniel Shilkret, Max Terr

Cast
  
Billie Thomas
(Buckwheat),
Robert Blake
(Mickey),
Janet Burston
(Carmen Miranda),
Eddie Anderson
(Buckwheat),
Billy Laughlin
(Froggy)

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Calling All Kids is a 1943 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Sam Baerwitz. It was the 214th Our Gang short (215th episode, 126th talking short, 127th talking episode, and 46th MGM produced episode) that was released.

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Plot

Another World War II MGM Our Gang mini-musical, Calling All Kids finds the gang invading a local radio station to perform a revue honoring the U.S. military. Amidst such highlights as a "recruiting office" sketch featuring the duo of Mickey and Froggy, and a closing ensemble piece with lyrics that rhyme "Taxes" with "Axis," the film features an extended celebrity-impression routine, with Buckwheat imitating Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and other kids posing as Judy Garland, Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, Carmen Miranda, and Virginia O'Brien.

Cast

  • Robert Blake as Mickey
  • Janet Burston as Janet / Carmen Miranda
  • Billy Laughlin as Froggy
  • Billie Thomas as Buckwheat / Rochester

    • Additional cast

  • Jackie Horner as Eleanor Powell
  • Marlene Kinghorn as Girl singer / Judy Garland
  • Marlene Mains as Virginia O'Brien
  • David Polonsky as Fred Astaire
  • Eddie Anderson - Voice-over for Buckwheat
  • Mark Daniels - NBC Radio announcer
  • Eleanor Taylor as Marine
  • Frank Ward as Marine
  • Giovanna Gubitosi as Audience member
  • James Gubitosi as Audience member
  • Tommy McFarland as Audience member

    • References

    Calling All Kids Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Calling All Kids IMDb