View Full Version : R.I.P. Shirley Rickert -- Our Gang, Burlesque Performer
Like Darla Hood, she'd performed in "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") and in Burlesque. I don't know whether like Ms. Hood she did erotic glamour modeling ("porn," the vulgar call it), but she did bloom into a lovely woman.
teehee
03-06-2009, 06:54 PM
It doesn't say her character's name...What it is/was?
Probably Shirley; many of the actors went by their own names, unless they had nicknames, but they still used their own last names, as in George "Spanky" McFarland, "Buckwheat" Thomas. Tommy Bond went by his own name, Tommy, before his character was established as a bully, and renamed "Butch." (By the way, he played Jimmy Olsen in the first live action Superman movies.)
I have one sticking point on Shirley. On learning that she'd been a child actor with "Our Gang," prospective customers, as she put it, "do a 360." Did she realize what she said? There are 360 degrees in a circle -- when you turn 360 degrees you go full-circle and wind up exactly where you were before! She must have really meant "do a 180, to go in the opposite direction.
ddawg
04-03-2009, 01:19 AM
Like Darla Hood, she'd performed in "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") and in Burlesque. I don't know whether like Ms. Hood she did erotic glamour modeling ("porn," the vulgar call it), but she did bloom into a lovely woman.
She was lovely! I was surprised to learn that "Butch" was non other than Jimmy in the TV series Superman
keepyoursockson
05-07-2009, 09:01 PM
I am an Our Gang fanatic, and have been for 40 years.
The entire career of Miss Darla Hood is well documented, and at no time did she ever do glamour modeling or Porn. She was in motion pictures, television, and died in 1979 at age 47 of a hospital acquired infection.
phantom1984
06-06-2009, 02:11 AM
Like Darla Hood, she'd performed in "Our Gang" ("Little Rascals") and in Burlesque. I don't know whether like Ms. Hood she did erotic glamour modeling ("porn," the vulgar call it), but she did bloom into a lovely woman.
I remember her but i always had a thing for Darla when I was younger Heck i knew she was a lot older than me in real life but she was cuter.