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, 46th MGM-produced episode) released.

Plot

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. Fun episode but the Coast Guard was left out.

Calling All Kids

Cast

Bobby 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

Eleanor Taylor as Marine

Frank Ward as Marine

Giovanna Gubitosi as Audience member

James Gubitosi as Audience member

Tommy McFarland as Audience member

Eddie Anderson - Voice-over for Buckwheat

Mark Daniels - NBC Radio announcer

See also

Our Gang filmography

References

External links

1943 films

American black-and-white films

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films

1943 comedy films

Our Gang films

1943 short films

1940s American films

Calling All Kids