Beginner's Luck
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| Directed by | Gus Meins |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Music by | Marvin Hatley |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Editing by | Louis McManus |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release dates | 23 February 1935 |
| Running time | 18:24 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beginner's Luck is a 1935 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 135th Our Gang short (47th talking episode) that was released.
Plot
Spanky has been entered into a kiddie amateur show by his pushy stage mother, who thinks he is the greatest actor of his day. Spanky wants nothing to do with this and would rather not act at all. The gang comes up with a plan to disrupt his recitation with peashooters and noisemakers and make him flop.
At the theater, Spanky befriends a little girl (Marianne Edwards) who has bombed her act due to stage fright but needs the prize money to buy a special dress. Spanky has a change of heart and decides to win the prize and give the money to the girl. However, word does not get out the gang, who are in the audience prepared to embarrass Spanky any way they can.
Cast
- George McFarland - Spanky
- Marianne Edwards - Daisy Dimple
- Scotty Beckett - Scotty
- Billie Thomas - Buckwheat
- Matthew Beard - Stymie
- Jerry Tucker - Jerry
- Tommy McFarland - Audience extra
- Donald Profitt - Our Gang member
- Sidney Kibrick - Our Gang member
- Alvin Buckelew - Alvin
- Carl Switzer - Tom
- Harold Switzer - Jerry
- The Cabin Kids - Themselves
- Merrill Strong - Our Gang member
- Freddie Walburn - Kid with the harmonica
- Eileen Bernstein - Our Gang member
- Cecilia Murray - Our Gang member
- Pete the Pup - Himself
- Kitty Kelly - Spanky's mother
- Tom Herbert - Master of Ceremonies
- May Wallace - Spanky's grandmother
- James C. Morton - Piano player
- Ruth Hiatt - Marianne's mother
- Ernie Alexander - Audience member
- Jack Lipson - Audience member
- Bess Flowers - Friend of Spanky's mother
- Charlie Hall - Stage hand