Lazy Days is a 1929 Our Gang

Our Gang

Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

short comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 directed by Robert F. McGowan

Robert F. McGowan

Robert Francis McGowan was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933.-Career:...

. Produced by Hal Roach

Hal Roach

Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. was an American film and television producer and director, and from the 1910s to the 1990s.- Early life and career :Hal Roach was born in Elmira, New York...

 and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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, it was the 89th Our Gang short to be released.

Synopsis

A lethargic Farina lounges about, waited upon by his girlfriend Trellis and half-minding his baby brother. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang are preparing their younger brothers and sisters for entry in a baby contest - including Joe's unsubtle attempt to pass off eleven-year-old Chubby as an infant. When Farina learns about the contest, he slowly begins bathing and dressing his younger brother, only to learn from Joe on the way to the contest that whole thing was actually over a month ago.

Note

• Farina's younger sister Jannie, who had appeared in several of the silent Our Gang films, appears in this film as Farina's girlfriend, Trellis. This was the first of only two appearances she made in sound films of the Our Gang series (the otherTeacher's Beau
  Teacher's Beau
  Teacher's Beau is a 1935 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 136th Our Gang short that was released.-Plot:...
  
  ).
• Lazy Days was one of several Our Gang films deleted from King World's Little Rascals television package in 1971 because of material considered racially offensive or insensitive. Because of its depiction of young African-American Farina as stereotypically—and exaggeratedly—lazy, the short has been withheld from television since the 1970s, although it has been released on home video
  Home video
  Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into current optical disc formats like DVD and Blu-ray Disc and, to a lesser extent, into methods of digital...
  
  . Although the film is still under copyright, it sometimes turns up in mutilated form on bootleg/public domain home video releases.

Cast

• Allen Hoskins - Farina
• Junior Allen - Thermos/Junior, Farina's brother
• Norman Chaney - Chubby

• Joe Cobb
  Joe Cobb
  Joe Frank Cobb was a former American child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929...
  
   - Joe
• Jean Darling
  Jean Darling
  Jean Darling is a former American child actress who was a regular in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929. She remains the last surviving cast member from the silent era.-Career:...
  
   - Jean
• Jannie Hoskins - Trellis, Farina's girlfriend
• Bobby Hutchins - Wheezer
• Mary Ann Jackson
  Mary Ann Jackson
  Mary Ann Jackson was an American former child actress who appeared in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1928 to 1931. She was a native of Los Angeles, California.-Career:...
  
   - Mary Ann
• Harry Spear
  Harry Spear
  Harry Spear was a former American child actor, notable for appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series from 1927 to 1929...
  
   - Harry
• Bobby Burns
  Bobby Burns
  Bobby Burns was an American film actor and director. He appeared in 201 films between 1908 and 1952 as well as directing 13 films between 1915 and 1916....
  
   - Baby
• Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup
  Pete the Pup was a Pit Bull character in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies during the 1920s and 1930s...
  
   - Himself
• Dinah the Mule - Herself