Calling All Kids | |
Director: | Sam Baerwitz |
Producer: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Narrator: | Mark Daniels |
Starring: | Bobby Blake Janet Burston Billy Laughlin Billie Thomas Jackie Horner Marlene Kinghorn Marlene Mains David Polonsky |
Music: | Max Terr[1] |
Cinematography: | Jackson Rose |
Editing: | Leon Borgeau |
Distributor: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Calling All Kids is a 1943 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Sam Baerwitz. It was the 214th Our Gang short to be released.[2]
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.[3]