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- July 12, 1993: Died:George ("Spanky") McFarland
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- July 12, 1993 Reno:The Real Thing
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 19
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- <p> DIED. GEORGE ("Spanky") MCFARLAND, 64, child movie star; following
- cardiac arrest; in Grapevine, Texas. With pudgy authority, McFarland
- played the leader in Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts between 1931
- and 1945. Imperious and often hapless, Spanky--along with
- Alfalfa and Buck wheat--became beloved by subsequent generations
- when the Our Gang series was rerun endlessly on television under
- the name The Little Rascals. McFarland retired from the movies
- at age 16 and spent the remainder of his life doing sales and
- charity work, in the course of which he made an occasional public
- appearance as Spanky.
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- </body>
- </article>
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