Carl Switzer

Better known as Alfalfa, from the Our Gang/Little Rascals comedies, Carl Switzer is the only actor, outside of Jimmy Stewart, better known for things outside of It's A Wonderful Life.

The colorized clip above is notable in that black child Buckwheat actually shares a bed with three other white boys AND a grown white man.



Here is a tribute to all the gang. I watched these all on tv in the early 70s. Nostalgia on my dad's part played a part, but the shorts were funny, human cartoons.

Stymie was my favorite of the three main black characters: Farina, Stymie, and Buckwheat; as the series ran almost two decades long, but, let's face it, Alfalfa and Spanky were the two core characters in the series at its most popular, in the early to mid 1930s. The heights (or depths) of the Great Depression were the time these kids mattered most to youngsters.

Alfalfa was always the ladies man, albeit wimpily.

The above tribute is quite sad: note the early deaths of many, and a few tragic ones- and a few murders.