Hal Roach's Our Gang already had a couple of musical shorts under their belts when they released "Our Gang Follies of 1936" at the end of 1935 (italics mine). Darla Hood makes her debut here, billed as Cookie, but she'd drop the nickname in her next appearance.
Scotty Beckett left the troupe after this one, although one more short produced before "Follies" was released soon after.
Let's look at it this way. If Roach's goal was to parody Busby Berkeley, he succeeded.
Rating: B.
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