The "Our Gang" Curse?

Alfalfa -- Carl Switzer was shot to death at age 31-According to OUR GANG - LIFE AND TIMES OF THE LITTLE RASCALS by MALTIN AND BANN, Switzer was wounded in Jan 1958 when someone shot him as he was getting into a car. Then the next year, a fatal shot was delivered in a struggle over $50 with an ex-partner in a big game hunting business.

Chubby -- 300-pound Norman Chaney died at age 18 following an operation-His death followed surgery for a glandular condition.

Buckwheat -- William Thomas died at age 49 of a heart attack. He died in Los Angeles in 1980 after a successful life as a film lab technician in Hollywood.

Darla Hood -- The Our Gang leading lady contracted hepatitis and died at age47. She died on June 13, 1979.

Brisbane -- Kendall McComas, known as Breezy Brisbane, committed suicide atage 64. According to published reports, he gave up show business to be an electrical engineer at the U.S. Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, California.He committed suicide two weeks before his retirement in 1981.

Froggy -- William Robert Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident atage 16. Laughline was killed in a motor scooter accident near Huntington Beach, CA in the early 1950’s

Mickey Daniels -- He died of liver disease at 55. His real name was Richard Daniels, Jr. He died alone in a hotel of cirrhosis of the liver on August 20, 1970.

Stymie -- Mathew Bear led a life of crime and drugs. He died of a stroke atage 56. After leaving the Our Gang series as a child, Stymie reportedly acted through high school.He became addicted to drugs, especially heroin and spent much of his young adult years in an out of jail. In the 1980's got clean of drugs and both went back into acting and traveling doing drug abuse lectures. He died of Pneumonia.

Wheezer -- Robert Hutchins was killed in an airplane accident at age 19-Truth!According to findagrave.com, he was killed during the last thirty minutes of his basic training at the Merced Army Air Corps field in California when his plane crashed on landing.

Robert H. Young "Bonedust" Died in a hotel fire, which started when he fell asleep smoking in bed.

Dorothy Dandridge "Dorothy" Committed suicide after an investment scheme caused her to go bankrupt.

Harold Switzer "Deadpan" or "Slim" - As was the case with his brother, Harold was also killed following a dispute with another man.

Darwood Kaye "Waldo" - Killed by a hit and run driver while walking on the sidewalk.

Jay R. Smith "Jay R" - Stabbed to death and left in the desert by a homeless man he had befriended.