Doin' Their Bit
{{Infobox film
| name = Doin' Their Bit
| image = Our Gang Doin Their Bit 1942.jpg
| caption =
| director = Herbert Glazer
| producer =
| writer = Hal Law
Robert A. McGowan
| starring = George McFarland
Billie Thomas
Mickey Gubitosi
Billy Laughlin
Janet Burston
Beverly Hudson
Walter Wills
| music =
| cinematography = Jackson Rose
| editing = Leon Borgeau
| studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1942|7|18}}
| runtime = {{duration | m=10 | s= 56 }}
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $28,306
| gross = $24,651
}}
Doin' Their Bit is a 1942 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Herbert Glazer. This was the first short with Herbert Glazer as Our Gang's regular director. It was the 207th Our Gang short to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=247–248 |isbn=978-0-517-52675-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/246/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}
Plot
Hoping to entertain the military troops stationed in Greenpoint, Mr. Wills organizes the gang into a junior USO troupe. In addition to performing a "boot camp" sketch, the gang participates in a brace of production numbers.{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226210/Doin'-Their-Bit/overview |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130095702/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226210/Doin'-Their-Bit/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-30 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: Doin'-Their-Bit|author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |accessdate=2008-10-08}}
Cast
=The Gang=
- Billy Laughlin as Froggy
- Janet Burston as Janet
- Mickey Gubitosi as Mickey
- George McFarland as Spanky
- Billie Thomas as Buckwheat
=Additional cast=
- Beverly Hudson as Miss Liberty
- Walter Wills as Mr. Wills
- Freddie Chapman as Messenger boy / Union of South Africa
- Vincent Graeff as Taxi driver / Poland
- Edward Soo Hoo as China
- Valerie Lee as Luxembourg
- Lawrence Long, Jr. as Milkman / Uruguay
- Freddie Walburn as Free France
See also
References
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