I was surprised when Darla Hood died, because she wasn’t that old, and I think she’d just lent her voice to some kind of “Our Gang” one-shot cartoon (or something like that), which I managed to miss. Darla also had a role in the Laurel and Hardy film, “The Bohemian Girl.”
However, the same year of that film, Spanky had a memorable role in one of my all-time favorite films “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (1936), starring Fred MacMurray, Sylvia Sidney, and Henry Fonda. It was the first Technicolor feature shot outdoors. Beautiful film.
I’m not sure, but Tinseltown may have been too much for Darla.