Betsy Homosexual, a former little one star who starred within the Little Rascals franchise, has died at age 96.
A buddy of Homosexual’s stated she died on Friday, June 13, in keeping with Selection.
Homosexual starred within the Our Gang Comedies sequence of comedy movies, a sequence later dubbed Little Rascals. She made appearances in 1936’s The Pinch Singer and Arbor Day and 1938’s Our Gang Follies of 1938 (pictured beneath) earlier than taking part in Effie, girlfriend of Alfalfa (Carl Switzer), in that 12 months’s Got here the Brawn.
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In a 2019 interview on SCV within the Films, Homosexual stated she was 6 years outdated when she stared within the Our Gang movies. Years later, she reunited with Switzer on nation singer Stuart Hamblen’s radio present. “I used to be 16, he was 19,” she recalled. “And Stuart would fake we have been boyfriend/girlfriend, which we actually weren’t. However one time, we have been sitting there, and Alfalfa came to visit to me and gave me a kiss — , Stuart despatched him over — and I assumed, ‘Oh boy!’ It was my first kiss.”
In different movie roles of the Nineteen Thirties, Homosexual appeared in 1937’s When You’re in Love with Cary Grant, 1937’s It Occurred in Hollywood with Richard Dix, and 1939’s The Zero Hour with Otto Kruger. She additionally had components in 1938’s David O. Selznick-produced The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1939’s comedian adaptation Thriller Airplane, and the identical 12 months’s Marx Brothers comedy On the Circus.
Homosexual’s display profession carried her into the Forties, throughout which she appeared within the romantic comedies Bachelor Daddy (1941) and What’s Buzzin’, Cousin? (1943), displaying off her yodeling abilities within the latter. She yodeled once more within the 1942 brief How Spry I Am, starring Andy Clyde. Homosexual’s IMDB filmography exhibits 13 performing roles, however Selection reviews she appeared in additional than 40 function movies.
With mother and father who taught singing, piano, banjo, violin, guitar, and accordion, Homosexual gained the California State Yodeling Championship in each 1945 and 1946, per Selection. She sang frequently with nation star Tex Williams and with Hamblen’s Fortunate Stars group. And he or she carried out on Hank Penny, Jimmy Wakely, and Don Ameche’s radio exhibits, singing songs like “Belle of the Outdated Barn Dance” and “I Need to be a Cowboy’s Dream Woman.”
Homosexual married Thomas Cashen in 1954, per Selection, and she or he had 5 kids: Mimi, Gigi, Tommy, Suzy, and Cathy.