Darla Hood

Darla Hood is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood. They separated in 1997. At forty-seven, Hood died in North Hollywood, California, of acute hepatitis contracted while in the hospital for a minor surgery. In 1980 she married Jonathan Krane. During the 1960s and 1970s, she went to many Our Gang/Little Rascals festivals and conventions, meeting and greeting the various generations of fans. She married director Rick Edelstein in 1970 but subsequently divorced. And she appeared in her own nightclub act at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Copacabana in New York and the Sahara in Las Vegas. Kellerman supplements her ongoing film career with stints as a nightclub singer, television and radio narrator and voice-overs.

She did singing and voice-over on TV commercials, which included Campbell Soup and Chicken of the Sea Tuna. Altman said that her attitude and passion was exactly what he was looking for in the character. Hood was a guest on such TV shows of the early 1960s as Tell It to Groucho starring Groucho Marx and The Jack Benny Show, where she appeared as "Darla" in a spoof of the old Our Gang shows with Jack Benny. She was incensed about the way her would be character, "Hot Lips," was humiliated. She played a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. She had an argument with M*A*S*H director Robert Altman after reading the script. Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover and cast her in her first adult role in a movie. She reportedly almost talked herself out of her most famous role.

In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. Kellerman made her film debut in Reform School Girl (1959). She and Granson had three children. As a singer, Kellerman already had a recording contract with Verve Records when she was 18. Decker (married 1955-divorced 1957) and record company head Jose Granson (married 1957). Kellerman attended Hollywood High School where she was "bitten by the acting bug." She went on to Los Angeles City College. She also studied at the Actor's Studio in New York City. Hood had two marriages, insurance salesman Robert W. Sally Claire Kellerman (born June 2, 1936 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress and singer most famous for her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan in the film M*A*S*H (1970) for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

She had a hit record in 1957, I Just Wanna Be Free, and appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave singing a duet with Johnny Desmond. "Hotter than ever" (http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/arspopuli/music/music.html), article in the Pasadena Weekly. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Sally Kellerman (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&id=1800015771&cf=biog&intl=us) at Yahoo! Movies. She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. Sally Kellerman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm001419/) at the Internet Movie Database. Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV. Reform School Girl (1959).

The group remained with Murray's Blackouts during its long run in New York and Hollywood. Star Trek: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966) (TV). Shortly after graduation, the quartet was booked by producer and star Ken Murray for his famous "Blackouts," a stage variety show. The Boston Strangler (1968). While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. M*A*S*H (1970). When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, she appeared in a couple of other movies and attended school in Los Angeles. Lost Horizon (1973).

The comedy movie shorts were later syndicated for television, in the mid-1950s, under the title The Little Rascals. It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980). From 1935 to 1941, she played Darla in Our Gang. Back to School (1986). She was then taken to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang movies. That's Life! (1986). Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test.

Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. She was born Darla Jean Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Darla Hood (November 4, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress.