Darla Hood

Darla Hood (November 4, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress.

She was born Darla Jean Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher.

Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. 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. She was then taken to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang movies.

From 1935 to 1941, she played Darla in Our Gang. The comedy movie shorts were later syndicated for television, in the mid-1950s, under the title The Little Rascals.

When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, she appeared in a couple of other movies and attended school in Los Angeles. While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. Shortly after graduation, the quartet was booked by producer and star Ken Murray for his famous "Blackouts," a stage variety show. The group remained with Murray's Blackouts during its long run in New York and Hollywood.

Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV. She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. 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.

Hood had two marriages, insurance salesman Robert W. Decker (married 1955-divorced 1957) and record company head Jose Granson (married 1957). She and Granson had three children.

In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover and cast her in her first adult role in a movie. She played a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead.

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 did singing and voice-over on TV commercials, which included Campbell Soup and Chicken of the Sea Tuna. 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.

During the 1960s and 1970s, she went to many Our Gang/Little Rascals festivals and conventions, meeting and greeting the various generations of fans.

At forty-seven, Hood died in North Hollywood, California, of acute hepatitis contracted while in the hospital for a minor surgery.

Darla Hood is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.


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In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. Most of her early appearances were in supporting or cameo roles, but by the late 1990s she was receiving top billing and entered the world of action heroes with her performances in two films based upon the video game series, Resident Evil. She and Granson had three children. She became a film actress in the late 1980s as a teenager and gained popularity through her appearance in Return to the Blue Lagoon which led to inevitable comparisons between her and another child model-turned-actress, Brooke Shields (who had starred in the original The Blue Lagoon years earlier). Decker (married 1955-divorced 1957) and record company head Jose Granson (married 1957). She speaks Serbian, Russian, French and English fluently. Hood had two marriages, insurance salesman Robert W. She has done extensive modeling since she was eleven-years-old.

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. The Jovovićs later moved to London, England and in 1981, when Milica was five years old, to Sacramento, California; just seven months later they settled in Los Angeles, California. In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Bogić, Milla's father, later joined him in Kiev where he and his sister graduated in medicine.[1] (http://arhiva.glas-javnosti.co.yu/arhiva/2000/07/18/srpski/F00071702.shtm). She was a regular on The Ken Murray Show from 1950 to 1951. When he feared that he could be arrested again, he escaped to Albania and later came to Soviet Union, in Kiev. Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV. Later, communist government imprisoned him on Goli Otok.

The group remained with Murray's Blackouts during its long run in New York and Hollywood. Her grandfather Bogdan Jovović was commander of Pristina military area and later led finances in military areas of Skoplje and Sarajevo where he uncovered massive gold embezzlement; refusing to convict his friend for that, he was punished. Shortly after graduation, the quartet was booked by producer and star Ken Murray for his famous "Blackouts," a stage variety show. Her great-grandfather Bogić Camić Jovović was flag-bearer of the Vasojevići tribe and officer of the guard of the King Nicholas I of Montenegro; his wife's name was also Militza. While at Fairfax High School, she organized a vocal group called the Enchanters with four boys. Milla's family is Montenegrin in origin, their estate being at Metohija in Zlopek near Peć. When she outgrew her role in Our Gang, she appeared in a couple of other movies and attended school in Los Angeles. Her last name is pronounced "yo-vo-vitch".

The comedy movie shorts were later syndicated for television, in the mid-1950s, under the title The Little Rascals. She is an actress, musician and model (frequently referred to as a supermodel). From 1935 to 1941, she played Darla in Our Gang. Milla Jovovich (born December 17, 1975) was born in Kiev, Ukraine to Serb father Bogić Jovović and Russian mother Galina Loginova Jovović. She was then taken to Culver City, California, to appear in the Our Gang movies. Militza Natasha Jovovich a.k.a. 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. Hollywood Goes Wild benefit compilation - "On the Hill" by her band, Plastic Has Memory.

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The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988) (TV). Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). Chaplin (1992). Kuffs (1992).

Dazed and Confused (1993). The Fifth Element (1997). He Got Game (1998). The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999).

The Million Dollar Hotel (2000). The Claim (2000) (formerly known as Kingdom Come). Zoolander (2001). Dummy (2002).

Resident Evil (2002). No Good Deed (formerly known as The House on Turk St.) (2002). You Stupid Man (2002). Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004).