REG'LAR FELLERS (1941) Billy Lee, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer & Buddy Boles | Adventure, Comedy | B&W

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Reg'lar Fellers is a long-running newspaper comic strip adapted into a feature film, a radio series on the NBC Red Network, and two animated cartoons. Created by Gene Byrnes (1889–1974), the comic strip offered a humorous look at a gang of suburban children (who nevertheless spoke like New York street kids). Syndicated from 1917 to January 18, 1949,[3] Byrnes' strip was collected into several books. Branding also extended to such items as baseball bats and breakfast cereal.

Synopsis

Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and go on the radio, celebrate a birthday, get involved with gangsters...and reunite a wealthy recluse with her baby granddaughter and estranged daughter-in-law.

Cast & Crew

Billy Lee Billy Lee - Pinhead Duffy
Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer -Bump Hudson
Buddy Boles - Jimmy Dugan
Janet Dempsey - Aggie Reilly
Henry 'Spike' Lee - Skeeter (as Jerry Wilson)
Malcolm Hutton - Puddin'Head Duffy
Sarah Padden - Hetty Carter
Roscoe Ates - Emory McQuade
Danna Callahan - Jane Watson
Diane Ware - Hazel Barry
Leonard Grassi - Warren Hamilton
Sharon Lynne - Baby Carter
Maren Mayo - Caroline Carter
Netta Packer - Martha
Jack C. Smith - Officer Flynn
Marguerite De La Motte - Mrs. Dugan
Pat O'Malley - Mr. Dugan Sr.
Anna Ruth Hughes - Molly Dugan
Dan Stowell - Ferrel
Lew Laurie - Lubec
Daisy Ford - Mrs. Duffy
Herb Vigran - Radio Announcer

Author: Gene Byrnes
Current status/schedule: Concluded daily & Sunday strip
Launch date: 1917
End date: January 18, 1949
Alternate name: It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken (1917–1920)
(Sunday) Wide Awake Willie (1919–1920)
Syndicate(s) Bell Syndicate (1917–1924)
George Matthew Adams Service (1924–1929)[1]
King Features (1929–1942)
Associated Newspapers: (1942–1949)[2]
Publisher(s): Cupples & Leon, Big Little Books, Whitman Publishing, Eastern Color Printing, Dell Comics, DC Comics, Standard Comics
Genre(s) : Humor, Children