Darla Hood, who was a child movie star from the age of three to 12, says film kids are a bunch of brats.
"The big problem is they think they are better than anyone else," says Darla, who makes a guest appearance on the Jack Benny show Tuesday night at 9:30 on WBTV.
Darla was a star of the Our Gang comedies and she brings back the era in the skit to be presented on the Benny show.
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She was out of show business when MGM dropped the Our Gang comedies in 1942.
"It was just as well," she said. "It was evident I wasn't much of a child anymore."
Today Darla is trying to make a show business comeback. She does the voices of chipmunks and "wicki wicki birds" for TV commercials. She also writes songs.
"I can't say it's a lucrative business," she said. "I still have the first check I received: it's for $1.45."
Darla was in the Our Gang comedies with Spanky MacFarland, the late Alfalfa Switzer and Bill Thomas, the Negro who played Buckwheat. MacFarland is a bartender in Los Angeles now and Switzer was shot and killed in an argument over $500 a few years ago.
In the show, Darla puts on a child's dress, bobby sox and "Mary Jane" shoes.
"And you know," she said, "I look just like I did when I was 12 years old."