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Welcome!...
...to
4alfalfa.com. This site was created especially to co-incide with
the 75th Anniversary of Alfalfa's birth on August 7, 1927. An extensive
compendium of this remarkable performer's career is long overdue,
and we hope this Internet Appreciation will help fill that void.
We will be focusing extensively on "the Alfalfa that most people
don't know". Over the weeks and months to come, we hope to
build an extensive, reliable repository of information on Alfalfa's
off-screen life in order to gain some until-now unknown insights
into this amazing talent. If any of our visitors has such information
(family members, friends, professional associates), please contact
us.
Click on any of the images at right to start your journey through
4alfalfa.com (note that some sections will be following soon). A
good introduction might be An
Alfalfa Appreciation, an illustrated essay celebrating
Alfalfa's unique appeal. Or you could jump directly to our Episode
Commentary, which provides exclusive 4alfalfa.com
commentary of each of the 34 Little Rascals episodes in which Alfalfa
appeared during the Hal Roach era. Do his singing performances form
your fondest memories of Alfalfa? Then you'd probably be interested
in Alfalfa's
Greatest Hits, a song-by-song look at the tunes made
"famous" by everybody's favorite crooner (with apologies
to Bing...)
In large part due to his death in 1959 at the age of 31, Alfalfa's
life has in recent years been the subject of widespread urban mythology
and misconceptions. One of the biggest inaccuracies concerning Alfalfa
is that he couldn't get any acting jobs as an adult. It may surprise
even faithful Little Rascals fans that Alfalfa appeared in over
50 films and TV shows outside of the Rascals series, most of these
as a grownup. We take an extensive look at these little-known performances
in Alfalfaddendum.
Regardless
of your favorite section, we hope that 4alfalfa.com is a place you
feel comfortable visiting again and again... to celebrate and re-live
the memories that this amazing talent has given generations of fans
for nearly three-quarters of a century.
Enjoy!

Tom Ludwig
4alfalfa.com
Visit tdludwig.net,
a website featuring my paintings, writings,
and other projects
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