| Three Smart Boys | |
| Director: | Gordon Douglas |
| Producer: | Hal Roach |
| Starring: | George McFarland Carl Switzer Billie Thomas Eugene Lee Darla Hood Darwood Kaye Shirley Coates Rosina Lawrence Sidney Bracey Nora Cecil Jack Egan George the Monk |
| Music: | Leroy Shield Marvin Hatley |
| Cinematography: | Art Lloyd |
| Editing: | William H. Ziegler |
| Distributor: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Three Smart Boys is a 1937 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. It was the 153rd Our Gang short to be released.[1]
The boys are anxious to get out of school. They overhear the superintendent of the area's schools talking with Miss Lawrence who wants to close the school for a week to attend a sister's wedding. She was initially denied stating that only an epidemic would justify closing school. Spanky then decides to stage a phony epidemic with Alfalfa and Buckwheat. This time, it is the measles, requiring the boys to paint blotches on their faces. The plan comes a-cropper when, while visiting the doctor (Sidney Bracey), the boys are led to believe that Buckwheat has been transformed into a monkey. Spanky and Alfalfa think Buckwheat is still a monkey. That was when he found out that the superintendent changed her mind and decided to let Miss Lawrence to attend the wedding after all and the school would be closed for a week.[2]
Three Smart Boys marked the eighth and final appearance of Rosina Lawrence as teacher "Miss Jones." The film was marginally edited due to perceived racism toward African Americans on the syndicated Little Rascals television package in 1971.