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5 unusual facts about Carl Switzer


Carl Switzer

Switzer continued to appear in films in various supporting roles, including in Johnny Doughboy (1942), Going My Way (1944), and The Great Mike (1944).

In December of that year, Switzer was arrested in Sequoia National Forest for cutting down 15 pine trees.

Switzer's last starring roles were in a brief series of imitation-Bowery Boys movies; he reprised his "Alfalfa" character, complete with comically sour vocals, in PRC's Gas House Kids comedies of 1946 and 1947.

In 1956, he co-starred in The Bowery Boys film Dig That Uranium, followed by a bit part as a Hebrew slave in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

In 1953 and 1954, Switzer co-starred in three William A. Wellman-directed films: Island in the Sky and The High and the Mighty, both starring John Wayne, and Track of the Cat starring Robert Mitchum.


Juanita Quigley

In 1940, she was the guest-starring lead in The New Pupil when cast as Sally, who briefly takes Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) away from Darla Hood.


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