Carl 'Alfalfa" Switzer and his brother Harold had been in the Our Gang cafe, which was open to the public. They were performing and entertaining the crowd. One of the spectators was assistant director Gordon Douglas (I). He liked what he saw, and immediately wrote the brothers into this film.
The name Daisy Dimple was meant to be a parody of Shirley Temple.
The cartoon figure appearing on the front of the stage prop is not a dog as most people think. The animal down on its haunches is actually the body of a lion. Combined with the head of a human female, this makes the complete image a sphinx.
Filmed at around the same time at the Roach Studio as their major motion picture " The March of the Wooden Soldiers " aka " Babes in Toyland". At Least eight actors were in both films. Gus Meins directed, Art Lloyd was one of the cinematographers and the actors Ernie Alexander,Scotty Beckett, Marianne Edward's, Charlie Hall, Fred Holmes, Jack " Tiny" Lipton, Jerry Tucker, and bringing up the rear and also bringing up the curtain Mae Wallace. It is was filmed between February 20th and 28th 1935.
"Beginner's Luck" recieved the highest critical acclaim and was the biggest money maker of all 222 of the Gang's shorts.