Darla Jean Hood (November 8, 1931 - June 13, 1979) was an American child actress, best known for her lead roles in Our Gang (Little Rascals) shorts during the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was born in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher.

Dark-haired cutie Darla Hood began her association with the motley "Our Gang" group at the tender age of 4. Born in Oklahoma in 1931, her father was a banker and her mother prodded Darla's innate musical talents with singing and dancing lessons. Little Darla made an unplanned singing debut at the Edison Hotel in Times Square and the crowd roared in appreciation. A Hal Roach agent spotted her, tested her, and signed her to a seven-year pact at $75 a week. Following her departure from the popular series, however, her career faltered badly but she was able to find behind-the-scenes success. With her first husband, she formed the vocal group "Darla Hood and the Enchanters" which provided incidental background music for such classic films as Letter to Three Wives, A (1949), among others. She also made appearances on TV (_"The Ken Murray Show" (1950)_ and _"The Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue" (1949)_ variety shows, and on Merv Griffin's radio show. She also performed voice-over work on commercials and became a well-oiled impressionist and trick voice artist. She died under rather mysterious circumstances at a North Hollywood hospital of acute hepatitis in 1979 following a relatively minor operation. She was only 47.