Hal Roach Studio specialized in this form.

In the 1920s, Wray landed a major role in the silent film The Coast Patrol ( 1925 ), as well as uncredited bit parts at the Hal Roach Studios.

The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach.

Pathé had a huge market share, but made bad corporate decisions, such as attempting to sell too many comedies at once ( including those of Sennett's main competitor, Hal Roach ).

Hal Roach Studios released a colorized version in 1986 that featured ghouls with pale green skin.

It was made into a film, Topper, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Hal Roach in 1937 starring Roland Young and Billie Burke ; the cast included Cary Grant as George Kerby and Constance Bennett as Marion Kerby.

Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.

* November 2 – Hal Roach, American director and producer ( b. 1892 )

** Hal Roach, American film and television producer ( d. 1992 )

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

More silent films followed, which brought her to the attention of producer Hal Roach, out from Hollywood searching for new talent.

The film, produced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by Lewis Milestone.

The pictures have little in common as narrative, but they have much in common as art ; the same deft handling of their material, the same understanding of people, the same ability to focus interest sharply and reward it with honest craftsmanship and skill ... No small share of that credit belongs to the men and the one young woman Hal Roach has recruited for his production.

In January 1931, in response to a trade magazine advertisement from Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, requesting photographs of " cute kids ," Spanky's Aunt Dottie ( Virginia's sister ) sent pictures from Sonny's portfolio.

McFarland's nickname " Spanky " is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his office.

Spanky McFarland's only starring feature-film vehicle was the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features.

In mid-1938, Hal Roach sold the Our Gang unit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, who began casting for a new " team leader " character in Spanky's vein and ended up rehiring McFarland himself.

It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The " Music Box " steps can be seen in the background of an earlier Charley Chase silent comedy produced at the Hal Roach Studios, Isn't Life Terrible?

Hal Roach Studios colorized The Music Box in 1986 with a remastered stereo soundtrack featuring the Hal Roach Studios incidental stock music score conducted by Ronnie Hazelhurst.

Harold Eugene " Hal " Roach, Sr. ( January 14, 1892-November 2, 1992 ) was an American film and television producer and director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s.

These networks were run by people with well-known liberal but pro-American big business and anti-Soviet views such as William Paley ( CBS ), Henry Luce ( Time and Life Magazine ), Arthur Hays Sulzberger ( New York Times ), Alfred Friendly ( managing editor of the Washington Post ), Jerry O ' Leary ( Washington Star ), Hal Hendrix ( Miami News ), Barry Bingham, Sr. ( Louisville Courier-Journal ), James Copley ( Copley News Services ) and Joseph Harrison ( Christian Science Monitor ).

Interviews include Hal Roach, Sr., Jackie Coogan, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd

It was a favorite of and thought to have been coined by Hal Roach Sr ( January 14, 1892 – November 2, 1992 ).

The original Board of Trustees included many of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Charles Christie, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., William S. Hart, Jesse L. Lasky, Harold Lloyd, Mae Murray, Hal Roach, Donald Crisp and Irving Thalberg.

In its early years, between January 3, 1929 and December 31, 1931, KFVD broadcast from offices and towers on the Hal Roach Studios ' lot .. From 1937 to 1939, Woody Guthrie broadcasted regular shows from the station, then run by Frank Burke Sr. and his son Frank Burke Jr. First he accompanied his Cousin Leon " Oklahoma Jack " Guthrie, later with Maxine " Lefty Lou " Chrissman.

* Hal Trosky ( Sr .)

Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.

Torrid Freight ( Torrid-Breeze On Hal ) is a very rugged, strong-made colt with a wonderful stride who has done with ease everything asked of him.

Bill Mazeroski with and Hal Smith with were the only Pirates dragging their feet.

her father, H. T. Simpson, Greenville, S.C., and three sisters, Mrs. W. E. Little and Mrs. Hal B. Wansley, both of Atlanta, and Mrs. Bill Wallace, Wilmington, N.C..

Bandstand features Hal DeCicco, pianist, for both dinner hour and the late trade.

Said Hal, forgetting in his enthusiasm that he had not been asked to speak.

Macneff stopped pacing to stare at Hal with his pale blue eyes.

`` Forgive me, Sandalphon '', said Hal.

Thought Hal.

`` Please pardon me again, Sandalphon '', said Hal.

Said Hal.

Hal waited: Macneff paced some more, frowning.

`` A thousand pardons '', said Hal.

`` I volunteer '', said Hal.

Six months later, Hal Yarrow stood in the observation dome of the Gabriel and watched the ball of Earth dwindle above him.

Hal, the linguist, saw the glittering discs and necklaces in terms of the languages spoken therein.

Hal saw in his mind the rest of Earth: Iceland, Greenland, the Caribbean Islands, and the eastern half of South America.

Hal knew that when that side of Earth rotated into the night zone, Sigmen City would blaze out into space.

If Hal Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way.

Hal doubted if this happy event would occur.

And, slowly, feeling himself icy yet burning, Hal turned.

`` Sigmen love you, too, my guardian '', said Hal, choking.

Hal Yarrow was among the last to go into the suspensor and among the first to come out.

And, as Hal found out, obviously mistaken in many cases.

This discovery caused Hal anxiety.