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.

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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?

Producer Hal B. Wallis borrowed Robert Cummings from Universal Studios when Twentieth-Century Fox refused to lend Power.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he graduated from the University of Southern California law school and began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, but honed his skills at the Hal Roach Studios for the rest of that decade.

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Hal Roach Studios / Qintex, the studio responsible for the Our Gang ( Little Rascals ) short films series of the 1930s, was also involved with KI.

This episode was actually filmed on the backlot of Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, which was literally falling apart, due to mismanagement and disuse ( the facilities were finally torn down in 1963 ).

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In December 1928, she signed a five-year contract with Hal Roach Studios for $ 100 per week.

Unable to expand his studios in downtown Los Angeles because of zoning, Roach purchased what became the Hal Roach Studios from Harry Culver in Culver City, California.

Most of the film library was bought in 1971 by a Canadian company that adopted the " Hal Roach Studios " name.

In 1983, Hal Roach Studios was one of the first studios to venture into the controversial business of film colorization, creating digitally colored versions of several Laurel and Hardy features, the Frank Capra film It's a Wonderful Life, Night of the Living Dead, and other popular films.

In the 1980s, Hal Roach Studios produced Kids Incorporated in association with old business partner MGM.

During the 1980s, Hal Roach Studios distributed its classic film library, as well as films in the public domain, on home video.

From 1988 to 1990, while producing Kids Incorporated, Hal Roach Studios was known as Qintex.

In that same decade, a new incarnation of Hal Roach Studios ( operated by the Roach Trust ) was established, and today this new version of the company has released classic films on DVD, many of which are from Roach's own archival prints of his films, while others are public domain titles mastered from the best available 35 mm elements.

A History of the Hal Roach Studios.

* Hal Roach at theluckycorner. com-Detailed listing of all films that Hal Roach worked on, including those not made by his studio, plus all films made by Hal E. Roach Studios, whether or not Roach himself was involved

Suddenly became part of the colorization controversy in the mid-1980s when the movie was colorized for home video by Hal Roach Studios in 1986, turning Sinatra's famous blue eyes brown.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

Music Journalist Hal Horowitz wrote: " These songs aren ’ t as loud or frantic as those of her late 70s heyday, but they resonate just as boldly as she moans, chants, speaks and spits out lyrics with the grace and determination of Mohammad Ali in his prime.

* A Little Night Music ( 1973 ) ( book by Hugh Wheeler ; directed by Hal Prince )

He also contributed a version of " Mack the Knife " to the Hal Willner-produced tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.

* Arranged and conducted three instrumental pieces on the Hal Willner-produced Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, 1985

* " Sail Away Lady " on Hal Willner's The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, tribute album 2006

The film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography ; Best Original Score for a Motion Picture ( not a Musical ); Best Music, Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head "); and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

One notable exception was his work on a Yoko Ono Lennon tribute album, Every Man Has A Woman ( 1984 ) ( Polydor ); another was a cover of " Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah " recorded for Hal Willner's 1988 tribute album Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films.

In 1985, Faithfull performed " Ballad of the Soldier's Wife " on Hal Willner's tribute album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.

* The USA by Day and the RAF by Night — by Hal Block & Bob Musel ( 1944 ) Paramount Music Corp.

In 1985, Hal Cannon, director of the Western Folklife Center, founded the first Cowboy Poetry Gathering, which has since spread across the country ; Elko is also home to the Cowboy Music Gathering.

* Kakehashi, Ikutaro ( 2002 ), I Believe in Music, Hal Leonard Corporation

In 1978 she starred in a London art-theatre production of the Brecht and Weill play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, and in 1985 she sang Brecht and Weill's " Surabaya Johnny " on the Hal Willner-produced Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill.

Although he initially offered the song to other bands – The Human Expression, for one – Born to Be Wild was first recorded in 1967 by Steppenwolf in a sped-up and rearranged version, that the All Music Guide's Hal Horowitz described as " a roaring anthem of turbo-charged riff rock " and " a timeless radio classic as well as a slice of ' 60s revolt that at once defines Steppenwolf's sound and provided them with their shot at AM immortality.

* 2002 Saturn Award: Best Action / Adventure / Thriller Film, Best Costume ( Dominique Borg ), Best Director ( Christophe Gans ), Best Music ( Joseph LoDuca ), Best Special Effects ( Arthur Windus, Val Wardlaw, Hal Bertram, Nick Drew and Seb Caudron ), Best Supporting Actor ( Mark Dacascos ), Best Supporting Actress ( Monica Bellucci ), Best Writing ( Stéphane Cabel and Christophe Gans ).

Vocal selections from The Addams Family, A Little Princess, The Wild Party and john & jen are published by Hal Leonard and the shows are licensed by Music Theatre International.

* David N. Howard, Sonic Alchemy: Visionary Music Producers and Their Maverick Recordings, 2004, Hal Leonard Corporation

He has also authored four books, " Music Theory for Bassists ", " Dictionary Of Bass Grooves ", " Rock Bass ", and " A Portrait of Jaco: The Solos Collection " ( a book of transcriptions of Jaco Pastorius ' bass solos ) for the Hal Leonard Corporation.

Harrell's work as composer and jazz soloist has been published in a number of books by Hal Leonard, Jamey Aebersold, Sher Music, and Gerard and Sarzin.

A graduate of the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ), Gesner has appeared in several movies since his cinematic debut as " Dale's Man # 1 " in the 1994 comedy Dumb & Dumber, including Osmosis Jones ( as Emergency Room Doctor # 1 ), Me, Myself & Irene ( Agent Peterson ), Shallow Hal ( Ralph ), and There's Something About Mary ( as a bartender ).

Recordings in 1940 were made by Kay Kyser and his orchestra ( vocals: Sully Mason & His Playmates ), by Mitchell Ayres and His Fashions In Music ( vocals: Mary Ann Mercer & Tommy Taylor ), and by Hal Kemp and The Smoothies.