Hal Roach Studios - Hal Roach Studios Actors, Hal Roach Studios Filmmakers, Hal Roach Studios Short Film Series, Laurel and Hardy, Leo MCC (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Hal Roach Studios actors, Hal Roach Studios filmmakers, Hal Roach Studios short film series, Laurel and Hardy, Leo McCarey, Oliver Hardy, Our Gang, Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel, James Parrott, Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Gordon Douglas, James Finlayson, Mae Busch, Billy Gilbert, Edgar Kennedy, Max Davidson, Bobby Dunn, Fred C. Newmeyer, Ivan Tors, Sam Lufkin, F. Richard Jones, James W. Horne, Leroy Shield, June Marlowe, Noah Young, Robert A. McGowan, Baldwin Cooke, Robert F. McGowan, Charlie Hall, Jimmy Aubrey, Priscilla Dean, Tommy Wonder, Jack Hill, Anita Garvin, Charles A. Bachman, Dorothy Coburn, Rosina Lawrence, Tiny Sandford, Kenneth Peach, The Boy Friends, Marvin Hatley, Vivien Oakland, Ray McCarey, Leo Willis, Dorothy Christy, H. M. Walker, Harry Bernard, Viola Richard, Tom McNamara, Art Lloyd. Excerpt: Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way, as Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles. In addition, Our Gang notably put boys, girls, whites and blacks together in a group as equals, something that "broke new ground," according to film historian Leonard Maltin. Such a thing had never been done before in cinema but has since been repeated after the success of Our Gang. Our Gang's first production at the Roach studio was in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Roach changed distributors from Pathe to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, and converted the series to sound in 1929. Production continued at the Roach studio until...