Hollywood was the new frontier in 1914. With the film industry in its growing stages, even a former mule skinner by the name of Hal Roach could quickly become a major player. Roach arrived in ...

“Babes in Toyland” had a tumultuous voyage to the big screen. Producer Hal Roach’s big-budget adaptation of the popular Victor Herbert operetta was beset with illness, confusion, directorial ...

For nearly 100 years, children have grown up with Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” series (aka the “Little Rascals”), little movies that—in the most endearing and funny way imaginable—capture ...

HOLLYWOOD — Movie producer Hal Roach, who teamed Laurel with Hardy and turned a talented yet unaffected group of child actors into “Our Gang” during a career that spanned silent one-reelers ...

Sidney Kibrick left Hollywood when he was only 11 years old. But, thanks to "Our Gang," his popularity has endured decades later. The Hollywood Museum has officially kicked off its newest ...

Hal Roach, who held forth on piano at Eli’s The Place for Steak for 36 years, was as smooth as the jazz he played. In 1994, President Bill Clinton, fresh off a fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton ...

The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator’s Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of ...