NEW YORK — Dick “Dickie” Moore, a saucer-eyed child star of the 1930s who appeared in Our Gang comedies, gave Shirley Temple her first screen kiss and was featured in many major Hollywood ...

He was also one of the last of the “Our Gang” kids whose comedies were ... kids from San Bernardino in the cast that starred Shirley Temple, Jackie Oakie and Charlotte Greenwood.

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 ...

Roosevelt attempted to lift the country ’s spirits. “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right,” he said. “It is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American ...

Buddy Ebsen liked to tell the story about the time he tried to get Shirley Temple to rehearse their dance ... later call “a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence that occasionally ...