Lyle Tayo: Livened Many a Hal Roach Short
Here’s an intriguing figure who will be well known to fans of Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy and other Hal Roach comedies. Lyle (pronounced “Lily”) Shipman (1889-1982) was born in Elmdale, Kansas and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In show business she was sometimes billed as Lyle Tayo, sometimes as Lyle Barton. The first credit […]