Hal Roach

...who play them to passengers to help pass the time between destinations. A typical (perhaps top quartile) Hal Roach joke is as follows: "He told me that I have a cult following, at least I think that's what he said". "There is a man...

In this article: Ireland, Brendan Grace, Guinness Book of Records, and Dublin

...later in life as I tried to collect these fond memories on video did I discover some of the long twisted history of this series. Hal Roach started the series in 1922 as a collection of silent shorts. Sound was added to the series in 1929.

In this article: Our Gang, MGM, Laurel and Hardy, The Little Rascals, DVD, Spanky, and Pete the Pup

...and the schedules were padded with sitcoms imported from America and Britain. The closest we came to Irish TV comedy in the 60s was Hal Roach on The Late Late Show, though, in fairness, that show did expose us to international comic trends...

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• The Our Gang Collection (1938-44, exclusively from warnerarchive.com, unrated, $35): Since 1927, MGM had been distributing producer Hal Roach's vehicles for Little Rascals that included Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Darla...

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...1, 2009 - 2:20pm Mr. Beaks Braves Warner Archive's THE OUR GANG COLLECTION! Five Discs Of Ultra-Rare Little Rascals Shorts! Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts have been schooling kids in the fine art of misbehavin' for over eighty years,...

In this article: Our Gang, The Little Rascals, MGM, Ku Klux Klan, Dog Daze, and Three Stooges

...over the country debated the issue. A store merchant in Otisville, N.Y., suffered a heart attack in an argument about Pitts. Filmmaker Hal Roach offered him a job. Pitts eventually even appeared on Kate Smith's radio show. Pitts had one last...

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Who Killed Doc Robbin is a 1948 film produced by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan as a reimagining of their Our Gang series. The film was one of Roach's many "streamlined" features of the 1940s, running only 55 minutes, and was designed as...

In this article: Who Killed Doc Robbin, Our Gang, Curley, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Bernard Carr, United Artists, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, and Robert F. McGowan

...Comic Roach: A Roadhouse Picture Show." It's actually a nifty way to catch a flick at the Fringe -- old silent pictures from producer Hal Roach, with new musical scores played live by D.C.'s Snark Ensemble. Three short comedies are projected...

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...mannerisms but also in the cascade of scenes they deliver. They double up as a variety of walk-on characters such as film producer Hal Roach and Stan's disastrous early love, an Australian called May. The show imagines Laurel and Hardy in...

In this article: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Laurel and Hardy, and Waiting for Godot

...up to scratch. Neither of them made much money for their trouble, mainly thanks to the unscrupulous Hal Roach. They fell out with Roach, but never with each other, and their close friendship persisted through financial troubles and their...

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