Hal Roach News

 
Five Things to Know Today, Feb. 6
Patch.com
They did so after being teamed up at Hal Roach Studios, and today is the anniversary of Hardy signing on with Roach in 1926. Hardy's earlier silent film roles, by the way, were mostly as a villain. Steps. It's the birthday of the late ...

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Another fine mess from Laurel and Hardy
The Australian
Air Raid Wardens (Wednesday, 4.25pm, TCM) they were very near the end of a long and illustrious career that had begun when producer Hal Roach teamed them up for silent two-reelers in 1927. They split from Roach in 1940 over artistic freedom, ...


 
Smithsonian (blog)
What Ever Happened to the Short Film?
Smithsonian (blog)
We may not be as familiar with today's Oscar-nominated shorts as audiences were back in the 1930s, when Hal Roach, Pete Smith, The Three Stooges, and Our Gang were household names. But in a sense, shorts are just as popular as they always have been.

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Dead Folks 2011: Film and Television
Black and White
He'd made his film debut in 1929, and had made plenty of "Our Gang" comedies for the Hal Roach Studios. Cooper had even been around long enough to be swindled by a studio. Hal Roach was paying the kid $50 a week while pocketing $25000 for loaning him ...

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The almanac
Dalje.com
Benedict Arnold in 1741; Thornton Waldo Burgess, author of "Peter Rabbit," in 1874; philosopher and medical missionary Albert Schweitzer in 1875; film director Hal Roach in 1892; novelist John Dos Passos in 1896; English photographer Cecil Beaton in ...


 
Film Notes: ET First Friday Film Series + The Innkeepers
Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog)
The screening starts with Hal Roach's 1935 short Southern Exposure and concludes with the 1973 full-length feature The Lolly Madonna War, also more titillatingly known as Lolly-Madonna XXX and based on an early novel by mystery writer Sue Grafton.


 
Bleacher Report
Ranking the West Coast PGA Tour Courses : What's Best?
Bleacher Report
Many celebrities in the golden age of Hollywood, and later on television personalities were members, including Humphrey Bogart, Glen Campbell, Vic Damone, Peter Falk, Dean Martin, Gregory Peck, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Douglas Fairbanks, ...

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