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1 day ago · Answer: Hal Roach Mr. Roach was responsible for bringing us the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy as well as Charlie Chase and Edgar Kennedy. In the late thirties he had a string of hits which included "Topper", "Of Mice and Men" and "One Million BC" which was the biggest grossing film of 1940.
4 days ago · Songs: “Jingle Bells”, “Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone”, and heavy use of “Over There”, George M. Cohan’s 1917 hit which became probably the best-known song of the war – providing a musical accompaniment for virtually every move of the tank.
5 days ago · A man was shot and killed in Mt Pleasant, Tobago late on Sunday, even as the island prepared for a potentially devastating hit by Hurricane Beryl. The deceased has been identified as Nathan...
4 days ago · A stint as a gag writer for Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” film comedy series followed in 1924. Moving on to Mack Sennett ’s Keystone Company, Capra directed Harry Langdon in some of the silent comedian’s most successful films—including The Strong Man (1926) and Long Pants (1927)—but when the two had a falling-out, Capra was fired.
5 days ago · A 10-DVD set of Hal Roach shorts and features, from 1929 through 1940. Click here to order from Amazon.
2 days ago · Silent film comedy producer Hal Roach built his studios there in 1919, and Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) took over the Triangle studio complex in 1924. During Prohibition, speakeasies and nightclubs such as the Cotton Club lined Washington Boulevard.
4 days ago · That was Feargal McCrory’s honest summation 48 hours after his bid for Lamont Roach, Jr.’s WBA super featherweight title ended with an eighth round TKO loss at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. last Friday night.
