Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanks a Million (Hal Roach; United Artists) puts a cheeky Quiz Kid (William Tracy) just where most cinemagoers would probably like to see him: in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the Army is in such shape that the Kid (named Dodo Doubleday) very nearly runs away with...
...Topper Returns," Hal Roach's third venture into ectoplasmic comedy, blends murder and laugher into a mixture which falls only inches short of a Bob Hope rib-tickling, spine-tingling cocktail. Bovine-bosomed Joan Blondell as the lady who vanishes and Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, the defective detective, pace an excellent cast which includes Rochester, Carole Landis, and Billie Burke. Much above the average little girl who isn't there type of picture, this is if anything better than Topper's first two appearances...
Died. Marguerite Nichols Roach, 45. wife of Movie Producer Hal Roach; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Last October Mrs. Roach sought a separation order after 25 years' marriage, said: "If Hal wants his freedom I think he should have...
Four examples of early American motion picture comedy will be shown tonight at the first session of the Harvard Film Society's current season. Works of Hal Roach, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Edwin S. Porter are planned for the performance at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...