Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...
...Tyrannosaurus, king of all prehistoric beasts, yip, yowl or yodel? Was he a tenor, or a bass?", wrote Hal Roach Studios to Alfred S. Romer, professor of Zoology and expert in paleontology...
...Dimetrodon, Triceratops and the other monsters who roamed the earth when time was young give vent to their antediluvian feelings, if at all?" Roach was ready to shoot sequences in "1,000,000 B.C." showing a death fight between Tyrannosaurus and Dimetrodon. Only sound was lacking...