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After three years of making films exclusively for TV, the Hal Roach studios, well in the black, are now producing 1,500 hours of TV films a year, nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies. The 18-acre Roach lot, once used for such movie epics as Joan of Arc and Of Mice and Men, now gives houseroom to TV's Amos 'n' Andy, Trouble with Father (featuring Stu Erwin), Racket Squad, Mystery Theater, and a filmed version of Beulah...
Everyman's Entertainment. Burly, 33-year-old Hal Roach Jr., who got his start as an assistant director of Our Gang comedies ("I unbuttoned and buttoned their pants between scenes"), has been in command of the studio since he took over the production reins from his father in 1948. He accounts for his new success with the explanation that televiewers have even lower I.Q.s than moviegoers: "On TV, a character must be immediately self-explanatory-that's why a guy like William Bendix will be great. I'm sure The Birth of a Baby, which made...
...live" producers of the East Coast don't speak Everyman's language with Roach's facility. He discovered this on a recent trip to Manhattan, when some TV-men tried to sell him on the idea of an hour-long ballet show. Says Roach: "I just told them ballet is not mass entertainment and most likely never will be." His credo: "You can't rationalize the public's taste. It isn't a question of intellectuality. It's the same thing as the public liking football and baseball and not liking polo...
Fisher, 62, millionaire speed-racing, art-collecting automobile executive, only bachelor of Detroit's five living Fisher ("Body by Fisher") Brothers, onetime president (1925-34) of Cadillac Motor Car Co., General Motors vice president (1934-44); and Dolly Roach, fiftyish, his great & good friend for more than 20 years; last July...
...subconsciously, Lavern Roach seemed to know what was happening. "Damn it," he said, "my luck is running out." Then he lapsed into a coma. Fourteen hours later, in nearby St. Clare's Hospital, Lavern Roach, 24, died* of a brain hemorrhage...