“Babes in Toyland” had a tumultuous voyage to the big screen. Producer Hal Roach’s big-budget adaptation of the popular Victor Herbert operetta was beset with illness, confusion, directorial ...

Hal Roach, who held forth on piano at Eli’s The Place for Steak for 36 years, was as smooth as the jazz he played. In 1994, President Bill Clinton, fresh off a fundraiser at the Ritz-Carlton ...

Hollywood was the new frontier in 1914. With the film industry in its growing stages, even a former mule skinner by the name of Hal Roach could quickly become a major player. Roach arrived in ...

HOLLYWOOD — Movie producer Hal Roach, who teamed Laurel with Hardy and turned a talented yet unaffected group of child actors into “Our Gang” during a career that spanned silent one-reelers ...

The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator’s Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of ...

On November 4, 1927, prominent late great Irish comedian Hal Roach was born. The Waterford-born entertainer was a fixture in Irish-American circles and spent years as a comedian in residence at ...

For nearly 100 years, children have grown up with Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” series (aka the “Little Rascals”), little movies that—in the most endearing and funny way imaginable—capture ...