It was made into a film, Topper, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Hal Roach in 1937 starring Roland Young and Billie Burke ; the cast included Cary Grant as George Kerby and Constance Bennett as Marion Kerby.

While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time.

By this time Roach no longer had a resident company of comedy stars, and cast his films with familiar featured players ( William Tracy and Joe Sawyer, Johnny Downs, Jean Porter, Frank Faylen, William Bendix, George E. Stone, etc.

His earliest Roach shorts cast him as a hard-luck fellow named " Jimmie Jump " in one-reel ( 10-minute ) comedies.

She continued appearing in bit parts until 1940 when Hal Roach cast her as a cave girl in One Million B. C ..

She moved to California that year and was first cast in movies by Hal Roach.

Upon the suggestion of Universal Studios, Roach cast De Niro in the role of Jack Byrnes due to critical acclaim of De Niro's recent comedy work in films such as Analyze This and in the live-action / animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

However, shortly after De Niro finished filming The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Universal suggested to Roach that he should cast De Niro for the role to which Roach agrees that he had " no reservations whatsoever.

Explaining how Ben Stiller came to be cast in the role of Greg, Roach states: " I saw Meet the Parents as an anxiety dream, and in my view nobody plays that kind of material better than Ben.

Thomas in fact became the only Our Gang cast member to appear in all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts, and was also the only holdover from the Hal Roach era to remain in the series until its end in 1944.

According to Roach, the cast and crew demolished the house next door instead by accident during filming, but Stan Laurel said this was a fabrication.

Both cast circumferential and wrought wire clasps are suprabulge clasps, in that they engage an undercut on the tooth by originating coronal to the height of contour, while Roach clasps are infrabulge clasps and engage undercuts by approaching from the gingival.

The first cast of Our Gang was recruited primarily from children recommended to Roach by studio employees, with the exception of Ernie Morrison, already under contract to Roach.

Featuring Our Gang alumni Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman among its cast, The Boy Friends was produced by Roach for two years, with fifteen installments in total.

Unlike the mid-20s period, McGowan was able to sustain the quality of the series with the help of the several regular cast members and the Roach writing staff.

Producer Hal Roach hired D. W. Griffith to produce this film and Of Mice and Men, writing to him, " I need help from the production side to select the proper writers, cast, etc.

The single disc " Collector's Edition " edition contains two audio commentaries, one a light-hearted and humorous discussion between Roach, Stiller, De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal and the other a more formal technical commentary on the film-making aspects by the director and editor Jon Poll.

On his website, Berardinelli wrote that " Meet the Parents is put together like a TV sit-com ," that Roach " strings together a series of hit-and-miss lowbrow gags with little care for whether any of the connecting material is coherent, interesting, or enjoyable ( in most cases, it's none of those three )" and concluding that " even with Stiller and De Niro, Meet the Parents is an encounter that can be postponed until it's available on video.

Spanky McFarland's only starring feature-film vehicle was the 1936 Hal Roach film General Spanky, an unsuccessful attempt to move the Our Gang series into features.

Oz was one of only two films Haley made for MGM ( the other was Pick a Star, a 1937 Hal Roach production distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ).

The studio only offered the film to Roach once Spielberg and Carrey left the project.

" Jeff Vice of the Deseret News, another detractor of the film, proclaimed Meet the Parents " only erratically funny " and accused Roach of taking " the cheap way out with a series of unfunny jokes.

Bored of Education won Hal Roach his only Academy Award for Our Gang, the 1937 Academy Award for Short Subjects ( One-Reel ).

Bored of Education won Roach the Academy Award for Short Subjects ( One-Reel ), the only Our Gang film so honored.

Troubles within the studio ( and the collapse of a preliminary co-production arrangement with National Telefilm Associates ) resulted in production being cancelled after only 10 episodes ( an additional episode called " Jack the Ripper " had been produced by another studio and was acquired by the Roach Studios ; Boris Karloff only introduces the episode ).

* Captain Indigo ( John Roach ): This character only appears three times throughout the entire series, and never speaks.

Characteristic fish species include only a few species from the Barble zone ( Roach, Rudd, Perch and Pike ), with the addition of:

In 2007, Roach, along with three others, filed a class action lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, claiming that the requirement to take the Oath of Citizenship not only violated the aforementioned sections of the charter, but also clause 2 ( a ), that relating to freedom of conscience.

During this time, President Sharpe and his successor Don Roach sympathized with the workers, whose concerns over job security were only natural considering the cyclical nature of machine-tool manufacturing and the downward trends in manufacturing locally.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

Hoffs married film director Jay Roach ( Austin Powers and Meet the Parents ), and their union led to the Bangles ' reunion of 2000, after Roach asked Hoffs and Vicki Peterson to write a song for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Early in 1923, after a successful meeting, Roach made Shearer an offer on behalf of Louis B. Mayer Pictures, run by mogul Louis B. Mayer.

Instead, he beat Freddie Roach before his next fight of importance came along, ten months after beating Ramirez.

After the bout, Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach stated, " We knew we had him after the first round.

" Confirming Roach's pre-fight predictions that he'd grown too old, De La Hoya crossed the ring to Pacquiao's corner after the bout was stopped and told Roach, " You're right, Freddie.

The first album Roach recorded after their deaths was Max Roach + 4.

The Glasses Character is said to have been created after Roach suggested that Harold was too handsome to do comedy, without some sort of disguise ; previously, he had worn a fake mustache as the Chaplinesque " Lonesome Luke ".

Bavmorda sends her daughter Sorsha ( Joanne Whalley ) and General Kael ( Pat Roach ), the leader of her army, after the midwife to retrieve Elora.

In 1924, Lantz directed, animated, and even starred in his first cartoon series, Dinky Doodle, and shortly after he replaced George " Vernon " Stallings as head of production ( During the 1920s, Bray began to concentrate in beating Hal Roach as the " king of two-reelers ").

In March 1929, however, she parted with Roach, who tore up her contract after Harlow told him, " It's breaking up my marriage ; what can I do?

In the spring of 1992, not long after his 100th birthday, Roach once again appeared at the Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Billy Crystal.

Crystal quipped " I think that's fitting, after all — Mr. Roach started in silent film ..." At the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival, Roach was given the honorary award of the Berlinale Camera.

He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956.

Hal Roach, for example, moved Laurel and Hardy full-time into feature films after 1935, and halved his popular Our Gang films to one reel.

Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City, where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test.

She continued making films and was signed by Hal Roach Studios in 1926 after discussions with director / producer F. Richard Jones, who had directed her at Keystone.

Not too long after the closure of the Cuckoo's Nest, owner Jerry Roach was able to reopen the club as " The Concert Factory " for a few months where Uniform Choice played most of their early shows in late 1982.

Screenwriter Jim Herzfeld and director Jay Roach both confirmed that, after committing to the project and reviewing the script, Robert De Niro was actually the person who came up with the idea for the famous polygraph test scene.