1933 Marries Paulette Goddard 1911
    1940 The Great Dictator
    1943 Marries Oona O’Neill 1926
    1952 Vows never to return to America
        Pacificist Stance
        American Citizen
        Sexual Escapades
        Joan Barry
    1972 Receives second honorary Academy Award
    1975 Knighted
    1977 Sheds his mortal coil . . .

Hal Roach
    Leaves upstate New York for Alaska
        Prospector & Mule Skinner
    1912 Enters the film business
    1914 Receives small inheiratence
        Bradbury Mansion
    Emphasizes strong stories and slapstick
    Sets up preview system
    Hires Harold Lloyd
        Willie Work - didn’t
        1916 Chaplin rip off - Lonesome Luke
        1917 Glasses!
        1920 Haunted Spooks
            Whoops
        1921 Never Weaken
            How?
        1922 first feature - Grandma’s Boy
        1923 Safety Last
            How?
        1924 Leaves Roach
        1925 The Freshman - Top banana
        1937 ~ 1948 Retires to Beverly Hills Estate, Greenacres with his wife and former costar Mildred Davis and children.
            Painting
            Stereoscopic Photography
            Charity Work
        1960 Re-edits and re-releases his films theatrically and to tv
        1971 Heads to the final round-up

Back to Hal Roach
    1922 Sees a bunch of kids arguing over a piece of wood
    1924 Leo McCarey becomes supervising director
    1926 Teams Laurel & Hardy (maybe McCarey)
    1929 Introduces background scores
        Leroy Shield
        Marvin Hatley
    1938 Last short - Our Gang’s Hide and Shriek
    1940 One Million BC
    1941 Colonel Roach of Fort Roach
    1950s Returns from War effort to Tv
        My Little Margie
        Amos ‘n’ Andy
        Topper
        Racket Squad
        The Abbott & Costello Show
    1963 Studio sound stages demolished
    1980s oversees theatrical, tv and home video releases
         Active in the early days of cable
         Colorization 
    1984 Honorary Oscar at 92
    1992 Honorary Oscar at 100
    2 November 1992 - The End

Harry Langdon
    15 June 1884 Born Council Bluffs Iowa
    1923 Mack Sennett signs him and assigns writers Arthur Ripley, Harry Edwards and Frank Capra.
    1924 Picking Peaches - false start
    1925 Photoplay
        “Ask Harold Lloyd who gives him the biggest celluloid laugh. Ask any star. They will say Langdon.”
    1926 Saturday Afternoon
        The character the writers have created firmly in place.
    1926 Leaves for Warner Brothers and takes writers
    1926 Tramp Tramp Tramp
    1926 The Strong Man
    1927 Long Pants
        Takes off with public and critics
            “Genius” fires writers and starts to direct his own films
            Ends up in bit parts
    James Agee ~ “ Langdon had one queerly toned, unique little reed. But out of it he could get incredible melodies.
    1944 Dies

Joseph Frank Keaton
    4 October 1895 Piqua, Kansas
    Films only moderately successful on release but over the years they have grown towering in the pantheon of silent comedians. 
    Signature was his Stone Face