Halving Hal Yates
July 26 was the birthday of slapstick comedy film director Hal Yates (1899-1969). Which presents us with an opportunity to clear something up. There is a widespread misconception across the Internet that this Hal Yates, who wrote and directed comedy shorts for Mack Sennett, Hal Roach, and RKO, and later for TV sitcoms, is the […]