Reeling Off the Rocking Roles of Rockin' Rod La Rocque
With a name like Rod La Rocque (1898-1969), I reckon it's impossible not to be a movie star! Half French-Canadian, half Irish, La Rocque (his real name) grew up in Chicago, where he took juvenile parts with stock companies and later worked in vaudeville. He broke into the movies at local Essanay Studios in 1914, […]