- He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1580 Vine Street.
- LA Roque's 1927 marriage to silent screen siren Vilma Banky was dreamed up by their studios' publicity departments to boost both of their flagging film careers. By all accounts, it was an amiable marriage lasting over 40 years (until his death in 1969).
- Was an amateur machinist, appearing in a South Bend Lathe Works publication in 1934.
- Hollywood folklore claims that some guests at La Roque's studio back-lot wedding to silent movie sex symbol Vilma Banky had their meals "catered" by the studio prop department. Guests seated farthest away from the bridal party's table were supposedly served plaster of Paris pasta and paper mache' pheasants.
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