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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, circa 1938. Laurel and Hardy were primarily comedy film actors. However, many of their films featured songs, and some are considered as musicals in their own right. The composer Leroy Shield scored most of Laurel and Hardy sound shorts although they were often misattributed to Marvin Hatley. [1]
The song was featured in Laurel and Hardy's 1937 film Way Out West. It was performed by Laurel and Hardy [5] with The Avalon Boys and featured a section sung in deep bass by Chill Wills, lip-synced by Stan Laurel in the film, [6] with the last two lines in falsetto (sung by Rosina Lawrence) after Ollie hit Stan on the head with a mallet. [7]
Laurel and Hardy in the 1939 film The Flying Deuces. Their 1929 release Big Business is by far the most critically acclaimed of the silents. [67] Laurel and Hardy are Christmas tree salesmen who are drawn into a classic tit-for-tat battle, with a character played by James Finlayson, that eventually destroys his house and their car. [68]
The tune was originally written as score for a prison schoolroom scene in Pardon Us, Laurel & Hardy's first feature film as a team. [2] Shield, a musical director hired by the Roach studio on loan from RCA Victor, had been requested by Hal Roach to also write a theme for Our Gang while he was scoring Pardon Us, and when Roach came to check on progress for the theme, Shield submitted the ...
Lobby card for The Rogue Song featuring Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel. There were eight comic episodes throughout the film in which Laurel and Hardy appeared. One of these has survived on film. In this scene, there is a storm and a tent is blown away revealing Stan and Oliver. They try to sleep without any cover. A bear enters a cave.
For decades, "March of the Wooden Soldiers," a.k.a. "Babes in Toyland," has been a Thanksgiving tradition on WPIX TV. The movie turns 90 this year
Leroy Bernard Shield (October 2, 1893 – January 9, 1962) was an American film score and radio composer.He is best known for the themes and incidental music he wrote for the classic Hal Roach comedy short films of the 1930s, including the Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy series.
His work in Laurel and Hardy's films Way Out West and Block-Heads earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. [3] In 1939, Hatley was fired from the Roach studio. At the insistence of Stan Laurel, however, he did return to score one final Laurel & Hardy film, Saps at Sea. Hatley went on to become a lounge pianist, and ...