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Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year with their 11th silent short film, The Second Hundred Years (1927). [5] The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. [ 6 ] Between 1941 and 1945, they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . [ 7 ]
(L to R) Edgar Kennedy, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Mae Busch. Unaccustomed as We Are is a short comedy film produced by Hal Roach and directed by Lewis R. Foster. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 4, 1929. This picture was the first "all-talking" Laurel and Hardy comedy. The working title was Their Last Word. [1]
Big Business is a 1929 silent Laurel and Hardy comedy short subject directed by James W. Horne and supervised by Leo McCarey from a McCarey (uncredited) and H. M. Walker script. The film, largely about tit-for-tat vandalism between Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen and the man who rejects them, was deemed culturally significant and ...
The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932.
Brats is a 1930 Laurel and Hardy comedy short. The film was directed by James Parrott.Laurel and Hardy play dual roles as their own children. It also inspired a helper group for the Michigan tent for The Sons of the Desert, which is composed of all the child members of the tent.
Most of the Laurel & Hardy sound shorts were ultimately colorized for distribution in Europe; The pixel-based color process and the conversion from the American NTSC system to the European PAL system often affected the sharpness of the image, [122] so since 2011 video distributors have issued the original, more accurately rendered black-and ...
[8] [9] Opening screen credits for Laurel and Hardy short subjects after Walker's departure usually include no specific writer identification. [10] The scenes and dialogue that comprise The Live Ghost were likely the products of a collaborative effort by Hal Roach himself, Stan Laurel, and one or more of the studio's team of "gag writers". [11]
Thicker than Water is a short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne, produced by Hal Roach, and released in 1935 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The short also features James Finlayson and Daphne Pollard in supporting roles. It was the last two-reel comedy starring the comedy team, as Hal Roach decided to end Laurel and Hardy short ...