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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]
In May 1954, Hardy had a heart attack and cancelled the tour. In 1955, they were planning to do a television series called Laurel and Hardy's Fabulous Fables based on children's stories. The plans were delayed after Laurel had a stroke on 25 April 1955, from which he recovered. But as the team was planning to get back to work, Hardy had a major ...
Harmon performed Stan Laurel’s voice in that series along with Jim MacGeorge as Hardy. In 1999, Harmon coproduced and codirected a live-action feature, The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy, starring Bronson Pinchot as Laurel and Gailard Sartain as Hardy. Intended as the first of a series, it was released direct-to ...
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
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, descendants of illustrious ancestry as a butler and chef, find themselves unemployed in the year 1932. Their attempts to secure employment abroad prove futile, prompting their return to the U.S. in 1944, where they are suddenly besieged by eager employers in dire need of domestic assistance.
The silent version had printed title cards displaying the dialogue whenever anyone spoke, resulting in a slow and sometimes tedious narrative. Later Laurel and Hardy hybrids, intended for both silent and sound markets, were careful to include pantomime and visual gags, so silent-film audiences could enjoy the action without hearing the dialogue.
The group takes its name from a fictional lodge that Laurel and Hardy belonged to in the 1933 film Sons of the Desert. In keeping with the tongue-in-cheek “desert” theme, each local chapter of the society is called a “tent,” and each tent is named after one of the Laurel and Hardy films and designated with an "Oasis number" (e.g., the ...
Mike Dennett was 10 when he performed at Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Christmas Party at the Nottingham Empire on 21 December, 1952. The performer, whose career spanned seven decades, later ...