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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.
After finishing their film commitments, Laurel and Hardy concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of Great Britain. [8] In 1950, they appeared in their last film, Atoll K, a French/Italian co-production. [9] In 1932, Laurel and Hardy's short The Music Box won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy).
The Music Box remains one of the duo's most widely known films. Laurel and Hardy were favorites around the world, and Hal Roach catered to international audiences by filming many of their early talkies in other languages. They spoke their dialogue phonetically, in Spanish, Italian, French, or German. [76]
Laurel heard the tune on the station, and asked Hatley to use it as the Laurel and Hardy theme song. Generally known as "The Dance of the Cuckoos" it was copyrighted with the name "Coo ! coo ! radio time signal" [ 3 ] and was first heard on the opening credits for Blotto (1930) and the Spanish version of Night Owls (1930). [ 4 ]
The Music Box, a 1932 short film starring Laurel and Hardy; Music Box, a 1989 feature film directed by Costa-Gavras; The Music Box, a 2006 Japanese film by Ng See-yuen; Music Box Films, a distributor of foreign and independent films
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Hats Off was remade by the same director (Hal Yates) in 1945 as It's Your Move, starring Edgar Kennedy, but utilizing a different staircase although located in the same vicinity where the "Music Box Steps" are in Silver Lake (known as the Descanso Stairs, they are situated at the intersection of Descanso and Larissa Drives, specifically between ...
Block-Heads is a 1938 American comedy film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was produced by Hal Roach Studios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, a reworking of elements from the Laurel and Hardy shorts We Faw Down (1928) and Unaccustomed As We Are (1929), was Roach's final film for MGM.