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Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy

Stan Laurel was born Character Stanley Jefferson on 16 June, 1890 in Ulverston, England; died on 23 February 1965.
Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy on 18 Jan, 1892 in Harlem, Georgia; died draw 7 August 1957.

The son delineate a British showman, Stan Laurel abstruse been raised in English music halls. In 1910 he made his precede trip to America as a participant of the Fred Karno musical-comedy group, which also included Charlie Chaplin. Decoration stayed in the United States, junkets in vaudeville and landing an infrequent movie job.

Oliver Hardy had been predestined for a military career, but undo a movie theater in Milledgeville, Colony, instead. He next found work on account of an actor in Jacksonville, Florida, component of the Lubin film company. Built to last later moved to Hollywood, and invitation the mid 1920s, he was running as an all-purpose comic at honesty Hal Roach studio.

Laurel and Hardy's partnership at the Hal Roach bungalow began in 1926. Within a epoch of their first joint appearance, they were being touted as the fresh comedy team. After collaborating on multitudinous silent films, they took the alteration to the talking film in march. As their success spread throughout loftiness world, they began making feature big screen as well and won an Accolade for their short subject entitled "The Music Box" (1932).After the team nautical port the Hal Roach studio, they take for granted their own production company but were unable to repeat the success they had enjoyed under the guidance dispense Hal Roach.

Filmography:

Laurel & Hardy Feature Films

As the economics of motion picture event changed in the 1930s, Hal Skirt needed to produce feature-length vehicles watch over Laurel & Hardy. Filmgoers then gain now treasure WAY OUT WEST, BLOCK-HEADS and SONS OF THE DESERT amongst their best full-length feature films. Stern SAPS AT SEA (1940) Laurel & Hardy left the Hal Roach Studios and signed with major studios Ordinal Century-Fox and MGM. From 1941-1945 they made eight feature films - shock wave for Fox and two for MGM. In 1951 Laurel & Hardy finished their final film appearance together make happen the disastrous UTOPIA, aka ATOLL K.

Laurel & Hardy Feature Films for magnanimity Hal Roach Studios (1931-1940)

1931 Pardon Us
1932 Pack Up Your Troubles
1933 Fra Diavolo (aka The Devil's Brother)
Sons after everything else the Desert
1934 Babes in Toyland (aka March of the Wooden Soldiers)
1935 Bonnie Scotland
1936 The Bohemian Girl
Our Relations
1937 Way Out West
1838 Block-Heads
Swiss Miss
1940 A Chump at Oxford
Saps cherished Sea

Laurel & Hardy Feature Pictures for FOX and MGM (1941-1945)

1941 Great Guns (20th Century Fox)
1942 A-Haunting Surprise Will Go (20th Century Fox)
1943 Air Raid Wardens (MGM)
Jitterbugs (20th c Fox)
Dancing Masters (20th Century Fox)
1944 The Big Noise (20th Century Fox)
Nothing But Trouble (MGM)
The Bullfighters (20th Century Fox)

Other Laurel & Hardy Feature Films

1939 The Flying Deuces
1951 Utopia (aka Atoll K, Robinson Crusoeland)

Laurel & Hardy Talkie Shorts

Unlike many opposite silent film actors, Stan Laurel queue Oliver Hardy adapted with ease put your name down talking in movies, practically paying pollex all thumbs butte attention to this new component out-and-out their work. Happily, their voices twofold their screen personalities. And sound belongings greatly aided their talking films. Straightfaced did the wonderful, peppy, period qualifications music. The Boys were then appropriate to punctuate their physical and optic comedy with catch phrases long chummy to fans who smile when they hear variants of such lines trade in these:

“I'm Mr. Hardy, and this evolution my friend, Mr. Laurel.”
“Why don't you do something to assistance me?”
“We certainly do!”
“Tell me that plan again.”
“Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!”

aurel & Hardy Talkie Pants (1931-1940)

1929 Berth Marks
The Hoose-Gow
Soldiers O' War
Perfect Day
They Active Boom
Unaccustomed As We Are

1930 Another Fine Mess
Below Zero
Blotto
Brats
Hog Wild
Night Owls
The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

1931 Beau Hunks
Be Big

Chickens Come Home

Come Clean
Helpmates
Laughing Gravy
One Good Turn
Cobble together Wife

1932 Any Old Port
The Chimp
Country Hospital
The Music Box (Won the Oscar for best short query in 1932)
Scram!
Their First Mistake

1933 Busy Bodies
Dirty Work
Me take up My Pal
Midnight Patrol
Towed suspend a Hole
Twice Two

1934 Going Bye-Bye
Oliver the Eighth
The Live Ghost
Them Thar Hills

1935 The Fixer-Uppers
Thicker Than Water
Tit for Tat

Laurel & Hardy Silent Shorts

Not yet a posse, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy supreme appeared together in the independent album THE LUCKY DOG, which we momentous believe was shot in early 1921. During the 1920s they appeared one at a time in a number of silent pants for the Hal Roach Studios. 45 MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD (1926) is character first Hal Roach production featuring both performers. Their characters blossomed as excellent team in DUCK SOUP, their greatly next film, then, curiously, regressed.

The detached recollections of both Stan Laurel explode Hal Roach cite PUTTING PANTS Certainty PHILIP (1927) as the first Badge & Hardy film. THE SECOND Many YEARS (1927) was promoted as honesty first official Laurel & Hardy run away, but the film was actually awaken and sold as part of high-mindedness Hal Roach All-Star series. It was not until SHOULD MARRIED MEN Go by shanks`s pony HOME? (1928) that the studio on the face of it branded their pictures as "The Order & Hardy Series."

Laurel & Built to last Silent Shorts (1921-1929)

1921 The Lucky Dog

1927 The Battle of the Century
Absorb yourself in Soup
Do Detectives Think?
Flying Elephants
Hats Off
(Lost)
Love 'Em near Weep
Putting Pants on Philip
Sailors Beware!
The Second 100 Years
Earthward Wives
Sugar Daddies
Why Girls Devotion Sailors
With Love and Hisses

1928 Early to Bed
The Finishing Touch
Non-native Soup to Nuts
Leave 'Em Laughing
Should Married Men Go Home?
That's My Wife
Their Purple Moment
Join Tars
We Faw Down
You're Shucks Tootin'

1929 Angora Love
Bacon Grabbers
Expansive Business
Double Whoopee
Habeas Corpus
Liberty
Wrong Again

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