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1. LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES FEMALE CO STARS MOVIE
2. LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES FEMALE CO STARS PROFESSIONAL
3. LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES FEMALE CO STARS SERIES
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Hardy, like Laurel, was one of five children. His mother was a descendant of Captain Hugh Norvell, a founder of Williamsburg, VA. His father, Oliver, was a recruiting officer for the U.S. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy on January 18, 1892, in Harlem, GA. He was billed in a few films as “Stanley Laurel” before shortening his first name to “Stan.” It was said that he chose his last name after seeing a drawing of a Roman general, Scipio, wearing a laurel wreath. He made comedy shorts for Metro, Hal Roach Studios and Universal, then returned to work with Roach.

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In 1924, Laurel signed a contract with producer Joe Rock to star in a series of 12 two-reel comedies and began devoting himself full-time to film work.

(Only a brief fragment of the film survives.) He made his film debut, still billed as Stan Jefferson, in the short Nuts in May (1917), shot at Bernstein Studios in Hollywood. After leaving the troupe in 1914, Laurel worked with other comics in American venues in various duos and trios. Later that year, both Laurel and Chaplin came to the U.S. A young Charlie Chaplin was also in the company, and for a time, Stan worked as his understudy. In 1910, under the name Stan Jefferson, he joined a comedy troupe led by Fred Karno.

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The family eventually moved to Glasgow, Scotland, and the age of 16, he made his professional debut at Glasgow’s Panopticon music hall, where he perfected his skills in pantomime and first wore his trademark bowler hat. Stanley grew up in the British music hall and absorbed its traditions and methods. He was one of five children of Arthur Jefferson, a vaudevillian and theater manager, and the former Margaret Metcalfe, an actress. Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on Jto theatrical parents in Ulverston, Lancashire, England. They set the pattern for comedy teams that followed, including Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis and the fictional Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, as well as Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar. Laurel and Hardy completed each other as any exceptional couple does, and they developed into a comic pairing hailed by many as the greatest of all time. But it was when they joined forces that the magic happened. Laurel in particular earned praise for his early film work, winning comparisons to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Laurel’s endearing comic trademarks included blank stares, pitiful whimpers and puzzled head-scratches, while Hardy was given to flowery speeches, double-takes and the waggling of his necktie.Įach performer had successful solo careers, gaining a following through stage work before making their mark in movies. Stan was the bumbling, well-intentioned innocent Ollie, the fastidious, pompous would-be man of the world.

Laurel was the slender Englishman, Hardy the rotund American.

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However in 1939 having a horse mimicking Ollie and telling Stan “That’s another fine pickle you got me in” was a technical masterpiece.Įnding with one of my favourite scenes from ‘Way out West’

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Nowadays having it seem like an animal is talking is not anyone gets excited about, it is even used in TV ads. Recently it has become a bit controversial because some people had called some scenes and especially the march of the wooden soldiers anti-Semitic, I have watched this movie hundreds of times and I could not see it, if at all it is more of a warning of things to come. That whole movie is filled with special effects. In the movie Brat Stan and Ollie play themselves but also their sons and in several scenes the four are seen together.īabes in Toyland aka March of the Wooden Soldiers But it is only since recently I started to appreciate that some of their movies had very advanced special effects for their time, and those effect have also stood the test of time for more then 80 years. The humour in their films has remained fresh till today and they never dated. Ever since I was a kid I loved watching Laurel & Hardy movies and I believe I have them all in my collection.