Oliver Hardy

...special effects department. In 1933 he began a long association with producer Hal Roach of Hal Roach Studios ,, where he shot many of the comedy shorts of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, of Laurel and Hardy fame. In his later career, he worked...

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...financial troubles and their various marriages (Stan alone had five). It was the jovial and easygoing 'Babe' Hardy who died first, of a stroke in 1957, at the age of 65. Stan Laurel was so depressed and broken by his friend's departure that...

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...with Charley Chase. While at Roach, McCarey cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together and guided development of their onscreen characters, thus creating one of the most enduring comedy teams of all time. He only officially appeared...

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It is one of the few films after the teaming of Laurel and Hardy that features Hardy without Stan Laurel This teaming of Oliver Hardy with someone other than Stan Laurel was the result of a contract dispute between Hal Roach and Stan Laurel.

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...that would become the backbone of his work. Although he came along too late to interview either Laurel or Hardy, Skretvedt did debrief Oliver Hardy's widow, Stan Laurel's daughter, actors Anita Garvin and Dorothy Granger, music director...

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...(1932), which won them an Academy Award for best short film-their only such award. In 1936, Hardy's personal life suffered a blow as he and Myrtle divorced. While waiting for a contractual issue between Laurel and Hal Roach to be resolved,...

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Block-Heads Block-Heads is a 1938 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy , 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...

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...by Lloyd French and Charles Rogers, and produced by Hal Roach Oliver Hardy is preparing for his wedding day to the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate, Peter Cucumber. His friend Stan Laurel is of course the best man. While visiting...

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...warden issues them a pardon. H.M. Walker wrote the opening title card to this film, which states, "Mr. Hardy is a man of wonderful ideas - So is Mr. Laurel - As long as he doesn't try to think." After the release of MGM's hit The...

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