Stan Laurel

...comedy at age 96. Hal Roach was a guest on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982, where he recounted experiences with such stars as Stan Laurel and Jean Harlow; he even did a brief, energetic demonstration of a hula dance. At age 92, he was...

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...Us is Laurel and Hardy's first feature length comedy film. It was produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel, directed by James Parrott, and originally distributed by MGM in 1931 . It is prohibition, and beer barons Laurel and Hardy are sent...

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...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...

In this article: Kenneth D. Peach Sr., Hal Roach, Pauline Curley, Tiffany Pictures, RKO Pictures, Warner Bros, and Laurel and Hardy

...Fame career under the name "Johnny Blood" The film was parodied in 1922 by Stan Laurel in Mud and Sand and in 1924 by Will Rogers in the Hal Roach short film Big Moments From Little Pictures. Blood and Sand has been remade twice: The...

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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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...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 Marvin Hatley, effects...

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...to solve the problems he faced. The character's trademark was a bald head crowned by an oversize derby hat, a gift to Beard from comedian Stan Laurel, who had also worked under Our Gang creator Hal Roach. Stymie is the only ''Our Gang''er...

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...Finlayson before the team of Laurel and Hardy appeared. Laurel went on to join the Hal Roach studio, and began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette. He intended to work primarily as a writer and director,...

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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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