Paying tribute to Stan Laurel on his birthday (June 16, 1890)! Here are The Boys on the set of Below Zero, with L&H director James Parrott and Charles Parrott (a.k.a. Charley Chase). Am unsure as to who the two ladies in this shot are; comedy and Hal Roach Studio experts, feel free to comment.
Tipping our brown derbies to Stan (and Babe) by watching Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection while revisiting Randy Skredtvedt's terrific book, Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind The Movies between films.
We'll start the Stan & Babe Sunday binge-watching of their excellent comedy short subjects with some silents.
Stan Laurel and Babe Hardy worked in films as solo headliners and/or supporting players for more than a decade before teaming in 1927. Scholars Rob Stone, Moving Image Curator at the Library of Congress and the late David Wyatt of The Cinema Museum in London penned a detailed, witty and informative history of their solo projects, Laurel or Hardy: The Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver "Babe" Hardy. There is now a Laurel Or Hardy Blu-ray available.
Stan & Babe solo films are on the Slapstick Encyclopedia box set, as well as such Kino Video "Slapstick Symposium" releases as The Stan Laurel Collection and The Oliver Hardy Collection.
Laurel & Hardy, by the rise of talkies a world-famous comedy team, in short subjects enjoyed an extended winning streak. Here are just a few of their incredibly funny starrng vehicles.
74 years after their last film, Atoll K, Laurel & Hardy deliver the laughs!
Repeated laughs are a fabulous way to celebrate Father's Day! Happy Birthday, Stan!
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