Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy, or Stan and Ollie as they also called are called, were a British-American comedy duo from the first half of the twentieth century. In the Dutch they have the nickname the thick and the thin.

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular comic duos in movie history. Both had been a solo career before she went for the first time in 1927 really work together. Only as a duo they were really famous. Together they made between 1927 and 1951 106 short and long films. [1]

Stan Laurel died on 23 February 1965; Oliver Hardy on 7 August 1957.



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[hide] *1 Background  ==Background[ Edit] == Laurel and Hardy were masters in the so-called slapstickgenre. In a lot of movies were they in a humorous way clashed with each other, or something happened to them on another funny way "so painful". Also was their humor in a film often centered around a specific subject or topic.
 * 2 History
 * 3 Catchphrases
 * 4 Tribute
 * 5 Filmography
 * 6 Trivia
 * 7 external links

The two plays in most movies fictional versions of themselves; two stupid, clumsy, but despite this, always optimistic men. The put, bossy and very own Oliver Hardy convinced can and lean, shy and naive Stan Laurel.Both were equally awkward. Even the most simple situations they could run in the hundreds in the blink of an eye. Both carry always a Bowler Hat. Their faces were often filmed so that there are no shadows on fell, so that the two got a more clownachtig appearance.

Behind the scenes was the cast the other way around: Laurel had the most creative influence and came up with most of the ideas for movies, while Hardy is only limited to the work for the camera. ==History[ Edit] == Laurel and Hardy in The Lucky DogThe first film in which Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were together, was in The Lucky Dog from 1921. The two were in this film, however, duo and played separate roles.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  a few years later they performed as a duo in the Hal Roachmovie 45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first official gig as a duo was the film Putting Pants on Philip. Their first gig as the familiar "Stan and Ollie" occurred in The Second Hundred Years (June 1927), directed by Fred Guiol. This film was so successful that the two of the producers got the advice to continue as a duo.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the 10 years after the two made a large number of short films and long feature films for Hal Roach. Initially these were silent films (with no sound and only accompanied bypiano music), but later they went about on the spoken movie. This they did initially reluctantly, there switched to sound movies already for many of their fellow actors and comedians had meant a demise of their career. Their first sound film was Unaccustomed As We Are (1929). The change to sound turned out to cost Laurel and Hardy no problem. They were there just popular by. Laurels British accent formed a stark contrast to Hardy's American accent. In addition, given the two by the switch to sound their vocal arts add to the movies.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Virtually every film was a great success. In the 1930s, they were at the height of their fame. Their short film The Music Box was awarded an Oscar in 1932 for best short comedy. Roach hired well-known writers and directors settled in for the films of the duo, including h.m. Walker, Leo McCarey, James Parrott, James w. Horne, but Stan Laurel wrote however, the vast majority of the scripts. He often also pressed on improvisation.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The films made by Hal Roach were initially released by Pathé, and since 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The last short movie of the two was made in 1935: Thicker than Water. Long films were still made, includingBonnie Scotland (1935), The Bohemian Girl (1936), Our Relations (1936), Way Out West (1937), Swiss Miss (1938) and Block-Heads (1938).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Around 1936, however, particularly Laurel discord with Roach, who found the feature films had to contain several songs, as well as a subplot in addition to the primary storyline. Laurel was made that this would lead off of the only humor him and Hardy. The tensions ran so high that Roach to dismiss and Hardy threatened Laurel with someone else to form a duo. Laurel to arrange a contract at Roachs responded by old rival Mack Sennett.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Together they would make a series of films for a new film company: Sennet Pictures Corporation. Interior there in 1939 Laurel and Roach their disagreement could remain a duo with bijlegden, making Laurel Hardy. The duo made two more movies for Roach A Chump at Oxford (1940) and Saps at Sea (1940). These were both released by United Artists.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After this film, Laurel and Hardy broke with Roach and signed contracts with some big studios such as 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. They hoped to get more artistic freedom for future projects. However, this plan was not as expected; the two were only adopted as actors, not as script writers or producers. In addition, they were allowed to play only in the smaller, cheaper productions. Only when these new movies right popular bleaching, the two got more control. Until 1944 Laurel and Hardy made eight new movies which, although generally not to be considered the best work of the duo, however, were very successful.

Laurel and Hardy in the film "Utopia" (1951)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the Second World War decided to act with Laurel and Hardy in Europe theatre shows. In 1950, they made a film together: Atoll K, also released as Utopia. This was an Italian-French production. The film brought a lot of problems with it, such as language barriers, and the fact that both Laurel and Hardy faced with a deteriorating health.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-McGarry_p._73_4-0" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] the film was a flop and finally meant the end of the film career of the duo.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After Atoll K, Laurel and Hardy went a while apart to recover. Then they went through with their European theater shows. The two performed on 1 december 1954 for the first time on American television on in the program This Is Your Life.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1955, Laurel and Hardy was last performed in public on as a duo in the Grand Order of Water RatsBritish program. Oliver Hardy died two years later from complications of heart problems and strokes, after which several Laurel decided to stop acting. ==Catchphrases<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">A well-known phrase from the movies, by Hardy against Laurel, reads: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into." ("Well, again a nice mess where you have involved do hit me.")

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another well-known catchphrase from the films of the duo is "D'oh!", used by James Finlayson (who starred with the duo in 33 movies). This catchphrase is today best known for the character Homer Simpson in the animated television series The Simpsons. ==Tribute<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * There are two official Laurel and Hardy-museums; in the United Kingdom a birthplace in Laurels Ulverston<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  and one in Hardy's birthplace, Harlem, Georgia United States<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]
 * Laurel & Hardy or characters who seem strong on them have cameos in numerous comics, films, television series and other works. Some examples:
 * Laurel & Hardy have a cameo as Roman legionaries in the Asterixalbum Obelix & co., where they like in their film The Music Box to a cargo unloading.
 * Comic artist Merho of The creating the comic strip is a big fan of the duo and has repeatedly referred to them in his comic. In come the Black Sun King Laurel & Hardy as the bodyguard of president Mombakka.The plot of The thing Luc Touch runs almost entirely around a film by Laurel & Hardy. Album 26 runs In Peekaboo along with a handsome woman, called "Laura Hardy". Other references are rather more subtle.So hot in the western village of rigged "Brushwood Gulch" as the town in the Laurel & Hardy film Way Out West. The song "the caves of Ann" on Fanny's radio is comes straight from the film Swiss Miss and don't shoot the pianist plays the theme song of the pianist Danny Zerkoffi Laurel & Hardy movies: "The Cuckoo Song" by Marvin Hatley.
 * In the Urbanusstripalbum the harem of Urban Oktaviëtte in heaven is seduced by Oliver Hardy.
 * In F.C. Kagia magazine nr. 5, a magazine that the first half of the 1980s, Laurel and Hardy appeared regularly, come as two Danish football players out there making a big mess of. (STÄN & ØLLIE AT KADER)
 * Many of the short films of the duo are processed into strip in the comic book series, Laurel and Hardy Classics.
 * The two have their own animated seriesproduced by Hanna-Barbera.
 * André van Duin is a fan of the duo and sang a tribute to them ever.
 * The scene with the eggs from their film The Live Ghost was completely plagiarized in the Nero stripalbum Jessica Kelly the devil (1950) by Marc Sleen.
 * Laurel and Hardy also have a series of non-English-language films made, including in the Spanish, Italian, French and German.
 * Three of the 106 Laurel and Hardy movies are considered lost, as they are since the 1930s never have been more in their original version in circulation. The movie "Hats Off" from 1927 is completely Traceless, of the movie "Now I'll Tell One" is missing, and the first half of "The Rogue Song" is missing some scenes.