Laurel And Hardy - Hats Off

Starring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel Dvd Release: 17th April, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy were the members of the most famous comedy duo in film history. Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire, England. Laurel began his career as a comedian in English music halls where he was an understudy to Charles Chaplin in Fred Karno s comedy company. He emigrated to America in 1910 & embarked on a vaudeville career. He made his first film appearance in 1917. He stayed in film & did minor & undistinguished work for Hal Roach, Anderson & Universal. Before his partnership with Oliver, Stan appeared solo in more than 50 silent one- & two-reelers. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia near Augusta, Georgia, in the United States of America. As he turned 18, he changed his first name to that of his father, thenceforth calling himself Oliver Norvell Hardy. He was nicknamed Babe. Before Hardy started his film career as an actor in 1914, he had been a movie house projectionist/manager at the Palace Theater in Milledgeville, GA.

Oliver Norvell Hardy was an American film actor. With Stan Laurel, he formed half of perhaps the most famous comedy partnership in film history, Laurel & Hardy. Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. In his first film, Outwitting Dad, Hardy chose to be billed as O N Hardy, taking his fathers first name as his own. From that time, he referred to himself as Oliver Norvell Hardy & eventually became most commonly known as simply Oliver Hardy. For details of Hardys career see the Laurel & Hardy article. Posters Of Utopia

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Arthur Stanley Jefferson is better known as comedian Stan Laurel. Early youth Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born on June 16, 1890 in his grandparent’s house in Ulverston, North Lancashire. He was the second of five children. His father, A J Jefferson, managed a number of different theatres, his mother was an actress. Arthur lived with his grandparents until the age of six when he then moved in with his father & began his education. As a child, Laurel liked the theatre so much that when he was nine he set up a theatre in the attic & used neighbourhood child as supporting actors. The first school he went to was in Gainford. He later went to school in Bishop Auckland, Tynemouth & in Glasgow, where he finished his education & went to work in the box office of the Metropole Theatre, which his father managed. His father encouraged him to get into theatre management but Stan had other plans. At sixteen, he went to Mr. E Pickard for a ‘try out’ in his theatre. The act went reasonably well. Although his father did not like the idea, he encouraged him in the field of comedy. Posters Of Utopia

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