Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and HardyStan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained, from 1927 to the present day, the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act, celebrated by legions of fans. But despite many books about their films and individual lives, there has never been a fully researched, definitive narrative biography of the duo, from birth to death. |
Contents
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Stanley | 10 |
Young Stan Jefferson | 11 |
Arthur Jefferson | 20 |
The Road Diverges | 22 |
Ollie War and Peace | 30 |
Oliver Norvell Hardy as a baby | 31 |
The Boarding House Boy 3 8 | 38 |
Multiple wife trouble for the innocent spouse | 263 |
The Song of the Cuckoos | 265 |
Below Zero in the Depression dumps | 269 |
Modern transport in Hog Wild | 271 |
Chickens Come Home | 280 |
Delivery accomplished with Billy Gilbert and Gladys Gale | 286 |
A Very Good Boy | 290 |
Busy Bodies and Devils Brothers | 295 |
What Bloody Use Are We? | 49 |
Young Stan Jefferson he of the funny ways | 58 |
In the Temple of the Magic Light Beams | 59 |
WowWows in Wonderland | 69 |
Laurel and Chaplin with the Karno troupe aboard | 70 |
Rum Uns aRoamin | 79 |
All Broken Out with the Movies | 89 |
Early film antics of Babe Hardy a primal scream? | 93 |
Vim and Vigour or Straddling the Home Plates | 101 |
Babe in trouble again | 102 |
The Laurel Wreath of Scipio Africanus and Other Tall Hollywood Tales | 113 |
Just Rolin Along Commence the Hal Roach Story | 119 |
Hal Roach with Harold Lloyd early days | 121 |
The Larry Semon Show | 128 |
Put em both up insect before I comb your hair with lead | 140 |
The Lucky Dog first contact | 141 |
The Handy Man | 148 |
Stan and Mae Laurel | 149 |
Somewhere Over the Rainbow | 163 |
Hardy and Semon in The Perfect Clown with Dorothy Dwan | 164 |
The Reluctant Suitors | 177 |
Leo McCarey | 179 |
PART TWO The Glory Days Tall Oaks From Little Acorns Grow | 191 |
The Fruits of Toil | 193 |
Laurel and Hardy with musical instruments | 194 |
The Metamorphosis | 204 |
Cave Stan and Ollie with maidens in Flying | 211 |
Running Frantically through the Streets | 216 |
Whitewash in The Second Hundred Years | 217 |
Stan and Ollie | 226 |
The Lot of Fun | 228 |
Conflict resolution in Big Business with Jimmy Finlayson | 234 |
Multiple Whoopee or Wives and Woes | 239 |
Liberty caught with their pants down and on the high rise 2367 | 246 |
Unaccustomed As We Arent | 250 |
Soda soda soda And what will you have Stan? | 255 |
Genderbending in Their First Mistake | 296 |
Modern carpentry in Busy Bodies | 304 |
The Exhausted Rulers | 306 |
Party time with Charley Chase in Sons of the Desert | 314 |
Babes in Toilland | 319 |
Mounting silliness in Babes in Toyland | 323 |
On the trail of the lonesome mimes | 327 |
Nice Weather We Had Tomorrow | 329 |
Ollie without trousers | 330 |
Bohemian Girls | 338 |
Perils of matrimony Oliver and Myrtle Hardy 1936 | 346 |
Believe It or Not Stan and Hal Go Off the Rails | 353 |
The LaurelHardy Matrimony Case | 360 |
BlockHeads the walking wounded | 367 |
Hardy Without Laurel Laurel Without Hardy | 369 |
A Chump at Oxford Stan as Lord Paddington | 379 |
Something wholesome something tender | 382 |
The Fox and the Huns | 394 |
Reborn in the Foxhole Great Guns | 401 |
Nothing But Trouble | 405 |
Air Raid Wardens Gone to fight the Japs | 408 |
Nothing But Trouble two cooks with the wrong recipe | 419 |
Any Old Port | 421 |
Utopias and Unpromised Lands | 432 |
Ollies last standalone in Frank Capras Riding High | 433 |
Twilight of the Vauds | 444 |
Going Bye Bye | 456 |
Endpiece | 461 |
Notes on Sources | 463 |
Chronology | 477 |
Filmography | 481 |
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Acknowledgements | 505 |
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Other editions - View all
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy Simon Louvish Limited preview - 2002 |
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy Simon Louvish No preview available - 2002 |
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy Simon Louvish No preview available - 2002 |