My touched up Stan has been fully christened, as he made it to St James's today
My touched up Stan has been fully christened, as he made it to St James's today
Had my Stan Laurel tattoo touched up today
Spent some time in #CulverCity yesterday, onetime home of the Hal Roach Studio. A lot of buildings that appear in the backgrounds of #HalRoach Productions, like #LaurelAndHardy films, are still standing, and have had a lot of other screen appearances over the intervening decades. Below is the Culver Hotel. Film location blogger John Bengtson describes its appearance in L&H films 70's and 80's TV shows here: https://silentlocations.com/2018/04/01/from-roachs-to-roaches-stan-ollie-meet-starsky-hutch/
I get the feeling that Culver City went downhill a bit after the classic movie era, but it's looking pretty spiffy now.
Also, most of Friday will feature talkies/semi-talkie comedies starring #SilentFilm stars: Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, Harold Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy so set your DVRs for those
#TCMParty #BusterKeaton #JacquesTati #HaroldLloyd #CharlieChaplin #LaurelAndHardy #comedy
This Sunday at 3pm--come for our monthly Talkie Matinée, featuring Our Gang, Charley Chase, and especially Laurel & Hardy!
#LaurelAndHardy #OurGang #LittleRascals #CharleyChase
The Sisyphean steps Laurel and Hardy struggle with in “The Music Box” are real steps that exist in the Silverlake district of Los Angeles. There’s even a historical plaque and street sign there now
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #PreCode #TheMusicBox #LaurelAndHardy #silverlake
Our final film is “The Music Box” (1932) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (https://youtu.be/iy7YuAj3xd8?si=IO5ebn8942ViPY5v)
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #PreCode #TheMusicBox #LaurelAndHardy
Oliver Hardy’s wife is played by Australian-American actress Mae Busch, who appeared in many Laurel & Hardy films from 1927’s “Love ‘em and Weep” to 1936’s “The Bohemian Girl”
#RetroView #SonsOfTheDesert #MaeBusch #LaurelAndHardy
First up is “Sons of the Desert” (1933) starring Stan Lauren, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, and Dorothy Christy (https://youtu.be/SVQHveBaBX8?si=_4mJexRMwC9KITk5)
#RetroView #PreCodeApril #PreCode #SonsOfTheDesert #LaurelAndHardy
There is a remastered version of Blotto by Laurel & Hardy on YouTube. 25 minutes long. Anita Garvin is fab as Stan’s wife. She was in a lot of Laurel & Hardy films.
Heute vor 60 Jahren starb der britische #Komiker #StanLaurel im kalifornischen Santa Monica. Aus diesem Anlass erinnern wir an den letzten #Film, in dem er gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen #OliverHardy auftrat: Atoll K (F/I, 1951):
Miriam Rürup, #Staatenlosigkeit als Utopie? Laurel und Hardy auf dem Atoll, #WerkstattGeschichte 52/2010, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/archive-vergessen/
Lt. Guinness-Buch der Rekorde fand die größte Tortenschlacht der Filmgeschichte in „The Battle of the Century“ statt. In diesem Laurel & Hardy Streifen von 1927 wurden 3.000 Torten verwendet.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_und_Hardy:_Die_Schlacht_des_Jahrhunderts
The #LaurelAndHardy feature Our Relations, which we will be showing in our talkie matinée tomorrow, was directed by Harry Lachman. Previously he did set design for Mare Nostrum, (1926) and directed Dante's Inferno (1935).
These are great films but you might be wondering how they led to directing a Laurel and Hardy movie--well, he was just a huge fan of the boys and talked his way into the job!
It gave this movie a bit different look than most of their comedies, but it works.
Come see for yourself at our Edison Theater, in Niles, Fremont, CA, Sunday 2/9 at 3pm!
Laurel and Hardy: The Silent Years is heading to Blu-ray. Trailer and details here https://bit.ly/4aS1uVX
#LaurelandHardy #bluray #silentfilm #news @Eurekavideo
Deadpool who? Here's the GOAT OG fourth wall breaker. Know your classics or go home. #laurelandhardy #OliverHardy #Deadpool #comedy
Laurel & Hardy: Men O' War (1929) (Stan and Ollie are sailors on shore leave)
https://fedi.video/videos/watch/8e96a213-0b71-4690-937f-1e60c0d3aa57
Laurel & Hardy: Perfect Day (1929) (Stan and Ollie take their wives for a day trip in a car)
https://fedi.video/videos/watch/4ca1adc3-3b0e-479b-b09d-4dbb4b3fb956