Laurel And Hardy - Good, clean, classic comedy!

[Susan Foreman]

In September 1935, Stan and Ollie penned an advice column for aspiring comedians in an anniversary edition of The Hollywood Reporter. Their full column is below:

Sadly, I have been unable to locate a picture of 'page 439', but the article continues as such:

"And speaking of bridge, not a few aspiring comics have made the grade by filling in as a fourth at this game. One highly important qualification for screen jester fame is one's ability to meet newspaper and magazine writers as man to man without flinching. Here, we give you a few tried and true remarks to toss off for the benefit of the third degree-ers of the fourth estate, during the course of such a grilling:

(1) I am looking forward to the day when I can do Hamlet.

(2) There is no secret of my success.

(3) No, custard pie isn't my favorite dessert.

(4) Chaplin and Fields are all right in their way.

(5) One has to have suffered to be a comedian.

Now then, we almost overlooked a very essential bit of advice that you will need if you hope to climb the ladder to success as a screen funster. Hire yourself a high-powered press agent at once to exploit your personality, your social activities and the fact that you ware good to your mother. This breaks the ice and assists in securing an entree for you in the offices of the moguls of moviedom. Be sure and carry your press clipping book with you at all times so that you can meet any emergency. Also, it may be necessary to refer to this volume from time to time so that you consistently live up to the things your press agent says about you. But always call him "my publicity counsel" when addressing a supervisor or a producer.

If you have carefully read and digested all of the above you are just about ready to crack down on the studios. But before doing so, hire an old Model T break-away Ford so that you can drive up in front of a producer's sanctum and do your stuff in front of his office window prior to making personal contact. This is sure-fire and some of the boys have been invited into his presence before they had a chance to send in their cards after executing a few comic didoes as outline. And this brings us to the subject of business cards. And this, too, is highly important, so important in fact, that we are giving you here a sample of the style of card that is being used this season by we boys of the profession. Of course the name is fictitious:

I.M. NUTZ
Professional Comic
(Own My Own Wardrobe)
Expert at Pratt Falling — 108's, High Gruesomes and Double Takems.
Nifty Dresser On and Off
Facial Contortionist
and Can Double Brass.
(Address and Telephone No. Here)

This is a ... proven ticket of admission to the most impregnable offices. It is yours for the taking and with it go our blessing and best wishes. Oh, yes, there is one other thing that we almost forgot. Be sure and arm yourself with a bunch of letters of recommendation from your Sunday school teacher, the village elocutionist, your favorite bartender and such other influential citizens as you can think of, before bearding a potential employer in his den. Most producers can read and have a lot of time on their hands and love to peruse such testimonials."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...median-1041563

[Susan Foreman]

No further information at the moment, but apparently there is a new documentary on Laurel and Hardy which the BBC are going to be broadcasting sometime in August

Michael Crawford will be the presenter/narrator

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

No further information at the moment, but apparently there is a new documentary on Laurel and Hardy which the BBC are going to be broadcasting sometime in August

Michael Crawford will be the presenter/narrator

It seems that this is going to be on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday 15th August 2018 between 9:00pm - 10:00pm

The series, which starts on Wednesday, 25th July, is the last episode in a series of four, looking at comedy double acts

The other episodes are:
Wednesday, 25th July 2018 - Barbara Windsor on Abbott And Costello
Wednesday, 1st August 2018 - Christopher Biggins on Gert And Daisy
Wednesday, 8th August 2018 - Bill Kenwright on Dean Martin And Jerry Lewis

https://www.comedy.co.uk/radio/doubl.../episodes/1/4/

[Susan Foreman]

A nice little film

[Susan Foreman]

First teaser poster for the upcoming Biopic

No trailers as yet, but the release date is currently being given as January 2019

[Susan Foreman]

October 21st

World premiere of Stan & Ollie to close 62nd BFI London Film Festival | BFI

[Susan Foreman]

In memory of Oliver Hardy, died August 7th, 1957

[Demoncrat]

That 'anthology' dvd I bought turned out to be only 44 min . From 1990! Some of the prints looked pitiful tbh. More or less a recap of their career, the one note of interest was a colour public information film starring the duo . Next!!

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

the one note of interest was a colour public information film starring the duo . Next!!

Would that be 'Tree In A Test Tube'?

[Susan Foreman]

I hope the actual film is more like the second half of the trailer

The first half seems like a depressing hatchet job