Author: BROOKS, LEO M./ STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY
Title: The Laurel & Hardy Stock Company
Description: Hilversum, Netherlands : Blotto Press, 1997.. First printing 103 p., text and a large number of b/w photographs SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperback, small crease in spine. VERY GOOD) ¶ VERY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER. Bookfinder mentions the ISBN number 90-901046-1-5,but could not find any copy. A marvellous picture book of e Laurel & Hardy AND all their co-stars.Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they later successfully transitioned to "talkies". From the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with the 'bowler hats'Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy's pompous bully.In 1926, both were part of the Roach Comedy All Stars, a stock company of actors who took part in a series of films. Laurel's and Hardy's parts gradually grew larger, while those of their fellow stars diminished, because Laurel and Hardy had superior pantomime skills.

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