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• #WHEN WERE LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES MADE MOVIE#

It was their pairing that made them what they were - the funniest couple in Hollywood. “One of the reasons why people like us, I guess, is because they feel superior to us.”

They never get anywhere because they are both so dumb, but they know they’re dumb. Ollie said that the secret of their success was, “Those two fellows we created, they were nice, very nice people. Although they were really a visual act, their genius was in being able to make the transition from silent film to sound. Their first full-length feature film in 1931 was Pardon Us and they became so successful that by 1935 they made no more shorts, only feature films. Almost by chance, Stan played in the film Lucky Dog with Ollie, but it wasn’t until a few years later when they starred in Slipping Wives that Roach teamed them up.

Roach was well known for giving his actors, writers and directors the scope to create great comedy routines. In America, Stan wrote his own material and started touring with his own shows until he met Hollywood producer Hal Roach who was to become his long-time boss and for whom he directed many films. He later joined Fred Karno’s troupe and after a tour of Britain the troupe went on to America in 1910. In his early days, he had gone to work for a number of travelling groups earning a pound a week. Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson (1890-1965) in Ulverston, Lancashire - now in Cumbria. 14 classic old pictures of world famous Hollywood film stars in Wales.

#WHEN WERE LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES MADE MOVIE#

After running a movie theatre in Milledgeville for three years, he moved to Jacksonville following films crews in the hope of obtaining employment before moving on to California where he met Hal Roach and Stan Laurel.

Later sent to military school, he went awol and ended up singing in a movie house for 50 cents a day. He soon returned home to his widowed mother and when he wasn’t in school hung around the lobby of his mother’s hotel studying the odd behaviour and mannerisms of the guests. This sort of adulation must have been sweet for the pair who had been reduced to playing small theatres while staying in boarding houses on the comeback tour which never really was.Īmerican comedian Hardy (1892-1957) was born in Harlem, Georgia and ran away from home to join a minstrel group when he was eight years old. In the history section of its website, the New Theatre records how: "In 1952, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, despite both being in their sixties, receive a wonderful reception from several generations of fans for their unique brand of slapstick comedy." It was enough to make Laurel run his fingers through his hair in his famous gesture of incomprehension. Yelling “Stan”, “Ollie” as the comics walked towards the New Theatre he jumped off the lorry and ran down the road to clutch the trouser leg of Hardy. This is what life in Wales was like in the 1950s.One report from the time tells how a builder’s labourer, standing in the back of a lorry driving down Park Place, was so star struck he jumped from the vehicle and rushed to touch Hardy when he saw the pair as they approached Queen Street. Reilly is Hardy and Steve Coogan stars as Laurelīy the time they came to Cardiff, they were considered old men back in the USA as audiences turned to newer stars like Abbott and Costello or switched on their televisions rather than going to the cinema.īut in 1952 in Cardiff, Laurel and Hardy still had the magic to make grown men run down the street after them and make eating a bag of chips as funny as our picture shows. Here's how they look in the new movie Stan & Ollie - American actor John C.