studio prop house and found an unframed black-and-white Laurel and Hardy poster from their 1928 short Leave ’Em Laughing. Grande, himself a fan (“Who’s not?” he asked rhetorically), hung ...

The best legitimate source remains the expansive (and expensive) ten-disc DVD set Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection, which collects almost all of the sound-era shorts and features that the ...

Pic/YouTube >> 'Putting Pants on Philip' is not the first time that Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were paired up. Both were cast as separate performers in the 1921 silent short, 'The Lucky DOg'.

“I am astonished.” Laurel and Hardy, fortuitously partnered by producer Hal Roach, made just over 100 shorts and features as a team. Sons of the Desert takes its name from their 1933 feature ...

The lithe Stan Laurel had yet again gotten his portly partner Oliver Hardy involved in “another nice mess,” this time in 1937’s Way Out West. (As any member of the diehard Sons of the Desert ...

Laurel and Hardy’s 1932 short film “The Music Box” is considered the iconic comedic duo’s masterpiece. The premise is simple. Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel play a pair of bumbling furniture ...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their first official appearance as a comedy pairing in 1927, in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip, and soon developed an irresistible chemistry.