Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
Tag: Laurel and Hardy
The dumbest Laurel & Hardy gag is in Our Relations, where they have their feet in cement and it’s legit just ten minutes of them teetering and screaming… I love it…
jerry lewis relentlessly lobbied the academy to award stan laurel with an honorary oscar. they did in 1961. (that’s bill richmond in the bellboy, 1960)
Stan writes about his first meeting with Fred Karno in a letter to Fred Karno Jr. (x)
Apparently, the letter Stan had with him was from his dad, Arthur Jefferson, who was in the theatre business. Which might explain why Stan was hired despite not knowing what “taking the nap” meant. Also, Fred Sr. wasn’t being overly flirty with Stan; only testing what his reaction to a fake punch would be.
Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965)
“Chaplin wasn’t the funniest, I wasn’t the funniest, this man was the funniest.”
Buster Keaton
Migratory Cocoanuts 