Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)
Tag: Stan Laurel
“BABE!!”
Merely by lip-reading, it’s clear that Stan calls Ollie by his nickname in Big Business (1929).
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)
Sherlock Jr. – There’s a Stan Laurel Film poster there, I have never noticed that before!
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
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