Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia, in 1892. In less than 18 months he starred in more than 50 films before teaming up with Hardy. Two years before the outbreak of the First World War Karno took them both to America where Stan changed his name to Stan Laurel because Stan Jefferson had 13 letters and he thought it was unlucky.Īfter appearing in dozens of short silent films, Stan joined the Hal Roach studio as a director and writer in 1925. Billed as "He Of The Funny Ways", he toured music halls with Fred Karno’s troupe, acting as understudy to Charlie Chaplin. His father was a theatrical entrepreneur in the North and in Scotland and got his son his first stage role in panto at the age of 16 under the name of Stan Jefferson. Stan was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Cumbria, in 1890 (see panel).
This profound realisation sums up their career, which happened almost by chance in the days of silent films. One heartfelt moment in the new film has them arguing like a married couple with Ollie telling Stan: "You loved Laurel and Hardy but you never loved me.” In 1931, The Music Box, which revolved around pushing a piano up a long flight of steps, won an Oscar. Instead, they discover things they never knew about each other, despite a partnership that saw them starring in 32 short silent films, 40 short sound films, and 23 full-length feature films including classics such as Sons Of The Desert, Way Out West, A Chump At Oxford and The Flying Deuces. The pair hope the publicity will convince a British producer to back Stan's new idea of a spoof Robin Hood film. The film initially portrays them playing a tatty venue in Newcastle to a dwindling number of fans, but later it reflects newspaper accounts and newsreel footage of the time, which tell a different story of big crowds packing top-line theatres. To which Stan replies: "That's going to take a long time, isn't it?”
VILLAINS IN LAUREL AND HARDY MOVIES TV
"I kept Palance slapping Zero in the butt, making him run," said Kazan in Jeff Young's interview book, Kazan - The Master Director Discusses His Films, explaining that he created a slapstick ambiance in the midst of terror.On a live BBC TV broadcast of the show Face The Music in 1953, Ollie informs Stan that the programme has an audience of six million and that host Henry Hall is "going to introduce us to them". He and the legendary character actor Zero Mostel made an unlikely comic-ominous duo of villains, like a hard-guy Laurel and Hardy. Palance played a small-time New Orleans criminal responsible for the dumping of a body filled with pneumonic plague into the Mississippi River. Streetcar's director, Elia Kazan, gave Palance his film debut in one of Kazan's best and least-known movies, Panic in the Streets (1950).
After studying journalism at Stanford University, and trying his hand at sports reporting and broadcasting, he became a stage actor, once understudying Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.
When World War II broke out, he became a pilot in the Army Air Forces, suffering injuries during a crash landing that added to his craggy, prematurely worn appearance. Palance's roots were in Pennsylvania coal-mining country he went to the University of North Carolina on a football scholarship but dropped out to become a boxer.
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