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Laurel and Hardy – another fine mess: the actual tale of the final days

Stan & Ollie follows the comedians’ last years. Just just How closely does it match the fact?

The trailer that is official Stan & Ollie, a movie predicated on comedians Stan Lauren and Oliver Hardy.

Each time a Laurel and Hardy movie arrived on television my grandad Freddie Elcock would stay me personally on their point and knee excitedly in the display. “There he’s,” he’d say. “Stan Laurel. My pal Stan that is old.”

Ahead of the very first World War Freddie had caused Stan – and Charlie Chaplin, too – on music hallway bills topped because of the impresario Fred Karno’s touring company of slapstick comedians. Chaplin ended up being Karno’s star; a 20-year-old Stan Jefferson (their real title) was 2nd banana and Charlie’s understudy. Read more