Birthday: 1890-06-16
Place of Birth: Ulverston, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. Laurel began his career in music hall, where he developed a number of his standard comic devices, including the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. His performances polished his skills at pantomime and music hall sketches. He was a member of "Fred Karno's Army", where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. He and Chaplin arrived in the United States on the same ship from the United Kingdom with the Karno troupe. Laurel began his film career in 1917 and made his final appearance in 1951. From 1928 onwards he appeared exclusively with Hardy, and Laurel officially retired from the screen following his comedy partner's death in 1957. In 1961 Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy, and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. In 2009, a bronze statue of the Laurel and Hardy duo was unveiled in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston, England.
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempt...
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Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector....
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Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal for visiting roya...
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Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mort...
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The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disast...
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Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the l...
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Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when t...
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It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and ...
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Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins...
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Two bumblers, failures as businessmen and air raid wardens, stumble across a nest of Nazi saboteurs ...
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Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't qu...
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The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War ...
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Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. T...
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The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player pi...
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Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Har...
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Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nel...
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Stan and Ollie work in a horn factory. Ollie starts having violent fits every time he hears a horn. ...
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Sailors Stan and Ollie offer to buy sodas for two women they meet in a park, even though they are sh...
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Policeman Edgar Kennedy is told by his chief he better stop a string of burglaries that have been ha...
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Barbershop owners Stan and Ollie answer an ad in the newspaper from a wealthy widow looking for a hu...
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Charlie tells his co-workers about his event-filled vacation to California, including his run in wit...
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Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches....
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Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are th...
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After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. H...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and...
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In a packed courtroom, Butch Long vows revenge on 'squealers' Laurel and Hardy whose evidence has he...
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Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighbo...
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Stan and Ollie are on their way to Atlantic City with their wives, when Ollie gets a phone call from...
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Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an ...
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Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. T...
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Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues....
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Stan and Ollie are chimney sweeps working at the home of mad scientist Professor Noodle....
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The boys sneak out for a night on the town, unaware that Stan's wife has switched her grocery coupon...
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While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each othe...
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Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The ne...
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Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with thei...
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Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf co...
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Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him....
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The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay...
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Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Lau...
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Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the h...
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Stan and Ollie are greeting card salesmen who agree to help a woman put a spark in her loveless marr...
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The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle ...
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Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mis...
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Fish market workers Stan and Ollie are persuaded by a sea captain to shanghai a crew for him at the ...
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On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle...
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The funniest moments from Laurel and Hardy's most hilarious films...
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Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of ...
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Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who ...
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Stan and Ollie try to hide their pet dog Laughing Gravy from their exasperated, mean tempered landlo...
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The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ba...
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A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in p...
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Stanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of thei...
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Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lesse...
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Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange...
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Stan fakes receiving a telegram so he can go to a club with Ollie and a bottle of his unsuspecting w...
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Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum....
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Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo....
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An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to gua...
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Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take re...
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Oliver inherits a fortune and hires Stan as his butler and proceeds to torment him. Stan finally reb...
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Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a r...
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Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immedi...
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A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward....
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Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a ...
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Oliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be h...
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Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than w...
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Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into w...
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Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, whi...
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Oliver's in trouble with his wife after missing a payment on their furniture, having given the money...
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Stan and Ollie have set up their own electrical appliance store but, unfortunately for them, the gro...
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Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too...
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A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a d...
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Two sailors on shore leave rent a car and go on a drive with their dates, but soon get involved in a...
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Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife....
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Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved w...
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Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces ...
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Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant troub...
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Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two ...
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Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rat...
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Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies fo...
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Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from h...
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First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna....
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Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a...
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Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific ocean....
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Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter....
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From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook...
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Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory ...
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The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in ...
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Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party....
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Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor...
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A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck w...
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Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo,...
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Bumbling detective Stan Laurel disguises himself as a famous matador in order to hide from the venge...
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audie...
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Stan travels to the small town of Hot Dog to collect an inheritance. He learns his late uncle left h...
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After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help anoth...
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Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contes...
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A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer....
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A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with th...
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Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel a...
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Stan Laurel before Laurel and Hardy, in this "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"-inspired story, which was relea...
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A butler is persuaded to pretend to be a man's wife so that he can inherit a million dollars....
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Laurel is a Scottish reporter suspected of being a spy by police detective James Finlayson. Although...
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Police officer Edgar Kennedy is warned by his police chief to make arrests to stop a burglary epidem...
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Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested cus...
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Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925....
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It's 3:00 AM at the Firewater Club, and Stanley has had more than enough to drink. When he tries to ...
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Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by co...
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Stationed in a Latin American country, sailor Stan is lonely and wants company. He tries to get his ...
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Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom....
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As a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, bu...
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Bears and Bad Men is a 1918 silent comedy film directed by Larry Semon[1] and featuring Stan Laurel....
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The story is of two convicts always trying to escape, until one day when they actually manage to. Th...
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This film represents one of Larry Semon's pro-war films. He is a clumsy guy working in a restaurant ...
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This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up again in ...
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Nuts in May, re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_ , combined with newly s...
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Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short....
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'Save the Ship' is a plotless silent short film which has the 33 year old Stan Laurel acting in a ru...
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Stan is in the company of ladies in this film. He is serving in the military with female officers, b...
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During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the motherlode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, lea...
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Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel....
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Pick and Shovel, also known as The Miner, is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel....
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Stan is a lazy employee at a lumber company. Much of the first portion of the film has to do with St...
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A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty y...
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Pursued by the law, a street cleaner finds refuge by impersonating a dentist....
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Stan plays a waiter at a crappy restaurant and frankly such fare was better done by Chaplin and othe...
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Laurel portrays a commercial traveller, hawking a patent medicine cried Professor I.O. Dine's Knox-A...
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When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's...
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After being discharged from the 372nd infantry, on account of a bean shortage, smithy seeks employme...
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Stan Laurel plays a Chinese laundryman and he displays some good physical slapstick reminiscent of h...
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Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lio...
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In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe a...
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New 2K and 4K digital restorations from original 35mm nitrate, Laurel and Hardy's classic comedies a...
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Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his invest...
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In the trembling Russian village of Popoffski, a young woman (Katherine Grant) is wooed by a hopeful...
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A prosecutor instructs the audience of a courtroom to observe the tearful and slightly hysterical wi...
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Ollie is running for mayor and an old flame threatens to blackmail him....
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This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to ...
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Laurel plays Winchell McSweeney, whose fisherman parents forced him to leave home and make it on his...
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In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy o...
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Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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Stan lies to his wife about going to a nightclub with Ollie but Mrs. Laurel overhears the plot and o...
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This Spanish language film was produced simultaneously with the filming of the two English language ...
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Having been kicked out by their wives on a wintry night they attempt to smuggle their little dog int...
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Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighbo...
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Stan plays a janitor at a hotel dropping letters and trying to retrieve them with a vacuum, getting ...
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Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of cont...
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fu...
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The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shor...
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Stan Laurel is picked up at the train depot and brought back by the husband to the family home where...
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Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that...
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It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to ...
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A riotous comedy of social errors, as absurd as a butler's whiskers....
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Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son...
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Sir Patrick attempts to marry a young lady against her will. Nice guy Stan Laurel tries to help out ...
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Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts....
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Laurel and Hardy attempt to put up an aerial with disastrous results. Spanish language version of Ho...
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Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...
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Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly after several...
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The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That's That is a gag reel m...
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Stan works in a grocery store in the middle of the mountains, buried in snow. The young woman he's i...
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Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Experience Stan and Ollie in their funniest scenes: whether they build a house as construction worke...
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Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case". When S...
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The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curt...
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A program featuring original comedy skits written as a tribute to Stan Laurel....
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Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the mos...
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A compilation of primarly Laurel and Hardy shorts---From Soup to Nuts, Wrong Again, Putting the Pant...
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Actors Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Tynemouth in North East England....
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Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy visit Scotland in the Summer of 1932...
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Though only the second half survives, here's a synopsis of what's left: Stan is a Robin Hood-type ch...
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Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works ...
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Promo for MGM's upcoming 1935-36 releases hosted by Laurel & Hardy and Jimmy Finlayson. Brief clips ...
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Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted an...
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Stan does his best to recover a post-card, which he has forgotten to stamp. He attempts the recovery...
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A compilation of clips from various Laurel and Hardy films...
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Documentary short about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy which covers a visit in Scotland of the two com...
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A compilation of some of Laurel and Hardy's best gags, including scenes from "Angora Love" (1929)," ...
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A celebration of Hollywood in the 1930s, featuring a compilation of clips from features and newsreel...
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Only known footage of the German language version of Pardon Us (1931) starring Stan Laurel and Olive...
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Following their initial pairing in early 1927, Laurel and Hardy ended their first year on top. Their...
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A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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Award-winning filmmakers Dean and Rebecca Sills, a father-daughter duo, embark on a journey inspired...
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Laurel and Hardy were hailed as '...the greatest comedy duo of all time...'. Now, over half a centur...
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Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and televis...
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Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, a...
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Virtually unseen, Laurel and Hardy deliver a special message for MGM’s annual sales convention...
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Following the acclaimed Laurel & Hardy: Year One and Laurel & Hardy: Year Two collections, Flicker A...
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