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Stan Laurel (/ ˈ l ɒr ə l / LORR-əl; born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, director and writer who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. [1]
This is a list of films of Stan Laurel, as an actor without Oliver Hardy.For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy as a team, see Laurel and Hardy filmography.. Stan Laurel (/ ˈ l ɒr ə l / LORR-əl; born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. [1]
Neilson and Laurel began sharing her apartment in 1925, and married on August 13, 1926. Their daughter, also named Lois, was born on December 10, 1927. Their son, also named Stanley, was born two months premature in 1930, and lived for only nine days. Neilson and Laurel divorced in December 1934.
Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year with their 11th silent short film, The Second Hundred Years (1927). [5] The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. [ 6 ] Between 1941 and 1945, they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . [ 7 ]
After Stan Laurel's death in 1965, there were two major motion-picture tributes: Laurel and Hardy's Laughing '20s was Robert Youngson's compilation of the team's silent-film highlights, and The Great Race was a large-scale salute to slapstick that director Blake Edwards dedicated to "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy".
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, descendants of illustrious ancestry as a butler and chef, find themselves unemployed in the year 1932. Their attempts to secure employment abroad prove futile, prompting their return to the U.S. in 1944, where they are suddenly besieged by eager employers in dire need of domestic assistance.
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The Big Noise constituted the fifth installment among Laurel and Hardy's six feature films produced at 20th Century Fox during the 1940s. Stan Laurel, in an interview during the film's production, underscored their commitment to aligning with the American World War II home front efforts, opting to eschew gags involving wastage and destruction.