EASILY RECOGNIZABLE, THEY ALMOST ALWAYS PLAYED THEMSELVES IN THE MOVIES: LAUREL WAS THE SKINNY, INNOCENT ONE AND HARDY WAS THE ROUND, BLLUSTERY ONE. THEIR HUMOR IS PHYSICAL, BUT THEIR ACCIDENTPRONE BUFFOONERY IS DISTINGUISHED BY THEIR AFFABLE PERSONALITIES AND MUTUAL DEVOTION ESSSENTIALLY “CHILDREN” IN AN ADULT WORLD. STAN LAUREL WAS BORN ARTHUR STANLEY JEFFERSON IN ULVERSTON, ENGLAND (16 JUNE 1890) AND OLIVER HARDY WAS BORN, NORVELL HARDY IN HARLEM, GEORGIA (18 JANUARY 1892) LAUREL AND HARDY’S ONSCREEN PERSONAS ARE OF TWO DIM BUT ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC MEN, SECURE IN THEIR PERPETUAL AND IMPREGNABLE INNOCENCE.
THE COMEDY TEAM OF LAUREL AND HARDY MADE HUNDREDS OF MOVIES, BOTH SHORTS AND FEATURES, AND THE TWO MEN WERE AMONG HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST STARS FROM THE 1930S TO THE 1950S.
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