STAN LAUREL + OLIVER HARDY RARE VINTAGE 1948 SIGNED WILL ROGERS FDC AUTOGRAPHED

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Please check out more movie autographed items in my store MY-MOVIE-MEMORABILIA-AND-MORE. I will respond to all inquiries within 24 hours. August 7, 1957 was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia.

His father, Oliver, was a Confederate veteran wounded at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862. His mother, Emily Norvell, the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, was descended from Captain Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia. Her family arrived in Virginia before 1635. Their marriage took place on March 12, 1890; it was the second marriage for the widow Emily, and the third for Oliver. He was of paternal English American descent and maternal Scottish American descent.

The family moved to Madison in 1891, before Norvell? S mother owned a house in Harlem, which was either empty or tenanted by her mother. It is probable that Norvell was born in Harlem, though some sources say it was in his mother? His father died less than a year after his birth. Hardy was the youngest of five.

As a child, Hardy was sometimes difficult. He was sent to a Milledgeville military academy as a youngster. In the 1905/1906 school year, fall semester September? January, when he was 13, Hardy was sent to Young Harris College in north Georgia. However, he was in the junior high component of that institution (the equivalent of high school today), not the two-year college which exists today.

He had little interest in education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater, possibly from his mother? He joined a theatrical group, and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta to sing with the group. He subsequently decided to go back to Milledgeville. Sometime prior to 1910, Hardy began styling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy", with the first name?

Being added as a tribute to his father. Census, and in all subsequent legal records, marriage announcements, etc. S mother wanted him to attend the University of Georgia in the fall of 1912, to study law, but there is no evidence that he ever did or did not.

In 1910, a movie theater opened in Hardy? S home town of Milledgeville, Georgia, and he became the projectionist, ticket taker, janitormanager. He soon became obsessed with the new motion picture industry, and became convinced that he could do a better job than the actors he saw on the screen. A friend suggested that he move to Jacksonville, Florida, where some films were being made. In 1913, he did just that, where he worked as a cabaret and vaudeville singer at night, and at the Lubin Manufacturing Company during the day.

It was at this time that he met and married his first wife, pianist Madelyn Saloshin. The next year he made his first movie, Outwitting Dad , for the Lubin studio. He was billed as O. S name as a memorial. In his personal life, he was known as?

Hardy, a nickname that he was given by an Italian barber, who would apply talcum powder to Oliver? In many of his later films at Lubin, he was billed as? Hardy was a big man at six feet, one inch tall and weighed up to 300 pounds. His size placed limitations on the roles he could play.

He was most often cast as? He also frequently had roles in comedy shorts, his size complementing the character. By 1915, he had made 50 short one-reeler films at Lubin.

He later moved to New York and made films for the Pathé, Casino and Edison Studios. He then worked for the King Bee studio after they bought Vim.

He worked with Charlie Chaplin imitator Billy West and comedic actress Ethel Burton Palmer during this time. For West well into the early 1920s, often imitating Eric Campbell to West? In 1917, Oliver Hardy moved to Los Angeles, working freelance for several Hollywood studios.

Later that year, he appeared in the movie The Lucky Dog , produced by G. Anderson and starring a young British comedian named Stan Laurel.

Oliver Hardy played the part of a robber, trying to stick up Stan? They did not work together again for several years. Between 1918 and 1923, Oliver Hardy made more than forty films for Vitagraph, mostly playing the? In 1919, he separated from his wife, ending with a divorce in 1920, allegedly due to Hardy?

The very next year, on November 24, 1921, Hardy married again, to actress Myrtle Reeves. This marriage was also unhappy and Myrtle eventually became an alcoholic. In 1924, Hardy began working at Hal Roach Studios working with the Our Gang films and Charley Chase. In 1925, he starred as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. Also that year he was in the film, Yes, Yes, Nanette!

Starring Jimmy Finlayson, who in later years would be a recurring actor in the Laurel and Hardy film series. The film was directed by Stan Laurel. He also continued playing supporting roles in films featuring Clyde Cooke and Bobby Ray. In 1926, Hardy was scheduled to appear in Get?

Em Young but was unexpectedly hospitalized after being burned by a hot leg of lamb. Laurel, who had been working as a gag man and director at Roach Studios, was recruited to fill in. Laurel kept appearing in front of the camera rather than behind it, and later that year appeared in the same movie as Hardy, 45 Minutes from Hollywood. T share any scenes together. In 1927, Laurel and Hardy began sharing screen time together in Slipping Wives , Duck Soup no relation to the 1933 Marx Brothers?

Film of the same name and With Love and Hisses. Supervising director Leo McCarey, realizing the audience reaction to the two, began intentionally teaming them together, leading to the start of a Laurel and Hardy series late that year.

With this pairing, he created arguably the most famous double act in movie history. They began producing a huge body of short movies, including The Battle of the Century (1927) (with one of the largest pie fights ever filmed), Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), Two Tars (1928), Unaccustomed As We Are (1929, marking their transition to talking pictures) Berth Marks (1929), Blotto (1930), Brats (1930) with Stan and Ollie portraying themselves, as well as their own sons, using oversized furniture to sets for the? Laurel and Hardy, Another Fine Mess (1930), Be Big!

In 1929, they appeared in their first feature, in one of the revue sequences of Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish all-color (in Technicolor) musical feature entitled The Rogue Song. This film marked their first appearance in color. In 1931, they made their first full length movie (in which they were the actual stars), Pardon Us although they continued to make features and shorts until 1935. The Music Box , a 1932 short, won them an Academy Award for best short film? S personal life suffered a blow as he and Myrtle divorced.

While waiting for a contractual issue between Laurel and Hal Roach to be resolved, Hardy made Zenobia with Harry Langdon. Eventually, however, new contracts were agreed and the team was loaned out to General Services Studio to make The Flying Deuces. While on the lot, Hardy fell in love with Virginia Lucille Jones, a script girl, whom he married the next year.

They enjoyed a happy, successful marriage until his death. In the early 1940s, Laurel and Hardy made A Chump at Oxford (1940)(which features a moment of role reversal, with Oliver becoming a subordinate to a temporarily concussed Stan) and Saps at Sea (1940) before leaving Roach Studios. They began performing for the USO, supporting the Allied troops during World War II, and teamed up to make films for 20th century Fox, and later MGM. Although they were financially better off, they had very little artistic control at the large studios, and hence the films lack the very qualities that had made Laurel and Hardy worldwide names. In 1947, Laurel and Hardy went on a six week tour of Great Britain.

Initially unsure of how they would be received, they were mobbed wherever they went. The tour was then lengthened to include engagements in Scandinavia, Belgium, France, as well as a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Biographer John McCabe said they continued to make live appearances in the United Kingdom and France for the next several years, until 1954, often using new sketches and material that Laurel had written for them.

S friend, John Wayne, asked him to play a supporting role in The Fighting Kentuckian. Hardy had previously worked with Wayne and John Ford in a charity production of the play What Price Glory? While Laurel began treatment for his diabetes a few years previously. Initially hesitant, Hardy accepted the role at the insistence of his comedy partner.

Frank Capra later invited Hardy to play a cameo role in Riding High with Bing Crosby in 1950. 51, Laurel and Hardy made their final film. Atoll K (also known as Utopia) was a simple concept; Laurel inherits an island, and the boys set out to sea, where they encounter a storm and discover a brand new island, rich in uranium, making them powerful and wealthy. However, it was produced by a consortium of European interests, with an international cast and crew that could not speak to each other.

In addition, the script needed to be rewritten by Stan to make it fit the comedy team? S style, and both suffered serious physical illness during the filming. In 1955, the pair had contracted with Hal Roach, Jr. To produce a series of TV shows based on the Mother Goose fables. They would be filmed in color for NBC.

However, this was never to be. Laurel suffered a stroke, which required a lengthy convalescence. Hardy had a heart attack and stroke later that year, from which he never physically recovered.

In May 1954, Hardy suffered a mild heart attack. During 1956, Hardy began looking after his health for the first time in his life. He lost more than 150 pounds in a few months which completely changed his appearance. Letters written by Stan Laurel, however, mention that Hardy had terminal cancer, which has caused some to suspect that this was the real reason for Hardy?

Hardy was a heavy smoker, as was Stan Laurel. Hardy suffered a major stroke on September 14, which left him confined to bed and unable to speak for several months. He remained at home, in the care of his beloved Lucille.

He suffered two more strokes in early August 1957, and slipped into a coma from which he never recovered. Oliver Hardy died on August 7, 1957, aged 65 years old. His remains are located in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood. In 2006, BBC Four showed a drama called Stan based on Laurel meeting Hardy on his deathbed and reminiscing about their career.

Although based on fact, it took great liberties with both the events and main characters. Stan Laurel could not bring himself to go to his film partner and friend's funeral.

He stated, Babe would understand. S star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.

The Rise of the Johnsons (as Oliver Hardy). The Green Alarm as O. Pins Are Lucky as O.

The Soubrette and the Simp. The Honor of the Force. The Daddy of Them All.

The Servant Girl's Legacy. The Tramps (as Oliver Hardy). The New Adventures of J.

Charley's Aunt (as Oliver Hardy). An Expensive Visit (as Oliver Hardy). Mixed Flats (as Oliver Hardy). The Twin Sister (as Oliver Hardy).

A Lucky Strike (as Oliver Hardy). Matilda's Legacy (as Oliver Hardy). It May Be You as O.

Not Much Force as O. Clothes Make the Man as O. The Simp and the Sophomores as O. A Janitor's Joyful Job.

Bouncing Baby (as Oliver Hardy). What's Sauce for the Goose. The Lottery Man (as Oliver Hardy). An Aerial Joyride (as Oliver Hardy).

The Prospectors (as Oliver Hardy). A Mix Up In Hearts. The Slave (as Oliver Hardy). The Stranger (as Oliver Hardy). His Day Out (as Oliver Hardy). The King of the Kitchen.

Switches and Sweeties (as Oliver Hardy). Dames and Dentists (as Oliver Hardy).

Fortune's Mask (as Oliver Hardy). Little Wildcat (as Oliver Hardy). The Girl in the Limousine. Her Boy Friend as Oliver N.

Kid Speed as Oliver N. Wizard of Oz as Oliver N. Fiddlin' Around (as Oliver Hardy). The Joke's on You (as Oliver Hardy). The Perfect Clown (as Oliver Hardy).

Madame Mystery (as Oliver Hardy). Long Fliv the King (as Oliver Hardy).

The Cow's Kimona (scenes deleted). The Gentle Cyclone (as Oliver Hardy). Thundering Fleas (as Oliver Babe Hardy).

Along Came Auntie (as Oliver Hardy). Crazy Like a Fox (uncredited). Bromo and Juliet (as Oliver Hardy). Be Your Age (as Oliver Hardy). Why Girls Say No (as Oliver Hardy).

No Man's Law (as Oliver Hardy). Crazy to Act (as Oliver Hardy). Fluttering Hearts (as Oliver Hardy). Baby Brother (as Oliver Hardy).

Love'Em and Feed'Em (as Oliver Hardy). (as Oliver Hardy - voice only) (1932). Zenobia (as Oliver Hardy) (1939). The Fighting Kentuckian (as Oliver Hardy) (1949). Riding High , uncredited cameo appearance (1950). The Artist's Model (1916). This Is Not My Room (1917). Pipe Dreams and Prizes (1920). Roaring Lions at Home (1924).

23 February 1965, known as Stan Laurel , was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as the first half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. His film acting career stretched between 1917 and 1951 and included a starring role in the Academy Award winning film The Music Box (1932). In 1961, Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, Lancashire.

He had three siblings - two brothers and a sister. His parents, Arthur and Margaret ("Madge") Jefferson, were both active in the theatre and always very busy. In his early years, he spent much time living with his grandmother Sarah Metcalfe. Stan Jefferson attended school at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, County Durham and the King's School, Tynemouth, before moving with his parents to Glasgow, where he completed his education at Rutherglen Academy.

His father managed Glasgow's Metropole Theatre where he began work. At the age of 16, with a natural affinity for the theatre, Jefferson gave his first professional performance on stage at the Panopticon in Glasgow. In 1910, with the stage name of "Stan Jefferson", he joined Fred Karno's troupe of actors, which also included a young Charlie Chaplin. For some time, he acted as Chaplin's understudy. The Karno troupe toured America, and brought both Chaplin and Jefferson to the United States for the first time.

From 1916 to 1918, he teamed up with Alice Cooke and Baldwin Cooke, who became lifelong friends. Amongst other performers, Jefferson worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short The Lucky Dog.

This was before the two were a team. It was around this time that Jefferson met Mae Dahlberg.

Around the same time he adopted the stage surname of Laurel, at Dahlberg's suggestion. After the making of his first film, Nuts in May , Universal offered him a contract. The contract was soon cancelled, however, during a reorganisation at the studio. Among the films Dahlberg and Laurel appeared in together was the 1922 parody, Mud and Sand , of which a short clip can be seen at the left. By 1924, Laurel had given up the stage for full-time film work, under contract with Joe Rock for 12 two-reel comedies.

The contract had one unusual stipulation, that Dahlberg was not to appear in any of the films as it was felt her temperament was hindering Laurel's career. In 1925, when she started interfering with Laurel's work, Rock offered her a cash settlement and a one-way ticket back to her native Australia, which she accepted. Laurel went on to join the Hal Roach studio, and began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette. He intended to work primarily as a writer and director, but fate stepped in.

In 1927, Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and Laurel was asked to return to acting. Laurel and Hardy began sharing the screen in Slipping Wives , Duck Soup and With Love and Hisses. The two became friends and their comic chemistry soon became obvious. Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them and began teaming them, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series later that year. Together, the two men began producing a huge body of short films, including The Battle of the Century , Should Married Men Go Home? Big Business , and many others. Laurel and Hardy successfully made the transition to talking films with the short Unaccustomed As We Are in 1929. They also appeared in their first feature in one of the revue sequences of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish all-color (in Technicolor) musical feature, The Rogue Song. In 1931, their own first starring feature, Pardon Us was released, although they continued to make both features and shorts until 1935, including their 1932 three-reeler The Music Box which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.

During the 1930s, Laurel was involved in a dispute with Hal Roach, which resulted in the termination of his contract. Since Roach maintained separate contracts for Laurel and Hardy that expired at different times, Hardy remained at the studio and was "teamed" with Harry Langdon for the 1939 film Zenobia. There was also talk about a series of films co-starring Hardy with Patsy Kelly called The Hardy Family.

But Laurel sued Roach over the contract dispute. After returning to Roach studios, the first film Laurel and Hardy made was A Chump at Oxford. Subsequently, they made Saps at Sea , which was their last film for Roach. In 1939, Laurel and Hardy signed a contract at 20th Century Fox to make one motion picture and nine more over the following five months.

During the war years, their work became more standardised and less successful, though The Bullfighters , Great Guns and A-Haunting We Will Go did receive some praise. Laurel discovered he had diabetes, so he encouraged Oliver Hardy to make two films without him. In 1946, he divorced Virginia Ruth Rogers and married Ida Kitaeva Raphael. In 1950, Laurel and Hardy were invited to France to make a feature film. The film, a French-Italian co-production titled Atoll K , was a disaster.

The film was titled Utopia in the US and Robinson Crusoeland in the UK. Both stars were noticeably ill during the filming. Upon returning home, they spent most of their time recovering.

In 1952, Laurel and Hardy toured Europe successfully, and they toured Europe again in 1953. During this tour, Laurel fell ill and was unable to perform for several weeks. In May 1954, Oliver Hardy had a heart attack and canceled the tour. In 1955, they were planning to do a television series, Laurel and Hardy's Fabulous Fables , based on children's stories, but the plans were delayed after Laurel suffered a stroke on 25 April, from which he recovered. But as he was planning to get back to work, Oliver Hardy had a massive stroke on 14 September 1956.

Paralyzed and bedridden for several months, Hardy was unable to speak or move. On 7 August 1957, Oliver Hardy died. Laurel was too ill to attend his funeral, stating, "Babe would understand". People who knew Laurel said he was devastated by Hardy's death and never fully recovered from it - indeed, Laurel refused to perform ever again after his partner's death. In 1961, Stan Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy.

He had achieved his lifelong dream as a comedian and had been involved in nearly 190 films. He lived his final years in a small apartment in the Oceana Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Dick Van Dyke told a similar story to Jerry Lewis'. Lewis was among the comedians to visit Laurel, who offered suggestions for Lewis' production of The Bellboy (1960). Lewis had even paid tribute to Laurel by naming his main character Stanley in the film, and having Bill Richmond play a version of Laurel as well.

Van Dyke played Laurel on "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals" episode of the The Dick Van Dyke Show. Had a rich marital history. He had four wives and married one of them twice.

In 1928, during the early years of Laurel and Hardy's partnership, Laurel and first wife Lois had a baby girl, also named Lois. In May 1930, their second child, Stanley Robert Laurel, died after nine days. In 1935, Laurel divorced Lois and married Virginia Ruth Rogers. In 1938, he divorced Virginia and married Vera Ivanova Shuvalova. By 1941, he had divorced Vera and re-married Virginia. In 1946, he divorced Virginia and married Ida Kitaeva Raphael, whom he did not divorce. Was a heavy smoker until suddenly quitting around 1960. In January 1965, he underwent a series of x-rays for an infection on the roof of his mouth.

He died on 23 February 1965, aged 74, several days after suffering a heart attack. Just minutes away from death, Laurel told his nurse he would not mind going skiing right at that very moment. Somewhat taken aback, the nurse replied that she was not aware that he was a skier.

"I'm not, " said Laurel, I'd rather be doing that than this! A few minutes later the nurse looked in on him again and found that he had died quietly.

At his funeral, silent screen comedian Buster Keaton was overheard giving his assessment of the comedian's considerable talent: Chaplin wasn't the funniest, I wasn't the funniest, this man was the funniest. Dick Van Dyke, a friend, protege and occasional impressionist of Laurel's during his later years, gave the eulogy, reading A Prayer for Clowns. Had written his own epitaph: If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again. " A similar statement was later found: "If anyone cries at my funeral, I will never speak to him again.

Is interred in Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. In 1989, a statue of Laurel was erected in Dockwray Square, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England where he lived at No. 8 from 1897 to 1902, and where the steps down from the Square to the North Shields Fish Quay were said to have inspired the piano-moving scene in The Music Box. In 2006, BBC Four showed a drama called Stan , based on Laurel meeting Hardy on his deathbed and reminiscing about their career. There is a plaque on the Bull Inn, Bottesford, Leicestershire, England, recording how Laurel and Hardy while appearing in Nottingham over Christmas 1952, stayed with Laurel's sister, Olga, who was the landlady of the pub.

In 1999, merchandiser Larry Harmon produced the direct-to-video film All New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy: For Love or Mummy starring Bronson Pinchot and Gailard Sartain as the descendants of the comedy duo. In 2008, a statue of Stan Laurel was unveiled in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, on the site of the Eden Theatre. In April 2009, a bronze statue of Laurel and Hardy was unveiled in Ulverston, Cumbria.

There is a Laurel and Hardy Museum in Stan's hometown of Ulverston. There is also a small Laurel and Hardy Museum in Hardy's hometown of Harlem, Georgia. Laurel and Hardy are featured on the cover of the Beatles' album Sgt.

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Hal Roach silent short films (starring roles).

Now I'll Tell One. The Battle of the Century.

Should Married Men Go Home? Hal Roach talking short films (starring roles). The Tree in a Test Tube. Hal Roach feature films (starring roles).

Fra Diavolo/The Devil's Brother/Bogus Bandits. Babes in Toyland/March Of the Wooden Soldiers.

The Hollywood Revue of 1929. O, It's Great to Be Crazy. Do You Love Your Wife?

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