īased on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough Our Gang film with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy Īdded to the National Film Registry in 2012. īased on the opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber Presented by National Variety Artists and released by ParamountĬameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy Īcademy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Īdded to the National Film Registry in 1997. Operetta film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Laurel and Hardy in supporting roles Nominated- Academy Award for Best Picture Silent Features a notable early appearance by Jean HarlowĪll-star revue produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only) Īdded to the National Film Registry in 1992. Once partly lost film, but later found, in 2015. Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in supporting roles įirst film in which the duo appear in their standard costumes The first "official" Laurel and Hardy film where they are presented as a team Hardy in a supporting role and Laurel in a bit part īased on "Home From the Honeymoon", a sketch written by Arthur J. 1929 releases are identified as silent, all-talkie, or sound films with music and sound effects only. Releases from 1928 are silent except as noted. Also, except where noted, all short films are two reels in length.Īll films made prior to 1928 are silent and all films made after 1929 are sound. Įxcept where noted all of these films were photographed in black and white, produced by Hal Roach, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Each book lists 105 films while, in its appendix, Skredvedt's adds a 106th, Now I'll Tell One, a previously lost film that was partly rediscovered. The following is a list of Laurel and Hardy's official filmography as established in Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies by Randy Skretvedt and Laurel and Hardy by John McCabe, Al Kilgore, and Richard R. For their contributions to cinema, Laurel and Hardy have been awarded separate stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1960, Laurel was presented with an Honorary Academy Award "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy." In 1992, 1997, 20 respectively, Big Business (1929), The Music Box, Sons of the Desert (1932) and The Battle of the Century (1927) were added to the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1932 Laurel and Hardy's short The Music Box won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy). In 1950, they made their last film Atoll K, a French/ Italian co-production.
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After finishing their movie commitments Laurel and Hardy concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of Great Britain. Between 19 they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year, in their eleventh silent short film The Second Hundred Years (1927). (Hardy also appeared in three sound features without Laurel.) Although they first worked together in the film The Lucky Dog (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926 when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio that they appeared in movie shorts together. Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) were established as film comedians prior to their teaming, with Laurel appearing in over 50 silent films and Hardy in over 250. B In addition to these, Laurel and Hardy appeared in at least 20 foreign-language versions of their films and a promotional film, Galaxy of Stars (1936), made for European film distributors. Together they appeared in 34 silent shorts, A 45 sound shorts, and 27 full-length sound feature films. Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture comedy team whose official filmography consists of 106 films released between 19.
Laurel (left) and Hardy in Bonnie Scotland (1935)