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Celebrity Biographer: New York Times bestselling author Fred Lawrence Guiles is considered the premier biographer of hollywood movie stars.

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Stan Laurel

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	28 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781684424795
Langue	English

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STAN
ALSO BY FRED LAWRENCE GUILES:
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Marion Davies: Hanging on in Paradise
Tyrone Power
STAN
The Life of Stan Laurel
FRED LAWRENCE GUILES
Turner Publishing Company
Nashville, Tennessee
www.turnerpublishing.com
First published in the United States of America
Copyright 1980, 2020, Fred Lawrence Guiles All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Guiles, Fred Lawrence.
Stan: the life of Stan Laurel.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Laurel, Stan. 2. Comedians-United States-Bibliography. 3. Moving-picture actors and actresses-United States-Bibliography. I Title.
PN2287.
L285G8 1980
791.43 028 0924 [B]
80-5806
ISBN:
For Charles Lederer (1910-1976) and for Carlos MacMaster, whose idea this was
Contents
List of illustrations
Introduction
1 Lancashire, 1900
2 Fred Kamo and the Uneasy Friends
3 The Keystone Trio
4 Stan Laurel in Hollywood
5 Lady Albatross Number One
6 Laurel and Hardy Are Born
7 The Fun Factory, 1927
8 The Boys Talk at Last-and Everybody Laughs
9 Surprised by World Fame
10 The Advent of Baby Ruth
11 Stan Rebels
12 Chaplin and Laurel Meet Again
13 Roach Brings Back the Boys-to Oxford
14 Goodbye Time
Catalogue of Films starring Stan Laurel
Bibliography
Index
Illustrations
1 Stan Jefferson during a vaudeville tour, Peoria 1918 Ruth Laurel Collection
2 Stan dressed up as Charlie Chaplin in The Stan Jefferson Trio , 1916 Alice Cooke
3 Charlie Chaplin s first autographed photo, sent to Alice and Baldy Cooke, 1915 Alice Cooke
4 Arthur Jefferson, Stan s father Larry Byrd
5 Alice and Baldy Cooke, the rest of The Stan Jefferson Trio , 1916 Alice Cooke
6 Laurel and Hardy clown on the studio lawn, 1929 Larry Byrd
7 Stan and Ollie in a formal portrait for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1932 Author s Collection
8 Stan, big Lois and baby Lois with their St Bernard, early 1929 John McCabe
9 Stan looks fit and prosperous in golfing togs, 1927 Mrs Venice Lloyd
10 Virginia Ruth Laurel poses beside her brand new Ford V-8 sport coupe, 1934 Ruth Laurel Collection
11 Stan and wife Ruth stroll on Catalina Island, 1937 Ruth Laurel Collection
12 Stan and Babe in a rare get-together on the golf course with their wives, chewing gum tycoon P. K. Wrigley and Mrs Wrigley, and orchestra leader Jan Garber Ruth Laurel Collection
13 The Laurel mansion in Cheviot Hills, 1935 Ruth Laurel Collection
14 Ollie and wife Myrtle stroll along the boardwalk at Santa Monica, 1933 Ruth Laurel Collection
15 A London party 1932, with guests including Babe and Stan, Joan Crawford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Ruth Laurel Collection
16 Illiana Laurel, 1938 Mrs Venice Lloyd
17 Stan carries daughter Lois down the studio back lot street, 1935 Ruth Laurel Collection
18 A scene from Detained , produced by Joe Rock in 1924 Joe Rock
19 Charley Chase, Roach s most popular comedy star in 1926 Alice Cooke
20 Studio head Hal Roach holds two simian members of his acting company, 1926 Mrs Irma Campanaro
21 Stan, as an inept buck private, begins to take on a delightful and distinctive dumbness in With Love and Hisses , 1927 John McCabe
22 The dentist s chair was a favorite setting for Laurel and Hardy s calamitous humour as in this scene from Leave Em Laughing , 1928 Author s Collection
23 Waiter Stan in trouble with the chef in the Culpepper mansion in From Soup to Nuts , 1928 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
24 A scene from Habeas Corpus that was deleted from the final cut by director Leo McCarey, 1928 Author s Collection
25 The Hal Roach Company poses for its portrait (without Hal), 1928 Mrs Venice Lloyd
26 Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys), Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) with bellicose Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) and family dog are stalled on an outing by car trouble, marring their Perfect Day , 1929 Larry Byrd
27 The end of the economic road: selling Christmas trees in July in California. Big Business , 1929 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
28 A movie-house ad during the heart of the depression when you could see a movie on screen and Laurel and Hardy on stage for a little over a quarter Pratfall Magazine
29 Jean Harlow, 1929 Ruth Laurel Collection
30 Stan in drag in That s My Wife , 1929 Author s Collection
31 The boys, especially Stan, seem to have found a true friend in Angora Love , 1929 Author s Collection
32 Delivery of the wrong Blueboy in Wrong Again , 1929 Author s Collection
33 Stan, Fred Kamo and Hal Roach, 1932 Mrs Irma Campanaro
34 The boys visit the prison dentist in their first feature, Pardon Us , 1931 Author s Collection
35 Mrs Hardy (Daphne Pollard) and Mrs Laurel (Betty Healy) catch up with their men at the local pub in Our Relations , 1936 Author s Collection
36 Mae Busch was very good at rages such as this one in Chickens Come Home , 1931 Author s Collection
37 Mary Carr and Stan in a scene from One Good Turn , 1931 Author s Collection
38 As gypsy thieves, Stan and Ollie are demoted to kitchen duty along with their dog, Laughing Gravy, in The Bohemian Girl , 1936 Mrs Irma Campanaro
39 Stan and Ollie snoozing in the same bed in The Fixer-Uppers , 1935 Author s Collection
40 Charlie Hall sprays the boys with cottage cheese at the deli counter after a series of Tit for Tat assaults, 1935 Author s Collection
41 Stan in a rare pose as Hitler, 1937 Ruth Laurel Collection
42 The Fun Factory, a small studio theatre on Babe s estate in the San Fernando Valley, 1939 Mrs Lillian Burnett
43 The same Fun Factory more than twenty years later when it was about to be demolished by orchestra leader/real estate promoter Horace Heidt Lucille Hardy Price
44 The boys join the Foreign Legion in The Flying Deuces , 1939 Author s Collection
45 One of their brighter moments in Great Guns (1941), their first film for Twentieth Century-Fox Lucille Hardy Price
46 Stan and Ollie being threatened by gangsters in A-Haunting We Will Go , 1942 Author s Collection
47 The last Metro film made by Laurel and Hardy, Nothing But Trouble , 1945 Author s Collection
48 Motorcycle cop Edgar Dearing detains the boys in this scene from The Big Noise (1944), their next to last Fox film as their career winds down Larry Byrd
49 The Hal Roach studios at their busiest in the 1950s Larry Byrd
50 In the middle of a skit in an English variety hall, 1952 Lucille Hardy Price
51 Babe and his chow with Stan, 1949 Lucille Hardy Price
52 Babe s birthday party on the set of Atoll K in Paris, 18 January 1951 Lucille Hardy Price
53 At an exhibition of Scottish merchandise in Edinburgh during their 1947 tour Lucille Hardy Price
54 The boys pause during a tour of British music-halls to visit Stan s sister, Olga Beatrice Healey, and her husband Lucille Hardy Price
55 Stan and Babe judge a beauty contest at Butlin s in Skegness, 1952 Lucille Hardy Price
56 Stan s sister and two secretaries help the boys to answer fan mail in England, 1952 Lucille Hardy Price
57 A radio interview in the dressing-room at an English music-hall, 1952 Lucille Hardy Price
58 Some of the mob surrounding Laurel and Hardy during their 1952 tour of England, Babe Hardy s last public appearance Lucille Hardy Price
59 A Paris movie-house during the revival of Fra Diavolo (1951), their biggest grossing film Lucille Hardy Price
60 Stan and Ida Laurel, Lucille and Babe Hardy pose beside Lake Laurel and Hardy on the old Roach lot, 1954 Larry Byrd
61 A city setting on the back lot at the Hal Roach Studios after demolition crews began to tear down the place, 1967 Larry Byrd
62 Stan Laurel s grave in California Pratfall Magazine
63 Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel caught in a reflective moment on the Metro lot after completing their final Hollywood film, 1945 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
All Hal Roach stills from various collections are reproduced courtesy of Richartd Feiner and Company .
Introduction
It has taken far too long for even film scholars to realize that Stan Laurel ranks with Chaplin and Keaton in the pantheon of great film clowns. The scholars did not elevate him to that level; the public did.
Oliver Hardy s rotund shadow has made it hard to see the true dimensions of Stan s genius in detail, and, as a performer, Hardy belongs next to Stan. But Stan was more than a comic, more than an actor. He w