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He started out by helping around the studio with lights, props and other duties. Seeing film comedies inspired him with an urge to take up comedy himself and in 1913, he began working with Lubin Motion Pictures in Jacksonville, Florida.

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In some of the duo's first silent films, Laurel can be seen mouthing the word 'Babe' when calling out to Ollie.Д«y his late teens, Hardy was a popular stage singer, and he operated his own movie house, the Palace Theater in Milledgeville, Georgia. Hardy was billed as 'Babe Hardy' in his early films. After cutting his hair and giving him a shave, the barber would then pat his face with talcum powder whilst saying, 'That's nice a baby!' With the barber's Italian accent, 'baby' sounded like 'Babe.' That nickname stuck with Hardy for the rest of his life. Hardy was a frequent visitor to an Italian barbershop near the Lubin Studios in Jacksonville, Florida where he worked. Hardy's nickname 'Babe' originated during his (pre-Laurel) early silent film career. As a tribute to his father (who died when Norvell was very young), he took his father's first name (although not legally), henceforth calling himself 'Oliver Norvell Hardy.' His offscreen nicknames were 'Ollie' and 'Babe.' Main article: Oliver Hardy Oliver Hardy (JanuвЂ“ August 7, 1957) was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia.

Many of these comedies had crazy visual gags along with Laurel's eccentric pantomime, establishing the star as an inspired 'nut comic.' Pryde (1925) (with Stan playing both the gentle doctor and the manic monster). Between 19 he starred in a number of films including Mud and Sand (1922) (a burlesque of Blood and Sand featuring Stan as 'Rhubarb Vaselino') and Dr. It was only when Laurel began appearing in satires of popular screen dramas that audiences really took notice of him. Moreover, Laurel did not have an identifiable or easily marketable screen character, like that of Chaplin, Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton. Producer Hal Roach later attributed this to the difficulty in photographing Laurel's pale blue eyes on early pre- panchromatic film stock, perhaps giving the appearance of blindness (which, in his earliest films, Laurel tried to remedy by adding heavy defining makeup around his eyes). At first he experienced only modest success as a solo comedian. Making his first film appearance in Nuts in May (1917), Laurel continued to make more than 50 other silent films for various producers. He shortened it to 'Stan' and added 'Laurel' at the suggestion of his vaudeville partner, Mae Dahlberg. He emigrated to America in 1912 where he decided to change his name he worried that 'Stanley Jefferson' was too long to fit onto posters.

He gradually worked his way up the ladder of supporting roles until he became the featured comedian, as well as an understudy to Charlie Chaplin in Fred Karno's comedy company. Laurel began his career in Glasgow Britannia Theatre of Varieties and Panopticon music hall at the age of 16, where he crafted a comedy act largely derivative of famous music hall comedians of the day, including George Robey and Dan Leno. 'A.J.' Jefferson, was a showman who served as actor, director, playwright, and theatrical entrepreneur in many northern English cities. Stan Laurel (JвЂ“ February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire (now Ulverston, Cumbria), England.

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They starred in 40 short sound films, 32 short silent films and 23 full length feature films, and in the remaining 11 films made guest or cameo appearances. In total they appeared together in 106 films. They made their last film, Atoll K, in France in 19 before retiring from the screen. From 1945 to 1950 they did not appear on film and concentrated on their stage show. The pair left the Roach studio in 1940, then appeared in eight 'B' comedies for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1941 to 1944. Among their most popular and successful films were the features Sons of the Desert (1933), Way Out West (1937), and Block-Heads (1938) Highest rated features at IMDb and the shorts Big Business (1929), Liberty (1929), and their Academy Award-winning short, The Music Box (1932).

Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year, and soon became Hal Roach's most famous and lucrative stars. After a period appearing separately in several short films for the Hal Roach studio during the 1920s, they began appearing in movie shorts together in 1926. The two comedians first worked together on The Lucky Dog. They became famous during the early half of the 20th century for their work in motion pictures and also appeared on stage throughout America and Europe. Laurel and Hardy are a popular comedy team composed of thin, English-born Stan Laurel (1890вЂ“1965) and heavy, American-born Oliver Hardy (1892вЂ“1957). Laurel and Hardy in a promotional still from their 1937 film, Way Out West.

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