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Stan, Ollie, and Harold – a Drive Through Bunker Hill
Click to enlarge. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Duck Soup (1927) and matching footage at 1:36 The Prelinger Archives has just posted some amazingly sharp movie footage of Bunker Hill and downtown Los...
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Laurel and Hardy – Home at Last
Comedy fans across the country celebrated the recent release of Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection, a 10 DVD set from RHI Entertainment that contains all of the duo’s sound era short films,...
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Help Please? – Silent Jailbreak – SOLVED
Hank Mann in The Janitor (1919); Charlie Chaplin in Police (1916); Stan Laurel in Detained (1924). My friend Steve Vaught, who writes a wonderful blog about historic Hollywood and Southern California...
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Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin – Four Silent Jailbreaks
Laurel and Hardy in The Second Hundred Years (1927) – behind them, the extant six story Los Angeles County Hospital services building. (C) 2012 Microsoft Corporation Jails and silent comedies! A match...
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Laurel & Hardy Hit The Skids
During their ride home from the hospital in County Hospital (1932), Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (well, their stunt doubles) skid at a wide intersection beside a Gothic-windowed auto garage. The...
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How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Another Fine Mess
Click to enlarge each image. 1930 vs. 1958. Stan and Ollie (well, their stunt doubles) ride south down Sunset Blvd. from Grand at the conclusion of Another Fine Mess. Palmer Conner Collection. In 2001...
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How Laurel & Hardy Filmed Perfect Day – New Discoveries
Built in 1925, this charming bungalow at 3120 Vera Avenue near Culver City appearing in the 1929 comedy Perfect Day is one of the most popular and easily recognizable of all Laurel & Hardy film...
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From Roach’s to Roaches – Stan & Ollie Meet Starsky & Hutch
Guest blogger Jim Dallape, creator with Robert Winslow of the remarkable Hal Roach Studios Backlot Tour, reports how TV’s Starsky & Hutch and Charlie’s Angles filmed in the same places as Laurel...
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