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    billed on screen as Babe Hardy. Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy on January 18, 1892, in Harlem, Georgia. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate States...
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    cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they...
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  • films of Oliver Hardy as an actor without Stan Laurel. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy as a team, see: Laurel and Hardy filmography. Oliver Norvell...
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    that Laurel and Hardy made together. For their solo films see Stan Laurel filmography and Oliver Hardy filmography. Laurel and Hardy were a motion picture...
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    Stan Laurel (category Laurel and Hardy)
    who was one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films and cameo roles...
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    Edward Thomas Hardy CBE (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, Hardy made his film debut in Ridley...
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  • Laurel and Hardy is a 1966–1967 American animated television series and an updated version of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's comedic acts by the animation...
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    borough of Manhattan. Harlem is the birthplace of comedian Oliver Hardy; the annual Harlem Oliver Hardy Festival is held on the first Saturday each October on...
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  • Stan Laurel, as an actor without Oliver Hardy. For the filmography of Laurel and Hardy as a team, see: Laurel and Hardy filmography. Stan Laurel (/ˈlɒrəl/...
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    Easily. She also had roles in several Wheeler and Woolsey and Laurel and Hardy films, the last of which (The Bohemian Girl) featured her in a part that...
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    combined his comedic and dramatic abilities for his portrayal of comedian Oliver Hardy in the biopic Stan and Ollie (2018) earning nominations for the Golden...
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  • Laurel's comic mannerisms. In Sons of the Desert, for example, he says that Oliver Hardy is suffering a nervous "shakedown" (rather than "breakdown"), calls the...
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  • Chickens Come Home (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    and Weep in which James Finlayson plays Hardy's role and Hardy plays a party guest. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy assume the roles of proprietors in the...
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    hundreds of them in the short time it existed. Notable Vim actors were Oliver Hardy, Ethel Marie Burton, Walter Stull, Billy Ruge, Rosemary Theby, Billy...
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    film. The supporting cast featured Vera Ralston; Philip Dorn; Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy) portraying Wayne's portly sidekick; Marie Windsor; John Howard;...
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  • Stan & Ollie (category Laurel and Hardy)
    Hardy; the film stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film focuses on details of the comedy duo's personal relationship...
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    1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, stars Dorothy Dwan as Dorothy, Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman, and Curtis McHenry briefly disguised as a less "cowardly"...
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    Sons of the Desert (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    leaving Oliver to face the aftermath of his wife's fury. Stan Laurel as Stan Oliver Hardy as Oliver Charley Chase as Charley Mae Busch as Lottie Hardy Dorothy...
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    spread to Germany and elsewhere. Comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Oliver Hardy popularized it, reaching its heyday during the interwar years. By the...
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    The Lucky Dog (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    film to include Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy together in a film before they became the famous comedy duo of Laurel and Hardy. Although they appear in scenes...
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  • Love 'em and Weep (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    Finlayson, with Oliver Hardy featured in a small role. This is Mae Busch first of fifteen appearance with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Ancient Proverb—Every...
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    Life of Oliver Hardy (New York: Citadel Press, 1989), p. 18. Rob Stone, Laurel or Hardy: The Solo Films of Stan Laurel and Oliver "Babe" Hardy (Temecula...
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    Again) is a 1939 comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker...
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  • The Bohemian Girl (1936 film) (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    Hal Roach Studios, and stars Laurel and Hardy, and Thelma Todd in her final film role. Mae Busch and Oliver Hardy appeared 13 times, this was their last...
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  • 1872 American play Little Nell, a 1917 film in which Oliver Hardy performed – see Oliver Hardy filmography "Little Nell", a song on the 1964 album Gene...
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    co-stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, comedian Edna Marion, and others; some studio publicity even referred to Finlayson, Hardy, and Laurel as a "famous...
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    of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: Early Silent Classics collection) Crazy Like a Fox (released as part of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: Early Silent Classics...
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  • Lanza (1921–1959) Charles Laughton (1899–1962) Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel (1890–1965) Oliver Hardy (1892–1957) Peter Lawford (1923–1984) Oscar Levant (1906–1972)...
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    Sailors, Beware! (category Laurel and Hardy (film series))
    comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy prior to their official billing as the duo Laurel and Hardy. The team appeared in a total of 107 films...
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  • the batter for the "morning cake". Three bakers (who closely resemble Oliver Hardy) arrived to mix the batter and prepare it for baking, unaware (or unconcerned)...
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