Boulder Weekly 7.2.2020

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Home viewing: BOTH BORN AT the end of the ‘Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations’

by Michael J. Casey

19th century, Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) and Oliver Norvell Hardy (“Babe” to friends and family), found their way to the silver screen by different means. Laurel came of a theatrical -

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of 16, while Hardy tentatively studied theater in 1910. It wasn’t much, but it

The two found their way to Hollywood, and then to Hal Roach Studios. Laurel was hired to write and direct, Hardy was hired to act. But when Hardy

Get ‘Em Young, Laurel

Hal Roach launched a whole series of Laurel & Hardy shorts. The rest, as they say, is history.

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from Kit It’s a hefty set: four discs, two features, 17 shorts and

funny now as it was then. It’s also an excellent resource for historians of comic cinema. The interviews

the early 1980s, and the commentaries

Particularly The Battle of the Century, the

Century The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Laurel &

DVDs are sold.

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