Mini Biography Stan Laurel e Oliver Hardy

Stan Laurel e Oliver Hardy

From 1926 to 1950, the American Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel British formed the most famous movie comedy duo: Laurel and Hardy. Oliver Norvell Hardy Jr., age 8, was already a professional singer. Son of a lawyer, came to enroll at the University of Georgia to follow his father's footsteps, but abandoned the idea and chose to open a small movie theater when I was 18 years.

Three years later, got a job in the film industry, playing villains in small comedy short film, coming to direct and write some of them.

In 1921, opposite the first time with Stan Laurel in "Lucky Dog", but nobody noticed the possibility of forming a pair of great success and Oliver continued to do smaller roles. The only two work together again five years later.

Arthur Stanley Jefferson, whose father was an actor, director, producer, writer and entrepreneur theatrical debut at age 16, in Glasgow (Scotland) until 1910 and earned his living as a stage actor in England, playing dramas and comedies. That year, he joined the famous Fred Karno company, acting as a substitute for Charles Chaplin's first tour group in the United States.

In the second tour, in 1912, Stan was in the United States acting in short film comedies and plays, writing screenplays and directing some of his movies. Stan Laurel took the pseudonym because his real name, Stanley Jefferson, was thirteen different letters, and he believed he could give chance.

In 1926, director Leo McCarey, Hal Roach Studios, Stan and Oliver persuaded to work together and held in the following year thirteen successful comedies.

With a dry wit and visual, in 1929 the duo went smoothly in the talkies. In 1940, the company ended with Hal Roach and worked for major studios such as Fox and Metro.

They stopped filming in 1945 and did two tours of England with a show. In 1950, they returned to the screen in a joint Franco-Italian production called Atoll K (released in America as "Crusoeland Robinson," and later reissued as "Utopia"). In Brazil, had two titles: "The Tricksters of Heaven" and "The Island of the Mess." However, without success.

Oliver died on August 7, 1957, months after a heart attack. His ashes were buried in Hollywood.

Stan vowed never to appear on the screen, limiting himself to writing texts, scripts and skits to death on February 23, 1965. Together, they made 99 films.