Stan and Ollie by Simon Louvish

Stan and Ollie by Simon Louvish

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both passed away almost 40 years ago, yet their films still have the power to reduce audiences old and new to helpless laughter. There has been no comprehensive account of their lives and work, until now. The roots of their comic greatness lay in nineteenth-century variety theatre. Lancashire-born Stan Laurel was steeped in the traditions of the music hall, and found himself touring the USA in the 1910s as Charlie Chaplin's understudy. American Oliver Hardy had established himself as a 'fat funny man' by the time he and Laurel were first paired in 1927. Laurel inspired Hardy to forge their famous double act, in which Laurel played the eternal comic fool, Hardy his temperamental master. Both men were devoted to their professional partnership, which outlasted multiple marriages. Stan and Ollie completes Louvish's trilogy of definitive biographies of the great clowns of screen comedy, following his books on W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers.

Simon Louvish was born in Glasgow in 1947 and grew up in Jerusalem. He has also produced documentary films and many acclaimed novels. His Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields and Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers are also published by Faber.

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ISBN 13	9780571203529
ISBN 10	0571203523
Title	Stan and Ollie
Author	Simon Louvish
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2001-09-15
Number of pages	533
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