Films have been made about comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before, but that isn't stopping Jon S. Baird from taking his own look at the duo with Stan & Ollie. The first poster for the ...

Opening in 1937, Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) and Oliver Hardy (John C. Reilly) strut confidently throughout the MGM backlot as the top comedy pair in Hollywood.

Laurel and Hardy poster for the 1934 film “Ghosts.” (Contributed) Nelson was born in 1896 in the Central Valley town of Tulare, with sisters Lena and Stella.

Stan Laurel, who was born in Ulverston in Cumbria in 1890, went to school in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, and then his family moved to North Shields. Also in the sale is the 1889 diary of a ...

On what Laurel and Hardy means to him, he said: "To me it means the world. "From when I was six or seven it was my mum's ex partner who sat me down to watch this old black and white film.

Classic Laurel and Hardy films are set to be shown at a Liverpool cinema this summer - in order to introduce the legendary comedy duo to a whole new generation. The screenings, which will mark the ...

I was born in 1968 which, for any Laurel and Hardy fan, was a great time to be around. By the early Seventies, at the age of three or four, I remember Laurel and Hardy films being on television during ...

At his art deco cinema in Elland's Coronation Street, The Rex, he put on a Laurel and Hardy night of film comedies and was both surprised and pleased by the public's response. Since then, Mr ...