Gary Saderup Celebrity Charcoals
Size: 20"W x 24"H
Description:
Name: Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy-D.O.B: 18 January 1892
Died: 7 August 1957
Name: Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel-D.O.B: 16 June 1890
Died: 23 February 1965
Your favourite stars of yesterday and today dramatically captured with charcoal
on canvas-textured background.
About Oliver Hardy: His Scottish-English
parents were never in show business. As a young boy he was a gifted singer and,
by age eight, was performing with minstrel shows. In 1910 he ran a movie
theatre, which he preferred to studying law. In 1913 he became a comedy actor
with the Lubin Company in Florida and began appearing in a long series of
shorts; his debut film was "Outwitting Dad" (1913). 1914-5 was the "Pokes and
Jabbs" series; 1916-8 saw the "Plump and Runt" series, 1919-21 the "Jimmy
Aubrey" series, and from 1921-5 he worked as an actor and codirector of comedy
shorts for Larry Semon. In 1917 he had played a bit part in A Lucky Dog (1921),
starring Stan Laurel. His first two-reeler with Laurel was _Forty-five Minutes
from Hollywood (1926)_ . Their first release through MGM was Sugar Daddies
(1927) and the first with star billing was From Soup to Nuts (1928). Their first
feature-length starring roles were in Pardon Us (1931). Their work became more
production-line and less popular during the war years, mostly working for
Twentieth Century-Fox. Their last movie together was The Bullfighters (1945)
except for a French failure (Atoll K (1951)). He appeared without Laurel in The
Fighting Kentuckian (1949) and Riding High (1950) and died seven years later.
About Stan Laurel:
His father was an actor and theatre manager. He made his stage debut at the age
of 16 at Pickard's Museum, Glasgow. He traveled with Fred Karno's vaudeville
company to the United States in 1910 and again in 1913. While with that company
he was Charles Chaplin's understudy, and he performed imitations of Chaplin. On
a later trip he remained in the United States having been cast in a two-reel
comedy, Nuts in May (1917) (1917, released the following year). There followed a
number of shorts for Metro, Hal Roach Studios, then Universal, then back to
Roach in 1926. His first two-reeler with Oliver Hardy was 45 Minutes from
Hollywood (1926) . Their first release through MGM was Sugar Daddies (1927) and
the first with star billing was From Soup to Nuts (1928). Their first
feature-length starring roles were in Pardon Us (1931). Their work became more
production-line and less popular during the war years, mostly producing for
Twentieth Century-Fox. Their last movie together was The Bullfighters (1945)
except for a French failure ("Atoll K", 1951). In 1960 he was given a special
Oscar "for his creative pioneering in the field of cinema comedy". Five years
later he died.
