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“Thanks to a lively, affectionate writer, we can glimpse the great clowns at work.” ―The Dallas Morning News“[Louvish] has researched his subjects thoroughly. . . . A useful reference book and a solid overview of their careers.” ―The New York Times“A fan's gleeful . . . double take on the beloved bumblers of silent and talking picture fame, seeing their prodigious pile of slapstick misadventures as high art . . . Louvish's wide-eyed love for his subjects' simple, forthright, and hardworking desire to please will bring down the house.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred)“Lovingly researched.” ―New York Daily News“Louvish has digested films, reviews, and interviews with those who knew the pair to... create fully realized human beings.” ―Library Journal (starred)“Brims with affection and still preserves an honest, unbiased view .... a fully rounded, well-paced portrait.” ―Publishers Weekly

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"Thanks to a lively, affectionate writer, we can glimpse the great clowns at work." -The Dallas Morning NewsPraise for Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy "[Louvish] has researched his subjects thoroughly. . . . A useful reference book and a solid overview of their careers." ---The New York Times"A fan's gleeful . . . double take on the beloved bumblers of silent and talking picture fame, seeing their prodigious pile of slapstick misadventures as high art . . . Louvish's wide-eyed love for his subjects' simple, forthright, and hardworking desire to please will bring down the house." ---Kirkus Reviews (starred)"Lovingly researched." ---New York Daily News From 1927 to the present day Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained the screen's most famous and beloved comedy double act. Until now, there has never been a definitive biography of the duo, from birth to death. Simon Louvish traces their early lives, and the minstrel and variety theatre that influenced their later work. Their inspired casting in Duck Soup teamed them until their last days. Both often married, they found balancing their personal and professional lives nearly impossible. Their Hal Roach and MGM films were brilliant, but their move in 1941 to Twentieth Century Fox proved disastrous.In spite of this, Laurel and Hardy survived as exemplars of lasting genius, and are significant to this day. Simon Louvish has seamlessly woven tireless and thorough research into an authoritative biography of these two important and influential Hollywood pioneers.

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Product details

Paperback: 544 pages

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (February 1, 2004)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0312325983

ISBN-13: 978-0312325985

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.0 out of 5 stars

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After devouring the ten-disc "Essential Collection" DVD set, the liner notes of the films in it prompted me to dig deeper into the lives of my all-time favorite funny men. Although some of the reviews for Simon Louvish's long and sometimes overly-detailed bio put me off a bit, I bit the bullet and ordered a copy. I just finished it last night and am so glad I went with this book. The author spends a lot of time tracing the roots of comedy but, at the same time, he also traces the slow but steady development of the finished Stan and Ollie characters we all came to know and love. The double lives in the title refers to their tumultuous and sometimes totally bizarre private lives vs their on-screen characterizations. Some parts take a little patience to get through but it's all worth it as everything gets tied up as you go along. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and have a much deeper appreciation for the boys, especially considering all the stuff going on behind the scenes. I've loved these two for sixty years and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who shares that affliction...err, affection.

This is a good book for fans of Laurel and Hardy. There is a lot of information about the boys’ lives and good information of their film history.It is not without its drawbacks. The story concentrates too much on their on their lives before they achieved fame in the heyday of the Hal Roach years of 1929 - 1934. While it contains individual discussions of their individual films, that discussion is cursory, brief and hurried. The account discusses the recurring cast members like James Findlayson and Mae Busch. While I realize this is a book about Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, those discussions could have been fuller.The plus side is in its account of their “double life,” alluded to in the subtitle. The private lives of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were apparently a mess. Anyone with only a passing familiarity of their comedy films will know that on the screen at least the spouses of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were portrayed as, charitably stated, shrews. Annoying, nagging, troublesome women. There was, unfortunately, some correlation in their real lives to their real spouses. Both were married multiple times. One of Stan’s wives couldn’t care less that he was a great comedian. He was even accused of bigamy. The wives of both were involved with substance abuse, trips to rehab sanitariums, — there was always a great deal of personal drama at home. The book provides newspaper accounts of their domestic troubles. The author has really done his homework. What better way for Stan and Oliver to channel their personal frustrations by ridiculing their wives on the screen!In summary, this is recommended for Stan and Oli fans.

I grew up in Finland in the 1970s, where comedy on TV was scarce and mostly broadcast as filler material between real programs. Laurel & Hardy appeared in both the fillers and surprisingly as feature programs too. I also used to have a 8mm Disney film, "Mickey's Polo Team" from 1936 in which Laurel and Hardy feature as polo-playing cartoon characters.I am one of the people who became to love the style of the dynamic duo. Stan's desolate weep routine and Ollie's physical being-hit-with-a-barrel-of-bricks gags appealed to my sense of humor, and they still do. One day, as I began to reminisce on the L & H films, I decided to buy a book on them and learn more of my childhood heroes.This book is a definite four stars' worth of history, not only on Laurel and Hardy, but also on vaudeville, pre-Hollywood comedy, and a veritable compendium of people who starred in such enterprises, either for a brief period of fame, or as a real star that shined for decades. There is also ample references to non-actors, ie. screenwriters, directors, producers, and even people who wrote the texts in silent films. As such it is very enjoyable.The author also does a great job in describing the early years of our heroes, with Stan following in his father's footsteps into the footlights of vaudeville in early 20th century England, and with Ollie having to endure a period in military college(!) before he finds his way from movie theater projectionist into the camera eye. Just think of the amount of hazing someone with his physique must have endured as a kid, and you begin to understand why his comedy has such a frail sense of humility in it.The boys' ventures into marriage proved to be stormy trips indeed, with multiple brides, plentiful alimony cases, and substance abuse providing much hassle in civilian life. In fact, it is incredible how the duo managed to bring out such classics as "Way Out West" and "Sons of the Desert" when their own private lives were in constant turmoil.The book is rife with anecdotes regarding people whose contribution to comedy was fleeting, and that is one of the problems with it. While the author has collected a vast repository of information regarding the supporting cast and production teams, sometimes the book gets bogged down in these details, and focus shifts a little too far from Stan and Ollie.The same is true for his depiction of comedy as a human function. I am very interested in the role of the comedian all the way from court jesters to Robin Williams, but in this book, the metaphysical sometimes takes precedence over the realization of comedy by the incomparable Laurel and Hardy. Some of the script snippets are also a little long, as are the descriptions of events that were in films that are lost to posterity.All in all, I am not saying it is not a good book - on the contrary, I enjoyed it a lot. With some condensing it'd be a great book, because it really manages to bring out the human side of Laurel and Hardy in both the professional and the private aspects of their lives.-Heikki Hietala, author of Tulagi Hotel

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