Later that same year, Should Married Men Go Home? (in which a golf game devolves into a mud fight) became the first short officially labeled as a “Laurel and Hardy” film. Laurel and Hardy made literally dozens of shorts over the next few years, earning star billing in 1928’s From Soup To Nuts, another food-based frenzy that had the boys playing waiters at a high society dinner party. A pie delivery man accidentally slips on a banana peel intended for Stan, the pies start flying in retaliation, and soon an entire city block is engulfed in what may be the most enormous and hilarious pie fight ever committed to film. When Ollie realizes that the real money is to be had in insurance fraud, he tries to arrange an “accident” for his pugilistic protégé. The Battle of the Century casts lanky, hapless Stan as a prizefighter, with Ollie as his manager.
This being a true Laurel and Hardy film, escalating slapstick mayhem results, but it in no way compared to the chaotic insanity of another 1927 short, The Battle of the Century. Piedmont Mumblethumber (Ollie) insists that his visiting Scottish nephew Philip (Stan) shed his kilt for a proper pair of trousers. Several comedy shorts were produced as Stan and Ollie’s partnership became official, but 1927’s Putting Pants on Philip is generally regarded as their first starring role as a team. Laurel and Hardy’s first on-screen pairing came in The Lucky Dog, a short from the late teens that cast Ollie in a small role as a stickup man robbing Stan, but the first true “Laurel and Hardy” short didn’t arrive until a decade later. Meanwhile, Oliver Hardy had been finding work as a comic heavy for the Lubin film company in Florida, and after moving to Hollywood, he too ended up at Hal Roach Studios. When the tour hit America, Stan decided to stay, ending up at Hal Roach Studios, home of the Our Gang shorts and other comedy classics. Stan Laurel had gotten his start in London vaudeville, touring with the same company as Charlie Chaplin.
In a series of over 100 shorts and features from 1927 to 1950, Stan and Ollie defined what a comic tandem should be, sending audiences into laughing fits with their anarchic slapstick comedy. Comedy duos have always thrived on opposites, but Laurel and Hardy raised their oddball pairing to an art form. Slim and stout, British and Georgian, dumb and dumber… Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. “There's another nice mess you've gotten us into!”
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