Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011)

7.7/10 93 min Documentary Comedy

Overview

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.

Cast

Stan Laurel

Self (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Self (archive footage)

Frank Glaubrecht

Narrator

Booth Colman

Self

Chuck McCann

Self

Jerry Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Marceau

Self (archive footage)

Hal Roach

Self (archive footage)

Ingo Appelt

Self

Jean Darling

Self

Jim MacGeorge

Self

Martin Schneider

Self

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