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| | BLOTTO The Laurel and Hardy Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The two comedians appeared in the same two-reel short, LUCKY DOG (1917), but their pairing in that film was accidental, with Hardy playing a bit and Laurel starring. |
 | | In 1926 he signed a long-term contract with Hal Roach as a gagman and director but shortly after was persuaded to return to acting, and to begin his long and auspicious partnership with Oliver Hardy. |
 | | The "thin man" of the fat-thin duo, Laurel was often also the funnier member of the team, with a wide array of mannerisms that endeared him to film audiences, among them a babylike weep, a confused eye-blink, and a bewildered scratching of the top of the head. |
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