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	Stan Laurel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laurel was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, but spent most of his early life in the North East of England, particularly North Shields, Northumberland, where he lived from 1897 to 1902, and Bishop Auckland, County Durham, between 1902 and 1905.
		Laurel had a natural affinity for the theatre, with his first professional performance on stage at the age of sixteen.
		Laurel even wrote his own obituary; "If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again." He was buried at Forest Lawn -Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stan_Laurel (1475 words)

	Stan Laurel Biography
		Stan's father, Arthur J. Jefferson ("AJ") had controlling supervision of a group of local theaters in the northern part of England, serving not only as a manager, but also as an actor, director and playwright as well.
		Stan decided to stay in America and became a successful staple of the American vaudeville houses.
		Stan did not work after Ollie passed away, but he continued to fashion gags and skits until he died on February 23, 1965, of a heart attack.
	members.aol.com /goodturn1/stlaurel.htm (656 words)

	Stan Laurel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stan's Father, Arthur Jefferson, also known as 'A J', was a well known theatre manager in the north of England, often acting and writing in his own plays, his wife, Stan's mother, acted in her husbands plays.
		When Stan was 6 his family moved to Bishop Auckland, he attended boarding school, because his mother travelled with his father while he was managing touring companies and running his theatres.
		Stan toured America with a number of partners, an Australian dancer, Mae Charlotte Dahlberg Cuthbert, gave Stan his new name of 'Laurel' after seeing an image of a Roman general wearing a wreath of laurel on his head.
	members.aol.com /nstephen7/stan.html (322 words)

	© Laurel and Hardy - Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy - Film Comedians - goldensilents.com
		Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson into a theatrical family in Ulverston, England June 16th, 1890, and was to become the chief gag devisor of the Laurel and Hardy film comedy team.
		Stan's screen character was a gentle, well-meaning fellow, who genuinely wanted to help out his buddy Oliver Hardy, but whose efforts often failed, producing exactly the opposite reaction in Hardy than he had anticipated.
		Laurel and Hardy began to be re-appreciated in the 1950's with the advent of television.
	www.goldensilents.com /comedy/laurelhardy.html (975 words)

	Laurel & Hardy Museum devoted to Stan Laurel, Ulverston, Cumbria, UK
		Stan later went to school in Bishop Auckland, Tynemouth and finally Glasgow where he completed his education at the first possible opportunity and went to work for his father in the Metropole Theatre, in the box office.
		Stan got a try and as he looked out at the audience on that first night saw his dad at the back of the hall.
		Stan acted in, wrote gags for, and directed many films for roach, including The Lucky Dog in around 1920 in which he co-starred with Oliver Hardy.
	www.laurel-and-hardy-museum.co.uk /stanolly.htm (665 words)

	BBC - Cumbria - Enjoy Cumbria - Stan Laurel
		Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on 16 June 1890.
		In 1961, Stan was honoured by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Oscar for his creative pioneering in the field of comedy.
		Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy).
	www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/enjoy_cumbria/famous_people/stan_laurel.shtml (849 words)

	Laurel and Hardy Celebriducks for the Connoisseur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stan Laurel might have continued contentedly as a writer and director and Leo McCarey would not have noticed the comedy chemistry which resulted from the chance pairings of Stan and Babe in those early Hal Roach comedies.
		Stan Laurel actually learnt his comic trade as an understudy for Charlie Chaplin.
		Stan's strange physical special effects, such as lighting his thumb by flicking it like a match, has been used directly in British Gas commercials, and the idea copied in many modern absurdist sitcoms, such as Absolutely's "Mr Don and Mr George", starring Jack Docherty and Moray Hunter.
	www.beckett.com /celebriducks/laurel_and_hardy/index.asp (1251 words)

	Laurel and Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are one of the most famous comedy duos in film history.
		The humor of Laurel and Hardy was generally slapstick in nature, often employing Laurel's character as dominant (although Hardy always presumed he had the upper hand), usually to Hardy's chagrin.
		Laurel did not attend his partner's funeral, due to his own ill health, explaining his absence with the line "Babe would understand." Stan Laurel died in Santa Monica in 1965 and is buried at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California.
	laurel-and-hardy.iqnaut.net (1082 words)

	The Stan Laurel Collection DVD - Kino on Video
		Before his famous teaming with Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel was for eight years one of the most important Hollywood comics of his time, competing at the same level with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
		Stan works in a grocery store at the heart of the mountains buried in snow/ in the middle of the mountains.
		Stan is a detective who essentially relies on different costumes to successfully complete his investigations.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?product_id=798 (535 words)

	Stan Laurel
		Stan Laurel, half of the most successful comedy team in film history, was the son of an actor and theater manager in England, and he started working on music hall stages at a teenager.
		Laurel appeared in dozens of silent comedy shorts over the next few years, including starring in a parody of Rudolph Valentino's popular bullfighter film, "Blood and Sand" (1922), titled "Mud and Sand" (1922), in which Laurel's character is named Rhubarb Vaselino.
		Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on June 16, 1890, in Ulverston, England.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /laurel.html (675 words)

	Biography for Stan Laurel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stan Laurel was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson on the 16th of June in Ulverston, Cumbria in England, 1890.
		Laurel first apeared with his future partner, Oliver Hardy, in A Lucky Dog (1921), which was filmed in 1919, but not released until 1921.
		He & Mae Laurel lived as a common law couple as Mae was legally married to someone in her native Australia when she met Stan in 1918.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0491048/bio (1639 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin
		One of the most troubling aspects of Stan Laurel's life was his relationship with Charlie Chaplin.
		Laurel, on the contrary, modeling himself on one of vaudeville's "greats," Dan Leno, tried to "mime in beggars' clothes the pain that was life." He did it mainly in the modest lodging that he and Chaplin rented near Times Square, working out sketches, turning out one after the other, as if he were on stage.
		Laurel confided all this to his wives, mostly to Virginia Ruth, whom he married three times, and from whom Guiles got most of the story.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /17/02a_laurel1.html (1066 words)

	Stan Laurel
		Stan Laurel was often portrayed as the bumbling clown, but in real life this couldn't have been further from the truth.
		He was to adopt the name Stan Laurel because he was superstitious, the name he was using at the time Stan Jefferson had 13 letters, this was causing Stan problems or so he thought.
		Stan was born on the 16th of June in 1890.
	uk.geocities.com /laurel_hardy_tribute/stan.html (384 words)

	Stan Laurel \| Comedic Movie Actor
		Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) was born on June 16, 1890 in Ulverston in North Lancashire (presently Cumbria), England.
		Stan's first professional theatrical engagement was as a boy-comedian at the Britannia Theater in Glasgow.
		In 1961, Stan was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Oscar for his creative pioneering in the field of comedy.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/96jun/laurel.html (496 words)

	Stan Laurel--Comedy Genius - Associated Content
		Stan Laurel is best known for being the “lesser half” of the great comedy duo, Laurel and Hardy.
		Laurel completed his contract for the twelve movies early and in 1926, signed up with Hal Roach Studios to be a director and writer.
		Stan Laurel was on the path to bigger fame than he imagined.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/2385/stan_laurelcomedy_genius.html (512 words)

	Leave em Laughing Tent of Liverpool - Main Page
		Our aim is to promote Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, their films and lives who have brought such happiness to so many people.
		Those familiar with Laurel and Hardy however, will recognise it as the fictional lodge to which Stan and Ollie have pledged allegiance in their 1933 feature film of the same name (available from VVL in both restored monochrome and colourised versions).
		His first book, Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy, was published in 1961 and brought with it a massive increase in mail, both for himself and for the already besieged Stan Laurel, who made every effort to answer his correspondents personally.
	www.stanandollie.org.uk (1298 words)

	Stan Laurel Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		If not for Laurel's occasional appearances as one of the Hal Roach all-stars, director Leo McCarey, credited with urging Roach to make Laurel and Hardy an official team, might never have recognized the extra comic sparks flying whenever the duo were in a scene together.
		Laurel and Hardy each beautifully complemented the other's screen presence, achieving a connection that can only be called soulful on their way to becoming Hollywood's greatest acting team.
		The comedy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy remains popular today, as evidenced by a contemporary fan club called Sons of the Desert (which Laurel helped co-found), named for one of their best-loved films, in which 'The Boys' sneak off to a fraternal convention while pretending to go on a "medicinal" sea voyage.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195088 (1875 words)

	Stan Laurel \| Biography (1890-1965)
		Stan Laurel was a skinny Lancashire lad who became a skilled pantomimist in his teens and, after years with Fred Karno's riotous stage troupe, came to America with them (Charlie Chaplin was their leading comic) in 1910.
		Irregularities in Laurel's private life (the woman he lived with was unable to obtain a divorce) led to a couple of estrangements from the morals-conscious Hal Roach, who had hired him in 1917 and again in 1922.
		But Stan himself was always defeated by a simple thing like folding his arms, the interlocking of the arms somehow escaping him until they dropped to his sides.
	www.leninimports.com /stan_laurel.html (1240 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Fortunate Son
		Actor/director Clint Eastwood is the son of comic Stan Laurel.
		Perhaps the most amusing [piece of Laurel & Hardy apocrypha] is a belief that actor and director Clint Eastwood might be Stan Laurel's son; varying sources attribute the myth either to a foreign magazine or, incredibly, a letter to a children's comic remarking on the resemblance between the two.
		Laurel's son was born two months premature, died nine days later, and was cremated (reportedly because his father could not stand attending funerals), thereby lending plausibility to the notion that the child might actually have survived but was given to others to raise.
	www.snopes.com /movies/actors/eastwood.asp (513 words)

	WoodysNet - Humour - Stan Laurel Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Laurel's screen character in those early days was that of a clown, typically wearing oversized clothes and playing the misfit.
		Laurel wrote many of his own comedy routines and occasionally helped with the directing.
		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.
	www.woodysnet.co.uk /humour/biog_laurel.htm (406 words)

	THE MARRIAGE OF STAN LAUREL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A rather unique item in the Laurel and Hardy Canon, The Marriage of Stan Laurel (alternately known as The Wedding Party and The Wedding Night) is a tantalising glimpse at what a Laurel and Hardy Radio Series might have been like.
		Written by Stan Laurel and reprinted in John McCabe's THE COMEDY WORLD OF STAN LAUREL, The Marriage of Stan Laurel is a slight sketch that shows Stan trying to adapt he and his partner's brand of comedy to a completely foriegn medium.
		Often left off commercial recordings of this sketch is the introduction of Laurel and Hardy by future comedy legend Lucille Ball, where she mixes it up with The Boys for about a minute before the sketch proper.
	laurelandhardycentral.com /radio1.htm (258 words)

	Amazon.com: The Stan Laurel Collection (Slapstick Symposium): DVD: Harry Sweet,Joe Rock,Ralph Ceder,Stan Laurel,Murray ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Laurel was already a veteran vaudevillian, with many previous stabs at film work, when he embarked on this series for Roach.
		It was only in the 1920s that Stan laurel became established enough to capture the attention of producer Hal Roach and compete on equal terms with his mentor.
		This Stan Laurel is not the Stan of Laurel and Hardy(which was less than two years away) but in these films are definite signs of the future persona that the public would come to know and love.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002CHIDS?v=glance (2738 words)

	Stan Laurel @ Filmbug
		Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890 - February 23, 1965) and Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) were a comedy duo, formed in 1926, who appeared in silent movies and later in talkies.
		By 1936 the relationship between Laurel and Hardy was under strain and both of them were distanced from Roach.
		The official Laurel and Hardy appreciation society is known as The Sons of the Desert after the film of the same name.
	www.filmbug.com /db/292796 (523 words)

	Amazon.ca: Laurel And Hardy: V1 Lost Films Of: DVD: Stan Laurel,Frank Terry,Pearl Elmore,Sadie Gordon,Rosa Gore,Bud ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Also included on this DVD are two Stan Laurel solo shorts, "On The Front Page" (1926) very amusing.
		Volume One of "The Lost Films of Laurel and Hardy" offers four misadventures of the boys from the late 1920s: "Big Business" (1929, 21 min.) has Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen in July and is far and away the best offering on this DVD.
		Laughter through visual comedy is the devine genius of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
	www.amazon.ca /Laurel-Hardy-V1-Lost-Films/dp/contents/B00000FE36 (1450 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Laurel And Hardy - Bonnie Scotland [1935]: Video: Stan Laurel,Daphne Pollard,James Horne,Mary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Laurel And Hardy - Bonnie Scotland [1935] (1935)
		The first part of the film with Laurel & Hardy in Scotland is vastly superior in terms of not only comedy but also production values than the longer section set in India.
		Bonnie Scotland was one of the first Laurel and Hardy movies I ever saw and I loved them straight away.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Laurel-Hardy-Bonnie-Scotland-Stan/dp/B00004CLEM (551 words)

	The Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy Fanlisting
		Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are perhaps the most famous and definitely the funniest comedy duo in film history.
		Copyright © 2006 The Laurel and Hardy Fanlisting unless otherwise stated.
		This fanlisting is an unofficial website, which is in no way affiliated with Laurel nor Hardy's representatives.
	www.m00nwalk.com /laurelhardy (239 words)

	GoneMovie Review -> The musicbox Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
		The film is a remake of the missing Laurel and Hardy short Hats off which was based on the Chaplin comedy His musical career (1914).
		A box or case containing an apparatus for producing music mechanically, as by means of a comblike steel plate with tuned teeth sounded by small pegs or pins in the surface of a revolving cylinder or disk.
		Stan Laurel performed in circuses and vaudeville before settling in the U.S. (1910), where he began appearing in silent movies.
	www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Drama/Drama/EnglischMusicBox.asp (382 words)

	STAN LAUREL - In County Durham, England. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the Masters of slapstick buffoonery, Stan Laurel, born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, June 16, 1890 and died Feb. 23, 1965.
		Stan was a sickly child and spent the first few months with his grandparents while Madge returned after the birth to her busy theatre life.
		Stan attended King James Grammar School in Bishop Auckland as a border in 1903.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/congress/9/laurel.htm (347 words)

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