Buy this book on-line LOUVISH, SIMON: : STAN AND OLLIE: THE ROOTS OF COMEDY - The Double Life of Laurel and HardyLONDON.FABER & FABER LIMITED,2001. ISBN 0571203523.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Number line 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3.] FINE+./FINE.No owner inscrpn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,matt,subject's b/w contemporary portrait photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with silver gilt+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,dark blue paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip,a red+yellow striped headband,and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp,
v-xvpp+3-518pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables,a prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 18,12 and 10 chapters respectively,52 contemporary b/w subjects' photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an epilogue notes on sources,a chronology,
filmography,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title page with subject's full-length b/w photographic frntis to verso,title page and 10pp blanks at rear.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have remained,from 1927 to the present day,the screen's most famous and popular comedy double act,celebrated by legions of fans.
But despite many books about their films and individual lives,there has never been a fully researched,definitive narrative biography of the duo,from birth to death - from soup to nuts.This is that book.
Simon Louvish has delved into the early lives of Stan and Ollie,bringing to life the British theatrical and music-hall background that bred young Stanley Jefferson of Ulverston,England; and the harsh childhood of young Norvell Hardy,in an American South scarred by racial division and living memories of the Civil War.Relating Stan's transition to America with the Fred Karno touring company - alongside his rival Chaplin - in 1910,and Ollie's movie debut in the pioneering days of cinema comedy,the book examines the rarely seen solo films of both of our heroes,as well as their serendipitous teaming at the Hal Roach Studios,their well-loved shorts and features,and their often tumultuous marriages,which found echoes in so many of their films.
Who were Laurel and Hardy? The clowns,as ever,liked to remain elusive behind their masks,but they can now be finally revealed, in their full and complex humanity,and their passionated devotion to their art.
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