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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

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Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic

Dec 28, 2011

1h 33m

★ 7.7

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.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Production Companies

EXIT Film- und Fernsehproduktion Kassel

ZDF

ARTE

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic Trailers

Cast

Stan Laurel

Self (archive footage)

Stan Laurel

Oliver Hardy

Self (archive footage)

Oliver Hardy

Frank Glaubrecht

Narrator

Frank Glaubrecht

Booth Colman

Self

Booth Colman

Chuck McCann

Self

Chuck McCann

Jerry Lewis

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis

Marcel Marceau

Self (archive footage)

Marcel Marceau

Hal Roach

Self (archive footage)

Hal Roach

Ingo Appelt

Self

Ingo Appelt

No Image

Self

Bart Williams

No Image

Self

Irv Hyatt

No Image

Self

Jamie McKenna

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