Dec 28, 2011
93 min
Full-HD

Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011)

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.

Category

Documentary Comedy

Country

Germany

Companies

EXIT Film- und Fernsehproduktion Kassel ZDF ARTE

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)

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