The beloved comedy team comes to life in this behind-the-scenes look at their unique working methods. The most detailed and accurate account of the team's career, based on exclusive interviews with their friends and associates, original shooting scripts, studio publicity material and production logs, family scrapbooks and legal depositions. Includes a who's who of supporting players and technical crew members, details on newly rediscovered films, lost footage and a resource guide.

Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies

Randy Skretvedt

Literature & Fiction

Last Gasp

A coffee table size hardcover book with TWO CD's included! Loaded with never before seen photos from live stage shows, radio and public appearances! For the first time anywhere TWO different recordings of the "Driver's License Skit&amp;" plus a 1944 NBC radio Laurel and Hardy Audition show and 70 minute interview with Stan Laurel recorded just one week after Oliver Hardy's death. All in pristine sound from the original master recordings. This book fills an important void in the history of Laurel and Hardy--covering a time period that is mostly forgotten and unknown. Beautifully illustrated with dozens and dozens of LARGE photo illustrations most of which have never been seen before. World renown Laurel and Hardy expert Randy Skretvedt has written three special essays for this book covering the history of Laurel and Hardy on radio, the importance of the "Driver's License Skit" to their careers and the significance of the Stan Laurel interview. Peter Mikkelsen has faithfully translated Stan Laurel's scrapbook clippings of the press coverage of their live shows in Denmark in 1947. John Tefteller tells the fascinating tale of how these rare recordings were discovered.

"Laurel & Hardy on Stage (Rare and Unreleased Live Performances 1942-1957")

Humor & Entertainment

Peter Mikkelsen

John Tefteller

Humor

Tefteller Publishing

Randy Skretvedt's seminal LAUREL &amp; HARDY: THE MAGIC BEHIND THE MOVIES is generally acknowledged as the gold standard in writing about the work of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Since the book's original release in 1987, it has been updated several times through the early 1990s. But over the last 15 years, author Skretvedt has been compiling an Ultimate Edition of his master work, with nearly 50% more text and quadruple the number of photos of previous editions. And to mark its release, Bonaventure Press is producing a single limited print run of 2,000 copies of this special edition, as an oversized 8.5 by 11 hardcover, with heavy glossy paper and all the trimmings of a top-quality art book, to help show off its 1,000 rare photographs and greatly expanded text. In addition: Close to 800 of the images are new to this edition, and include many never-before-published, one-of-a-kind pictures from Babe Hardy s personal collection. Exclusive quotes and fascinating anecdotes from interviews with more than 60 of the team's co-workers, including producer Hal Roach, editors Richard Currier and Bert Jordan, musical director Marvin Hatley, actresses Anita Garvin and Dorothy Granger, and actor Henry Brandon. Detailed accounts of hilarious unused scenes, culled from the original scripts. Details about the locations where the team filmed many of their most famous scenes. Full cast and credit information for each film, providing the names of all the players and their roles as well as previously unknown members of the technical crews. And full information about the musical scores, including the titles of all cues and names of composers. Full information on the many films which are still missing, as well as a section about the new short subjects created for TV.

Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies

Bonaventure Pr

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