Publisher's Synopsis
"50 Laurel & Hardy Movie Posters" is a colorful collection of movie posters from the films of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Hollywood's greatest movie comedy team. From 1926 to 1950, Stan and Babe (as he was affectionately known) appeared together in 106 films, both two-reelers and features. The collection in this book is a sample of movie posters from the team's silent and sound films, as well as compilation films and foreign versions. Printed in color on white paper, movie posters are presented in the order of the year of release. Each movie poster has been restored to its best possible reproduction quality. In a few cases, reproduction quality may vary, due to the condition of the original posters. But every attempt was made to improve the quality of each poster contained in this book. The book is intended to be only a sample of the movie posters used to promote many of the team's films. It does not contain information about their films nor biographical data about the team. The following is a list of the movie posters contained in the book, in the order they are published. In a few cases, window cards were substituted where one-sheet posters were unavailable. 1927: Why Girls Love Sailors, Second Hundred Years. Do Detectives Think? 1928: Leave 'Em Laughing, From Soup to Nuts. 1929: Wrong Again, That's My Wife. 1931: Pardon Us, Beau Hunks (French). 1932: Any Old Port, Pack Up Your Troubles. 1933; Fra Diavolo (French), Midnight Patrol (Swedish), Sons of the Desert. 1934: Hollywood Party, Babes in Toyland (Italian). 1935: Thicker Than Water, Bonnie Scotland. 1936: The Bohemian Girl (Italian), Our Relations. 1937: Way Out West (German), Way Out West (Swedish), Pick a Star, Pick a Star (Swedish). 1938: Swiss Miss, Block-Heads (Australian). 1939: The Flying Deuces, The Flying Deuces (Danish). 1940: Sons of the Desert (Re-Release), A Chump at Oxford 1941: Great Guns. 1943: Jitterbugs, The Dancing Masters. 1944: Nothing But Trouble, The Big Noise. 1945: The Bullfighters. 1946: A Chump at Oxford (Re-Release), 1947: Way Out West (Re-Release). 1954: Bogus Bandits (aka The Devil's Brother (Re-Release), Utopia. 1958: The Golden Age of Comedy (Compilation). 1960: When Comedy was King (Compilation), Block-Heads (German). 1964: MGMs Big Parade of Comedy (Compilation). 1965: Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s (Compilation). 1967: The Crazy World of Laurel and Hardy (Compilation), The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (Compilation). 1970: 4 Clowns (Compilation). 1975: That's Entertainment Part 2 (Compilation)
