#laurel and hardy

[citizenscreen]

My favorite movie Thanksgiving tradition.

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

Unmute the loop!

[shiftythrifting]

[lascitasdelashoras]

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

[makeitquietly]

Oliver Hardy in Why Girls Love Sailors (1927)

[diana-andraste]

As we well know...

Laurel and Hardy in Hal Roach's silent film Liberty, 1929

[mogwai-movie-house]

Still the best dance scene in all of cinema history and I'll attack anyone who disagrees with a wooden mallet.

[gatabella]

15-year-old Ray Bradbury with Marlene Dietrich, 1935

"I was madly in love with Hollywood… I had been roller skating all over the town and was absolutely obsessed with getting autographs from all those glamorous stars. It was great. I saw really big MGM stars like Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, Ronald Colman. Or I would hang out all day in front of Paramount or Columbia, then rush to the Brown Derby to look at the stars coming in or out of there. I saw Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Allen, Burns and Allen – everyone who'd been to the coast. Mae West appeared every Friday with her bodyguard. ...I still have these autographs, and the wheels from the rollers also survived to these days. Almost all of those people I had met are already gone, but by some miracle Marlene and George survived. The light coming from these photos is like a repeated session of my life about a slightly stupid, but always loyal boy who terribly didn't want to grow up."

- Ray Bradbury

[adventuresofalgy]

Despite the beauty of the glistening droplets on the wet grasses and wildflowers, there is a limit to how much saturation of the tail feathers a fluffy bird can tolerate while drinking in the wonders of Nature… or should he say, bathing in them…

So, after exchanging greetings with a passing frog who evidently enjoyed the sodden conditions a great deal more than he did, Algy flew back up into the pine tree and made himself comfortable on a cushion of soft, aromatic pine needles, tucking his tail well into the heart of the tree and away from the rain.

There were now two robins singing somewhere nearby, indulging in a delightfully harmonious competition in the dense Scotch mist, and Algy could think of no better way of passing the time in such dreich conditions than by defying the weather with a song. The elegant counterpoint of his wee feathered friends reminded him of another more famous duet, which, as it happened to mention a pine tree, seemed particularly apposite, so without further ado Algy opened his beak as widely as he could and began to sing…

[In case the video link doesn't work, Algy thought you might like to know that he is singing The Trail of The Lonesone Pine, as made famous by one of the most celebrated comedy teams of all time, Laurel and Hardy.]

[hotvintagepoll]

Laurel and Hardy (Pack Up Your Troubles, The Devil's Brother)—[Stan Laurel was] 5'8". He's a cute little silly fella. Laurel and Hardy were very good friends IRL! In his comedy shorts made with longtime work partner and close friend Oliver Hardy, when Hardy said his best-known catchphrase, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!", "Laurel's frequent, iconic response was to start to cry, pull his hair up, exclaim 'Well, I couldn't help it...', then whimper and speak gibberish." (From the Laurel and Hardy Wikipedia page)

Virginia O'Brien (Harvey Girls)—the female equivalent of The Great Stone Face, Virginia's whole schtick is to show up in movies, sing a sardonic little song that's usually about how men are letting her down, and then leaves. She is so over it and I'm so in love w her.

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here. Remember to keep your propaganda to movies made before 1970.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Laurel and Hardy:

nobody was doing it like them! nobody!!!! weird men rIGHTS

Virginia O'Brien:

[citizenscreen]

A favorite photo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy from 1936. 💕

[ensalada-de-lengua-de-pajaritos]

unmute the loop!

[oldshowbiz]

Oliver Hardy: Brain Specialist

[thursdaymurderbub]

Joan Blondell & Glenda Farrell

[makeitquietly]

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel on the set of Towed in a Hole (1932)

[justapotatoeater]

🎂 Remembering actress/comedian Thelma (Alice) Todd born on July 29th, 1906 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Appeared in 119 feature films and shorts between 1926 thru 1935. She performed opposite; The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chase. Thelma was also partnered with Zasu Pitts and later Patsy Kelly in over 30 comedy shorts at Hal Roach Studios. 🎭 🥂🍾