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Chemistry: an unexplainable yet unmistakable connection. In films, the perfect melding of talent and temperament can make audiences laugh or cry or put

Most of the comedies in Laurel & Hardy: Year One starred others, so this set shows the evolution of the dual film by film, getting better as they go along.

Laurel and Hardy, comedy team that is widely regarded as the greatest in film history. Stan Laurel (original name Arthur Stanley Jefferson; b. June 16, 1890, Lancashire, England—d. February 23, 1965, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) and Oliver Hardy (original name Norvell Hardy; b. January 18, 1892, Harlem, Georgia, U.S.—d. August 7, 1957, North Hollywood, California) made more than 100 comedies together, with Laurel playing the bumbling and innocent foil to the pompous Hardy. Stan Jefferso...

Tweet       By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1  They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock

Stephen McNicoll and Barnaby Power make a consummate team as the comedy legends, delivering knockabout hilarity with a melancholy undertow