LAUREL & HARDY (STAN LAUREL) - DOCUMENT SIGNED 1962 CO-SIGNED BY: LUCILLE (VIRGINIA) HARDY PRICE - HFSID 30904

LAUREL & HARDY: STAN LAUREL and LUCILLE HARDY
Stan Laurel and Lucille Hardy sign a document modifying the terms of payment in a previous option agreement on licensed materials.
Carbon Document signed in ink twice each: "Stan Laurel", "Lucille Hardy Price", 2p, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1962. Signed on page 2. Letter of Agreement between Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation and Laurel and Hardy Features Productions modifying the terms of payment in a previous option agreement on licensed materials. Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's widow Lucille have signed twice each, once on behalf of Laurel and Hardy Features Productions and again in their individual capacities. Stan LAUREL (1890-1965), born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, England, toured the U.S. in 1910 and 1912 as Charlie Chaplin's understudy. He stayed in America to appear on vaudeville and in several comedy shorts, including one with an accidental pairing with Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), Lucky Dog, in 1918. In 1926, after separate careers, Laurel and Hardy worked together once more for director Hal Roach, who noticed their on-screen chemistry and persuaded them to join forces as a team to make comedies. From 1927-1950, Laurel and Hardy appeared in over 100 movies, including 27 feature films and the 1932 three-reeler, The Music Box, which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject. In the late 1940s and early 1950s,the comedy legends also toured English music halls as well as continuing to make films. Laurel stopped performing after Hardy's death in 1957, although he appeared in archival appearances in a number of documentaries on comedy legends, including Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy. Lucille HARDY (néé Jones) met Oliver while working on a script girl on and became his third wife in 1940. She tended Ollie night and day during the last year of his life, after he suffered a serious heart attack. Slightly soiled. Staple holes at top left. Pinhead sized hole at top center of each page. Otherwise, fine condition.