LAUREL & HARDY (STAN LAUREL) - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 05/24/1960 - HFSID 258560
Sale Price $315.00
Reg. $375.00
STAN LAUREL
Stan Laurel sends a typed letter to James Wiseman catching up on the
news.
Typed letter signed: "Stan", 1 page, 7¼x10½, on The Oceana
Apartment Hotel stationery. Santa Monica, California 1960 May 24. To:
"Dear Jimmy". In full: "Thanks yours, 22nd. inst. Nice to hear
from you again & to know alls well with you. Note to reason you are taking a
nurses course - thats [sic] a good idea & quite necessary to be in
full knowledge of those depts.. its very valuable. Interesting to hear you have
a new sail boat. We had quite a rough time of it here yesterday at the Los
Angeles Harbor yacht basin , am enclosing [not present] some news details
on it in case you had'nt [sic] heard about it. I understand many many
boats are still adrift in the open sea & some are feared sunk - the boat
owners must have suffered a great loss as I imagine an insurance would 'nt
[sic] cover this type of damage being in the category of an act of God,
& I doubt if there is much chance of salvaging any of the wrecks, so they
will be a dead loss to all concerned. That was a nice you were able to get the
Duchess of Windsor's autograph in your book & had the opportunity to chat
with her - did you meet the Duke too? I recall now that the Duchess came from
Baltimore. There is a new film out now titled 'When Comedy was King' its a
similar film to the 'Golden Age of Comedy'. I read some of the N. Y. reviews
& the critics praised it highly. Its currently playing in Hollywood,
unfortunately its too far for me to go see it, so am hoping it will be in this
neighborhood soon whch [sic] will be more convenient for me. There are
several more old Stars in it than the First one - Chaplin, Keaton, Wallace
Beery, Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand etc. so it should be very interesting.
Have'nt [sic] much exciting to exciting to tell you Jimmy, so bye for
now. Cheerio & God Bless. As ever:" Stan Laurel (1890-1965, born Arthur
Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire, 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. Fold creases not near signature. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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