![]() ![]() Which leads to Ollie’s location discovery. With little cost or effort the City can simply give it a name, akin to San Francisco naming its alleys and byways after famous resident authors. We hope the City will continue this tradition by naming an anonymous Hollywood alley, also a public walkway, the “ Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd Alley” (see more below), where these great stars filmed The Kid (1921), Cops (1922) and Safety Last! (1923), each a masterpiece also inducted into the National Film Registry. The film is loaded with early Hollywood locations, but for now, here is the stairway, located at 2146 Cove Avenue, about 2 miles NE from The Music Box site ( see map connecting both sites).Ī public walkway, the City officially named the first stairway “Music Box Steps” to honor its cultural, historic, and movie tourism appeal. The Boys also filmed their now lost silent comedy Hats Off (1927) attempting to carry a bulky washing machine up the same pesky stairs.īut years earlier Stan alone struggled with a different intimidating flight of stairs during The Pest (1922). Vendome Street, the historic site is well-documented, and is not only an international tourist attraction, but home to the annual Music Box Day celebration. ![]() The film was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The Boys are well-remembered for The Music Box (1932) inset, awarded the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short, where they famously struggle to deliver a piano up a long flight of stairs. Quickly, here are two fun discoveries from the set, one for Stan, one for Ollie. Beautifully restored by Serge Bromberg’s Lobster Films, the set contains 17 short comedies featuring Stan, and 18 films with Ollie in the cast, along with program notes by film historian Rob Stone. Flicker Alley’s exciting new Laurel OR Hardy Blu-ray release offers a wide collection of early films created by Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy, but each as solo stars before being paired as the world’s most beloved comedy duo. ![]()
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