This exhaustive directory to entertainment of the 1920s, '30s and '40s includes over 1,100 sources for silent movies and B-westerns on home video,78 rpm records, old radio shows, movie memorabilia and animation art, sheet music, fan clubs devoted to vintage entertainers, traditional jazz festivals, big band and nostalgia radio stations, revival cinemas, libraries and museums, and more.

The Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Skretvedt, Randy

Humor & Entertainment

Past Times Pub Co

This exhaustive directory to entertainment of the 1920s, '30s and '40s includes over 1,100 sources for silent movies and B-westerns on home video,78 rpm records, old radio shows, movie memorabilia and animation art, sheet music, fan clubs devoted to vintage entertainers, traditional jazz festivals, big band and nostalgia radio stations, revival cinemas, libraries and museums, and more.

Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Arts & Photography

Young, Jordan R.

Performing Arts

The beloved comedy team comes to life in this behind-the-scenes look at their unique working methods. The most detailed and accurate account of the team's career, based on exclusive interviews with their friends and associates, original shooting scripts, studio publicity material and production logs, family scrapbooks and legal depositions. Includes a who's who of supporting players and technical crew members, details on newly rediscovered films, lost footage and a resource guide.

Laurel and Hardy : The Magic Behind the Movies

Moonstone Press

The beloved comedy team comes to life in this behind-the-scenes documentary -- visit the set as they make their classic comedies. Film historian Randy Skretvedt uses original shooting scripts and unfilmed comedy routines, legal depositions, family scrapbooks and original studio publicity material -- plus exclusive interviews with dozens of the team's friends and co-workers -- to recreate, as never before, the unique environment in which the films were made. 
 Film by film, this book truly evokes the magic behind the movies -- practical jokes, special effects, technical problems, musical scores, sneak previews and publicity campaigns. Over 200 rare photographs, including scenes from the cutting room floor. The book includes a who's who of the team's supporting players, directors and other technical people; a foreword by Steve Allen and an index. The revised paperback edition includes details on recently rediscovered films, newly found footage, foreign language versions and a resource list.

Laurel and Hardy. The Magic Behind the Movies

Movies

Laurel and Hardy. The Magic Behind The Movies

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Apollo

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy improvised many of the scenes for their classic comedies while the cameras were rolling, which meant that some excellent material in their scripts was lost – until now. Twenty complete, original screenplays for their short subjects are presented here for the the very first time. They include a treasure trove of unused but hilarious comedy routines. Among them is the entire script for a proposed 1926 comedy, never filmed, which would have been the comedians’ first film as a team.The scripts are illustrated with 150 rare photos; many of them vividly depict the process of making the films. Introductions for each entry detail the fascinating differences between the scripts and the movies made from them. Full cast and credit information is also included. This collection of fabulous rarities is essential for any admirer of Stan and Ollie.

The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts: 20 Original Short Subject Screenplays (1926 – 1934)

Bonaventure Press

Randy Skretvedt's seminal LAUREL &amp; HARDY: THE MAGIC BEHIND THE MOVIES is generally acknowledged as the gold standard in writing about the work of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Since the book's original release in 1987, it has been updated several times through the early 1990s. But over the last 15 years, author Skretvedt has been compiling an Ultimate Edition of his master work, with nearly 50% more text and quadruple the number of photos of previous editions.Featuring exclusive interviews with the team’s co-workers and unfilmed scenes from rare scripts, it describes in the fullest possible detail how Laurel and Hardy created their classic films.In addition:Close to 800 of the images are new to this edition, and include many never-before-published, one-of-a-kind pictures from Babe Hardy s personal collection.Exclusive quotes and fascinating anecdotes from interviews with more than 60 of the team's co-workers, including producer Hal Roach, editors Richard Currier and Bert Jordan, musical director Marvin Hatley, actresses Anita Garvin and Dorothy Granger, and actor Henry Brandon.Detailed accounts of hilarious unused scenes, culled from the original scripts.Details about the locations where the team filmed many of their most famous scenes.Full cast and credit information for each film, providing the names of all the players and their roles as well as previously unknown members of the technical crews. And full information about the musical scores, including the titles of all cues and names of composers.Full information on the many films which are still missing, as well as a section about the new short subjects created for TV.

Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies

Discover Stan and Ollie’s Lost Films – and Delve Deeper into the Classics! 
The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts Volume 2: Lost Films and Classics presents priceless, never-before-published documents created between 1927 and 1935 for 23 of the team’s movies. For the first time, you can read cutting continuities for the now-lost Hats Off! and The Rogue Song, and a missing portion of The Battle of the Century, all of which precisely describe the action in each shot. 
Also featured is a never-filmed script, Tickets for Two, as well as complete scripts for favorites such as Two Tars, Helpmates, The Music Box, County Hospital, and more. The scripts differ substantially from the finished movies, with fascinating and hilarious scenes that were never shot. Plus, L&H expert Randy Skretvedt describes the changes and adds behind-the-scenes details on each film’s production and cast.

The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts, Volume 2: Lost Films and Classics

March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's "Babes in Toyland"

March of the Wooden Soldiers, the 1934 Laurel and Hardy film originally titled Babes in Toyland, has been a holiday classic on TV since the early 1950s. The annual showing on WPIX in New York has kept this film alive in American popular culture, when for many years that film was all but unavailable anywhere else.The film exudes warmth, charm, happiness and a wish for love to conquer evil. The hundreds of people who contributed to making the movie certainly shared those emotions. But, as with any creative collaboration, there were conflicts.Behind the scenes, there were injuries, a divorce, a not-quite-legal marriage, a secret romance, a barroom fistfight, illnesses and a rift that nearly spelled the end of the Laurel and Hardy team. The film was made at great cost - and not just financial. The Laurel and Hardy film is an enduring classic, but it's only part of the fascinating story of Babes in Toyland.

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The Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Laurel and Hardy : The Magic Behind the Movies

Laurel and Hardy. The Magic Behind the Movies

Laurel and Hardy. The Magic Behind The Movies

The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts: 20 Original Short Subject Screenplays (1926 – 1934)

Laurel & Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies

The Laurel & Hardy Movie Scripts, Volume 2: Lost Films and Classics

March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's "Babes in Toyland"

March of the Wooden Soldiers: The Amazing Story of Laurel & Hardy's "Babes in Toyland"