Task: Question Generation
Input (English): This was supposed to have been Stan and Ollie's farewell film with the Hal Roach Studios.Roach was moving into more serious films, and felt the Laurel and Hardy films had done their course. The problem is that Laurel and Hardy were under separate contracts, and when Stan's contract expired, he refused to sign on again unless Roach signed both he and Ollie together as a team, and separate contract players. Roach refused, Stan left while Ollie was still under contract. Roach tried to team Ollie with Harry Langdon (Langdon and Hardy) the follwing year in a film call Zenobia. The audienances didn't accept this, and Laurel and Hardy returned to Roach for a two feature deal in 1940, after making an independent deature in 1939 called "The Flying Deuces."
Output (English): Question: In the movie, who refused to sign a contract again unless Roach signed both he and Ollie together as a team?, Answer: Stan