Handwritten gag by Stan Laurel
name: label: associated person
content: Laurel, Stan
label: maker
content: Laurel, Stan
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Handwritten gag by comedian Stan Laurel. Written in ink on a small piece of unlined paper, it reads:
label: Description (Brief)
content: "S. [Stan] explaining something to B. [Babe, Laurel's nickname for Oliver Hardy] looks around to see if
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content: anyone listening - turns back to B. but B is also
label: Description (Brief)
content: looking the other way - as B turns back to S.
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content: S. backs away again - keep doing this Bus. [business]
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content: till both turn to each other - double takem [double take]."
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content: Laurel was the primary writer and creative member of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, and he often wrote notes for scenes and gags to be used in future films on scrap pieces of paper like this. When Laurel died, he left many of these notes to John McCabe, historian and author of a book on Laurel & Hardy. The English Stan Laurel and American Oliver Hardy appeared in 107 films together - 32 short silents, 40 sound films, and 23 feature films - over the course of a decades-long career. Their popular films for the Hal Roach Studio are acclaimed for excellence in physical and visual humor and earned the duo a new audience through broadcast on television in the 1950s and 60s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Entertainment, Film
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John McCabe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0215.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0215
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0215.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: note
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/8 in x 5 1/2 in; 7.9375 cm x 13.97 cm