Oliver Hardy, meanwhile, was born in the small town of Harlem, Georgia, and grew up in the rural south until he went to Atlanta as a teenager to study music and sing. They toured the United States, but Laurel decided to stay, so he headed to Hollywood and made his film debut in the 1917 silent short Nuts in May. Born in Lancashire, England, the son of a theater manager and an actress, Laurel began his career on stage as a teenager in Scotland, eventually joining a troupe of British music hall actors that included a young Charlie Chaplin. Laurel and Hardy, however, didn’t start out their careers as a unit. The bulk of their output came in the years 1927 to 1938 as they moved from silent shorts to “talkie” shorts to sound features. When all was said and done, Laurel and Hardy would appear together in an astonishing 106 films of varying length between 19.
(As any member of the diehard Sons of the Desert fan club will tell you, Another Fine Mess is the 1930 film the actual catchphrase is often misquoted.) The legendary comedy duo was on top of the world, in the middle of a slew of hit movies, including 1932’s The Music Box, which won the first ever Academy Award for a live action short film. The lithe Stan Laurel had yet again gotten his portly partner Oliver Hardy involved in “another nice mess,” this time in 1937’s Way Out West. Reilly stars as Oliver Hardy, and Steve Coogan stars as Stan Laurel in the new release.
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