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Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy

Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy

by SimonLouvish (Author)

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Synopsis

Laurel and Hardy can still reduce audiences to helpless laughter, as Simon Louvish attests in this chronicle of their lives and works.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 544
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0571215904
ISBN 13: 9780571215904
Book Overview: Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy by Simon Louvish is the definitive biography of the world's most enduringly popular comedy duo.

Media Reviews
'This is as close as it comes to a definitive biography and filmography of Laurel and Hardy, and as good as writing about Hollywood comedy gets.' Iain Finlayson, The Times; 'An enormous amount to enjoy... contains some of the best and most incisive analysis of their movie magic I've ever read. [Louvish's] joyful descriptions of their finest films are models of clarity, and his sorrow over their decline is movingly expressed'. Bob Monkhouse, Guardian
Author Bio
Simon Louvish was born in Glasgow in 1947 and misspent his youth growing up in Israel between 1949 and 1968, including a stint as an army cameraman from 1965 to 1967. Having decamped to the London School of Film Technique in 1968, Simon became involved in the production of a series of independent documentary films about apartheid in South Africa, dictatorship in Greece, and general mayhem in Israel-Palestine from 1969 to 1973. He also published a memoir of his Israeli days entitled A Moment of Silence in 1979. Since 1985 Simon has published a series of novels set mainly in the Middle East, including the acclaimed Blok trilogy (The Therapy of Avram Blok, City of Blok and The Last Trump of Avram Blok). His most recent Middle East novel, The Days of Miracles and Wonders, was published in the UK in 1997 by Canongate. Since 1979, he has also been teaching film at the London International Film School and writing for various newspapers and magazines. Simon Louvish is the author of a trilogy of definitive biographies of the great clowns of screen comedy, including Man on the Flying Trapeze (1997), the story of W. C. Fields, Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers (1999), and Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy (2001), all published by Faber & Faber. Further film biographies include Keystone: The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett(2003), Mae West: It Ain't No Sin (2005), and Cecil B. DeMille and The Golden Calf (2007).