About the Author:
Historian Scott Allen Nollen was educated in film and history at the University of Iowa. Since 1986, he has written and edited more than 40 books on the history of film, literature and music, including volumes on Boris Karloff (now finishing his third), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Ford, John Wayne and Ward Bond, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Louis Armstrong, Paul Robeson, Frank Sinatra, Takashi Shimura and (with his wife, Yuyun Yuningsih Nollen) Chester Morris.
From Library Journal:
The boys of Nollen's 1989 volume are the comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who entertained audiences from the era of silent films through the early 1950s. The author offers both a biography of the two and an analysis of their work. Unlike most noted Hollywood teams (e.g., Abbott and Costello), Stan and Ollie were close friends, having as complex a relationship off screen as on. Surprisingly, the professionally vacuous Stan was actually the brains of the outfit, designing most of the gags, while Ollie followed his lead. In addition to background information and a filmography, this sports numerous monochrome photos of the boys at work.
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