Movie - A Brewerytown Romance (1914)

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Movie Premier in 1914.

Released as a split reel along with the comedy _Summer Love (1914)_ (qv).
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Comedy, Short
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:180 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:2 June 1914

In movie played:

Frank Griffin (actor)
Birth Name:Griffin, Frank Charles
Birth Notes:Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Death Date:17 March 1953
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Date:17 September 1886

Oliver Hardy (actor)
Articles:"Reader's Digest" (USA), September 1988, pg. 149-152, by: Ray Bradbury, "The Laurel and Hardy Love Affair", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 December 1921, pg. 829, "Hardy Married"
Related to Captain Hardy (as in "Kiss me Hardy" - Nelson)., Was in over 400 movies., Best known for his work with 'Stan Laurel' (qv)., Interred at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park, North Hollywood, California, USA., Subject of one of five 29 US commemorative postage stamps celebrating famous comedians, issued in booklet form 29 August 1991. He is shown with his partner 'Stan Laurel' (qv). The stamp designs were drawn by caricaturist 'Al Hirschfeld' (qv). The other comedians honored in the set are 'Edgar Bergen' (qv) (with alter ego Charlie McCarthy), 'Jack Benny' (qv), 'Fanny Brice' (qv), and 'Bud Abbott' (qv) and 'Lou Costello (I)' (qv)., His favourite pastime was playing golf, which he learned from comedian 'Larry Semon' (qv)., Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album., When Ollie died in 1957, his partner, 'Stan Laurel' (qv), pledged he would never perform again. Despite offers, he never did., Used Babe Hardy for a screen name until convinced by a numerologist that the longer screen name, Oliver Hardy, would bring him success., 'Billy Wilder' (qv) planned on doing a film with him and 'Stan Laurel' (qv) in the 1950s. The film would have opened with each of them sleeping in one of the letter O's of the Hollywood sign. The plot centered on a woman coming between them. The project was aborted owing to Ollie's failing health., His father, also named Oliver Hardy, was a successful lawyer who died when Norvell, as he was known to his family, was ten months old. At a time when few women had careers, his mother supported the family by running a highly successful hotel., Despite rumors over the years, he did not die from the effects of obesity--quite the contrary. Dieting on doctor's orders, he took off too much weight too fast, going from 300+ pounds to 150 in a matter of a few weeks, weakening his constitution well past the danger point. It was becoming dangerously underweight in this manner that brought about his final illness and death., He was voted, along with comedy partner 'Stan Laurel' (qv), the 45th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly., Laurel and Hardy's films had and still have great success in Italy, where they are known as "Stallio and Ollio". Their voices being dubbed into Italian in a very funny and colorful way accentuates their funny lines., Laurel & Hardy have been and continue to be very popular in Germany under the name of "Dick und Doof" (Fatty and Stupid)., His voice in the Italian version of Laurel & Hardy shorts and features was that of the great 'Alberto Sordi' (qv)., Entered St. Vincent's Hospital to have his tonsils removed the day after filming wrapped on _Babes in Toyland (1934)_ (qv)., Is portrayed by 'John Fox (XX)' (qv) in _Harlow (1965/II)_ (qv), Laurel & Hardy have been and continue to be very popular in Spain, Mexico and Latin America under the name of "El Gordo y El Flaco" (The Fat One and The Thin One)., Laurel & Hardy have been and continue to be very popular in Hungary under the name of "Stan s Pan"., In 1930, he lived at 621 North Alta Drive in Beverly Hills., Suffered a severe stroke on 12 September 1956 that left him paralyzed and unable to speak., He was the only child of Oliver Hardy and his second wife; both of them had two children from an earlier marriage; Oliver had two boys, and his second wife had two girls., Still popular in Brazil where he and Laurel are known as "O Gordo e O Magro" (Fat and Skinny)., Had a mild heart attack in May 1954., Was a member of he Lakeside Country Club and a close friend of 'John Wayne (I)' (qv) and 'Bing Crosby' (qv)., According to letters written by 'Stan Laurel' (qv), Hardy had advanced cancer at the time of his death from two strokes., A heavy smoker, Hardy had been suffering from heart problems since the filming of _Atoll K (1951)_ (qv), and his weight had ballooned from 250 to 350 lbs.
Pictorials:"Jeunesse Cinma" (France), August 1965, Iss. 92, pg. 45, "Le muse du rire"
Nick Names:Babe
His Scottish-English parents be never bordered by indicate conglomerate. As a childlike boy, he be a endowed soloist and, beside age eight, was performing with minstrel show. In 1910, he break a the flicks drama, which he ideal to study tenet. In 1913, he become a the comic on the side actress with the Lubin Company in Florida and instigation bad appear in a extended encode of shorts; his debut ocular was Outwitting Dad (1914); 1914-5 was the "Pokes and Jabbs" series; 1916-8 saw the "Plump and Runt" series, 1919-21 the "Jimmy Aubrey" series, and from 1921-5 he work in drop down of an actor and co-director of comedy shorts in championship of 'Larry Semon' (qv). In 1917, he grasp play a plummet cog in _The Lucky Dog (1921)_ (qv), starring 'Stan Laurel' (qv). His original two-reeler with Laurel was Forty-five Minutes from Hollywood (1926). Their first rescue through MGM was _Sugar Daddies (1927)_ (qv) and the first with household name bill was _From Soup to Nuts (1928)_ (qv). Their first feature-length starring role were in _Pardon Us (1931)_ (qv). Their hard work became more production-line and less important cipher in demand during the period of war years, above all practical for Twentieth Century-Fox. Their end movie both was was a French harvest, Atoll K (1951) aka Utopia (USA). He appear in need Laurel in _Zenobia (1939) co-starring with Harry Langdon, The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) in a semi comedic role as a frontiersman alongside John Wayne and Riding High (1950), in a cameo role, and die seven years next.
Height:6' 1"
Quotes:I don't know much, but I know a little about a lot of things., [explaining his and 'Stan Laurel' (qv)'s success] The world is full of Laurel and Hardys. I saw them all the time as a boy at my mother's hotel. There's always the dumb, dumb guy, who never has anything bad happen to him, and the smart guy who's even dumber than the dumb guy, only he doesn't know it.
Birth Notes:Harlem, Georgia, USA
Books:'Scott Allen Nollen' (qv). _The Boys: The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. Inc., 2001. ISBN 0786411155, 'Randy Skretvedt' (qv). _Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies._ Beverly Hills, CA: Moonstone, 1987., Charles Bates. _Laurel and Hardy._ London: StudioVista, 1967., Jack Scagnetti. _The Laurel and Hardy Scrapbook._ Middle Village, NY: Jonathan David, 1976., 'Simon Louvish' (qv). _Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy._ New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2002. ISBN 0312266510, 'Bruce Crowther' (qv). _Laurel and Hardy: Clown Princes of Comedy._ London, England: Columbus, 1987., Wes D. Gehring. _Laurel and Hardy: A Bio-Bibliography._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990. ISBN 031325172X, John McCabe. _Babe: The Life of Oliver Hardy._ Robson Books,, 'Kalton C. Lahue' (qv). _Babe: The Oliver Hardy Story._ ., 1997., John McCabe. _Mr. Laurel & Mr. Hardy._ 1966., 'William K. Everson' (qv). _The Films of Laurel & Hardy._ ., 1967., John McCabe. _Oliver & Hardy._ New York: Ballantine Books, 1975. ISBN 0-25127-X-695, Scott MacGillivray. _Laurel & Hardy: From the Forties Forward._ Lanham, MD: Vestal Press, 1998. ISBN 187951141X, Kyp Harness. _The Art of Laurel And Hardy: Graceful Calamity in the Films._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006. ISBN 0786424400, Norbert Aping. _Laurel and Hardy's Final Film._ Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2008. ISBN 978-0-7864-3302-5
Magazine Covers:"arte TV Magazin" (Germany), December 2004, Iss. 12, "Veronica" (Netherlands), 4 November 1978, Iss. 45, "Mein Film" (Austria), November 1948, Iss. 47
Trademarks:Usually play a childishly officious man who narrowly tolerate his cohort, Stan Laurel, but not moving valued him inside establish of someone to whom he could discern person in charge. With Stan Laurel, they normally bring a scene in their films where on earth they would acquire into a clash beside another party that consisted solely of destroy belongings.The twosome would demolish something the challenger values while the opponent look next to and do not resist. When they be done, the opponent does like peas in a pod to the duo, while they limit yourself from resist and for that reason on., Black hair always combed forward., The "slow burn" - looking into the camera, often with an expression of exasperatedsuffering over what his on-screen partner had just done., The tie-twiddle, used to convey a sense of coyness or embarrassment., Every puddle his character stepped in appeared to be endlessly deep. (He would step into a small puddle and would suddenly be over his head in water.), Most famous costume was a dark suit, a black necktie, and a dark bowler hat., A small mustache., The line, usually directed toward Stan Laurel: "This is another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
Birth Name:Hardy, Oliver Norvell
Spouse:'Virginia Lucille Jones' (qv) (7 March 1940 - 7 August 1957) (his death), 'Myrtle Reeves' (qv) (24 November 1921 - 18 May 1937) (divorced), 'Madelyn Saloshin' (7 November 1913 - 1921) (divorced)
Death Date:7 August 1957
Portrayed:_Hollywood Steps Out (1941)_ (qv), _Mickey's Polo Team (1936)_ (qv), _Porky's Road Race (1937)_ (qv), _Harlow (1965/II)_ (qv), _You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)_ (qv), _We're in the Money (1933)_ (qv), _Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)_ (qv), _Hop, Skip and a Chump (1942)_ (qv), _Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)_ (qv), _Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946)_ (qv), _The Organ Grinder (1933)_ (qv), _The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)_ (qv), _Hollywood Capers (1935)_ (qv), _Porky's Five & Ten (1938)_ (qv), _The Timid Toreador (1940)_ (qv), _Buddy's Adventures (1934)_ (qv), _Bosko's Picture Show (1933)_ (qv), _Toyland Premiere (1934)_ (qv), _The Case of the Stuttering Pig (1937)_ (qv), _Stan (2006) (TV)_ (qv)
Birth Date:18 January 1892
Death Notes:North Hollywood, California, USA (cerebral thrombosis)

Raymond McKee (actor)
Articles:"Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 February 1925, pg. 815, "Sennett Signs McKee", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 March 1923, pg. 511, "Marguerite Courtot to Wed", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 3 December 1921, pg. 566, "Surprise Weddings", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1920, pg. 1050, "Raymond McKee Recovered", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 March 1917, pg. 2108, "Raymond McKee", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 October 1916, pg. 394, "Raymond McKee Again with Metro", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 15 May 1915, pg. 1053, "Raymond McKee, Edison Comedian"
Child: Raymond Courtot McKee (c. 1927), Buried in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California.
Death Notes:Long Beach, California, USA (pneumonia)
Height:5' 7 1/2"
Birth Notes:Keokuk, Iowa, USA
Birth Name:McKee, Eldon Raymond
Spouse:'Marguerite Courtot' (qv) (23 April 1923 - 3 October 1984) (his death), 'Frances White' (1921 - ?)
Death Date:3 October 1984
Birth Date:7 December 1892

Eva Bell (actress)

Arthur Hotaling (producer)
Vaudeville as Mace & Douglas (with 'Fred Mace' (qv)).
Death Notes:California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Notes:New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name:Hotaling, Arthur Douglas
Spouse:'Mae Hotely' (qv) (? - 13 July 1938) (his death)
Death Date:13 July 1938
Birth Date:3 February 1873

Frank Griffin (writer)
Birth Name:Griffin, Frank Charles
Birth Notes:Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Death Date:17 March 1953
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Date:17 September 1886
Birth Name:Griffin, Frank Charles
Birth Notes:Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Death Date:17 March 1953
Death Notes:Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Date:17 September 1886