LAUREL and HARDY - The British Tours - part 1

BRITISH TOURS part 1 - red book Extensively revised reformatted and expanded version of the 1993 First Edition hardback book. LAUREL and HARDY British Tours - the book the film Stan & Ollie was based on. The story starts in 1925 just prior to Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel meeting up at the Hal Roach Studios and relates how they went on to become an inseparable partnership. We then fast forward to the promotional tour of major cities in England and Scotland which Stan and Ollie undertook in the summer of 1932. Fast forward again to their 1947 British stage tour for which readers are given a full account of every theatre engagement and every act they worked with; their travel arrangements; the hotels they stayed in; the people they met; previously undocumented public appearances. and descriptions of the crowds of thousands who mobbed them and left them reeling from the onslaught. The 1947 and 1948 European Tours are skimmed over as these are detailed in full in LAUREL and HARDY - The European Tours as is the 1950-51 making of the film Atoll K but the Boys' earlier return to England to appear on the 1947 Royal Variety Performance is covered in the fullest detail. 210 pages - 325 rare and previously unpublished illustrations