David Frost welcomes the jaw-dropping trio of Duke Ellington, Billy Taylor and Willie “the Lion” Smith, 1969.
Laurel & Hardy deliver a piano, 1932 (colorized, sadly):
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Great when they were silent and great when they talked, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy spend time together for the final time ever in this home movie, likely shot in 1956, the year before Hardy died. (Thanks Open Culture.)
From Hardy’s Los Angeles Times obituary: “Oliver Hardy, rotund film comedian, died yesterday. He was 65. Death came to the portly half of the famed Laurel and Hardy comedy team from the effects of a paralytic stroke he suffered last September 12. So severe was the stroke that it left him almost completely paralyzed. He was unable to speak and could hardly move one arm. He had wasted away to a comparative shadow from his comical bumbling bulk which at the height of his fame bulged to 350 pounds.”
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Fat & Skinny in “The Music Box” in 1932:
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