TV Guide (April 23, 1955)

Page scan 00069 from TV Guide

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
April 23, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Chicago (April 23, 1955)
Leaf #:
00069
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Mo Mi \ft&L LAUREL AND HARDY FIND THEMSELVES ON TV. . . FOR FREE One night last winter, a thin man and a plump one sat down to some drinks in a Hollywood hotel room with an old friend from England. Or, at least, that’s what they thought they were doing. But the friend proved to be live bait for a TV show, and before Ar¬ thur Stanley Jefferson (better known as Stan Laurel) and Oliver “Babe” Hardy could reach for a whiskey and splash, they found themselves in the arms of Ralph Edwards on This Is Your Life. Though their famous two- reel comedies of the Thirties are now making the TV rounds, this was their first live television appearance. “It was,” says Laurel, a native of Ulverston, England, “a staggering ex¬ perience. Babe and I are both great television fans, and we’ve been plan¬ ning to do something on TV. But we certainly never intended to start out on an unrehearsed network show!” “And I,” says Hardy, summing it up in terms natural for a 285-pound fel¬ low, “couldn’t eat for a week.” Actually, television has not been kind to these possibly immortal clowns. About 50 of their original short subjects and two or three fea¬ ture-length films have appeared wide¬ ly on TV. “We made all the films on salary,” 14