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Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy
by Simon Louvish.
Faber, 518 pp., £8.99, September 2002,0 571 21590 4 Show More
by Simon Louvish.
Faber, 518 pp., £8.99, September 2002,
“... his irritation, ambition and wide-eyed panic. I have loved the two of them all my life, and Simon Louvish’s spirited account, itself both stubborn and plausible, won’t hinder the growth of that affection. In 1890, Stan Laurel was born in Yorkshire to a girl from the North Riding and a man who made his own greasepaints. But Stan’s ... ”
