Lilyan Irene

In remaking the notoriously lost film Hats Off, the boys deliver a crated player piano to the home atop a steep hill. This film won the Academy Award® as “Best Short Subject, ” the first short ever to be so honored. Critics then and now have exhausted all superlatives in celebrating The Music Box. Laurel himself conferred his personal endorsement as the best picture the partnership produced. The Library of Congress enshrined the short on its National Film Registry deeming it to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. ” The most famous, most askedabout shooting location in all Hal Roach comedies is the terraced staircase shown here. Official city street signs and an etched black marble plaque mark the site today in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles. Directed by James Parrott. With Billy Gilbert and Charlie Hall.

With nothing else to do, Stan pays banged-up Ollie a visit in the hospital, bringing a gift of hardboiled eggs and nuts. The wild ride at the end was intended to top the one from HOG WILD, but economic conditions dictated otherwise. After a screening at his home in 1986, Hal Roach explained, “We tried to make a gag out of the rear projection by showing we knew the thing looked phony. ” This is the last of five shorts re-released by M-G-M in 1937, when it was fitted with a lively new musical score by Roy Shield. The production credits cards and the opening gag titles (deemed a relic of the silent era) were deleted, then the main title was modernized. Only this reissue adaptation remains today. Directed by James Parrott. With Billy Gilbert.