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"The Beverly Hillbillies: A Classic American TV Show ran for 9 Seasons and 274 episodes. If there is a person in the US who has not watched The Beverly Hillbillies at some point in their life, then they have at least heard "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," the theme song for the show. The series is a cultural icon in America and is well-known in other countries as well. While it has been off the air for over three decades, it continues to run in syndication for all to see and was even turned into a film in 1993, 22 years after it ran it’s last episode. The Beverly Hillbillies takes you on a comical journey with a country family who had been extremely poor until they found oil on their land. After striking it rich, they moved to the most luxurious city in California, Beverly Hills. The series ran for 9 seasons and produced 274 episodes from 1962-1971. It is interesting to note that this show was actually not hailed by critics when it was introduced. However, it was a ratings success during all of its Seasons, twice garnering the #1 show throughout the year. There are many of the episodes that are considered some of the best television episodes that have ever been made."
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"Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of English thin man Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American fat man Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous bully Hardy. The duo's signature tune is known variously as "The Cuckoo Song," "Ku-Ku," or "The Dance of the Cuckoos." It was played over the opening credits of their films and has become as emblematic of the duo as their bowler hats. Prior to emerging as a team, both actors had well-established film careers. Laurel had appeared in over 50 films as an actor while Hardy had been in more than 250 productions. The two comedians had previously worked together as cast members on the film The Lucky Dog in 1921. However, they were not a comedy team at that time and it was not until 1926 that they appeared in a movie short together, when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team in 1927 when they appeared together in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip. They remained with the Roach studio until 1940 and then appeared in eight "B" movie comedies for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1941 to 1945. After finishing their movie commitments at the end of 1944, they concentrated on performing in stage shows and embarked on a music hall tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In 1950, before retiring from the screen, they made their last film, a French-Italian co-production called Atoll K. Stan Laurel (June 16, 1890–February 23, 1965) was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson in Ulverston, Lancashire, England into a theatrical family. His father Arthur Joseph Jefferson was a theatrical entrepreneur and theatre owner in northern England and Scotland who, together with his wife, was a major force in the industry. In 1905, the Jefferson family moved to Glasgow to be closer to their business mainstay of the Metropole Theatre, and Laurel made his stage debut in a Glasgow hall called the Britannia Panopticon one month short of his 16th birthday. Arthur Jefferson secured Laurel his first acting job with the juvenile theatrical company of Levy and Cardwell, which specialized in Christmas Pantomimes. In 1909, Laurel was employed by Britain's leading comedy impresario Fred Karno as a supporting actor, and as an understudy for Charlie Chaplin. Laurel said of Karno, "There was no one like him. He had no equal. His name was box-office." Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892–August 7, 1957) was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. By his late teens, Hardy was a popular stage singer and he operated a movie house in Milledgeville, Georgia, the Palace Theater, financed in part by his mother. For his stage name, he took his father's first name calling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy" while offscreen his nicknames were "Ollie" and "Babe." The nickname "Babe" originated from an Italian barber near the Lubin Studios in Jacksonville, Florida who would rub Hardy's face with talcum powder and say "That's nice-a baby!" Other actors in the Lubin company mimicked this and Hardy was billed as "Babe Hardy" in his early films."
Source: Wikipedia.org | Monday, July 23, 2018, 12:00AM |
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