Oliver Hardy passed on this date, August 7th, 1957 at 65 years of age. When his on stage and screen partner, Stan Laurel heard the news, he was devastated and from then on, refused to perform on stage or act in another film again. Ever since they became partners in 1927, he thought of himself as half of an entity called Laurel & Hardy and consequentially, without Hardy there couldn't be any Laurel. That's how close they were. Their friendship had blossomed during their fading years when, out of work in movies, they began to tour appearing live before delighted audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Ollie was by this time, married to Virginia Lucille Jones, a script girl he met while filming THE FLYING DEUCES. Stan was married to Ida Kitaeva Raphael and the four of them struck a very close friendship during those tours.
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