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Posted on 07/01/2004 1:12:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
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$50 from Florida
$100 from Georgia
$25 from Tennessee
Thank you Michigan, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee!!
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Thank you Oklahoma and Never Never Land!!
Comedians Stan Laurel, left, and Oliver Hardy are shown in a scene from the movie 'A-Haunting We Will Go' in Los Angeles, Ca. on May 7, 1942. At right is Harry A. Jansen as Dante the Magician. (AP Photo)
LONDON - An auction of Stan Laurel memorabilia took in more than $36,000 Thursday from fans of the famous comedian.
"It was something of a sensation," said auctioneer John Anderson of the Anderson & Garland auction house in Newcastle, northern England. Laurel and his partner Oliver Hardy "just seem to command non-dwindling support and indeed seem to speak to a younger generation," he said.
The photographs and other items were put on sale by the British-born Laurel's nephew, Huntley Jefferson Woods, 81, who lives in northeastern England.
"I am very pleased at the way it has gone," Woods said. "I never expected that the pieces would go that high."
The total take of $36,800 quadrupled the auction house's pre-sale estimate of $9,000.
"I always feel a loss to part with things like this, but I am 81, and as I get older the collection becomes more difficult to look after," Woods said. "I was worried what would happen when I pass on, and at least they have been sold to collectors who will care for them."
Among the items sold was a silver hip flask Laurel got from his father. It $3,800, the highest price at the sale.
"To my dear son Stan, from Dad, August 1932," the inscription said.
A 1930 photograph of Laurel and Hardy together, inscribed by Laurel to his sister, Beatrice, Woods' mother, was sold to a private collector from southern England for $2,400.
The other photographs put on sale showed Laurel throughout his life and included images of him as a young boy and pictures taken at the Hollywood studio of Hal Roach, the duo's producer.
Among the buyers were Universal film studios and the Laurel and Hardy Museum in Ulverston, the northern English town where Laurel was born.
Laurel, whose real name was Stanley Jefferson, left England for Hollywood, where he starred in 75 films on his own and began his comedic partnership with Hardy in 1926. The two made 105 movies together.
They are still considered one of the greatest comedy teams in film history — slim Laurel with his childish innocence and mischief, and rotund Hardy, whose cherubic face belied a short temper when his partner got them into "another fine mess."
Laurel died in 1965, Hardy in 1957.
Clinton - Gore was a pretty good comedy team too.. lol
"And when you get to be this tall little boys, you can marry a stupid rich woman like me! (expletives deleted)
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