CHAPLIN and LAUREL - The Stage Years.

Illustrated Talks by A.J Marriot

STAN LAUREL - From Lancashire to Los Angeles

From boy comedian
in Britain, to ...
Stan Laurel as the "Red Nose Comic" in the 1912 Karno Company
... Karno comedian
in UK and USA
... to double act in Vaudeville ...
... into solo films
Laurel and Hardy 1928 classic Derby pose
... into finding the perfect partner.

Just how a did a young lad from a lowly town in Lancashire, scale to the heights of one of the greatest  comedians in screen history? Audience members will follow the show business path the young Arthur Stanley Jefferson trod, starting with the British pantomimes and plays he appeared in as a youth; then travel with him to America with the Fred Karno Company where, between 1910 and 1914, he completes several tours in American Vaudeville. For the next eight years we see him still learning his craft in Vaudeville, playing comedy sketches with various partners. 1922 to 1926 finds him making solo films, before finally meeting the legendary partner he is to work with for the next twenty eight years.
  This presentation is illustrated with scores of rare photos and theatre ephemera, plus newsreel footage and home movies. It finishes with a heart-touching montage of Stan Laurel’s life from beginning to end.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN - From Street Urchin to Screen Idol

A clog-dancer with the Lancashire Lads
as Billy in "Sherlock Holmes"
Playing multiple roles in CASEY'S CIRCUS
Sails for America as a Fred Karno Comedian
The pupil becomes bigger than the master.

A pictorial history of CHARLIE CHAPLIN, from his humblest of beginnings in a London suburb; through his days on the British stage; and on through his years in American Vaudeville, before making the transition into film in 1914. Includes extremely rare archive material of Chaplin’s years traversing America and Canada.

CHAPLIN and LAUREL - The Karno Years

1910. Karno Company en route to America
1911. Outside the stage door in Montana.
On board the Karno boxcar the Company toured in.
1912. Performing "A Night in a London Club"

A pictorial history of the years 1908 to 1914, when Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel played in British Music Hall and American Vaudeville with the Fred Karno Company of Comedians.

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