Laurel and Hardy: This lady is a guy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fathers of Clothes: This Lady is a Guy (alternate title for television) |
| Original title | 45 minutes from Hollywood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| length | approx. 17 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fred L. Guiol |
| script | Hal Roach |
| production | Hal Roach |
| occupation | |
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45 Minutes from Hollywood is a 1926 comedy short film starring Glenn Tryon . In addition, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy , the members of the later famous comedian duo, made a brief appearance in the film. The premiere took place on December 26, 1926.
action
Orville, the son of a family in the country, is sent by his mother to Hollywood to meet a payment there. Together with his sister and initially also his grandfather, who, however, can no longer get on the train in time, Orville sets out on the journey and is warned beforehand by his mother about fraudsters and thieves. As soon as they arrive in Hollywood, Orville accidentally runs into a bank robber who is disguised as a woman and who overpowers Orville in a hotel room in order to appropriate his clothes and thus escape undetected. Orville, who now has to show himself in women's clothing, is then hunted down by the hotel detective, who in turn suffered fights from his jealous wife because she thought her husband was unfaithful to her. When the fugitive Orville meets the bank robber again in the hotel, he becomes entangled in a fight, which they endure in the bed of a hotel guest who is just resting. In the end, the bank robber can be caught by the police, but the hotel detective still has an account with Orville. In the affect, the former shoots at him with a fire extinguisher, which gets caught in his pants, which leads to Orville running through the hotel corridors with water splashing around him.
background
The main actor Glenn Tryon, who had been under contract with Hal Roach since 1923, was already quite popular in Germany at the time. 45 Minutes From Hollywood is therefore a Glenn Tryon grotesque and not a film by Laurel and Hardy , even if it is still included in the duo's filmography.
The shooting probably took place at the end of 1925, with additional shooting dates for post-production in the spring of 1926. Both indoor and outdoor locations were primarily in Culver City and the Hal Roach Studios located there.
45 Minutes from Hollywood was shown in Germany for the first time in 1966 as an excerpt from the one and a half hour compilation Laurel and Hardy in the age of flying (Laurel and Hardy's Laughing Twenties) . There were further broadcasts and demonstrations in 1970, 1978, 1981 and 1985. One of the two versions broadcast in 1978 on ZDF was entitled “This lady is a guy”.
literature
- Norbert Aping: The Dick and Doof Book. The story of Laurel and Hardy in Germany. 2nd revised edition. Schüren, Marburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89472-491-7 (with CD-ROM, this contains digital attachments).
Web links
- Laurel and Hardy: This lady is a guy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Laurel and Hardy