“LAUREL - Stage by Stage” is the prequel to Marriot's previous Laurel and Hardy’s “Tours” books; and is a companion to “CHAPLIN – Stage by Stage.”
It narrates for the first-time-ever all of Stan Laurel’s stage shows, from his earliest appearances in British pantomime (as the teenage Stanley Jefferson), right up to his last-ever stage show before entering films.
Along the way he spends over three years touring with Charlie Chaplin, in the most-famous of all comedy troupes – the Fred Karno Company.
The next eight years are spent touring in U.S. vaudeville, playing in song-dance-and-comedy sketch acts with various partners.
Readers will experience every low and high as this comic genius tries to unshackle himself from the hardship and tedium of vaudeville, during a number of attempts to get into the world of film comedy. The amount of detail revealed about these “lost” tours is astounding. - 272 pages - 470 illustrations
Details
- Publication Date
- Oct 16, 2019
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781789725551
- Category
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): A.J MARRIOT
Specifications
- Pages
- 272
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)