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| Directed by | James Parrott |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Starring | Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Charlie Hall |
| Cinematography | Art Lloyd |
| Edited by | Bert Jordan |
Production company | Hal Roach Studios |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 20' 29" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Twice Two is a 1933 American pre-Code Laurel and Hardy short film. It is the second of only three films where the pair each play a dual role: the first is Brats and the third and last is Our Relations.
Plot
A year prior to the first scene, Stan Laurel married Oliver Hardy's sister (played by Oliver), and Oliver married Stan's sister (played by Stan) in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office. After some gags involving telephones, the wives are seen making preparations for a surprise party to celebrate their first anniversary during which a cake lands on Mrs. Laurel's head, causing her to bear an uncanny resemblance to a portrait of Elizabeth I on the dining room wall. Stan and Ollie then arrive but the couples cannot help but squabble throughout the party. In the final scenes, a delivery boy (played by Charlie Hall) arrives with another cake, which is thrown in Mrs. Laurel's face by an acrimonious Mrs. Hardy.
Cast
- Stan Laurel as Mr. Stan Laurel / Mrs. Sandy Hardy
- Oliver Hardy as Mr. Oliver Hardy / Mrs. Fanny Laurel
- Baldwin Cooke as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
- Charlie Hall as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
- Ham Kinsey as Passerby (uncredited)
- Carol Tevis as Mrs. Sandy Hardy (voice) (uncredited)
- May Wallace as Mrs. Fanny Laurel (voice) (uncredited)
Production
- The voice of Mrs. Hardy (Stan's sister) is dubbed by Carol Tevis, whose voice is dubbed on the Munchkin singers in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz.
- The voice of Mrs. Laurel (Oliver's sister) is dubbed by May Wallace, who also appeared with the duo in County Hospital as a Nurse.
- This is the second time Stan Laurel appears in drag as Oliver Hardy's wife; the first was That's My Wife. Stan also dressed in drag three years earlier in Another Fine Mess, being passed off to prospective house tenants as a maid. Subsequently, Stan would appear in drag twice more, in A Chump at Oxford in 1940 and finally, in Jitterbugs, briefly, as a Boston matron, in 1943.
- Twice Two was the last Laurel & Hardy film directed by James Parrott.
References
External links
- Twice Two at IMDb
- Twice Two at the TCM Movie Database
- Twice Two at AllMovie
- Twice Two at Rotten Tomatoes