Classic Film Comedy Short Stories #3

After many of his early films were destroyed in a fire, Harold Lloyd made sure he owned all of his films to make sure none of them were damaged as his early films were.

After having a stroke during the making of 1947's Half-Wits Holiday Curly had to retire from The Three Stooges, however he was able to make a cameo appearance in Hold That Lion, which came out later the same year therefore Hold That Lion is the only Stooge film in which Curly and Shemp appear together in.

Charles Lamont directed  Abbott and Costello Meet The Keystone Kops. He had directed both Abbott and Costello and The Keystone Kops before making the film.

Joe Besser was the only Stooge never to appear in a feature length Three Stooges film.

Stan Laurel often worked very close to his directors. Therefore you could say he almost co-directed most Laurel and Hardy films.

Stan Laurel directed the 1925 Short Yes, Yes, Nanette, Which featured Oliver Hardy. So that short is an example of Laurel and Hardy working together before they ever appeared together on camera.

-Michael J. Ruhland