Twice Two
Directed byJames Parrott
Produced byHal Roach
StarringStan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Charlie Hall
CinematographyArt Lloyd
Edited byBert Jordan
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • February 25, 1933 (1933-02-25)
Running time
20' 29"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

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