Where did the name "Laurel" come from?
Brian
name. Does anyone know how he got the name "Laurel" ?
Regards Brian
Gray
Here is the possible answer
http://members.lycos.co.uk/bacongrabber/Stanbio/stan.htm
HTH......................Gray :)
Lonnberg
"In 1953, when I first asked Stan Laurel how the name came to him, he
honestly couldn't remember. He had a vague idea that it happened in 1918,
and he also remembered that his impelling reason to seek a new name was
superstition. 'Stan Jefferson' is thirteen letters,---
The name Laurel came to him from Mae Dahlberg[Laurel] a matter I learned
from the lady herself, the lady who for many years --- proclaimed herself
his common-law wife [They only lived together. She had a husband at home in
Australia], and who, in many ways, was. --- I interviewed Mae Laurel in 1969
a year before her death. ---
Mae Laurel:
' I can remember just how Stan got the name Laurel. It was not long after we
were teamed together, and we were traveling as a double act sometimes called
Stan and Mae Jefferson, or mostly Stan Jefferson, with me as assistant. Stan
had been thinking for some time that Stan Jefferson had thirteen letters in
it, and it began to prey on his mind a bit. He said he should be looking for
a new name. Well, one night after the show, I was in the dressing room at
whatever theatre we were playing, looking at an old history book that
someone in the previous show must have left there in one corner of the
dressing table. I opened it up casual like, and I came to an etching or a
drawing of a famous old Roman general, Scipio Africanus Major. I'll never
forget that name. Around his head he wore a laurel, a wreath of laurel. I
learned later that laurel leaves are really bay leaves. Anyway, I looked at
that headpiece of laurel, and that word stayed with me. I said it aloud,
"Laurel. Laurel. Stan Laurel." Stan looked up from what he was doing and he
said, "What?" I said, "Laurel. Stan Laurel. How about that for a name?" He
repeated it aloud too. "Stan Laurel. Sounds very good." That's how he got
his name. It was that simple.'
The act became Stan and Mae Laurel, a length easy for marqee billing and
euphonious into the bargain. This was the only harmony in the act. Almost
from the beginning of their associaton, which lasted off and on for almost a
decade, Stan and Mae argued bitterly yet somehow felt a deep mutual
attraction."
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This should answer your question, Brian.
Lars Gunnar,
who always wondered if Mae Dahlberg-Laurel, or her Austrailian husband, had
some Swedish roots since the name Dahlberg is a common Swedish name.
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Rob Stone
does "Stanley Laurel".
Rob
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Gray
...................Gray
Lonnberg
What about the films, is he ever introduced in a film as 'Stanley' Laurel by
Oliver Hardy or anybody else?
Does he himself use the name 'Stanley' in any of the films?
/ Lars Gunnar
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Barry
On 5/11/02 6:54 pm, in article aq944s$t99$1...@green.tninet.se, "Lonnberg"
Eric Perlin
} I don't think he was ever billed as Stanley
} Laurel.
}
} What about the films, is he ever introduced in
} a film as 'Stanley' Laurel by Oliver Hardy or
} anybody else?
}
} Does he himself use the name 'Stanley' in any
} of the films?
In "Pardon Us", he states his name as "Sir Stanley Laurel."
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You cannot spell America without Eric.
Brian
for the interesting explanation. Ir's
good that someone had interviewed Mae before her death else nobody
would know the reason.
Regards Brian
Tommie Hicks, Jr.
> I don't think he was ever billed as Stanley Laurel.
Stan's first series of comedies for Ramish were called "Stanley"
comedies. In his L-KO and Amalgamated films he is often billed as
Stanley Laurel.
Tommie Hicks
Lonnberg
Laurel also has 13 letters in it.
Lars Gunnar
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