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Grand Hotel

Comedy stars Laurel and Hardy receive a rapturous welcome at Tynemouth, captured by an enthusiastic amateur filmmaker.

Amateur film 1932 11 mins Silent

Overview

Shot by an enthusiastic amateur, Grand Hotel provides a valuable glimpse of the rapturous welcome received by legendary comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy when they visited Tynemouth in 1932. With local lad Stan unaware of how popular they had become in Britain, his low key homecoming became a full-scale promotional tour; the duo were mobbed by hordes of adoring fans wherever they went.

Ulverston-born Laurel went to school in Tynemouth. Though the film bulges with verbose intertitles, no mention is made of the fact that Stan's father's house - seen towards the end - was not in Tynemouth, but in Ealing, West London.

Director

J.G. Ratcliffe

Featuring

Stephen Arthur , Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

Genres

Amateur film

Country

United Kingdom

Location

Tynemouth

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Subjects

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