http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/31 The Premiere Research Journal Devoted to Laurel and Hardy and the Hal Roach All-Stars Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/31#comment-71 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:22:13 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/31#comment-71 I was watching the silent movie " Sugar Daddies" today and noticed that the subtitle has Oliver saying to Stan, " A fine mess you've started!" Perhaps this is the earliest appearance of any version of Oliver's famous catch phrase , and in this case he did say "fine mess" rather than "nice mess" in a film. I was watching the silent movie ” Sugar Daddies” today and noticed that the subtitle has Oliver saying to Stan, ” A fine mess you’ve started!” Perhaps this is the earliest appearance of any version of Oliver’s famous catch phrase , and in this case he did say “fine mess” rather than “nice mess” in a film.

]]> http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/31#comment-59 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:55:06 +0000 http://www.waxapple.org/articles/archives/31#comment-59 The ironic thing about that line in the radio program was that the sketch was written by Stan Laurel himself. Even though Ollie had never said "fine mess" himself in any of their films, Stan wrote it that way for the radio sketch, and Hardy read the line as written. I guess that shows how easy it is for us to get details like that wrong. Even Stan himself remembered it incorrectly. I suppose that most people remember it as "fine mess" because that's the title of a Laurel and Hardy film. I wonder who actually put the title on that film- since it was announced by the girls delivering the spoken titles, I suspect that it was H.M. Walker, but it's very hard to say for sure who named that film. The ironic thing about that line in the radio program was that the sketch was written by Stan Laurel himself. Even though Ollie had never said “fine mess” himself in any of their films, Stan wrote it that way for the radio sketch, and Hardy read the line as written. I guess that shows how easy it is for us to get details like that wrong. Even Stan himself remembered it incorrectly. I suppose that most people remember it as “fine mess” because that’s the title of a Laurel and Hardy film. I wonder who actually put the title on that film- since it was announced by the girls delivering the spoken titles, I suspect that it was H.M. Walker, but it’s very hard to say for sure who named that film.

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