The Wax Apple

We at the Wax Apple wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. We thank you for your support of the website and hope you will be equally generous with the printed version of “The Premiere Research Journal Devoted to Laurel and Hardy and the Hal Roach All-Stars” coming your way in 2007. Your support will mean the success or failure of this endeavor.

To help spread the Christmas cheer this season, we offer up some rare photos and curios pertaining to the Christmas holiday from the ones we love best: the stars of the Hal Roach Studios. (more…)

The stunning Jean Parker, best known to Laurel & Hardy buffs as the lovely Georgette, the object of Oliver Hardy’s affection in The Flying Deuces, passed away on November 30, 2005. Jean had an illustrious Hollywood career starring in over seventy-five films. She also worked in Zenobia, Hal Roach’s 1939 attempt to team Oliver Hardy with Harry Langdon during a contract dispute with Stan Laurel.

Among Jean’s films, she co-starred in three with Our Gang star Edith Fellows, most notably in Life Begins with Love in 1937. Here is a photo of the two starlets together: (more…)

We would like to take this opportunity to wholeheartedly invite you to experience our forthcoming publication The Wax Apple. Over the years there have been numerous Laurel and Hardy publications of varying degrees of quality that have come and gone. Some of the better ones delved into meaningful research that have unveiled startling new depths in our studies of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The best of these publications are treasured among our collections and are stacked neatly beside our numerous books, just below a shelf full of statuary, positioned right next to our video and DVD racks.

Yes, in essence, we are all hooked on these vintage comedians. Not just Laurel and Hardy, although they are certainly the leaders, but on the other performers of the Hal Roach Studios as well: Our Gang, Charley Chase, Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts, The Boy Friends, and Harold Lloyd - just to chip away at the surface.

This brings us to our newest publication The Wax Apple. Simply, our purpose is to provide you and ourselves with an outlet to unleash our research, insights, collections, and observations about these classic films and comedians. Although the easiest way to understand our purpose is to just dive right into the material, perhaps our subheading describes us best: “The Premiere Research Journal Devoted to Laurel and Hardy and the Hal Roach All-Stars.”

And as our outlandish title indicates, we hope to have a hell of a lot of fun as well. Look for this publication to begin amazing you in the near future. In the meantime, we have set up this website to give you a preview of the type of information you will see in our journal, as well as material exclusive to the website. We invite you to comment, praise, criticize, or just note your indifference to the articles herein. We thank you…