Stan Laurel Hand Signed Cheque Dated 1928 Display Mounted Very Rare

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STAN LAUREL

HAND SIGNED CHEQUE 1928 VERY RARE

   

THE ENGLISH HALF OF THE LEGENDARY LAUREL AND HARDY COMEDY DUO……Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

c/w C.O.A. - Certificate of Authenticity

“Todd Mueller Autographs Inc.”

    

GENUINE ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED CHEQUE / CHECK AND

2 x PHOTO DISPLAY

 

RARE Very Early Hand Signed “1928”  

 

DARK BROWN LANDSCAPE MATTED DISPLAY MOUNT

 

COMPLETE WITH 3 x MOUNTING INCLUDING :-

2 x ORIGINAL BLACK/WHITE POSTCARD PHOTO's.

1 X GENUINE / ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC HAND SIGNED CANCELLED BANK CHECK.

PLUS C.O.A. - CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY

TODD MUELLER AUTOGRAPHS INC. COLORADO SPRINGS

 

NOTE:

GENUINE / AUTHENTIC / ORIGINAL HAND SIGNED CANCELLED BANK CHEQUE FOR THE SUM OF   $10.00

PAYABLE TO: FATHER O’DONNELL

CHEQUE No. 120

CHECK DATED:  17th SEPTEMBER 1928 

(91+ Years Old)  

 

c/w C.O.A. - Certificate of Authenticity “Todd Mueller Autographs Inc.”

 

Dark Brown matted display mount with 3 x mountings.

Overall Landscape size 420mm x 300mm Approx.

Please note that there is not a back board attached to the rear of this mount, therefore the 3 x display items may be removed and re-mounted at your leisure as per your own personal individual requirements.

 

Please view the mounted display’s attached photos as they form part of the overall description and condition of this item.

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This is an original / genuine / authentic hand signed cancelled bank cheque by Stan Laurel of address 718 No. Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills California , which has been stamped on the front Californian National Bank Beverly Hills California , and counter stamped / authenticated on the reverse of the cheque by the bank clearance representative officials, this cheque is over 91 years old.

This being an extremely rare and collectable item indeed, of this Legendary Comedy Film and TV star actor.

 

A Very Rare and Highly Collectable and Unique Item.

 

Stan Laurel (born Stanley Arthur Jefferson; 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and film director, most famous for his role in the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. With his comedy partner Oliver Hardy he appeared in 107 short films, feature films and cameo roles.

Laurel began his career in the British music hall, from where he took a number of his standard comic devices: the bowler hat, the deep comic gravity, and the nonsensical understatement. His performances polished his skills at pantomime and music hall sketches. Laurel was a member of "Fred Karno's Army," where he was Charlie Chaplin's understudy. The two arrived in the US on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe. Laurel went into films in the US, with his acting career stretching between 1917 and 1951, and from "silents" to "talkies." It included a starring role in the film The Music Box (1932).

In 1961, Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Blvd. In a 2005 UK poll to find The Comedians' Comedian, Laurel and Hardy ranked top among best double acts and seventh overall. In 2009, a bronze statue of the duo was unveiled in Laurel's hometown of Ulverston, Cumbria.

Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 at 3 Argyle Street, Ulverston, Lancashire (now Cumbria), England. He had two brothers and a sister.

His parents, Margaret (Metcalfe) and Arthur Jefferson, were both active in the theatre and always very busy. In his early years, the boy spent much time living with his grandmother Sarah Metcalfe. He attended school at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, County Durham and the King's School, Tynemouth. He moved with his parents to Glasgow, Scotland, where he completed his education at Rutherglen Academy. His father managed Glasgow's Metropole Theatre, where Laurel began work. His boyhood hero was Dan Leno, one of the greatest British music hall comedians. At the age of 16, with a natural affinity for the theatre, Laurel gave his first professional performance on stage at the Panopticon in Glasgow where he polished his skills at pantomime and music hall sketches.

In 1910, with the stage name of "Stan Jefferson", he joined Fred Karno's troupe of actors, which also included a young Charlie Chaplin. The British music hall nurtured him, and for some time, he acted as Chaplin's understudy. Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe and toured the country. From 1916 to 1918, he teamed up with Alice Cooke and Baldwin Cooke, who became lifelong friends. Amongst other performers, Laurel worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short The Lucky Dog (1921). This was before the two were a team.

It was around this time that Laurel met Mae Dahlberg. Around the same time he adopted the stage surname of Laurel, at Dahlberg's suggestion. The pair were performing together when Laurel was offered $75 per week to star in two-reel comedies. After the making of his first film, Nuts in May, Universal offered him a contract. The contract was soon cancelled during a reorganisation at the studio. Among the films Dahlberg and Laurel appeared in together was the 1922 parody, Mud and Sand, of which a short clip can be seen at the left.

By 1924, Laurel had given up the stage for full-time film work, under contract with Joe Rock for 12 two-reel comedies. The contract had one unusual stipulation, that Dahlberg was not to appear in any of the films; Rock thought her temperament was hindering Laurel's career. In 1925, when she started interfering with Laurel's work, Rock offered her a cash settlement and a one-way ticket back to her native Australia, which she accepted. The 12 two-reel comedies were Mandarin Mix-Up (1924), Detained (1924), Monsieur Don't Care (1924), West of Hot Dog (1924), Somewhere in Wrong (1925), Twins (1925), Pie-Eyed (1925), The Snow Hawk (1925), Navy Blue Days (1925), The Sleuth (1925), Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (1925), Half a Man (1925).

Laurel next signed with the Hal Roach studio, where he began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette. He intended to work primarily as a writer and director, but fate stepped in.

In 1927, Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap, and Laurel was asked to return to acting. Laurel and Hardy began sharing the screen in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup (1927) and With Love and Hisses. The two became friends and their comic chemistry soon became obvious. Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey noticed the audience reaction to them and began teaming them, leading to the creation of the Laurel and Hardy series later that year.

Together, the two men began producing a huge body of short films, including The Battle of the Century, Should Married Men Go Home?, Two Tars, Be Big!, Big Business, and many others. Laurel and Hardy successfully made the transition to talking films with the short Unaccustomed As We Are in 1929. They also appeared in their first feature in one of the revue sequences of The Hollywood Revue of 1929, and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish all-colour (in Technicolor) musical feature, The Rogue Song. In 1931, their first starring feature, Pardon Us was released. They continued to make both features and shorts until 1935, including their 1932 three-reeler The Music Box, which won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.

During the 1930s, Laurel was involved in a dispute with Hal Roach, which resulted in the termination of his contract. Since Roach maintained separate contracts for Laurel and Hardy that expired at different times, Hardy remained at the studio and was "teamed" with Harry Langdon for the 1939 film Zenobia. The studio discussed a series of films co-starring Hardy with Patsy Kelly, to be called "The Hardy Family." But Laurel sued Roach over the contract dispute. Eventually, the case was dropped and Laurel returned to Roach. After returning to Roach studios, the first film Laurel and Hardy made was A Chump at Oxford. Subsequently, they made Saps at Sea, which was their last film for Roach.

In 1941, Laurel and Hardy signed a contract at 20th Century Fox to make ten films over five months. During the war years, their work became more standardised and less successful, though The Bullfighters, and Jitterbugs did receive some praise. Laurel discovered he had diabetes, so he encouraged Hardy to make two films without him. In 1946, he divorced Virginia Ruth Rogers and married Ida Kitaeva Raphael. In 1947, Laurel returned to England when he and Hardy went on a six-week tour of the United Kingdom, and the duo were mobbed wherever they went. Laurel's homecoming to Ulverston took place in May, and the duo were greeted by thousands of fans outside the Coronation Hall. The Evening Mail noted: "Oliver Hardy remarked to our reporter that Stan had talked about Ulverston for the past 22 years and he thought he had to see it." The tour included a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London. The success of the tour would see them spend the next seven years touring the UK and Europe.

In 1950, Laurel and Hardy were invited to France to make a feature film. The film, a Franco-Italian co-production titled Atoll K, was a disaster. (The film was titled Utopia in the US and Robinson Crusoeland in the UK.) Both stars were noticeably ill during the filming. Upon returning to the US they spent most of their time recovering. In 1952, Laurel and Hardy toured Europe successfully, and they returned in 1953 for another tour of the continent. During this tour, Laurel fell ill and was unable to perform for several weeks.

In May 1954, Hardy had a heart attack and cancelled the tour. In 1955, they were planning to do a television series, Laurel and Hardy's Fabulous Fables, based on children's stories. The plans were delayed after Laurel suffered a stroke on 25 April, from which he recovered. But as he was planning to get back to work, his partner Hardy had a massive stroke on 14 September 1956, which resulted in his being unable to return to acting.

On 7 August 1957, Oliver Hardy died. Laurel was too ill to attend his funeral and said, "Babe would understand". People who knew Laurel said he was devastated by Hardy's death and never fully recovered from it. He refused to perform on stage, or act in another film without his good friend, although he continued to socialise with his fans.

In 1961, Stan Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy. He had achieved his lifelong dream as a comedian and had been involved in nearly 190 films. He lived his final years in a small flat in the Oceana Apartments in Santa Monica, California.

Always gracious to fans, Laurel spent much time answering fan mail. His phone number, EXbrook 3-1851, was listed in the telephone directory, and fans were amazed that they could dial the number and speak to him directly.

Jerry Lewis was among the numerous comedians to visit Laurel, who offered suggestions for Lewis's production of The Bellboy (1960). Lewis paid tribute to Laurel by naming his main character Stanley in the film, and having Bill Richmond play a version of Laurel as well. Dick Van Dyke told a similar story. When he was just starting his career, he looked up Laurel's phone number, called him, and then visited him at his home. Van Dyke played Laurel on "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Laurel was offered a cameo role in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), but he turned it down. He did not want to be on screen in his old age, especially without his comedy partner, Oliver Hardy, who had died in 1957.

Laurel and Dahlberg never married, but lived together as common-law husband and wife from 1919 to 1925.

Laurel also had four wives and married one of them a second time after their divorce.

Laurel married his first wife, Lois Neilson, on August 13, 1926. In December 1927, during the early years of Laurel and Hardy's partnership, Laurel and Neilson had a baby girl, also named Lois, who later married actor Rand Brooks. In May 1930, their second child, Stanley Robert Laurel, died after nine days.

In December 1934, Laurel divorced Lois and in 1935 married Virginia Ruth Rogers. In 1938, he divorced Virginia and married Vera Ivanova Shuvalova. By 1941, he had divorced Vera and remarried Virginia. In 19 Laurel was a heavy smoker until suddenly quitting around 1960. In January 1965, he underwent a series of x-rays for an infection on the roof of his mouth. He died on 23 February 1965, aged 74, four days after suffering a heart attack on 19 February. Just minutes away from death, Laurel told his nurse he would not mind going skiing right at that very moment. Somewhat taken aback, the nurse replied that she was not aware that he was a skier. "I'm not," said Laurel, "I'd rather be doing that than this!" A few minutes later the nurse looked in on him again and found that he had died quietly in his armchair.

At his funeral, silent screen comedian Buster Keaton was overheard talking about Laurel's talent: "Chaplin wasn't the funniest, I wasn't the funniest, this man was the funniest." Keaton would himself die of lung cancer one year later in February 1966. Dick Van Dyke, a friend, protege and occasional impressionist of Laurel during his later years, gave the eulogy, reading A Prayer for Clowns.

Laurel had earlier quipped: "If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again."

Laurel was cremated, and his ashes were interred in Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Laurel and Hardy are featured on the cover of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).

In 1989, a statue of Laurel was erected in Dockwray Square, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England where he lived at No. 8 from 1897 to 1902. The steps down from the Square to the North Shields Fish Quay were said to have inspired the piano-moving scene in The Music Box. In a 2005 UK poll, Comedians' Comedian, Laurel and Hardy were ranked top among best double acts, and seventh overall.

Neil Brand wrote a radio play entitled Stan, broadcast in 2004 on BBC Radio 4 and subsequently on BBC Radio 4 Extra, starring Tom Courtenay as Stan Laurel, in which Stan visits Oliver Hardy after Hardy has suffered his stroke and tries to say the things to his dying friend and partner that have been left unsaid. In 2006, BBC Four showed a drama called Stan, based on Brand's radio play, in which Laurel meets Hardy on his deathbed and reminisces about their career.

A plaque on the Bull Inn, Bottesford, Leicestershire, England, marks Laurel and Hardy appearing in Nottingham over Christmas 1952, and staying with Laurel's sister, Olga, who was the landlady of the pub.

In 2008, a statue of Stan Laurel was unveiled in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, on the site of the Eden Theatre. In April 2009, a bronze statue of Laurel and Hardy was unveiled in Ulverston.

46, he divorced Virginia and married Ida Kitaeva Raphael, whom he did not divorce.

There is a Laurel and Hardy Museum in Stan's hometown of Ulverston. There are two Laurel and Hardy museums in Hardy's hometown of Harlem, Georgia. One is operated by the town of Harlem, and the other is a private museum owned and operated by Gary Russeth, a Harlem resident.

In 2013, Gail Louw and Jeffrey Holland debuted a short one-man play "…And this is my friend Mr Laurel" at the Camden Fringe festival. The play, starring Holland as Laurel, was taken on tour of the UK in 2014 until June 2015.

 

Release date

Title

Short / feature

Notes

December 1, 1921

The Lucky Dog

Short

Produced by Shiller Productions

Available for viewing online

December 13, 1926

45 Minutes from Hollywood

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

Hardy in a supporting role and Laurel in a bit part

March 13, 1927

Duck Soup

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

Based on "Home From the Honeymoon", a sketch written by Arthur J. Jefferson (Stan Laurel's father)

April 3, 1927

Slipping Wives

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

June 12, 1927

Love 'em and Weep

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

July 17, 1927

Why Girls Love Sailors

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

August 28, 1927

With Love and Hisses

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

September 10, 1927

Sugar Daddies

Short

September 25, 1927

Sailors, Beware!

Short

Released by Pathé Exchange

October 5, 1927

Now I'll Tell One

Short

Partly lost film

October 8, 1927

The Second Hundred Years

Short

The first "official" Laurel and Hardy film where they are presented as a team

October 15, 1927

Call of the Cuckoo

Short

Laurel and Hardy and Charley Chase in supporting roles

November 5, 1927

Hats Off

Short

Lost film

November 20, 1927

Do Detectives Think?

Short

December 3, 1927

Putting Pants on Philip

Short

December 31, 1927

The Battle of the Century

Short

Partly lost film

January 28, 1928

Leave 'Em Laughing

Short

February 12, 1928

Flying Elephants

Short

February 25, 1928

The Finishing Touch

Short

March 24, 1928

From Soup to Nuts

Short

April 21, 1928

You're Darn Tootin'

Short

May 19, 1928

Their Purple Moment

Short

September 8, 1928

Should Married Men Go Home?

Short

October 6, 1928

Early to Bed

Short

November 3, 1928

Two Tars

Short

December 1, 1928

Habeas Corpus

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

December 29, 1928

We Faw Down

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

January 26, 1929

Liberty

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

February 23, 1929

Wrong Again

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

March 23, 1929

That's My Wife

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

April 29, 1929

Big Business

Short

Silent

Added to the National Film Registry in 1992.

May 4, 1929

Unaccustomed As We Are

Short

Sound (all-talking)

May 28, 1929

Double Whoopee

Short

Silent

June 1, 1929

Berth Marks

Short

Sound (all-talking)

June 29, 1929

Men O' War

Short

Sound (all-talking)

August 10, 1929

Perfect Day

Short

Sound (all-talking)

September 21, 1929

They Go Boom

Short

Sound (all-talking)

October 19, 1929

Bacon Grabbers

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

November 16, 1929

The Hoose-Gow

Short

Sound (all-talking)

November 29, 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Feature

Sound (all-talking) 

All-star revue produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture

December 14, 1929

Angora Love

Short

Sound (music and synchronized sound effects only)

January 4, 1930

Night Owls

Short

January 21, 1930

The Rogue Song

Feature

Operetta film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with Laurel and Hardy in supporting roles

Filmed in Technicolor

Partly lost film

February 8, 1930

Blotto

Short

Three reels

March 22, 1930

Brats

Short

April 26, 1930

Below Zero

Short

May 31, 1930

Hog Wild

Short

September 6, 1930

The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

Short

Three reels

November 29, 1930

Another Fine Mess

Short

Three reels

February 7, 1931

Be Big!

Short

Three reels

February 21, 1931

Chickens Come Home

Short

Three reels

April 1, 1931

The Stolen Jools

Short

Presented by National Variety Artists and released by Paramount

Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy

April 4, 1931

Laughing Gravy

Short

May 16, 1931

Our Wife

Short

August 15, 1931

Pardon Us

Feature

September 19, 1931

Come Clean

Short

October 31, 1931

One Good Turn

Short

December 12, 1931

Beau Hunks

Short

Four reels

December 26, 1931

On the Loose

Short

Stars ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd

Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy

January 23, 1932

Helpmates

Short

March 5, 1932

Any Old Port!

Short

April 16, 1932

The Music Box

Short

Three reels

Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

Added to the National Film Registry in 1997.

May 25, 1932

County Hospital

Short

May 26, 1932

The Chimp

Short

Three reels

September 10, 1932

Scram!

Short

September 23, 1932

Pack Up Your Troubles

Feature

November 5, 1932

Their First Mistake

Short

December 31, 1932

Towed in a Hole

Short

February 25, 1933

Twice Two

Short

April 22, 1933

Me and My Pal

Short

May 5, 1933

The Devil's Brother

Feature

Based on the opera Fra Diavolo by Daniel Auber

August 3, 1933

The Midnight Patrol

Short

October 7, 1933

Busy Bodies

Short

October 28, 1933

Wild Poses

Short

Our Gang film with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy

November 25, 1933

Dirty Work

Short

December 29, 1933

Sons of the Desert

Feature

Added to the National Film Registry in 2012.

January 13, 1934

Oliver the Eighth

Short

Three reels

June 1, 1934

Hollywood Party

Feature

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production

June 23, 1934

Going Bye-Bye!

Short

July 21, 1934

Them Thar Hills

Short

November 30, 1934

Babes in Toyland

Feature

Based on the operetta by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough

Reissued as March Of the Wooden Soldiers, March of the Toys, and Revenge is Sweet

December 11, 1934

The Live Ghost

Short

January 5, 1935

Tit for Tat

Short

February 26, 1935

The Fixer Uppers

Short

August 6, 1935

Thicker than Water

Short

August 23, 1935

Bonnie Scotland

Feature

February 14, 1936

The Bohemian Girl

Feature

Adapted from the opera by Michael William Balfe and Alfred Bunn

With Darla Hood

May 11, 1936

On the Wrong Trek

Short

Charley Chase comedy with cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy

October 30, 1936

Our Relations

Feature

April 16, 1937

Way Out West

Feature

May 21, 1937

Pick a Star

Feature

Cameo appearances by Laurel and Hardy

May 20, 1938

Swiss Miss

Feature

August 19, 1938

Block-Heads

Feature

October 20, 1939

The Flying Deuces

Feature

An RKO Radio Pictures production

February 16, 1940

A Chump at Oxford

Feature

Released by United Artists

May 3, 1940

Saps at Sea

Feature

Released by United Artists

October 10, 1941

Great Guns

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

August 7, 1942

A-Haunting We Will Go

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

1943 (early part of the year)

The Tree in a Test Tube

Short

One reel film (in color) produced by the United States Department of Agriculture. Laurel and Hardy, appearing in cameos, made this during the filming of Jitterbugs. Available for online viewing here.

April 4, 1943

Air Raid Wardens

Feature

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production

June 11, 1943

Jitterbugs

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

November 1, 1943

The Dancing Masters

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

March 1, 1944

Nothing but Trouble

Feature

A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production

September 1, 1944

The Big Noise

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

May 18, 1945

The Bullfighters

Feature

A 20th Century Fox production

November 21, 1951

Atoll K

Feature

A co-production of Les Films Sirius (France), Franco-London Films (France), and Fortezza Films (Italy); released in the United Kingdom as Escapade; re-issued in the United States as Robinson Crusoe-Land and Utopia

 

  • Condition: Occasion
  • Condition: Genuine Original Stan Laurel Hand Signed Check Dated 1928
  • Surname Initial: L
  • Comedy Partner: Oliver Hardy
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Certification: Certified: Public Signings
  • Type: Film
  • Options: Signed Check
  • Sub-Type: vintage
  • Object: Signed Presentation

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