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Twice Two
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Wikipedia article
'Twice Two' is a 1933 American pre-Code Laurel and Hardy short film. It is the second of only three films where the pair each play a dual role: the first is 'Brats' and the third and last is 'Our Relations'.
Plot
A year prior to the first scene, Stan Laurel married Oliver Hardy's sister (played by Oliver), and Oliver married Stan's sister (played by Stan) in a double wedding. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office. After some gags involving telephones, the wives are seen making preparations for a surprise party to celebrate their first anniversary during which a cake lands on Mrs. Laurel's head, causing her to bear an uncanny resemblance to a portrait of Elizabeth I on the dining room wall. Stan and Ollie then arrive but the couples cannot help but squabble throughout the party. In the final scenes, a delivery boy (played by Charlie Hall) arrives with another cake, which is thrown in Mrs. Laurel's face by an acrimonious Mrs. Hardy.
Cast
* Stan Laurel as Mr. Stan Laurel / Mrs. Sandy Hardy
* Oliver Hardy as Mr. Oliver Hardy / Mrs. Fanny Laurel
* Baldwin Cooke as Soda Jerk (uncredited)
* Charlie Hall as Delivery Boy (uncredited)
* Ham Kinsey as Passerby (uncredited)
* Carol Tevis as Mrs. Sandy Hardy (voice) (uncredited)
* May Wallace as Mrs. Fanny Laurel (voice) (uncredited)
Production
* The voice of Mrs. Hardy (Stan's sister) is dubbed by Carol Tevis, whose voice is dubbed on the Munchkin singers in the 1939 version of 'The Wizard of Oz'.
* The voice of Mrs. Laurel (Oliver's sister) is dubbed by May Wallace, who also appeared with the duo in 'County Hospital' as a Nurse.
* This is the second time Stan Laurel appears in drag as Oliver Hardy's wife; the first was 'That's My Wife'. Stan also dressed in drag three years earlier in 'Another Fine Mess', being passed off to prospective house tenants as a maid. Subsequently, Stan would appear in drag twice more, in 'A Chump at Oxford' in 1940 and finally, in 'Jitterbugs', briefly, as a Boston matron, in 1943.
* 'Twice Two' was the last Laurel & Hardy film directed by James Parrott.
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