Worth 1,000 Words: Stan & Ollie pose in Minnesota

By Steve Crum

Here is a very rarely seen photo of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy obviously having fun while posing at the University of Minnesota Theatre set for Peer Gynt in October, 1940. The Boys were playing the Orpheum in Minneapolis at the time. Said Hardy to reporters: “Your Minnesota weather–brr!–as far as I’m concerned. It was minus 30 degrees this morning.”
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