Twice Two
Twice Two (1933) is a Laurel and Hardy short film. It is one of only three films where the boys each play a dual role.
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 kitchen wall. Stan and Ollie then arrive but the couples can't 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.
Goofs
- The typewriter roller returns in the wrong direction when it knocks the glass of water into Hardy's hat.
Memorable Jokes
- Ollie: Well, What did she say?
- Stan: She told me to tell you that we can't go out tonight, that we have to come straight home.
- Ollie: Why?
- Stan: She's got a surprise for you.
- Ollie: What else did she say?
- Stan: She told me not to tell you that she had the surprise.
- Ollie: Well, don't tell me!
- Stan: I won't! I can keep a secret.
- Stan: Ollie said we should go out to dinner to celebrate our university.
- Mrs Laurel: Well where's the ice cream?
- Stan: They didn't have any.
- Mrs Laurel: Why didn't you go somewhere else?
- Stan: Well I spent the fifteen cents calling you up.
- Mrs Hardy: Well that's the dumbest thing I ever heard of.
- Mrs Laurel: You keep out of this (To Stan) Sit down! 'Spent the fifteen cents calling me up!'
- Ollie: Can we stop this quarreling to get dinner over with so I can find out what the surprise is?!?
- Mrs Laurel: (To Stan) Oh! So you did tell him, didn't you?
- (Stan nods. Mrs Laurel looks at the ceiling and when Stan does so too she smashes a plate on his neck)
- Mrs Laurel: Now let that be a lesson to you!
- Delivery boy: Will you see that she gets this cake?
- Mrs. Hardy: I certainly will.
- Mrs. Hardy: (To Mrs Laurel) The man said to see that you got this.
- Mrs. Laurel: Thank you.
- (Mrs. Hardy slams the cake in Mrs. Laurel's face)
Production
- The voice of Mrs. Laurel (Oliver's sister) is dubbed by Mae Wallace (who also appeared with Laurel and Hardy 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 four years earlier, in which, after Ollie's real wife leaves him, he enlists Stan to dress in drag and pass him off to his rich uncle as his wife. Stan also dressed in drag three years earlier, briefly, in Another Fine Mess, being passed off to prospective house tenants as a maid. Subsequently, Stan would appear in drag once more, ten years later, in Jitterbugs, briefly, as a Boston matron.
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