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Our Relations (1936) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Harry Lachman and produced by Hal Roach and Stan Laurel.

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Our Relations (1936)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 9, 2014 From 4 Star Films

How can you get sick of Laurel & Hardy? Maybe it’s possible, but I always enjoy coming back to them, because they are easy on the eyes and the mind. They have the mayhem of the Marx Brothers or The Three Stooges, but they remain perhaps even more endearing more often than not. They may not... Read full article

Our Relations (1936)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Nov 9, 2014 From 4 Star Films

How can you get sick of Laurel & Hardy? Maybe it’s possible, but I always enjoy coming back to them, because they are easy on the eyes and the mind. They have the mayhem of The Marx Brothers or The Three Stooges, but they remain, perhaps, even more endearing more often than not. They may ... Read full article

Our Relations (1936)

By Beatrice on Sep 8, 2013 From Flickers in Time

Our Relations Directed by Harry Lachman Written by Richard Connell, Felix Adler, et al 1936/USA Hal Roach Studios/Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer First viewing I found most of this uninspired until the very end when a sight gag involving Stan and Ollie bobbing around like roly-poly dolls with their feet in... Read full article

Our Relations

By RBuccicone on May 3, 2011 From MacGuffin Movies

Our Relations (1936)      With every Laurel and Hardy movie or short I watch, I warm more to their humor. Our Relations would be my favorite thus far and is just a riot of misunderstandings.      Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy open the film at the dinner table with their wives. The two are be... Read full article

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Quotes from Our Relations:

Ollie: You know, that Laurel is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Ollie: [as Bert] The other one is, too. Neither one of them can see any further than the end of their nose.
[Ollie and Bert walk off the pier into the bay. Fade out]
Ollie: Stan took me to see and Punch and Judy show; I haven't seen one of those since I was a kid.
Stan: Shakespeare.
Ollie: Longfellow.
Ollie: What goes up the chimney?
Stan: Santa Claus.
Finn: [hands Ollie a bill] Here, have yourselves a fling.
Ollie: A dollar? We can't do much flinging on a dollar.
Mrs. Daphne Hardy: [stops the desert cart] Just a minute.
[to Stan]
Mrs. Daphne Hardy: Help me this this, you.
[They each pick up a side of a giant birthday cake and drop it on Ollie's head]
Mrs. Daphne Hardy: Happy Birthday to you. Come on, Betty.
[Walks off]
Ollie: Now what did you go and help her for?
Stan: Well I didn't know what she was going to do.
Ollie: [looks into the camera] That's right - you wouldn't.
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Facts from Our Relations
At 4'9" and under a hundred pounds, Daphne Pollard was almost literally half the size of screen husband Oliver Hardy. She more than made up for the size differential in frostiness, and portrayed Mrs. Hardy in several films.
A contemporary Hollywood Reporter production chart listed Wade Boteler, Jerry Mandy, and Harry Bowen as cast members, but they were not seen in the movie.
One of two Laurel & Hardy features to be credited as 'A Stan Laurel Production' (the other was Way Out West), even though Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp., not Stan Laurel Productions, had the only copyright claim on both films.
King Edward VIII (aka Duke of Windsor) of Great Britain requested a command performance screening of the film in October of 1936, before it was released.
Laurel & Hardy had previously played their own sons in "Brats" and each others' wives in "Twice Two" before playing their own twins in this film.
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