Scott MacGillivray is the author of The Soundies Book (with Ted Okuda), Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven (with Jan MacGillivray), and Castle Films: A Hobbyists Guide Scott MacGillivrays Laurel Hardy: From the Forties Forward was the first book to fully chronicle the later careers of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and everything that followed, from theatrical reissues to home videos If you enjoyed the book the first time, youll like this new edition even more The author has expanded the original text by more than 50 percent, to include new insights, new information, and new discoveries in Laurel Hardy history, never before published (Which Laurel Hardy comedy of the 1940s was withheld from release for almost four years? Which forties movie was their alltime biggest hit? Which movie was almost shut down by federal intervention?) Youll read much more about Stan and Ollies unrealized projects, including five more feature films, two TV series, and two Broadway shows A mustread for Stan and Ollies fans everywhere, Laurel Hardy: From the Forties Forward is better than ever Praise for the first edition of Laurel Hardy: From the Forties Forward What a marvelous book I read it straight through, getting happier by the minute to think that more and more material is being set into history about the boys The writing is so lucid and that in this day of film books that arent is high praise Really wonderful JOHN McCABE, Laurel Hardys authorized biographer Scott MacGillivray has accomplished something that most historians can only dream of doing: overturning the conventional wisdom he rewrites the book on the moviecomedy team BOSTON HERALD All the worlds admirers of Laurel Hardy will now forever be indebted to Scott MacGillivray for providing so much new information about two of the worlds most beloved figures STEVE ALLEN Displays a knowledge and affection for its subject that one would be hard pressed to find in most academic texts CLASSIC IMAGES To write a book about screen performers as well covered as these two and still present a wealth of heretofore unpublished information is quite an accomplishment FILM QUARTERLY MacGillivray takes great pains to provide the context necessary to reassess these films after so many years of kneejerk dismissal and neglect His book will remain the definitive study of the late years of the Laurel and Hardy phenomenon ARNE FOGEL, Minnesota Public Radio