Many years ago I climbed these steps and cried with joy. That was 1978. No placard yet, as I recall. I love those guys so much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, or should I say memory stairs🎬🎹🎬🎹❣️
Same here. I'm 71 yrs old and have seen The Music Box probably 100 times over the years, maybe more. And I still laugh as much now as I did the first time I ever seen it.
Well Done Sir, I have visited just about every famous site in L.A. - with this exception, many, many thanks for your time and trouble in this production. Brilliant.
Just bought the L&H box set, watched all the dvd’s and laughed my pants off. So funny!! Filmed nearly 100 years and still the humour is timeless. LA looked so pristine too. Will visit the various filming locations one day. Found the locations of “Barefoot in the park” in NY which is a great city, loved exploring it. Regards from England.
Thank you, for this information. My mother in 1933 when she was very young, used the Moto in the last part of the film for her business "Service with a Smile". Thank you, Laurel and Hardy.
I lived on Vendom Street next to those famous stairs back in the year 1970 in the Pink Building shown at 2:19 in this film we had a Neighborhood group called the Silverlake Food Conspiracy to help people in the neighborhood get vegetables and dairy products at a reasonable price ~ Great days ~ Great people ~ Great Neighborhood ~ Those were the days ~ Time marches on ~
thank you so very much for this video....it is so wonderful to see those steps....you filmed it so perfectly and I so enjoyed everything you said....I adore Laurel & Hardy!
Can't get enough of the golden age of Hollywood! Never been to US or likely to go now, so much appreciate these vids!! Thank you from lockdown London England 🇬🇧✌🇺🇲
I had to go back and watch the Music Box. The area around the staircase sure has changed. Back then, no rails and more empty lots. My favorite part of the film is the professor shouting all his degree letters at Laurel and Hardy. Also when they finally get the piano delivered and do a dance to congratulate themselves! You just know it wouldn't go right for the boys. Another trip back in time. Thank you Clyde!
Check out the light above the garage door at 2.38 and 3.27 minutes on the road , the original house right of the stairs there is still to this day the very same light from the 1931 film. I could not believe it myself. Look at some original footage at the bottom of the steps and the house to the right you will see the very same light as in this video
my son loved watching the Laurel and Hardy films, his favorites were Hog Wild/County hospital/them their hill/Twice two/Laughing gravy /and yes the music box, 20 years ago they had a marathon and i recorded 6hrs of their videos for him to watch,
Dude, great job on that tour. I've seen three other people do it three different times and you did the best one and you seem to know a lot about Laurel and hardy because I'm listening to you. And you're correct and by the way, the other three people look for the house at the top of the steps went really all it was was a prop in a studio
Not sure why in the previous comments people are disgraced by the look of the neighborhood now. I live on the east coast so I've never been there. By the looks of it in the video. The neighborhood looks fine. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for this on behalf of my father, Dennis Pritchard, who was a big fan, from 78 Kings Avenue, Bromley, Kent. in turn I watched them, brilliant.
Thank you so much for this, it's like gold to us fans. Noticed you were out of breath even without a piano. no wonder, so many stairs. I'm surprised how narrow it was. Best wishes from England.
Fantastic! Loved watching this. A great reminder of one of the greatest film comedies ever made. Loved the way this video ends: "Goodnight sweet princes..." Thank you.
I'm from Rome and one day I met an American young that didn't know laurel and hardy. I couldn't believe. I said the whole names "Stan laurel and Oliver hardy".
Thankyou for that video I was only watching that film the other day, absolute legends and have given me so many laughs over the years, even going through a bad devorce I watched there films to cheer me up..
Fantastic. It's truly a classic film. My mother introduced me to Laurel and Hardy in the 60s. I don't know how RU-vid recommended this to me. Maybe, spookily, they know I have a degree in Film Studies.
... "he kicked me, right in the middle of my daily duties." ...how did that ever make it past the censors?....Stan and Ollie, whodda thunk that a skinny Englishman and a rotund man from Harlem, Ga. would pair up and form the greatest comedy duo ever....
I watched this sitting down on my couch and got all out of breath. These stairs invite comedy. Thank you for climbing to the top for all those who cannot visit the place.
When I first was looking for a place to rent in L.A. many years back- and before I was familiar with "The Music Box"- I happened to first look at an apartment one or two addresses to the left or right of these steps. The person showing me the place told me how this famous film was made on "one of these steps." The apartment was also not only far up the steps, but you additionally, once inside, had to go up many steps, some twisting, to get up to the apartment. Irony of ironies, already sitting right in the apartment was a Music Box! Yes, an old, upright piano. I just had to smile.
"Stan & Ollie thank you..." yes, but thank YOU Clyde Beck for posting this video because instead of all the fans going to the steps and bothering the residents, we can watch this video and let the residents have their peace. Thanks you sir and it was a great movie, the original 'Music Box'.
This doco is great. You must exhausted. Nowadays piano removalists count the steps and charge accordingly (but they would get the address right). Isn't it good that Stan & Ollie persist even when they are screwing up. We love them for that because we've all done it. Thank you for making this & showing how that place is today.
Thanks for sharing the marvelous history. I love the world famous two characters. Never going find another characters like Laural n Hardy again. The producer at the time is such a genius.
Fantastic informative video. I remember first watching the music box when I was a child and still laugh at it today. Thanks for your video best wishes from Liverpool uk.
Nicely done and a caring, sincere video. But it’s quite depressing to see what that neighborhood has become, as is the case with some other filming locations. The ignorant defacing of the plaque and street sign are a disgrace, and it’s also obvious that the powers that be there, have done nothing to preserve the simple, clean beauty of what I’m sure was once a charming neighborhood. Shame on them!
Then again, the plaque is right in the middle of the steps where you would, er- step on it. Not the best place if you were trying to ensure that it would remain pristine.
Thank you for giving people this. I had never seen the original film until today after learning about it in an article about the upcoming film "Stan and Ollie" and was interested in these steps because I have seen a similar bit in other films. Thanks again.
Thank you sir, that was very interesting to see, and filmed in a way that made me feel I was exploring those steps myself. There is definitely a time warp sense of bygone days on those steps, you’d almost expect to turn around and see Stan and Ollie struggling with that boxed instrument.
If you want to see the set of steps that gave Stan Laurel the idea, the steps are in North Shields north-east England where Stan lived for a long while during his youth, down to the fish quay from an old lighthouse. Easily as long as these. Plaque there too
Thank you for this, very interesting. It is a tribute to them as each time you mentioned a scene from the movie you would laugh. Actually the area still has a flavor of the past about it. Stan and Ollie were a joy and true comedic royalty. They are truly missed and made the world a better place.
I've always thought this must have been a hard shoot, up and down those steps for however long it took to complete the movie. Thank you for this trip back in time.
Charlie Hall was from Birmingham. I think there's a pub in the area of the city he came from which bears his name in tribute to him . Thanks for uploading the video.
