Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Acted Separately in Comedy Shorts

question 41

Multiple Choice

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy acted separately in comedy shorts for the Hal Roach Studio for over a decade without greatly distinguishing themselves from hundreds of other screen comedians.Then in 1927,Roach writer-director Leo McCarey tried them out as a comedy team in one more routine short.Only then was the fantastic chemistry between "the fiddle and the bow" realized.The rest is immortality.This story relates to the "new growth theory" idea of

• A) employee involvement.
• B) rearranging.
• C) exogeneity.
• D) objects and ideas.

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