Comedy and romance …

… The love affairs of Stan Laurel: "If I had to do it over again things would be different". (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… He outlived his screen partner Oliver Hardy – “Babe” to his friends – by almost eight years but refused all offers of work during that time. Instead, heartbreakingly, he wrote sketches and routines for the duo that would never be performed. It was, perhaps, a way for Laurel to speak with Babe again, if only in his head, until he followed him into the dark on 23 February 1965.