Marvin Hatley Trailers
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Thomas Marvin Hatley professionally known simply as Marvin Hatley, was an American film composer and musical director, best known for his work for the Hal Roach studio from 1929 until 1940.
Hatley wrote many of the musical cues appearing in the Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and Charley Chase films. His most memorable composition is "Dance of the Cuckoos"(also known as "Ku-Ku", or "The Cookoo Song"), which serves as Laurel and Hardy's theme song. He was also the "player piano" (performing off-screen) in The Music Box (1932). His work in Laurel and Hardy's films Way Out West and Block-Heads earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
In 1939, Hatley was fired from the Roach studio. At the insistence of Stan Laurel, however, he did return to score one final Laurel & Hardy film, Saps at Sea. Hatley went on to become a lounge pianist, and often remarked that he earned more money in that career than during his days at the Roach studio.
Marvin Hatley was a native of Reed, Oklahoma. He died on August 23, 1986 in Hollywood, California.
Most Popular Marvin Hatley Trailers
Total trailers found: 47
04 March 1933
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
25 January 1930
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis.
14 October 1938
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
24 April 1931
On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble.
25 April 1945
A young girl arrives in Hollywood determined to become a star in the movies but finds that attaining stardom is a lot more difficult than she counted on.
02 June 1933
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
11 October 1930
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
11 December 1936
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat.
30 January 1932
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
04 March 1938
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform.
18 October 1941
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.
20 August 1933
Charley falls in love with Betty on a camping trip.
07 October 1933
In this short film, Laurel and Hardy wage battle with inanimate objects, their co-workers, and the laws of physics during a routine work day at a sawmill.
26 May 1939
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
29 December 1933
Ollie and Stan deceive their wives into thinking they are taking a medically necessary cruise when they are really going to a lodge convention.
16 July 1937
Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper.
16 April 1932
The Laurel & Hardy Moving Co. have a challenging job on their hands (and backs): hauling a player piano up a monumental flight of stairs to Prof.
21 May 1932
Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment.
16 September 1932
The story begins in 1917 with Stan and Ollie being drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in World War I.
21 December 1974
Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, this documentary is about "Laurel and Hardy", one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.
22 March 1930
Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.
02 September 1931
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit.
23 August 1935
Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.
16 April 1937
Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.
25 January 1940
The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber.
21 May 1937
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
03 August 1933
Novice policemen Stan and Ollie bungle a burglary investigation.
29 November 1930
Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
19 August 1938
It's 1938, but Stan doesn't know the war is over; he's still patrolling the trenches in France, and shoots down a French aviator.
31 May 1930
First, Ollie can't find his hat. Then he and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
15 August 1931
It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
02 September 1933
Although the war is over, Charley still can't seem to find his way out of France.
16 May 1931
Oliver is making plans to marry his sweetheart Dulcy with Stan as his best man, but the plans are thwarted when Dulcy's father sees a picture of Ollie and forbids the marriage.
25 February 1933
A year prior to the first scene, Stan married Ollie's sister, and Ollie married Stan's sister in a double wedding.
25 June 1932
Ollie is in the hospital with a broken leg. When Stan comes to visit him, total chaos ensues.
29 December 1938
Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby.
31 December 1932
Although they are successful fishmongers, Stan convinces Ollie that they should become fishermen too, but making a boat seaworthy isn't an easy task.
31 October 1931
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady's landlord tell her he's going to throw her out because she can't pay her mortgage.
22 April 1933
On the morning of his wedding to oil baron Peter Cucumber's daughter, Ollie receives a jigsaw puzzle from Stan as a wedding gift.
10 September 1932
Ordered out of town by angry Judge Beaumont, vagrants Stanley and Oliver meet a congenial drunk who invites them to stay at his luxurious mansion.
05 November 1932
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her.
21 August 1936
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
23 January 1932
Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon.
18 December 1937
Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
23 April 1937
Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena.
02 May 1936
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
03 January 1936
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
