9/10
A Pair of Tights was the final of three shorts starring the comedy team of Anita Garvin and Marion Byron
27 July 2023
This is my review of the third and final short starring the comedy team of Anita Garvin and Marion "Peanuts" Byron. I had first seen parts of this one in one of Robert Youngson's silent comedy compilation films, When Comedy Was King. It seemed amusing enough. Now that I've watched the whole thing, it's even funnier than I anticipated, that's for sure! It seems the two women are very hungry so Marion mentions that her boyfriend (Stuart Erwin) is bringing his boss (Edgar Kennedy) over to their apartment and they may take them out to dinner. But when Edgar sees them, he doesn't want to spend so much money on them so when during a car ride, Marion suggests getting ice cream cones, Edgar gives her the suitable amount of change he has in his pocket. The main hilarity involves those ice cream in those cones that Marion keeps losing though there's also a cop trying to keep the car three of those four are in from being parked illegally to add to the fun as well as a teen boy and his father in the apartment above harassing them. It seemed to lose steam near the end but otherwise, A Pair of Tights was a near-perfect comedy in the usual Hal Roach style. After this one, Anita Garvin was back in supporting roles including in a few more Laurel & Hardy ones during the talkie era. One of her last appearances in film was in The Three Stooges' Coocoo Cavaliers before retiring to tend to her husband Clifford "Red" Stanley and their two kids. She'd eventually be honored by the Sons of the Desert society-which is dedicated to the celebration of Laurel & Hardy-during the late '70s and '80s. She died on July 7, 1994. Marion "Peanuts" Byron left Hal Roach after this and in subsequent years, found her parts getting smaller and smaller. Her last film appearance was in 1938's Five of a Kind which was co-written by her hubby Lou Breslow who'd subsequently write the first two of L & H's features at 20th Century-Fox. She and Lou had two sons and remained together until she died on July 5, 1985.
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