December 14, 1934… Laurel And Hardy’s ‘Babes In Toyland’ Debuts
December 14, 1934… Laurel And Hardy’s ‘Babes In Toyland’ Debuts
80 years ago yesterday, a classic was born. As kids, a lot of saw this on our local stations around the holidays and knew it as ‘March Of the Wooden Soldiers’ which was the title of the 1948 re-release. The original title was ‘Babes In Toyland’.
WPIX in New York still runs this every Thanksgiving and Christmas day. Here’s the trailer and notice the special effects insert shot of Stan and Oliver watching the toy soldiers march by. Thanks to Rick Scheckman for bringing this to our attention. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
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Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep’s shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep…
For many years, WPIX aired an edited version. Gone was the Sandman sequence and the Mother Goose intro. The DVD and Bluray have been restored.