Happy birthday, Professor Theodore von Schwartzenhoffen, M.D., A.D., D.D.S., F.L.D., F-F-F-and-F.

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He was immortalized in The Music Box, which a local TV station ran this morning in its weekly Laurel and Hardy show.

Since the professor was receiving the piano as a birthday present, and the station ran the film this morning, I can only conclude that today is his big day.

The Music Box



Lobby card, 1932

Directed by: James Parrott
Produced by: Hal Roach
Release date: April 16, 1932 (US)

The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932. In 1997, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.'"

Laurel & Hardy The Music Box L&H
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1. AKA Billy Gilbert,

I believe he moonlighted as the voice of Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.