We love Laurel and Hardy here so naturally we want to link to everything we can about those wonderful gents. This is actually more of an audio link with pictures…part of an interview that was recorded with Mr. Laurel on August 14, 1957, which was only a week after the death of Mr. Hardy. The interviewer is someone named Arthur B. Friedman and the conversation was recorded in Laurel's apartment, which was in the Oceana Hotel, located on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica — not Malibu, as Mr. Friedman says in his introduction. (The Oceana, by the way, has recently been completely renovated into a rather plush facility. Here's its website which mentions that Stan lived there.)
The chat is in two parts which total a little over 21 minutes. Part Two should play right after Part One if I've set the player up properly, which I occasionally manage. There are a few interviews of Laurel that were made in his retirement days and they all ask pretty much the same questions as this one and therefore get pretty much the same answers.
By the by: The photo above is of Mr. Laurel receiving the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in December of 1963. It was presented to him in his apartment at the Oceana by SAG's then-President Dana Andrews and its 2nd Vice-President, Charlton Heston. That's Andrews in the photo with him. Now, here's that 1957 interview and I have to thank Charlie Glaize for letting me know it was online…