Perfect Day ** (1929, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Isabelle Keith) – Classic Movie Review 7536

The title of Perfect Day (1929) is ironic of course as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy take their wives Mrs Laurel (Isabelle Keith) and Mrs Hardy (Kay Deslys) and gouty Uncle Edgar (Edgar Kennedy) out for a Sunday spin, and their Model T Ford car gets a flat and ends up in a six-foot-deep puddle.

Director James Parrott’s 20-minute two-reeler black and white short film Perfect Day is a bad-tempered comedy of frustration, which, despite some laughs and amusing situations, is not quite the usual full monty Stan and Ollie mood-improver. Nevertheless, Laurel and Hardy are billed as the Top Comedy Team of All Time, and I’m not going to argue with that. They are always a pleasure.

Perfect Day is a talkie, but with no music until it was reissued in 1936.

Also in the cast are Lyle Barton [Lyle Tayo], Harry Bernard, Baldwin Cooke, Clara Guiol and Charley Rogers.

Perfect Day is directed by James Parrott, runs 20 minutes, is made by Hal Roach Studios, is released by MGM, is written by H M Walker (writer), Hal Roach (story) and Leo McCarey (story), is produced by Hal Roach, and (1936 reissue) is scored by Marvin Hatley, Nathaniel Shilkret and Leroy Shield (stock music, uncredited).

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