''Twice Two'' is a 1933 American

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Laurel and Hardy short film. It is the second of only three films where the pair each play a

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: the first is '' Brats'' and the third and last is '' Our Relations''.

Plot

A year prior to the first scene, Stan Laurel married Oliver Hardy's sister (played by Oliver), and Oliver married Stan's sister (played by Stan) in a

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. They all live together and Stan and Ollie work in the same office. After some gags involving telephones, the wives are seen making preparations for a surprise party to celebrate their first anniversary during which a cake lands on Mrs. Laurel's head, causing her to bear an uncanny resemblance to a portrait of

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on the dining room wall. Stan and Ollie then arrive but the couples cannot help but squabble throughout the party. In the final scenes, a delivery boy (played by Charlie Hall) arrives with another cake, which is thrown in Mrs. Laurel's face by an acrimonious Mrs. Hardy.

Cast

* Stan Laurel as Mr. Stan Laurel / Mrs. Sandy Hardy * Oliver Hardy as Mr. Oliver Hardy / Mrs. Fanny Laurel * Baldwin Cooke as Soda Jerk (uncredited) * Charlie Hall as Delivery Boy (uncredited) * Ham Kinsey as Passerby (uncredited) * Carol Tevis as Mrs. Sandy Hardy (voice) (uncredited) *

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as Mrs. Fanny Laurel (voice) (uncredited)

Production

* The voice of Mrs. Hardy (Stan's sister) is dubbed by Carol Tevis, whose voice is dubbed on the

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singers in the 1939 version of ''The Wizard of Oz''. * The voice of Mrs. Laurel (Oliver's sister) is dubbed by

, who also appeared with the duo in '' County Hospital'' as a Nurse. * This is the second time Stan Laurel appears in drag as Oliver Hardy's wife; the first was '' That's My Wife''. Stan also dressed in drag three years earlier in '' Another Fine Mess'', being passed off to prospective house tenants as a maid. Subsequently, Stan would appear in drag twice more, in '' A Chump at Oxford'' in 1940 and finally, in ''

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'', briefly, as a Boston matron, in 1943. * ''Twice Two'' was the last Laurel & Hardy film directed by James Parrott.

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