Babes in Toyland (re-released in 1948 as March of the Wooden Soldiers by Screen Guild Productions) is a 1934 musical film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film is also known by its alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the title in Germany), and Wooden Soldiers.
Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and r...
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Babes in Toyland (re-released in 1948 as March of the Wooden Soldiers by Screen Guild Productions) is a 1934 musical film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The film is also known by its alternative titles Laurel and Hardy in Toyland, Revenge Is Sweet (the title in Germany), and Wooden Soldiers.
Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and released to theatres on November 12, 1934 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Originally filmed in black-and-white, the film is also shown in a computer colorized version.
A Technicolor version of the operetta was made by Walt Disney in 1961, with many of the same characters, but with an entirely different plot.
Years later, Orion Television (now part of MGM) produced a three-hour (with commercials) television musical remake of the operetta with Drew Barrymore, although her singing voice was dubbed by a vocal double. This version threw out nearly all of...
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