Babes in Toyland
Stan Laurel (left) and Oliver Hardy in a promotional photograph for Babes in Toyland (1934), directed by Gus Meins and Charles Rogers.
Babes in Toyland
film by Meins and Rogers [1934]
Also known as: “March of the Wooden Soldiers”
- Also called:
- March of the Wooden Soldiers
Babes in Toyland, American fantasy film, released in 1934, that starred the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy in an enduring holiday classic. The film—which was based on a 1903 operetta by composer Victor Herbert and librettist Glen MacDonough—is set in Toyland, where Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep, and other well-known fairy-tale characters reside. In order to save Little Bo-Peep from an unwanted marriage, Stannie Dum (played by Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy) trick her unwanted suitor, the evil Silas Barnaby (Henry Kleinbach), into marrying Dum. Barnaby and his henchmen retaliate by setting bogeymen on the land, and ...(100 of 186 words)