April 16, 1932 –
Moment by moment one of the funniest Laurel and Hardy sound movies, The Music Box, opened on this date.
The idea for the film came to a Hal Roach comedy writer in 1927 when he passed a long flight of stairs in the Silverlake area of L.A. and thought it would be a good idea to have Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy trying to move something heavy up them.
The Haus of Dcaligari 