Laurel and Hardy's only Academy Award together was for which short film featuring the moving of a piano?
Laurel and Hardy film starring Laurel and Hardy was "Pardon Us" from 1931. The following year "The Music Box", whose plot revolved around the pair pushing a piano up a long flight of steps, won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Subject. While many enthusiasts claim the superiority of "The Music Box", their 1929 silent film "Big Business" is by far the most consistently acclaimed. The plot of this film sees Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesman involved in a classic tit-for-tat battle with a character played by James Finlayson that eventually destroys his house and their car. "Big Business"
Laurel and Hardy filmography (Hardy also appeared in three sound features without Laurel.) Although they first worked together in the film "The Lucky Dog" (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926 when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio that they appeared in movie shorts together. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year, in their eleventh silent short film "The Second Hundred Years" (1927). The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940. Between 1941 and 1945 they appeared in eight features and one short for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After finishing