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Oliver Hardy: Jacksonville
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Blessed with a great voice, Oliver left the movie house and made his way as a singer in the cities of Jacksonville and Atlanta in late 1912. The next year he married Madelyn Saloshin. By 1914, Oliver started acting and joined the Lubin company in Jacksonville, Florida. He called himself Babe at this point, and appeared in dozens of short comedies under the production of Arthur Hotaling. Records show that “Outwitting Dad” was the first film made involving Oliver Hardy. Babe played Reggie, who helped his brother get married.
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Returning to Milledgeville in 1910, Hardy worked behind the scenes at a local vaudeville house and a movie theater. At some point during this period he adopted the name Oliver Norvell Hardy, although his friends often referred to him as "Babe." In 1913 he began working in the flourishing film industry in Jacksonville, Florida, occasionally traveling to New York to work on films there. In 1917, after acting in many short and feature films, he decided to pursue his career in California.
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By 1915 Oliver left NY and joined the Vim company in Jacksonville, Florida and appeared in over 60 comedies, sometimes even directing. He was part of the “Plump and Runt” series of comedies with Billy Ruge. Operations at Vim didn’t last long and by 1917 the company was taken over by King Bee.
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In 1910, a movie theater opened in the future Hardy's home town of Milledgeville, and he became the projectionist, ticket taker, janitor and manager. He soon became obsessed with the new motion picture industry, and became convinced that he could do a better job than the actors he saw on the screen. A friend suggested that he move to Jacksonville where some films were being made. In 1913 he did just that, where he worked as a cabaret and vaudeville singer at night, and at the Lubin Studios during the day. It was at this time that he met and married his first wife, pianist Madelyn Saloshin.
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