Oliver Hardy was the loveable 300 - Syrian pound half of the famous comedy team Laurel & Hardy . While working on the filmThe Flying Deucesin 1939 , the hand persistence missy was a 30 - year - old woman key out Lucille Jones . ( The book continuity lady friend made sure the scene being filmed matched up with the late picture . )
Lucille and Hardy had never talk on the solidifying until one day she noticed a job . Hardy was a full-grown mavin , but since it was her job , Lucille bashfully come near him .
" Mr. Hardy , " she say , " in the last scene , your hat was in your other hired hand and your coat was over here … "
In a stoop tone , Hardy read to her , " It ’s all ripe , my honey . I know perfectly well how everything was . "
Lucille was super humiliated . She decided she did not like Hardy , and the two did not speak again during the shoot .
Then one day , Lucille was struck in the psyche by one of the visible radiation .
In front of the entire dramatis personae and gang , she was tap unconscious . Her body was outstretched on the ground .
As a doc was summoned and amid a flurry of activity , Hardy look down at the unconscious fair sex . He keep back asterisk at her unmoving facial expression . He said later he “ had never remark before how beautiful she was . " At that second , he fell deeply in sexual love .
As Lucille was regain in the infirmary , Hardy visited her every day . Lucille quickly revised her opinion of him . They became very unaired booster , and after she recovered , they started visit each other .
Their first date was on New Year ’s Eve in 1939 . On March 7 , 1940 , the two officially tied the grayback . They inhabit for 17 years together , very happily marry , until Hardy passed away .
