1940-1949

February 1940 - A Chump at Oxford is released.
March 7, 1940 - Babe marries Virginia Lucille Jones. They remain happily
married until his death.
April 5, 1940 - Stan & Babe's contracts expire; they leave Roach.
June 20, 1940 - Charley Chase dies at the age of 46.
August 22, 1940 - The boys perform live at the Golden Gate International
Exposition in San Francisco.
January 1941 - Stan remarries Ruth.
October 10, 1941 - Great Guns is released.
August 7, 1942 - A-Haunting We Will Go is released.
March 1943 - Tree in a Test Tube is released.
April 4, 1943 - Air Raid Wardens is released.
June 11, 1943 - Jitterbugs is released.
November 19, 1943 - The Dancing Masters is released.
September 1944 - The Big Noise is released.
March 1945 - Nothing But Trouble is released.
May 18, 1945 - The Bullfighters is released.
April 19, 1946 - Mae Bush dies at the age of 54.
April 1946 - Stan and Ruth divorce for the second time.
May 6, 1946 - Stan marries Ida Kitaeva.
February 1947 - Stan & Babe begin their British Music Hall tour.
January 1948 - The boys return to the United States.
November 9, 1948 - Edgar Kennedy dies at the age of 58.
September 15, 1949 - The Fighting Kentuckian is released with John Wayne
and Oliver Hardy.
1949 - Stan's father passes away.

 

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