Laurel & Hardy

such was their amazing appeal to audiences that they were mobbed at every port and railway station en route. A door was torn from their car by a 2,000-strong crowd that turned out for their personal appearance at Leicester Square. Nine people were hospitalised out of a 6,000-strong crowd that greeted the boys at Glasgow's Central Station and Central Hotel. A visit to Paris drew further crowds, causing the team to cancel their hoped-for touring holiday of Europe. Returning to Los Angeles in mid-September 1932, Laurel and Hardy had discovered they were movie stars.