Watch Zenobia (1939) Free Online

Release Date: 1939   Duration: 69 min

Cast: Hattie McDaniel, Oliver Hardy, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, Harry Langdon

Categories: Movies, Comedy film, Animal Picture, Black-and-white, Slapstick

Zenobia is a 1939 comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel. It is one of the few films after the teaming of Laurel and Hardy that features Hardy without Stan Laurel, the result of a contract dispute between Laurel and producer Hal Roach, who maintained separate contracts for each...  MORE

Zenobia is a 1939 comedy film starring Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady, James Ellison, Jean Parker, June Lang, Stepin Fetchit, and Hattie McDaniel. It is one of the few films after the teaming of Laurel and Hardy that features Hardy without Stan Laurel, the result of a contract dispute between Laurel and producer Hal Roach, who maintained separate contracts for each performer, rather than a team contract, which would have offered them more control over their careers. Zenobia was Roach's attempt to create a new comedic pair without Laurel, and a series of films with Hardy and Langdon was planned. The dispute was short-lived, however, and Laurel and Hardy were reunited shortly thereafter. Oliver Hardy enacted his role in straight comedic leading man fashion, eschewing most of his trademark "Ollie" mannerisms. The film, itself, enjoyed some success. The reviewer for The New York Times wrote on May 15, 1939, that the film: Then—playing on the potential for a new comedy team of Hardy and Langdon—the reviewer said: When seen today, though, Langdon's role is not so much that of a teammate to Hardy, as simply a comic costar. LESS