Anita Garvin Meets The Sons of the Desert

Anitaaaaa! Great convention.

Wow, what a treasure this is!! To see THEE Marvin Hatley playing piano, including L&H theme song. And Anita Garvin sharing her memories and stories about the Boys. Just extraordinary. You did an excellent job, Gary! This is a must see for all L&H fans and lovers of classic film.

Trudy Marshall is not in this film. She was not at this meeting in 1979. Anita's husband Red Stanley is in the film wearing a cowboy hat. But I cut out other shots of him in an earlier version. He had passed away during the editing of the film. I knew it would be difficult for Anita to see him on the screen so soon so I cut out those shots. Someday I would like to edit them back in, along with a couple other questions she answered from the group.

Wonderful ! That's the kind of party I like !!! Marvin Hatley what a Guy !!!!!

Fantastic footage...Terrific upload! Thanks for posting it.

wow!! Great footage! I was probably at this meeting. I moved to LA in 1978 and joined the Way Out West tent very soon after that. I almost never missed a meeting! So great to see Anita again. She was awesome (before we used to use that work all the time!) Thanks for posting this!

I'll never forget how great it was to have T. Marvin at all our meetings playing away! We sure were lucky !

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Thank you for uploading!

she lived till 1994,would loved to have heard more stories

This is so great. Thank you very much for shearing this.
Hope It's ok that I downloaded it for my private collection.

It looked like a nice convention back than (almost 38 years ago) Laurel and Hardy and all the people arround them were very special ....something you dont find today anymore

It´s great to see that true art will always find its way of surviving new times and media. Ms. Garvin was 72 at the time of this celebration and so many fans were there, young and old. All because of the wonderful movies she was in, along with Laurel and Hardy.

I wonder whether this "Sons Of The Desert" fan club still exists. Does anyone know?

What a beautiful and extraordinary woman.

I just saw Anita Gavin in the Hal Roach Thelma Todd/Zasu Pitts short "Show Business" (1931). She sees a picture of herself in a full page ad in Variety calling her the Star of stars and says, "That's Terrible." She complains that is a small ad like that is okay for the little stars like Gloria Swanson and Ethel Barrymore, but not for a great star like her. She is hilariously egotistical.
I googled her and this came up. Great footage. I didn't know that she was the girl in the pie fight scene. I loved her in "Blotto."

Terrific stuff and Anita still has those marvelous eyes that shot fear into Stan and Ollie in several of their classic shorts.

I always considered her one of Hollywood's most beautiful women. Tall, elegant and sassy- what more could you ask for. Nice footage of her in her later years. Vestiges of her once stunning beauty still shone threw.

What impresses me most in this video is Marvin Hatley's extraordinary musical talent.

Anita hasn’t changed greatly in 50+ years...she’s just aged very gracefully.

stunning eyes she's got

...cu tine nu e chiar atât de simplu , toti au ochi si simturi ca si mine , pot intervine licitatii , tu esti deja clasata "carcasa" si m-ar mira sa nu fii pe lista lor iar de acolo e cam greu de scos dar nu imposibil daca ai bani , totul se negociaza ...

Anita garvin you are beautiful , when you were the old laurel and hardy films...kevin

God, I would have loved to been there. I was taking a lot of cinema and theater classes at Chapman College, in Orange. I was always on the Santa Ana Freeway, going to a Little Theatre production. I saw a lot of TV actors in those plays, met some of them. KPFK was my heaven. I would have gone to this. Somehow I missed it. I'm 66 now, on the island of Cebu... A long story.... And a nice mess...

Great video. I would've loved to have been there.

Sempre gostei de ver Anita nos filmes de Laurel e Hardy amo demais!!

She's absolutely gorgeous in "Blotto".

She came into Thelma's apartment stealthily, closed the door quietly behind her, turned, looked around, put a finger to her lips and said "Got an onion?" I had to look up the actors name. That was the first time I noticed Anita Garvin.