John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen (November 6, 1892 – January 26, 1963) and Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson (March 5, 1891 – February 26, 1962) were American comedians of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway stage, motion pictures and television. Their shows were noted for their crazy blackout gags and orchestrated mayhem ("anything can happen, and it probably will"). Their most famous production was the play (and later movie) Hellzapoppin.
Comedy teams traditionally had a straight man and a stooge. However, Olsen and Johnson both took on the comic role, goodnaturedly chuckling their way through the steady barrage of gunshots, explosions, props plummeting to earth, intrusions from other performers, and input from the audience.
John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen (November 6, 1892 – January 26, 1963) and Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson (March 5, 1891 – February 26, 1962) were American comedians...
Elizabeth Chase Olsen (born February 16, 1989) is an American actress. Born in Sherman Oaks, California, Olsen began acting at age four alongside her sisters...
American comedy horror film. The protagonists were the comedy duo of OlsenandJohnson. The film deals with two nightclub owners who try to get rid of the...
genre reached its zenith in the vaudeville era. The vaudeville team OlsenandJohnson used prop comedy extensively in their long running Broadway revue...
Arthur (Harriett Johnson) was DeLuise's wife. "Olson Johnson" is a reference to the vaudeville comedy team OlsenandJohnson, "Howard Johnson" to the now-defunct...
Olsen, Chic Johnson, and Eugene Conrad, with music and lyrics by Burton Lane. This was the first show for which Burton Lane wrote both the words and the...
1907 to 1931, with renewals in 1934, 1936, 1943, and 1957. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. Inspired...
February 2015 and brought her international recognition. Johnson won the role over Lucy Hale, Felicity Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Danielle Panabaker and Shailene...
Regulars on the program were Ole Olsen, Chick Johnson, Bill Hayes, Marty May, June Johnson, J. C. Olsen, and The Buick Belles. Al Goodman's orchestra initially...
comics as W. C. Fields, and with comedy duos Abbott and Costello andOlsenandJohnson. He lent comic relief to Charlie Chan and The Thin Man murder mysteries...
in the OlsenandJohnson comedy Crazy House (1943). In 1945, he appeared in The Southerner. In 1947, he and Marjorie Main appeared in The Egg and I, starring...
Susan Marie Olsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American actress and former radio host. Olsen is known for her role as Cindy Brady, the youngest Brady child...
(Autobiography of Joe Besser, including anecdotes about Abbott and Costello andOlsenandJohnson) Bruskin, David N., Behind the Three Stooges: The White Brothers:...
sissified "Cowboy Joe". Besser's noisy intrusions fit the Olsen & Johnson style perfectly, and Besser's work caught the attention of the Shubert brothers...
Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi, Rosemary Lane in All by Myself (1943), The Andrews Sisters in Always a Bridesmaid (1943), OlsenandJohnson in Crazy House...
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