Vivien Oakland was an American actress best known for her work in comedies in Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably with the Hal Roach Studios. Oakland appeared in 142 films between 1915 and 1951.

She supported Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...

 on several occasions, and sometimes played the wife of Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper...

 and Leon Errol

Leon Errol

Leon Errol , was an Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular in the first half of the 20th century.-Biography:...

 in their series of short films. She played mostly bit roles in feature films in the 1940s before making her last film (an Errol comedy) in 1951; she died seven years later and was buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory

Chapel of the Pines Crematory

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.

Selected filmography

• Madonna of the Streets (1924)
• The Teaser
  The Teaser (1925 film)
  The Teaser is a 1925 black-and-white silent film comedy/romance/drama film written by Lewis Milestone, Edward T. Lowe Jr. and Jack Wagner based upon the play of the same name by Adelaide Matthews and Martha M. Stanley. The film was directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, and stars...
  
  (1925)
• Along Came Auntie
  Along Came Auntie
  -Cast:* Glenn Tryon - Mr. Chow, the 2nd husband* Vivien Oakland - Mrs. Remington Chow, the wife* Oliver Hardy - Mr. Vincent Belcher, the first husband* Tyler Brooke - The Under-Sheriff* Martha Sleeper - Marie, the maid* Lucy Beaumont - Aunt Alvira...
  
  (1926)
• Mighty Like a Moose
  Mighty Like a Moose
  Mighty Like a Moose is a Charley Chase short silent film that was directed by Leo McCarey. It was released on July 18, 1926.In this short silent comedy, a homely husband and his equally unsightly wife improve their looks with plastic surgery without telling each other...
  
  (1926)
• Say It with Babies
  Say It with Babies
  Say It with Babies is a 1926 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Glenn Tryon - Casper Crum* Vivien Oakland - Mrs. Crum* Oliver Hardy - Hector, the floorwalker * Martha Sleeper - His wife...
  
  (1926)
• Two-Time Mama
  Two-Time Mama
  Two-Time Mama is a 1927 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.-Cast:* Tyler Brooke - Mr. Dazzle aka The Devil* Anita Garvin - Mrs. Dazzle* Glenn Tryon - Mr. Brown* Vivien Oakland - Mrs. Brown* Gale Henry - Nora aka Snoopy, the Maid* Jackie Hanes...
  
  (1927)
• Love 'em and Weep
  Love 'em and Weep
  Love 'em and Weep is a comedy short silent film directed by Fred Guiol for Hal Roach Studios. It was shot in January 1927 and released June 12 of that year by Pathé Exchange....
  
  (1927)
• We Faw Down
  We Faw Down
  We Faw Down is a 1928 two-reel silent comedy starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by Leo McCarey. It was shot in August and September 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 29 of that year, with synchronized music and sound effects in theaters wired for sound.The plot line was...
  
  (1928)
• That's My Wife (1929)
• Oh Sailor Behave
  Oh Sailor Behave
  Oh Sailor Behave is a musical comedy produced and released by Warner Brothers, and based on the play See Naples and Die, written by Elmer Rice. The film was originally intended to be entirely in Technicolor and was advertised as such in movie trade journals...
  
  (1930)
• Scram! (1932)
• The Defense Rests (1934)
• Way Out West
  Way Out West (1937 film)
  Way Out West is a Laurel and Hardy comedy film released in 1937. It was directed by James W. Horne, produced by Stan Laurel and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.-Plot:...
  
  (1937)
• Should Wives Work?
  Should Wives Work?
  Should Wives Work? is a 1937 short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1937 for Best Short Subject .-Cast:* Leon Errol - Leon Errol* Vivien Oakland - Mrs. Errol* Richard Lane* William Brisbane...
  
  (1937)
• A Chump at Oxford
  A Chump at Oxford
  A Chump at Oxford, directed by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal Roach studios. Originally released as a streamliner featurette at forty minutes long, twenty minutes of footage largely unrelated to the main plot...
  
  (1940)
• Night and Day (1946)
• Bunco Squad (1950)
• Punchy Pancho (1951)

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