The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a long flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Best Live Action Short (Comedy) in 1932. In 1997, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The short is widely seen as the most iconic Laurel and Hardy short, with the featured stairs becoming a popular tourist attraction.

Plot

In a music store, a woman (Hazel Howell) orders a player piano as a surprise birthday gift for her husband. She tells the manager (William Gillespie) her address—1127 Walnut Avenue—and he hires the Laurel and Hardy Transfer Company, recently founded by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, to deliver the piano in their horse-drawn freight wagon.

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