Their slapstick brand of comedy straddled he silent and talkie eras.It was entirely neglected for Academy Awards in its year of eligibility.The clueless, incompetent pair portrayed bumbling, innocent, derby-hatted fools in a hostile world: the thin, easy-going, but forever-victimized and dim-witted Stan, known for scratching his head with a bewildered look, whimpering, and speaking with a slight British accent; and the fat, wide-babyfaced, tie-fiddling Ollie, continually exasperated with his partner.Actually he man had no ear at all.But what did it matter? He adored my music.Everybody liked me.I liked myself.Until he came.Flashback: Mozart""s Introduction During Concert for the Prince Arch-Bishop of Salzburg(in the Salzburg Palace Residence in Vienna in the 1780s)Now at the age of 31, the esteemed, well-off court composer Salieri wandered through the Prince-Archbishop""s elegant salon, obsessed with locating or identifying Mozart in the midst of the crowd, before a performance of Mozart""s music in the palace:(voice-over) He came to Vienna to play some of his music at the residence of his employer, the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg.The film is a morality ale about how the characters are dehumanized by the influence of money upon their lives.For both the comedyHarvey (1950)and his western, Stewart would share in the box-office profits (45% of the net profits), instead of receiving his exorbitant requested salary fee of $200,000.Looking demoralized, the Boy returned to the projection booth of his movie theater employment, where he prepared to load a film reel into the projector, to show the movie "Hearts and Pearls" for a packed house-audience that afternoon or evening.