Partners

A couple of days ago there was a list of famous partnerships in films in The Times. They had Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Baccall, John Ford and John Wayne and, of course, Butch Cassidy and The Sun Dance Kid - that is, Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Now we hear that one of that last named partnerships has died: Paul Newman. And we learn too that their partnership was not just in a couple of films they made together but they were good friends in real life.
So too were the other partnerships mentioned above: Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn had a long-standing love affair but they never married each other - I believe Tracey was married and his Catholicism was, to him, sacred. Bogart and Baccall of course married soon after their film "To Have and Have Not" (or was it after "The Big Sleep"?). John Ford and John Wayne were good friends, the same sort of guys, hard, tough, right-wing, sentimental about America, its values and its history.
One great partnership was not mentioned in the Times list and this surprised me because, I would have thought, it was the most obvious one - Laurel and Hardy. What's more, unlike the other two male partnerships mentioned above, they also often slept in the same bed together.