The Three Stooges (1934-1959)
MOE, LARRY & CURLY
WOMAN HATERS (5/5/1934)
Production Number 112
Director-Archie Gottler
Story-Jerome Gottler
Photography-Joseph August
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Marjorie White
Walter Brennan
Monte Collins
June Gittleson
Leslie Goodwins
George Gray
A.R. Haysel
Bud Jamison
Jack Norton
Charles Richman
Don Roberts
Tiny Sandford
Fred “Snowflake” Toones
Dorothy Vernon
The boys are members of the Woman Haters Club who find their pact broken when Larry marries behind their backs.
Shooting Schedule: 3/27/1934-3/30/1934
The boys are not known as Moe, Larry and Curly in this short. Here they take the names of Tom, Jim and Jack.
Actress Marjorie White was killed in an automobile accident shortly after production.
The dialog throughout is spoken entirely in rhyme. The reason for this is because WOMAN HATERS is an entry in Columbia's "Musical Novelties" series. After the Stooges popularity began to rise, the short's opening titles were altered a bit to open with the famous Stooges title card.
This is the only "Musical Novelty" to be syndicated by Screen Gems as part of their Three Stooges television package.
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PUNCH DRUNKS (7/13/1934)
Production Number 116
Director-Lou Breslow
Screenplay-Jack Cluett
Story-Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Jerry Howard
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Robert Carlisle
Cast
Dorothy Granger
Billy Bletcher
Chuck Callahan
Casey Colombo
Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian
Al Hill
Arthur Housman
William Irving
Jack “Stage” Kenney
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Larry McGrath
Frank Moran
Maxie “Slapsie Max” Rosenbloom
Harry Watson
With the help of fight promoter Moe and fiddler Larry, mild-mannered waiter Curly becomes a professional prize fighter who gains the strength of 10 men every time the tune POP GOES THE WEASEL is played...leaving anyone within arms reach a target for his swinging punches.
Shooting Schedule: 5/2/1934-5/5/1934.
The original working title was (A) SYMPHONY OF PUNCHES, a story Moe Howard scribbled on hotel stationary. The original choice of song that turns Curly into a madman was STARS & STRIPES FOREVER, however, that was changed during production because POP GOES THE WEASEL was in the public domain.
Below is Moe Howard's original, four page hand-written treatment, where he refers to his character as "Bangs" and Larry's as "Fuzzy". PUNCH DRUNKS is the only Three Stooges comedy to credit the boys for the story (Moe added Larry and Curly's names to the outline). They would also receive an on-screen story credit for the remake A HIT WITH A MISS (1945) starring Moe and Curly's brother, Shemp Howard.
WOMAN HATERS (5/5/1934)
Production Number 112
Director-Archie Gottler
Story-Jerome Gottler
Photography-Joseph August
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Marjorie White
Walter Brennan
Monte Collins
June Gittleson
Leslie Goodwins
George Gray
A.R. Haysel
Bud Jamison
Jack Norton
Charles Richman
Don Roberts
Tiny Sandford
Fred “Snowflake” Toones
Dorothy Vernon
The boys are members of the Woman Haters Club who find their pact broken when Larry marries behind their backs.
Shooting Schedule: 3/27/1934-3/30/1934
The boys are not known as Moe, Larry and Curly in this short. Here they take the names of Tom, Jim and Jack.
Actress Marjorie White was killed in an automobile accident shortly after production.
The dialog throughout is spoken entirely in rhyme. The reason for this is because WOMAN HATERS is an entry in Columbia's "Musical Novelties" series. After the Stooges popularity began to rise, the short's opening titles were altered a bit to open with the famous Stooges title card.
This is the only "Musical Novelty" to be syndicated by Screen Gems as part of their Three Stooges television package.
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PUNCH DRUNKS (7/13/1934)
Production Number 116
Director-Lou Breslow
Screenplay-Jack Cluett
Story-Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Jerry Howard
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Robert Carlisle
Cast
Dorothy Granger
Billy Bletcher
Chuck Callahan
Casey Colombo
Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian
Al Hill
Arthur Housman
William Irving
Jack “Stage” Kenney
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Larry McGrath
Frank Moran
Maxie “Slapsie Max” Rosenbloom
Harry Watson
With the help of fight promoter Moe and fiddler Larry, mild-mannered waiter Curly becomes a professional prize fighter who gains the strength of 10 men every time the tune POP GOES THE WEASEL is played...leaving anyone within arms reach a target for his swinging punches.
Shooting Schedule: 5/2/1934-5/5/1934.
The original working title was (A) SYMPHONY OF PUNCHES, a story Moe Howard scribbled on hotel stationary. The original choice of song that turns Curly into a madman was STARS & STRIPES FOREVER, however, that was changed during production because POP GOES THE WEASEL was in the public domain.
Below is Moe Howard's original, four page hand-written treatment, where he refers to his character as "Bangs" and Larry's as "Fuzzy". PUNCH DRUNKS is the only Three Stooges comedy to credit the boys for the story (Moe added Larry and Curly's names to the outline). They would also receive an on-screen story credit for the remake A HIT WITH A MISS (1945) starring Moe and Curly's brother, Shemp Howard.
MEN IN BLACK (9/28/1934)
Production Number 152
Director-Raymond McCarey
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Carmen Andre
Betty Andre
Neal Burns
Bobby Callahan
Irene Coleman
Phyllis Crane
Charles Dorety
Joe Fine
Billy Gilbert
Dell Henderson
Ruth Hiatt
Kay Hughes
Bud Jamison
Eve Kimberly
Charles King
Hank Mann
Joseph Mills
Arthur Rankin
Eve Reynolds
“Little” Billy Rhodes
Jeanie Roberts
Helen Splane
Billie Stockton
Lucille Watson
Pat West
The Stooges are devoted doctors who try to live up to the motto “For Duty and Humanity”, much to the dismay of thier supervisor, Dr. Graves and his office door.
This is the first "Official" Three Stooges comedy.
The opening title music is "I THOUGHT I WANTED YOU" by Archie Gottler and Edward Eliscu.
Much of the dialog during the operation scene was ad-libbed by the Stooges.
Nominated for an Academy Award.
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THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (12/8/1934)
Production Number 156
Director- Raymond McCarey
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler and Griffin Jay
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Lucille Ball
Gertie Green
Phyllis Crane
Harry Bowen
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Charles Dorety
William Irving
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Walter Long
Roger Moore
Jimmy Phillips
The Stooges are vagrants who are mistaken as The Three Horsemen, Boulder Dam University's top football players. They are hired to join gangster Walter Long’s football team for a sure-fire win.
Shooting Schedule: 10/25/1934-10/30/1934.
Filmed at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles. The site today is occupied by CBS Television City.
Loyola University's football team is featured during the game-action scenes.
A number of injuries occurred during the filming of this short. Larry's tooth was knocked out by actor Joseph Young, Curly broke a leg as he rode down the dumbwaiter, and even more broken limbs during the scene where the boys and the cameraman are tackled. Moe insisted on doubles for he and the boys or they wouldn't shoot it at all. Director McCarey rounded up the doubles for the shoot and the end result was that the cameraman, Moe's double and Larry's double had broken arms and legs....Curly's double escaped harm because of the extra padding used.
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HORSES’ COLLARS (1/10/1935)
Production Number 159
Director-Clyde Bruckman
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Boyle
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Dorothea Kent
Fred Kohler
Alice Belcher
Ralph Bucko
Roy Bucko
Bobby Callahan
Nancy Caswell
Alice Dahl
Milt Douglas
Allyn Drake
June Gittleson
Fred Kelsey
Bud McClure
Nelson McDowell
Hilda Title
Slim Whitaker
Leo Willis
The Stooges are detectives who go out west to help a girl recover an IOU from bad guy Double Deal Decker (Fred Kohler).
Shooting Schedule: 11/23/1934-11/27/1934.
Original working title was HYDEN ZEEKE.
The only Columbia short to be directed by writer Clyde Bruckman, whose battle with alcoholism caused on-the-set problems and derailed his career as a director.
Opening title music is "At The Races" by Louis Silvers.
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RESTLESS KNIGHTS (2/20/1935)
Production Number 160
Director-Charles Lamont
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William A. Bryant
Cast
Geneva Mitchell
Eadie Adams
George Baxter
Stanley Blystone
Walter Brennan
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Jack Duffy
Billy Franey
Chris Franke
Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian
James Howard
William Irving
Dorothy King
Bud O’ Neill
Joseph Perry
Patty Price
George Speer
Al Thompson
Marie Wells
Corinne Williams
Bert Young
Ernie Young
Set in Medieval times, the Stooges are palace guards who must save the queen when she is abducted.
Shooting Schedule: 12/19/1934-12/22/1934.
This is the first short to use the triple slap, here executed by the Stooges father (Walter Brennan).
The opening theme music is "Entry of the Giants" by Louis Silvers.
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POP GOES THE EASEL (3/29/1935)
Production Number 163
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Bobby Burns
Phyllis Crane
Lew Davis
Jack Duffy
Phyllis Fine
Joan Howard
William Irving
Delos Jewkes
Jack Kenny
Louis Mason
Geneva Mitchell
Al Thompson
Ellinor Vanderrveer
Leo White
The Stooges are vagrants, who on the run from a detective, duck into an art school and are mistaken for students. Before long, a fight with artist clay breaks out.
Shooting Schedule: 2/6/1935-2/11/1935.
Larry’s daughter Phyllis and Moe’s daughter Joan can be seen as extras in the Hopscotch scene, marking their one and only appearance with their fathers in a Stooges comedy.
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UNCIVIL WARRIORS (4/26/1935)
Production Number 165
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Lou Archer
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Phyllis Crane
Charles Cross
Lew Davis
Hubert Diltz
Charles Dorety
Celeste Edwards
Billy Engle
George Gray
Jennifer Gray
Bud Jamison
Si Jenks
Harry Keaton
Jack Kenny
Marvin Loback
Ted Lorch
James C. Morton
John Rand
Ford West
The Stooges are Yankee soldiers who must infiltrate enemy lines by attending a social event at the mansion of General Butts (Bud Jamison). All goes well until a baby is needed to further the charade...
Shooting Schedule: 3/13/1935-3/18/1935.
The original working title was OPERATORS 13, 14, AND 15.
The opening credits theme is an arrangement of "Dixie" and "John Brown's Brody" by Louis Silvers.
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PARDON MY SCOTCH (8/1/1935)
Production Number 168
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Nat Carr
James C. Morton
Wilson Benge
Billy Bletcher
Symona Boniface
Barlowe Borland
Ettore Campana
Nina Campana
Alec Craig
Scotty Dunsmuir
Gladys Dale
Billy Gilbert
Grace Goodall
George Gray
Pauline High
William Irving
Delos Jewkes
William H. O’Brien
Al Thompson
The Stooges are janitors who mix up a potion that they sell as scotch. They, then, try to fool the proprietor by dressing up as Scotsmen at a party and market it.
Moe broke several ribs and suffered a concussion after falling from the sawed-off table at the beginning of the short.
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HOI POLLOI (8/29/1935)
Production Number 207
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-John Rawlins
Cast
Gail Arnold
Gino Corrado
Phyllis Crane
Harriett DeBussman
Mary Dees
Celeste Edwards
George B. French
Grace Goodall
Robert Graves
Harry Holman
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Billy Mann
Kathryn McHugh
Robert McKenzie
Betty McMahon
Geneva Mitchell
James C. Morton
Blanche Payson
Arthur Rankin
Don Roberts
Poppy Wilde
The Stooges are garbage men who take part in a bet with two professors who want to turn them into gentlemen. Their transformation to be unveiled at a swanky party.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) as HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947) and again with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as PIES AND GUYS (1958).
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THREE LITTLE BEERS (11/28/1935)
Production Number 210
Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Bud Jamison
Nanette Crawford
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
George Gray
Althea Hanley
William Irving
Jack Kenny
Eddie Laughton
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
George Magrill
Frank Mills
Eve Reynolds
Harry Semels
Frank Terry
Arthur Thalasso
John Tyrell
Larry Wheat
The Stooges are deliverymen for a brewing company who take part in a golfing tournament. After destroying the grounds, they are chased back to their delivery truck (chock full of beer barrels) and flee the course. Moments later, the barrels break loose from the truck and wreak havoc in the city.
Filmed at the Rancho Golf Course on Pico Blvd in Beverly Hills, CA (which was near the 20th Century Fox studios (the watertower from Fox can be seen in the background as the Stooges flee the golf course towards the end of the short).
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ANTS IN THE PANTRY (2/6/1936)
Production Number 218
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Clara Kimball Young
Harrison Greene
Bud Jamison
Isabelle LaMal
Versey O'Davoren
Douglas Gerrard
Anne O'Neal
James C Morton
Bobby Burns
Lynton Brent
Al Thompson
The Stooges are pest exterminators who are instructed to start stirring up some new business. Their plan of attack is to plant mice, ants and moths at a swanky mansion and when the owner cries for help, the boys will swoop in and save the day...which backfires.
The working title for this short was PARDON MY ANT
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MOVIE MANIACS (2/20/1936)
Production Number 213
Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Mildred Harris
Kenneth Harlan
Bud Jamison
Harry Semels
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Charles Dorety
Althea Hanley
Jack Kenny
Eddie Laughton
Lois Lindsay
Antrim Short
Harry Tenbrook
Hilda Title
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
The Stooges are stowaways on a train bound for Hollywood. When they arrive, they try to break into the movie business by sneaking into a studio. Things are further complicated when the trio is mistaken as the new management team from the East Coast.
The original working title was G-A-G MEN.
One of the first shorts to be edited by Screen Gems as the Stooge comedies began their rotation in television syndication.
A deleted, alternate ending had the Stooges burning the studio down.
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HALF SHOT SHOOTERS (4/30/1936)
Production Number 225
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Vernon Dent
Lynton Brent
Charles "Heinie" Conklin
Lew Davis
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Edward LeSaint
Harry Semels
Bert Young
With WW1 over, the Stooges leave the army by paying back their nasty Sergeant MacGillicuddy (Stanley Blystone) with the same style of sadistic abuse he caused them while they served. Now, years later and unemployed, they mistakenly re-enlist and are welcomed back with open arms by their old "friend", Sergeant MacGillicuddy.
This short, along with HOI POLLOI, was blocked from being shown in Holland by their board of censorship.
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DISORDER IN THE COURT (5/30/1936)
Production Number 217
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Nick Baskovitch
Alice Belcher
Hank Bell
Dan Brady
Louise Carver
Billy Franey
Sol Horowitz
Bud Jamison
Tiny Jones
Suzanne Kaaren
Eddie Laughton
Edward LeSaint
Hank Mann
James C. Morton
Ed Mull
William J. O’Brien
Harry Semels
Arthur Thalasso
Al Thompson
With Kirk Robbin dead and dancer Gail Tempest (Suzanne Karaan) accused of his murder, the Stooges are called as star witnesses during the trial.
This is one of the most well-known of the Stooge comedies due to the fact that it (along with 3 titles from the Shemp years) fell into the Public Domain, allowing every mom and pop video distributor to dupe the titles for home video release.
The original working title was DISORDER IN THE COURTROOM.
Jury member Sol Horowitz is the father of Moe, Curly and Shemp Howard.
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A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (6/27/1936)
Production Number 223
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Preston Black
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast.
Loretta Andrews,
Gail Arnold,
Bobby Burns,
Phyllis Crane,
Jesse DeVorska,
Mary Lou Dix,
Bud Jamison,
Eddie Laughton,
Ethelreda Leopold,
James C. Morton,
Anne O’Neal,
Hilda Title,
Ray Turner.
The Stooges are small-time actors who, along with their pet monkey, disrupt passengers on a train.
A remake of the 1932 Hal Roach short SHOW BUSINESS starring Thelma Todd, Zazu Pitts and Monte Collins (Directed by Jules White).
Remade with Gus Schilling and Richard Lane as TRAINING FOR TROUBLE (1947).
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FALSE ALARMS (8/16/1936)
Production Number 224
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-John Grey
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Stanley Blystone
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
John Grey
Eddie Laughton
Charles Phillips
Bert Young
Firemen Moe and Larry borrow Chief Stanley Blystone's new car when Curly, who is at a party with his girlfriend and her two friends, sets off the fire alarm (instead of using a telephone) to invite the boys over. Knowing that the fire department is en route to the alarm call, and not wanting to get caught, the boys (and their dates) take the Chief's new car out for a joyride with disastrous results.
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WHOOPS, I’M AN INDIAN! (9/11/1936)
Production Number 226
Associate Producer-Jules White
D-Del Lord
Story-Searle Kramer and Herman Boxer
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Lew Davis
Al Ferguson
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Sam Lufkin
Robert McKenzie
Al Thompson
Hilda Title
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges are crooked gamblers who dress up as Indians to avoid the law and a hulking Indian hunter named Pierre (Bud Jamison), who vows to kill all Indians after finding out that his wife has run off with Chief Moulting Eagle...but weakens and falls for Curly (who is dressed as a female Indian).
The original working title was FRONTIER DAZE.
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SLIPPERY SILKS (12/27/1936)
Production Number 221
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Loretta Andrews
Gail Arnold
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Beatrice Curtis
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Mary Lou Dix
June Gittleson
William Irving
Eddie Laughton
Caryl Lincoln
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Getrude Messinger
Blanche Payson
Charles Phillips
Aileen Ransom
Harry Tenbrook
Martha Tibbetts
Hilda Title
Ellinor Vanderveer
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Robert Williams
Bert Young
After they destroy a priceless Ming Dynasty vase, the Stooges learn they've inherited their late uncle’s dress shop. They immediately go into business by staging a fashion show that ends with a cream puff throwing free-for-all.
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GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS (1/13/1937)
Productin Number 259
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story-Searle Kramer and Herman Boxer
Screenply-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Chuck Callahan
Tony Chavex
Casey Colombo
Budd Fine
Harrison Greene
William Irving
Sam Lufkin
Cy Schindell
Herb Stagman
Everett Sullivan
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Harry Wilson
Vagrants Moe, Larry and Curly become trainers to a wrestler named Bustoff (Harrison Greene) who (on their watch) gets drunk the night before the big bout. The match-day arrives and the Stooges have to keep Bustoff's hangover a secret from his manager, Tony (Casey Columbo), who has just wagered a large bankroll on the match. Things get worse when Curly and Larry accidentally drops dumbells on Bustoff's head, rendering him completely unconscious and not able to wrestle. Moe decides that Curly (who naturally resembles Bustoff) to take his place in the ring.
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DIZZY DOCTORS (3/19/1937)
Production Number 263
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story-Charles Melson
Screenplay-Al Ray
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast.
Earle D. Bunn
Bobby Burns
Chuck Callahan
Louise Carver
Casey Colombo
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
George Gray
A.R. Haysel
Sol Horowitz
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Ione Leslie
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Wildfred Lucas
Sam Lufkin
Betty MacMahon
Ella McKenzie
Robert McKenzie
Gertrude Messinger
Frank Mills
James C. Morton
Horace Murphy
Eva Murray
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Harley Wood
Bert Young
The Stooges become salesman for Brighto Medicine, but they don't quite realize it's a medicine...they believe it to be a polish...and in the process ruin a new pain job on a car. Once they realize it's a medicine, they make their first stop to make a sales pitch at a local hospital.
Some of Vernon Dent's dialogue was re-dubbed by Jules White during the chase scene at the hospital.
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3 DUMB CLUCKS (4/17/1937)
Production Number 266
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Andre Bartatier
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Frank Austin
Lynton Brent
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
Eddie Laughton
Lucille Lund
Frank Mills
Cy Schindell
Harry Tenbrook
Al Thompson
Elaine Waters
The Stooges escape from jail to save their Pa from gangsters and a gold-digging blonde. Curly is a dead-ringer for his father, so the boys decide to put him in their Pa's place at the wedding.
Curly Howard plays dual roles in this film.
It was during the last day of production on this short that Curly fell down an elevator shaft and severely cut his head.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as UP IN DAISY’S PENTHOUSE (1953).
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BACK TO THE WOODS (5/14/1937)
Production Number 268
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story-Searle Kramer
Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Beatrice Curtis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Budd Fine
Bud Jamison
Ethelreda Leopold
Ted Lorch
Cy Schindell
Blackie Whiteford
Harley Wood
Bert Young
The Stooges are English prisoners who are sent to America to defend their colonies from Indians. When Larry is kidnapped by the savages, Moe and Curly must devise a plan of rescue.
The ending is stock footage from WHOOPS, I'M AN INDIAN (1936).
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GOOFS AND SADDLES (7/2/1937)
Production Number 274
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Hank Bell
Stanley Blystone
Bob Burns
Jack Cooper
Lew Davis
George Gray
Ethan Laidlaw
Eddie Laughton
Ethelreda Leopold
Ted Lorch
Sam Lufkin
Hank Mann
Joe Palma
Eve Reynolds
Cy Schindell
Tiny Ward
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges are spies who are assigned to catch some cattle rustlers, lead by the ruthless Longhorn Pete (Stanley Blystone). Disguised as gamblers, the boys get into a game of poker with Pete, who sees through their cheating ways and chases them...Pete and his men on horseback, the Stooges in a Medicine Show covered wagon.
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CASH AND CARRY (9/3/1937)
Production Number 400
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story-Clyde Bruckman
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Sonny Bupp
Nick Copeland
Lew Davis
Lester Dorr
John Ince
Eddie Laughton
Stanley Mack
Al Richardson
Cy Schindell
Harley Wood
The Stooges try to raise money for a crippled boy’s operation and buy a treasure map from two con men.
The original working title was GOLD-DIGGING IN THE TREASURY.
Remade with Andy Clyde and Charles Rogers as A MINER AFFAIR (1945) and reworked again with Clyde and Rogers as TWO APRIL FOOLS (1954).
In 1958, Screen Gems used a slightly edited version of this short as the pilot film to help sell the Stooge comedies into television syndication. Many stations did not return the print (which had a specially made title sequence) and it remained in the rotation of shorts for many years...turning up on WTBS as late as 1984.
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PLAYING THE PONIES (10/15/1937)
Production Number 401
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Charles Lamont
Story-Will Harr and Irving Frisch
Screenplay-Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman and Charles Melson
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Charles Hochberg.
Cast
Billy Bletcher
Nick Copeland
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
William Irving
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Sam Lufkin
Charles Phillips
The Stooges are restaurant owners who buy a horse from two con men and then train it for an upcoming race. They hit gold when they discover that the horse runs a lot faster when given chili pepperinos (which were mistaken for peanuts).
Filmed at the Providencia Ranch, which today is the site of Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills.
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THE SITTER DOWNERS (11/26/1937)
Production Number 402
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
Marcia Healy
Jack Hill
Jack Long
Betty Mack
Robert McKenzie
James C. Morton
Charles Phillips
Bert Young
The Stooges stage a sitdown strike when their sweethearts father refuses to let his girls marry them. The sitdown strike gains national attention, and the Stooges receive several complimentary gifts from companies. One gift is a house on a lot. The girls father agrees to let the boys marry them, and when they arrive at their new home, they find that the lot and a pre-fabricated home await, but the house has to be assembled. The girls stage a strike of their own vowing "No House-No Honeymoon". The Stooges then attempt to build the house with disastrous results.
Curly’s wife in the film is played by Marcia Healy, sister of their late boss Ted Healy.
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TERMITES OF 1938 (1/7/1938)
Production Number 416
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Andre Barlatier
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Bess Flowers
Dorothy Granger
Bud Jamison
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Lew Davis
Richard Fiske
John Ince
Delos Jewkes
Etta McDaniel
The Stooges are exterminators who are mistakenly hired as male escorts for a socialite’s dinner party.
Remade with Shemp Howard and Tom Kennedy as SOCIETY MUGS (1946).
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WEE WEE MONSIEUR (2/18/1938)
Production Number 404
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Andre Barlatier
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Vernon Dent
William Irving
Bud Jamison
John Lester Johnson
Ethelreda Leopold
Harry Semels
Leo White
The Stooges are starving artists in Paris who mistakenly join the Foreign Legion. When their general is kidnapped, the boys don disguises of Santa Claus to rescue him.
The original working titles were THE FOREIGN LEGIONEERS and WE WE MONSIEUR.
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TASSELS IN THE AIR (4/1/1938)
Production Number 420
Associate Producers-Hugh McCollum and Charley Chase
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G Siegler
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Symona Boniface
Vernon Dent
Bess Flowers
Bud Jamison
Victor Travers
Leo White
Moe is mistaken for a famous interior decorator, and Curly and Larry his assistants, by Mrs. Smirch (Bess Flowers). They are invited to redecorate her house, and do so during one of Mrs. Smirch's bridge games.
Director Chase's first short with the Stooges. Chase was also appearing in his own series of two-reel comedies for Columbia.
This was a partial remake of Chase's own 1933 Hal Roach short LUNCHEON AT TWELVE.
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FLAT FOOT STOOGES (5/13/1938)
Production Number 439
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Charley Chase
Director-Charley Chase
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Art Seid
Cast
Chester Conklin
Dick Curtis
Lola Jensen
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Kerman Cripps
Harry Myers
Al Thompson
The Stooges are firemen who try to save the firehouse from a crooked salesman.
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HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB (5/20/1938)
Production Number 422
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Allen G Siegler
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Bobby Burns
Jean Carmen
Earlene Heath
Bud Jamison
Lucille Lund
James C. Morton
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest, so the Stooges move to the high life by checking into a fancy hotel. There, they meet 3 golddiggers and their pet monkey.
The original working title was CUCKOO OVER CONTESTS.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as A MISSED FORTUNE (1952).
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VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY (7/2/1938)
Production Number 423
Associate Producer-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Dick Curtis
Marjorie Deanne
Eddie Featherston
Gladys Gale
Pat Gleason
Bud Jamison
Vesey O’Davoren
Al Thompson
The Stooges are gas station attendants who are mistaken for professors.
The song the Stooges sing, known in the film as SWINGING THE ALPHABET was originally composed by Septimus Winner and published in 1875 as THE SPELLING BEE. It was director Charley Chase who brought the song into this film, with a few tweaks. His maid had known the song and had taught the Chase children how to sing it.
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THREE MISSING LINKS (7/29/1938)
Production Number 426
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Monte Collins
Jane Hamilton
Ray Corrigan
John Lester Johnson
James C. Morton
The Stooges are janitors at a movie studio who get their big break as Curly is cast as a gorilla, with Moe and Larry as his assistants. Before long, they are on location in Africa.
This was Jules White's first Three Stooges short as director.
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MUTTS TO YOU (10/14/1938)
Production Number 427
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Art Seid
Cast
Bess Flowers
Lane Chandler
Vernon Dent
Bud Jamison
Cy Schindell
The Stooges are dog washers who take in a baby they think was abandoned. Before long, the boys find themselves caught up in a kidnapping investigation.
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THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS (1/6/1939)
Production Number 419
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Phyllis Barry
Harry Semels
Lane Chandler
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Ned Glass
John Ince
Bud Jamison
James C. Morton
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Elaine Waters
Bert Young
The Stooges are tailors who are tricked into stealing a submarine by spies.
The original working titles were SUBMARINE BEHAVE and THREE GOOFY GOBS.
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WE WANT OUR MUMMY (2/24/1939)
Production Number 443
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen Seigler
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline, Ben Oakland and William Grant Still
Cast
Dick Curtis
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Ted Lorch
James C. Morton
John Tyrell
The Stooges are detectives who go to Egypt to locate a missing mummy.
One of two shorts that was edited down to approx. 9 minutes by Columbia Pictures that featured sound for the 8mm home-movie market in the 1960's. Film historian and author Ted Okuda recalled a time when WGN Television in Chicago once broadcast this 9 minute version.
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A DUCKING THEY DID GO (4/7/1939)
Production Number 444
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Lynton Brent
Chuck Callahan
Lane Chandler
Vernon Dent,
Jack Gardner
Jack Hill
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Sam Lufkin
John Rand
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
The Stooges sell memberships for a duck club, unaware it is nothing but a scam. Before long, they have recruited the police chief, whom they take along on the phony duck hunt.
The original working title was NEVER DUCK A DUCK.
Shooting Schedule: 11/15/1938-11/18/1938.
Stock footage ending from A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (6/27/1936).
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YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA (5/19/1939)
Production Number 438
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
Dick Curtis
Lynton Brent
Chuck Callahan
Jean Carmen
Vernon Dent
Lola Jensen
Suzanne Kaaren
Victor Travers
The Stooges are saloon workers who go out prospecting for gold.
The original working title was YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZAS. Shooting Schedule: 11/28/1938-12/1/1938. Complete short also reissued as part of THE THREE STOOGES FOLLIES (1974).
Reworked with Andy Clyde as GOLD IS WHERE YOU LOSE IT (1944) and PLEASURE TREASURE (1951).
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SAVED BY THE BELLE (6/30/1939)
Production Number 430
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Screenplay-Charley Chase
Photography-Allen Siegler
Editor-Art Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
LeRoy Mason
Carmen Laroux
Gino Corrado
Vernon Dent
Manuel Paris
Al Thompson
The Stooges are salesmen in the tropical Valeska, where they are accused of being spies with the intent of causing an uprising against the island's president.
Shooting Schedule: 12/12/1938-12/15/1938
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CALLING ALL CURS (8/25/1939)
Production Number 445
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story-Thea Goodan
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Photography-No Photographer Credited
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited) Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland.
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Lynton Brent
Beatrice Curtis
Isabel LaMal,
Ethelreda Leopold
Dorothy Moore
Robin Raymond
Cy Schindell
Libby Taylor
The Stooges are veterinarians who search for a prized poodle taken by dognappers.
The original working titles were CALL A DOCTOR and DOG HOSPITAL.
Shooting Schedule: 12/27/1938-12/30/1938
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OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (10/6/1939)
Production Number 449
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison and Mauri Grashin
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Linda Winters
Dorothy Moore
James Craig
Dick Curtis
Richard Fiske
Lorna Gray
Eddie Laughton
Eva McKenzie
Victor Travers
While eating lunch at a kindly woman’s house, the Stooges strike oil on her property...only to find out the woman had just sold her property to con men for $10 an acre.
Shooting Schedule: 3/16/1939-3/18-1939. An additional day of shooting commenced on 3/20/1939.
Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (12/4/1958).
Linda Winters would go on to change her name to Dorothy Comingore. Her most prestigious role under this new name was appearing as one of the wives of CITIZEN KANE (1941).
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THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (12/1/1939)
Production Number 451
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Lorna Gray
Don Beddoe
Bud Jamison
Beatrice Blinn
Ann Doran
Richard Fiske
Eddie Laughton
Forbes Murray
Victor Travers
Evelyn Young
The Stooges are telephone repairmen who are called to the offices of the vacationing doctors Ziller, Zeller and Zoller. While working on the office switchboard, they decide to make a few bucks and impersonate the pyschiatrists that an emergency call has come in for, which leads them to the Rumsford mansion.
The working title was THREE SLOPPY PEOPLE.
Shooting Schedule: 4/6/1939- 4/8/1939 with additional shooting on 4/10/1939.
During the cream puff fight, Lorna Gray gets hit square in the mouth, which took her by surprise (as evident on-screen...just look at her eyes). It has been rumored that the had a cream puff lodged into her throat, which required medical attention. Miss Gray has said that the story is exaggerated and that she was never in any distress.
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YOU NAZTY SPY! (1/19/1940)
Production Number 472
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-Harry Davis
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Don Beddoe
Chuck Callahan
Dick Curtis
Florine Dickson
Charles Dorety
Richard Fiske
Ned Glass
Lorna Gray
Eddie Laughton
Joe Murphy
John Rand
Billy Rhodes
Slim Summerville
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Bert Young
A shady group of cabinet members overthrow the King of Moronika and choose Moe to be the dictator, adding Larry and Curly as his assistants.
The working title was OH, YOU NAZTY SPY!
Shooting Schedule: 12/6/1939-12/9/1939.
A personal favorite of Stooges Moe and Larry, as well as director Jules White.
Writer Felix Adler's name is misspelled in the opening credits as "Felix Alder"
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ROCKIN THRU’ THE ROCKIES (3/8/1940)
Production Number 461
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography Henry Freulich
Editor-Arthur Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Ben Oakland
Cast
Linda Winters
Lorna Gray
Dorothy Appleby
Kathryn Sheldon
Dick Curtis
Richard Fiske
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Bert Young
The Stooges are frontier guides who try to protect a minstrel show group from Indians.
The original working title was NELL’S BELLES.
Shooting Schedule: 11/8/1939-11/11/1939
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A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (4/19/1940)
Production Number 462
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Ben Oakland
Cast
Wilson Benge
Symona Boniface
Neal Burns
Monte Collins
Dudley Dickerson
Bess Flowers
George Gray
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Jules White (voice-over only)
The Stooges are vagrants who pretend to be plumbers to avoid police. They soon find themselves inside a mansion, working on the pipes during a swanky party.
Shooting Schedule: 12/13/1939-12/15/1939 with an additional day of shooting on 12/18/1939.
This was reportedly Curly’s favorite short.
A reworking of PLUMBING FOR GOLD (1934) with George Sidney and Charlie Murray.
Reworked with El Brendel and Shemp Howard as PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944).
Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949) and SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956).
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NUTTY BUT NICE (6/1/1940)
Production Number 465
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast
Lynton Brent
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Eddie Garcia
Ned Glass
Kit Guard
Johnny Kascier,
Ethelreda Leopold
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Harry Wilson
Duke York
Bert Young
Evelyn Young
The Stooges are singing waiters who try to rescue a bank teller from kidnappers.
The song I'M A COWBOY FROM THE WESTERN PLAINS was composed by director Jules White. It turns up again in the short FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940)
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HOW HIGH IS UP? (7/26/1940)
Production Number 458
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Bruce Bennett
Edmund Cobb
Vernon Dent
Marjorie Kane
Johnny Kascier
George Lloyd
Sam Lufkin
Charles Phillips
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
Duke York
Bert Young
Fleeing a policeman, the Stooges duck into a line where workers are looking for employment. The Stooges are then hired as riveters and their first job is to work atop a 97-story skyscraper that is under construction.
A scene with Chuck Hamilton and Lucille Lund was cut from general release.
Some moments of character breaking come when Larry and Moe laugh when Curly cries out "Don't mind me...DON'T MIND ME!!!"
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FROM NURSE TO WORSE (8/23/1940)
Production Number 468
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story-Charles L. Kimball
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Cast.
Dorothy Appleby
Lynton Brent
Vernon Dent
Dudley Dickerson
Charles Dorety
Ned Glass
Marjorie Kane
Johnny Kascier
Joe Palma
Blanche Payson
Charles Phillips
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Poppy Wilde
Bert Young
The Stooges accept an insurance policy scheme where Curly pretends to be a dog, causing the medical examiner to operate on him.
Shooting Schedule: 5/15/1940-5/18/1940
The song used, I'M A COWBOY FROM THE WESTERN PLAINS, composed by Jules White, was also heard in NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)
Moe provides the voice of the radio announcer.
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NO CENSUS, NO FEELING (10/4/1940)
Production Number 474
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Harry Edwards
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Bruce Bennett
Symona Boniface
Max Davidson
Vernon Dent
Frank Mills
Bert Stevens
John Tyrell
Elinor Vanderveer
Evelyn Young
Helen Godwin
Marjorie Kane
On the run from an angry shopkeeper, the Stooges wind up getting jobs as census takers. Looking for more people to census, they hear the roar of a crowd and head to a football game.
Shooting Schedule: 5/25/1940-5/29/1940.
The original working title was NO ANSWER, NO FEELING.
The football scenes were filmed at USC.
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COOKOO CAVALIERS (11/15/1940)
Production Number 455
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Arthur Seid.
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Lynton Brent
Dorothy DeHaven
Anita Garvin
Bob O’Connor
Blanche Payson
Bianca Vischer
Marjorie Kane
The Stooges are fish salesman who unknowingly buy a salon (thinking it's a saloon) in Mexico.
Shooting Schedule: 6/6/1940-6/10/1940.
The original working title was BEAUTY A LA MUD.
In a moment of real-life Stooge fighting, both Moe and Curly seem to be displaying some true on-screen anger. This happens when the Stooges are applying mud to Rosita's (Dorothy Appleby) face. Moe and Curly begin to argue and start to hit each other with mud, causing Larry to laugh out-of-character.
A gag is set up, but it never pays off...viewers are never treated to see what happens to the dog when it's doused in hair remover.
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BOOBS IN ARMS (12/27/1940)
Production Number 486
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast.
Richard Fiske
Evelyn Young
Lynton Brent
Charles Dorety
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Philip Van Zandt
Blanca Vischer
Bobby Barber
The Stooges are greeting card salesmen who get mixed up with a jealous husband and when they accidentally enlist in the army, they discover their sergeant is the same person.
Shooting Schedule: 8/15/1940-8/20/1940.
The original working title was ALL THIS AND BULLETS TOO.
Supporting player Eddie Laughton appears twice in this short. First as a neighbor in the apartment building and later as a Commanding Officer.
A partial re-working of Laurel and Hardy's THE FIXER UPPERS (1935).
Reworked with Joe Besser as AIM, FIRE, SCOOT! (1952) and ARMY DAZE (1956).
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SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS (2/7/1941)
Production Number 484
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-Barney McGill
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Bruce Bennett
Lynton Brent
Stanley Brown
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Kit Guard
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Sam Lufkin
Louis Mason
John Tyrell
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
The Stooges are street cleaners who uncover valuable bonds and return them to the owner, they then are hired to find a honest man, but have to go to prison to find him.
Shooting Schedule: 7/25/1940-7/30/1940
A scene with Bud Jamison as a policeman was cut from the final release. Still photos of this scene do however exist.
Bruce Bennett appears as two different characters in the film. First as a truck driver at the beginning and later as the rock pile prison guard.
During the rock pile scene, Larry is placing rocks on Curly's head and Moe swings down a sledge-hammer to bust the rocks. At one point, as Larry places a rock on Curly's head, it appears that an ad-lib by Curly ("Hey!... That's a REAL ONE...I'm no fool!!!") causes both Moe and Larry to break character and smile. This line by Curly was however not ad-libbed, nor was Moe or Larry's stage direction for their reaction. Both appear in the shooting script.
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DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (3/21/1941)
Production Number 485
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Eddie Acuff
Fred Aldrich
Bruce Bennett
Stanley Brown
Edmund Cobb
Chester Conlkin
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Kit Guard
Bud Jamison
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
James C. Morton
Harry Semels
Bianca Vischer
Bert Young
The Stooges are news photographers who go to Vulgaria to take a picture of a ray gun, unaware that cameras are prohibited in said country.
Shooting Schedule: 8/1/1940-8/5/1940.
The film's title is a spoof of the expression "beautiful but dumb".
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ALL THE WORLD’S A STOOGE (5/16/1941)
Production Number 487
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-John Grey
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Lelah Tyler
Emory Parnell
Symona Boniface
Stanley Brown
Richard Fiske
Olaf Hytten
Bud Jamison
Ethelreda Leopold
Gwen Seager
John Tyrell
Poppy Wilde
Victor Travers
The Stooges are janitors who are hired to impersonate child refugees for a rich couple.
Shooting Schedule: 8/24/1940-8/28/1940
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I’LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (7/4/1941)
Production Number 500
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Mary Ainslee
Don Barclay
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Vernon Dent
Ned Glass
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Bert Young
Moe Hailstone and his cronies try to avoid being overthrown from Moronika.
Shooting Schedule: 4/15/1941-4/18-1941
A sequel to YOU NAZTY SPY!
In Moe Howard's biography, MOE HOWARD & THE THREE STOOGES (1977), he tells a tale of how he left the studio in a hurry to get to his daughter Joan's birthday party...still dressed in his Moe Hailstone costume, which meant he looked an awful lot like Adolf Hitler speeding through the streets of Los Angeles, which set off a lot of complaints from civilians who mistook him as the real deal.
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AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (8/22/1941)
Production Number 488
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Lloyd French
Photography-Philip Tannura
Editor-Burton Kramer
Music-Ben Oakland and Morris Stoloff
Cast
Wilson Benge
Symona Boniface
Gino Corrado
Vernon Dent
Bess Flowers
Bud Jamison
Blanche Payson
Larry Steers77777
Victor Travers
Dorothy Vernon
Bert Young
The Stooges are icemen who are hired as cooks for a henpecked husband’s birthday party. TRIVIA: Partially remade with The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Shemp) as LISTEN, JUDGE (1952).
Shooting Schedule: 3/26/1941-3/29/1941
The long flight of stairs the Stooges attempt to deliver ice up are located at the end of a steep cul-de-sac at 2257 Fair Oak View Terrace in Los Angeles (The Silverlake District).
Click HERE for a map to the ACHE IN EVERY STAKE stairway.
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IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (10/16/1941)
Production Number 482
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Ewart Adamson
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Mary Ainslee
Ethelreda Leopold
Symona Boniface
Lynton Brent
Vernon Dent
Richard Fiske
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Bert Young
Joe Twerp
Lou Davis
Johnny Kascier
Jack Hill
George Gray
Al Morino
Geneva Mitchell
Three rich heiresses must get married before midnight to collect their inheritance. With their Navy fiancees shipping out...their lawyer devises a plan to have them marry three convicts who are about to be hanged. Enter Moe, Larry and Curly (the convicts) who are married, but then released when the real killers are caught. And now the women are stuck with their new husbands...
Shooting Schedule: 4/30/1941-5/3/1941
The working title was WELL, I'LL BE HANGED.
Stock footage from the dance lesson in HOI POLLOI (1935) is used.
The final Columbia short (to feature new footage) for actor Richard Fiske. He left acting behind to join the United States Army during World War II, and on August 10, 1944, he was killed in action in France. He was 28.
The dance lesson is stock footage from HOI POLLOI (1935).
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SOME MORE OF SAMOA (12/4/1941)
Production Number 511
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Harry Edwards and Elwood Ullman
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Burton Kramer
Cast
Mary Ainslee
Symona Boniface
Louise Carver
Dudley Dickerson
John Tyrell
Tiny Ward
Duke York
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are called to the estate of an eccentric millionaire to retrieve a mate for his persimmon tree...which leads them to the island of Rhum Boogie. It also puts them on the menu for a tribe of cannibals.
Shooting Schedule: 5/12/1941-5/15/1941
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LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD (1/8/1942)
Production Number 510
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Music-Oscar Hammerstein, Ben Oakland, Ted Koehler and Johnny Green
Lyrics-Moe Howard
Dorothy Appleby
John Tyrell
Symona Boniface
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
Elinor Vanderveer
Bert Young
Duke York
George Grey
Sam Lufkin
Dorothy Vernon
Jack Cooper
The Stooges try to help an elderly woman turn her rundown hotel around.
Shooting Schedule: 7/29/1941-8/1/1941
Original working title was POOR BUT DISHONEST
Curly makes a suggestion to "Grandma" that she go see a single feature. This was a inside joke to those involved in the production of short-subjects. The popular double-feature theaters were beginning to run was leaving little room for two-reel comedies (and short-subjects in general).
Screenwriter Clyde Bruckman, Producer Jules White and Columbia Pictures were named in a lawsuit by comedian Harold Lloyd for the use of Lloyd's "Magician's Coat" sequence which had originally appeared in Lloyd's MOVIE CRAZY (1932). Bruckman, who worked on MOVIE CRAZY, had lifted the segment word-for-word and placed it into the script for LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD, which was determined when the scripts were compared. Lloyd sought $500,000.00 in damages.
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CACTUS MAKES PERFECT (2/26/1942)
Production Number 513
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Burton Kramer.
Cast
Ernie Adams
Monte Collins
Vernon Dent
Eddie Laughton
The Stooges head out west as prospecters for with the aid of Curly's latest invention, an arrow that seeks out gold.
Shooting Schedule: 8/7/1941-8/11/1941
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WHAT’S THE MATADOR? (4/23/1942)
Production Number 519
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Saul Ward
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-JeromeThoms
Music-Ben Oakland and Gregory Stone
Cast
Suzanne Kaaren
Harry Burns
Dorothy Appleby
Eddie Laughton
Paul Ellis
Joe Garcia
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Bert Young
Don Zelaya
Al Thompson
The Stooges go to Mexico to perform their comedy bull-fighting act, with Curly as a matador and Moe and Larry in costume as a bull. Their suitcase gets switched with that of a beautiful woman's. They try to retrieve the suitcase at her home and before long they cross paths with her jealous husband. Later, when the boys are performing their act at a bullfighting stadium, the husband recognizes them and lets loose a real bull, which Curly mistakes as his partners in their bull costume.
Shooting Schedule: 8/14/1941-8/18/1941
The original working title was RUN, BULL, RUN.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS (1959).
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MATRI-PHONY (7/2/1942)
Production Number 527
Directors-Harry Edwards and Del Lord (uncredited)
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Monte Collins and Elwood Ullman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Music-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Eddy Chandler
Monte Collins
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Max Wagner
Bobby Barber
Ethelreda Leopold
Jack Hill
Set in ancient Rome, the Stooges are pottery makers who try to save a redhead from the clutches of Emperor Octopus Grabus (Vernon Dent).
The working title was MATRIMONY.
Shooting Schedule: 3/5/1942-3/25/1942
Due to this short being a troubled production, the exact number of shooting days is unknown. It is estimated that the short was completed in 6 days, over a 3 week period.
Production was plagued by script re-writes, retakes and the scrapping of previously shot material. As a result, Del Lord was called in to direct some of the footage (even though Harry Edwards is the only director credited).
This was the first short to use the faster rendition of the theme THREE BLIND MICE.
Edwards can be heard at the short's end as he shouts to Larry to grab a hold of the guard’s belt.
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THREE SMART SAPS (7/30/1942)
Production Number 542
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Music-Bob Wright and Chet Forrest
Julie Gibson
Julie Duncan
Ruth Skinner
John Tyrell
Bud Jamison
Barbara Slater
Sally Caims
Chuck Callahan
Frank Coleman
Jack Cooper
Lew Davis
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Paul McVey
Frank Terry
Victor Travers
Dorothy Vernon
The Stooges are out to free their wrongly imprisoned, soon-to-be father in-law, who was framed by a corrupt warden.
Shooting Schedule: 4/7/1942-4/10/1942
The original working title was FATHER’S IN JAIL AGAIN
Barbara Pepper's name appears on the one-sheet and lobby cards, but she does not appear in the film.
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EVEN AS I.O.U. (9/18/1942)
Production Number 507
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Phtography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff and Nico Grigor
Cast
Ruth Skinner
Stanley Blystone
Billy Bletcher (voice only)
Wheaton Chambers
Heinie Conklin
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Jack Gardner
Bud Jamison
Suzanne Ridgeway
Bert Young
The Stooges are swindled by two con men when they try to help an evicted woman and her daughter by betting on a horse.
Shooting Schedule: 4/18/1942-4/22/1942
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SOCK-A-BYE-BABY (11/13/1942)
Production Number
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Joyce Gardner
Julie Gibson
Bud Jamison
Clarence Straight
Fred "Snowflake" Toones
The Stooges find a baby on their doorstep, but when the police arrive with the mother, they flee afraid that they'll be mistaken as kidnappers.
Shooting Schedule: 4/28/1942-5/1/1942
The original working title was THEIR FIRST BABY.
A remake of Andy Clyde’s MY LITTLE FELLER (1937).
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THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1/1/1943)
Production Number 533
Direcotr-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Lloyd Bridges
Stanley Brown
Vernon Dent
Dudley Dickerson
Julie Duncan
Dick Jensen
Robert Kellard
Eddie Laughton (voice only)
John Tyrell
Frederick Giermann
Minerva Urecal
Charles Sherlock
The Stooges are repairmen who unknowingly attempt to fix a doorbell at a house filled with German and Japanese spies.
Shooting Schedule: 5/6/1942-5/9/1942
It's been reported that this short was excised from the Screen Gems television package due to it's violent content. That is simply not true. Some television stations may have chosen not to air this short, while others may have edited out the now famous "climbing spike" gag...but this short was indeed part of the original television package, with the above mentioned gag intact.
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DIZZY DETECTIVES (2/5/1943)
Production Number 529
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Photography-George Meehan (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Lynton Brent
Ray Corrigan
Bud Jamison
Dick Jensen
John Tyrell
Dick Botiller
The Stooges apply as police officers and their assignment is to track down a gorilla trained to rob stores.
Shooting Schedule: 6/29/1942-7/2/1942
The working title was IDIOTS DELUXE
The opening scene with the Stooges as carpenters is lifted from PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935)
Remade with Joe Besser as FRAIDY CAT (1951) and HOOK A CROOK (1955).
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SPOOK LOUDER (4/5/1943)
Production Number 549
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Phtography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Music-Ben Oakland and Milton Drake
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Lew Kelly
Symona Boniface
Stanley Brown
William Kelley
Ted Lorch
Charles Middleton
Shirley Patterson
Helen Servis
Who threw those pies? A professor tells a reporter the tale of how he solved one of the most baffling mysteries ever that involved the Stooges, who are door-to-door salesman when they are mistaken as caretakers to inventor Dr. Grave's house. Dr. Graves has invented a new death ray, and before he leaves for Washington, he entrusts the boys to guard the machine that three spies are out to steal.
Shooting Schedule: 7/17/1942-7/21/1942
A remake of the Mack Sennett comedy THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY (1931), which was also directed by Del Lord.
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BACK FROM THE FRONT (5/28/1943)
Production Number 522
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Ewart Adamson
Phtography-John Stumar
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Neal Burns
Sally Caims
Tom Coleman
Heinie Conklin
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
George Gray
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Sam Lufkin
Adele Mara
Harry Semels
Ruth Skinner
Al Thompson
The Stooges are sailors who are aboard a ship that is sunk by the Nazis. They eventually make their way aboard the Nazi war ship, and disguise themselves as Hitler, Goering and Gobbels to fool the ships officers.
Shooting Schedule: 7/24/1942-7/28/1942
The working title was A SAILOR'S MESS.
The original 1941 pre-war script was very different from the final filmed version. It was actually rejected by the Columbia front office as being offensive to the United States Navy.
Behind the scenes 16mm footage, in color, was discovered in early 2007. The footage captured shows, from a different angle, the Stooges fighting the Nazis on the ship's deck. Other behind-the-scenes footage features The Stooges, Jules White, Vernon Dent and Bud Jamison.
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THREE LITTLE TWIRPS (7/9/1943)
Production Number 551
Director-Harry Edwards
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Monte Collins and Elwood Ullman
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Music-Ben Oakland, Howard Jackson, R.H. Bassett and Raphael Penso
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Duke York
Al Thompson
Bud Jamison
Hank Bell
Chester Conklin
Blackie Whiteford
Heinie Conklin
The Stooges are paid off with circus tickets instead of cash after hanging posters. Later, at the circus, they are caught scalping tickets. Instead of being arrested, the circus owner offers them jobs...as the targets for the Mad Sultun of Abbadabba, a spear thrower.
Shooting Schedule: 8/3/1942-8/7/1942
This was the second and final Three Stooges short to be directed by Harry Edwards, whose on set issues and unreliability as a director was brought on by alcoholism.
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HIGHER THAN A KITE (7/30/1943)
Production Number 568
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Dick Curtis
Vernon Dent
Johnny Kascier
Duke York
George Gray
The Stooges, wanting to fly, join the RAF where they are repositioned as mechanics. After ruining a Colonel's automobile, they hide inside a sewer pipe, which turns out to be a bomb which is being loaded onto a plane. The bomb is dropped behind enemy lines, and Moe and Curly disguise themselves as German Officers, while Larry disguises himself as a "seductive" senorita. When Marshal Boring falls for Larry in drag, the Stooges use this as a distraction to steal the enemy war plans.
Shooting Schedule: 2/20/1943-2/25/1943
This is one of the few times in a Columbia short that supporting player Duke York is not made up as a monster.
Watch Curly when Larry says the line "Maybe they're droppin' the pipe in the ditch"....he is mouthing Larry's line.
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I CAN HARDLY WAIT (8/13/1943)
Production Number 570
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White4
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Lew Davis,
Bud Jamison,
Adele Mara,
Al Thompson.
Moe and Larry try to help a restless Curly by extracting a bad tooth of his so they can all get some sleep.
Shooting Schedule: 3/15/1943-3/18/1943
The original working title was NOTHING BUT THE TOOTH.
Watch Moe during the scene where Curlys says "My poor little, sweet little, adorable, loveable, sweet little, bushy-wushy tooth!" as he's about to laugh out of character. He quickly covers up his mouth with his hand to prevent this.
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DIZZY PILOTS (9/24/1943)
Production Number
Director-Jules White.
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Photography-John Stumar (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Charles Dorety
Richard Fiske
Harry Semels
Al Thompson
Bobby Barber
The Stooges are pilots who try to build a revolutionary airplane for government use...and if it tests unsuccessful, it's off to the Army for them.
Shooting Schedule: 4/6/1943-4/9/1943
The working title was PEST PILOTS
Acresses Judy Malcolm and Sethma Williams appear in lobby cards, the one-sheet and publicity photos, but are nowhere in the film. Jules White's copy of the shooting script does not offer any clues as to their parts in the film. It is assumed that whatever their roles, those scenes were deleted from the final film.
Stock footage from BOOBS IN ARMS (1940) is used to wrap up the storyline. It is assumed that this was done to save money during the war.
This short is sometimes named as actor Richard Fiske's final appearance in a Columbia short. Technically, his final appearance was IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (1940), as he only appears here via stock footage.
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PHONY EXPRESS (11/18/1943)
Production Number 569
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Direction-Victor Greene
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Shirley Patterson
Bud Jamison
Ernie Adams
Sally Cleaves
Chester Conklin
Tex Cooper
Joel Friedkin
Herman Mack
John Merton
Joe Palma
Snub Pollard
Gwen Seager
Victor Travers
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
Bennie Pitti
George Morrell
The Stooges are mistaken as three famous marshalls coming to clean up a Western town...they soon find themselves guarding the bank...but when the bank is robbed anyways, it's up to them to get back the gold.
Shooting Schedule: 3/27/1943-3/31/1943
Partially remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as MERRY MAVERICKS (1951).
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A GEM OF A JAM (12/30/1943)
Production Number 525
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Dudley Dickerson
Al Hill
Fred Kelsey
Frank O’Connor
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
The Stooges are janitors who are mistaken for doctors by a group of bank robbers, one of whom has a gunshot wound. The wounded man accidentally falls out of the window and lands in a police car. The Stooges think they can make a break for it, but find themselves being chased after by the remaining bank robbers, as well as the police (who mistake the Stooges as the bank robbers).
Shooting Schedule: 6/12/1943-6/16/1943
This was the first Three Stooges short to feature the "Swing" version of their theme, 3 BLIND MICE. It is heard during the end titles.
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CRASH GOES THE HASH (2/4/1944)
Production Number 4010
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Original Story-Al Giebler, Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman
Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Dick Curtis
Bud Jamison
Vernon Dent
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Elise Grover
Mae E. Johnson
Johnny Kascier
Judy Malcolm
Wally Rose
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Jay Eaton
Ida Mae Johnson
Harold Miller
The Stooges are mistaken for reporters and are hired to do a story on a visiting Prince who has intentions of marrying Mrs. Van Bustle, a wealthy socialite. To gain access into Van Bustle's extravagant dinner party, the boys disguise themselves as cook (Moe) and servants (Larry and Curly). Their attempts to secure a photo of the Prince and Mrs. Van Bustle together are fruitless...and when they destroy the dinner party, they are fired...but one final attempt at getting the story exposes a scam by the Prince and his cohort who are really out to rob the Van Bustle home.
Shooting Schedule: 10/11/1944-10/13/1944
CRASH GOES THE HASH marks the final appearance of Bud Jamison in a Stooges comedy. He passed away in September of 1944.
A remake of Collin and Kennedy’s NEW NEWS (1937).
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BUSY BUDDIES (3/18/1944)
Production Number 4001
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord and Elwood Ullman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Eddie Gribbon
Johnny Kascier
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
The Stooges are restaurant owners in search of a way to pay off some of their business debts. When they take the job as poster hangers, they realize the posters they are putting up are adversments for the fair's cow milking contest, which offers a cash prize. Curly is nominated to be the contestant. After an unsuccessful practice attemp at milking a BULL, followed by a disasterous first round in the actual contest, Larry and Moe resort to cheating by dressing up in a fake cow costume for Curly to milk .
Shooting Schedule: 11/01/1943-11/05/1943
During the coughing-up-feathers bit, before Curly actually coughs any feathers up, there is evidence that there was either a rehearsal or previous take...as some feathers ae already floating around.
When the dummy of Curly is thrown over the fence for the first time, a crew member's hand is scene as the dummy is tossed.
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THE YOKE’S ON ME (5/26/1944)
Production Number 571
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Emmett Lynn
Eva McKenzie
Robert McKenzie
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
Judy Malcom (Scenes Deleted)
After being rejected by the Army, the Stooges are forced to work on a farm and eventually protect it from the threat of some men who escaped from a Japanese relocation camp.
Shooting Schedule: 11/8/1943-11/12/1943
The original working title was FOWLED BY A FOWL.
It is often mistaken by viewers of this short that the Japanese portrayed are POW's...they are not. In the 1942, the US Government wrongly mislabled as many as 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent as a security risk and moved them to safety centers (aka prison camps). In late 1944, these camps were disbanded, to which many of those sent to these camps returned too find that they no longer had homes (after the US Government assured them that their properties would be protected in a trust), thus destroying the established livlihoods of many who were natural-born citizens of the United States for decades. You can read more about these Japanese-American Relocation Camps HERE .
For this sensitive underlying plot, some television stations pulled the film from their rotation. Listen for Emmett Lynn to mumble the word "Bastard" uring the scene where the Stooges trade their car to the farmer for his run-down farm. It's the last thing he says (under his breath) as he attempts to start the car.
Curly Howard's appearance in this short offers viewers some hints of the beginning stages to his declining health.
The six actors portraying the relocated escapees remain unidentified.
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IDLE ROOMERS (7/15/1944)
Production Number 4013
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Wolf Man Make Up-Clay Campbell
Music-Ben Oakland, Howard Jackson and Raphael Penso
Cast
Duke York
Christine McIntyre
Vernon Dent
Joanne Frank
Esther Howard
Eddie Laughton
Mr. and Mrs. Leander, a showbiz couple, are staying at a fancy hotel the Stooges just happen to be bellboys at. When the boys enter the Leander's room to do some straightening up. Unbeknownst to them, Mr. Leander's latest discovery and carnival attraction, Lupe, the Wolf Man, is also in the room with them. Lupe is a relatively calm beast, that is until he hears music...then he goes insane...
Shooting Schedule: 11/17/1943-11/20/1943
IMDB lists this short as having premiered in Portugal on October 25, 1943...a full month before the film even started shooting.
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GENTS WITHOUT CENTS (9/22/1944)
Production Number 4020
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules Whiter
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Phtography-Benjamin Cline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Raphael Penso, Howard Jackson, Gene de Paul, Don Raye, Nico Grigor, Lyle "Spud" Murphy, R.H. Bassett,
John Leipold, Ben Oakland and Leigh Harline
Lyrics-Felix Adler
Cast
Lindsay Bourquin
Laverne Thompson
Betty Phares
Eddie Borden
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Lew Davis
Judy Malcolm
John Tyrell
Victor Travers
The Stooges are small-time actors who are attempting to perfect their "Niagara Falls" sketch, only to mess up every time they reach the point in the sketch where the lines "inch by inch" are said. After they meet three beautiful dancers, they set out in search of a job, which lands them a gig performing at a shipyard. With the girls dance routine and the boys rendition of "Niagara Falls" (or "Slowly I Turned" as it is sometimes called) proving to be a success, they marry the dancers...and decide to honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Shooting Schedule: 6/14/1944-6/16/1944
The "Niagara Falls" sketch was filmed on April 18, 1943, as it was originally intended for use in the Columbia feature GOOD LUCK, MR. YATES. When the sketch was cut from the feature, Jules White had a storyline crafted around it .
The original script does NOT contain the Niagara Falls sketch. It does contain a sketch called The Army Induction. That sketch was swapped out to put Niagara Falls in it's place. The Army Induction sketch does turn up later in the short RHYTHM AND WEEP.
The original working title was TENDERIZED HAMS.
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NO DOUGH BOYS (11/24/1944)
Production Number 564
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Christine McIntyre
Kelly Flint
Judy Malcolm
Brian O’Hara
John Tyrell
The Stooges are magazine models dressed as Japanese soldiers. When they break for lunch, in costume, they start a panic and flee to a house filled with Axis sympathizers. The Nazi ring leader, thinks the Stooges are the three Japanese soldiers who survived a recent Jap submarine attack, so the boys play along in attempts to thwart the Nazi plans...that is until the three real Japanese soldiers turn up.
Shooting Schedule: 4/25/1944-4/28/1944
The original working title was THE NEW WORLD ODOR.
The actors portraying the Japanese soldiers remain unidentified.
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THREE PESTS IN A MESS (1/19/1945)
Production Number 4022
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Brian O’Hara
Vernon Dent
Heinie Conklin
Paul Kruger
Snub Pollard
Victor Travers
Robert Williams
Johnny Kascier
The Stooges are inventors who shoot a mannequin and when they think they killed a real man, they set out to bury it.
Shooting Schedule: 6/22/1944-6/26/1944
A partial reworking of the 1933 Paramount two-reel comedy SAILOR'S BEWARE with Walter Catlett and Eugene Pallete, as well as the Hal Roach short WRECKETY WRECKS with The Taxi Boys. Later remade at Columbia with El Brendel and Tom Kennedy as READY, WILLLING, BUT UNABLE (1941). All three variations of this storyline were directed by Del Lord.
This was the final short in which Curly cries out his famous "Woo Woo Woo". It was dubbed in as the film fades out.
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BOOBY DUPES (3/17/1945)
Production Number 4006
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Walter Samuels
Cast
Rebel Randall
Vernon Dent
Geene Courtney
Lola Gogan
Wanda Perry
Snub Pollard
John Tyrell
Dorothy Vernon
The Stooges are fish salesman who decide to catch their own fish to save money.
Shooting Schedule: 9/27/1944-9/30/1944
A partial reworking of the 1932 Laurel and Hardy short TOWED IN A HOLE.
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IDIOTS DELUXE (7/20/1945)
Production Number 4030
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Hilyard Brown
Music-Mischa K Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Vernon Dent
Paul Kruger
Al Thompson
Johnny Kascier
Gwen Seager (Scenes Deleted)
Moe is suffering a nervous breakdown and in need of peace and quiet; Larry and Curly decide to take him on a hunting trip where the trio encounter a bear.
Shooting Schedule: 10/5/1944-10/9/1944
The original working title was THE MALADY LINGERS ON
A reworking of Collins and Kennedy’s OH, MY NERVES! (1935). Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as GUNS A POPPIN! (1957).
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IF A BODY MEETS A BODY (8/30/1945)
Production Number
Direcotr-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Gilbert Pratt
Screenplay-Jack White
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-John Leipold and Nico Grigor
Cast
Ted Lorch
Fred Kelsey
Judy Malcolm
Joe Palma
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Dorothy Vernon
Al Rosen
Dell Henderson
Curly learns he is the heir of his deceased uncle, so the Stooges go to a spooky mansion to collect it.
Shooting Schedule: 3/9/1945-3/13/1945
The original working title was NEARLY IN THE DOUGH
This is a remake of the 1930 Hal Roach short THE LAUREL AND HARDY MURDER CASE. Two of the original cast members of the Laurel and Hardy film, Dell Henderson and Fred Kelsey, appear in this version, with Kelsey reprising the exact same role from 15 years earlier.
The opening titles debut a slower "Three Blind Mice" theme, arranged by John Leipold and Nico Grigor. This theme would be heard into the Shemp era until 1948.
This marks the first in the series of what fans have dubbed the "ill Curly" period. The final handful of shorts in which he appears as his health issues begin to stand out. His timing is off, his skin appears pale, and his voice is deeper.
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MICRO-PHONIES (11/15/1945)
Production Number 4044
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Symona Boniface
Gino Corrado
Lynton Brent
Chester Conklin
Heinie Conklin
Sam Flint
Bess Flowers
Fred Kelsey
Ted Lorch
Judy Malcolm
Frank Mayo
John Tyrell
The Stooges are workers at a radio station who are mistaken for opera singers. They are hired to perform at a party later that night, where they are called out as fakes by famous opera star Signor Spumoni.
Shooting Schedule: 6/4/1945-6/7/1945
This short was writer/director Ed Bernds debut with the Stooges, but that is based solely on release date. Bernds had written and directed both A BIRD IN THE HEAD and THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS before MICROPHONIES. Due to Curly's illness and lack of performance in those shorts, Bernds was able to convince Hugh McCollum and Jules White into pushing MICROPHONIES up in release. Curly's performance is top notch and this short remains one of the best-loved from any dates in the Curly era, and as a result of moving the short into a quicker release, it gave Bernds an outstanding debut as both writer and director with the Stooges.
During the scene where Curly is lip synching to VOICES OF SPRING, Moe and Larry look at each other and begin to crack up.
Posters and even the title lobby card erroneously list Harry Edwards as the writer and director of this short.
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BEER BARREL POLECATS (1/10/1946)
Production Number 4045
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Gilbert Pratt
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-George F Kelley
Photography-George Meehan (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Barney McGill (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Editor-Jerome Thoms (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Mel Thorsen (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Robert Williams
Vernon Dent
Bruce Bennett
Lynton Brent
Eddie Laughton
Joe Palma
Al Thompson
Blackie Whiteford
Al Rosen
Budd Fine
Sam Lufkin
Frank Mills
Al Morino
Set during prohibition, the Stooges decide to brew their own beer, but they get arrested when Curly unknowingly sells a bottle to a detective. Arrested for bootlegging, the boys attempt to smuggle in a keg of their homemade brew...when they are caught, they are sentenced to a much longer stay.
Shooting Schedule: 4/25/1945-4/26/1945
The original working title was THREE DUDS IN THE SUDS and was originally intended to be a two-reel version of Laurel and Hardy's feature, PARDON US (1930). The original script contains many gags used in the Laurel and Hardy film, including a reworking of the scene in prison school that appears in PARDON US.
During the prison line-up, Curly speaks in his natural voice when he says "Gee it's warm in here. I hope the beer don't spoil".
Uses stock-footage from both SO LONG MR CHUMPS and IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE.
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A BIRD IN THE HEAD (2/28/1946)
Production Number 4043
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-Burnett Guffey
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Robert Williams
Frank Lackteen
Art Miles
The Stooges are paperhangers who become guineapigs for a mad scientist out to find a human brain for his gorilla.
Shooting Schedule: 4/9/1945-4/13/1945
Production was shut down for a day when Columbia Pictures closed the studio the day President Franklin Roosevelt died.
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UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS (3/29/1946)
Production Number 4050
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Clyde Bruckman
Screenplay-Jules White
Photography-Phillip Tannura
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Lyrics-Jules White
Music-Daniel Emmett
Cast
Eleanor Counts
Lew Davis
Maury Dexter
Marilyn Johnson
Johnny Kascier
Ted Lorch
Joe Palma
Al Rosen
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Blackie Whiteford
Faye Williams
Robert Williams
The Stooges enlist into the Civil War: Moe and Larry join the Union Army...Curly, the Confederate Army.
Shooting Schedule: 8/24/1945-8/28/1945
The original working title was THREE SOUTHERN DUMBBELLS.
A remake, with stock footage, of Buster Keaton’s MOOCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (1939).
Behind-the-scenes 16mm home movie footage, in color, exists. The silent film materials were discovered in 2007 and feature the Stooges, Jules White and the actresses who portray the Stooges girlfriends on set at the Columbia Ranch.
The storyline found it's way into an episode of THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW (1952) called "South Of Dixie". That episode was written by Clyde Bruckman.
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THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS (4/25/1946)
Production Number 4046
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Jack White
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Christine McIntyre
Dick Curtis
Hank Bell
Steve Clark
Budd Fine
Joe Garcia
Ethan Laidlaw
Victor Travers
Si Jenks
Blackie Whiteford
Jack Evans
Elmo Lincoln
Charless Cross (Larry's stunt-double)
Harold Breen (Moe's stund-double)
Al Rosen (Curly's stunt-double)
The Stooges are cowboys who try to prevent a blacksmith’s daughter from marrying a notorious outlaw.
Shooting Schedule: 5/11/1945-5/15/1945
Moe suffered an injury when the black soot from the pipe went into his eyes. The first aid man had to pry open Moe’s eyes to remove bits of chunks of soot.
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MONKEY BUSINESSMEN (6/20/1946)
Production Number
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-
Editor-
Art Director-
Wade Crosby
Fred Kelsey
Kenneth McDonald
Snub Pollard
Cy Schindell
Jean Willes
Rocky Woods
The Stooges are electricians who check into a clinic for rest and relaxation. TRIVIA: The original working titles were MONKEY BUSINESS and SANITUARY STOOGE. A remake of Smith and Dale’s MUTINY ON THE BODY (1939).
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THREE LOAN WOLVES (7/4/1946)
Production Number 4053
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Tommy Flood
Cast
Beverly Warren
Harold "Tiny" Brauer
Jackie Jackson
Joe Palma
Wally Rose
The Stooges are owners of a pawn shop who discover a baby thanks to Larry.
Shooting Schedule: 2/27/1946-3/2/1946
A scene featuring Vernon Dent and John Merton as detectives was cut from the final film.
The original working title was IN HOCK.
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G.I. WANNA HOME (9/5/1946)
Production Number 4063
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Doris Houck
Judy Malcolm
Ethelreda Leopold
Symona Boniface
Al Thompson
Unable to find a place to stay with their fiancees, the Stooges decide to build a house on a vacant lot.
Shooting Schedule: 3/22/1946-3/26/1946
During the scene where the eggs fall onto Moe's head, you can hear someone off camera laughing.
When Larry points out the bathroom/luggage area to the new brides, a stagehand can be seen in the shot. He realizes he is onscreen, and tries to duck out of the camera's eye, however, he remains noticeable for the rest of the scene.
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RHYTHM AND WEEP (10/3/1946)
Production Number 4057
Director-Jules White.
Cast
Gloria Patrice
Ruth Godfey
Nina Bieber
Jack Norton
Robert Kellard
Larry McGrath
Jack Parker
The Stooges are actors who decide to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but their luck changes when they meet three women planning to do the same thing.
Shooting Schedule: 4/23/1946-4/26/1946
The sketch Moe, Larry, and Curly perform of the army examination sequence was also used in Buster Keaton’s GENERAL NUISANCE (1941).
The original working title was ACTING UP.
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THREE LITTLE PIRATES (12/5/1946)
Production Number 4067
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Philip Tannura
Assistant Cameraman-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Carter DeHaven Jr.
Music-Sammy Cahn, Jules Styne
Gaffer-James Punter
Mixer-Lambert E. Day
Grip-Harold Banks
Props-Ray Hunt
Script Supervisor-Tessie Wise
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Robert Kellard
Vernon Dent
Dorothy DeHaven
Ethan Laidlaw
Larry McGrath
Joe Palma
Jack Parker
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
The Stooges was ashore an island straight out of the 17th Century, where they are imprisoned by a tyrannical Governor. With the help of a woman also being held on the island, the Stooges break out of their cell and use the ruse of a visiting Maharajah to escape the island in search of Black Louie...a pirate who will take them back to the mainland (who is also in well-acquainted with the Governor).
Shooting Schedule: 4/15/1946-4/18/1946
When writing the short, Moe Howard dictated word-for-word the entire Maharajah routine to Clyde Bruckman. Silent, behind-the-scenes 16mm footage, in color, was discovered in 2007. The footage taken on the Columbia lot shows director Ed Bernds, co-star Cy Schindell, a visiting Shemp Howard, Moe's wife Helen and Moe and Curly in their very colorful Maharajah costumes.
The Stooges used the sketch previously in the 1941 Columbia feature TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM and would continue to use the sketch again many more times during their television appearances (and in the 1963 feature THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE). Moe Howard would even perform the sketch with "new" partners Mike Douglas and Soupy Sales on THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW (9/11/1973).
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HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1/9/1947)
Production Number 4056
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Zion Myers
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Barbara Slater
Ted Lorch
Symona Boniface
Helen Dickson
Johnny Kascier
Emil Sitka
Victor Travers
Al Thompson
The Stooges decide to take part in a bet by two professors who want to turn them into gentlemen.
Curly’s final short as a member of The Three Stooges. He suffered a massive stroke during filming and was written out of the climatic pie fight.
Emil Sitka's first appearance in a Three Stooges comedy.
The working title was NO GENTS---NO CENTS
A reworking of HOI POLLOI (1935).
Remade as PIES AND GUYS (1958) with Moe, Larry and Joe Besser.
Production Number 152
Director-Raymond McCarey
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Carmen Andre
Betty Andre
Neal Burns
Bobby Callahan
Irene Coleman
Phyllis Crane
Charles Dorety
Joe Fine
Billy Gilbert
Dell Henderson
Ruth Hiatt
Kay Hughes
Bud Jamison
Eve Kimberly
Charles King
Hank Mann
Joseph Mills
Arthur Rankin
Eve Reynolds
“Little” Billy Rhodes
Jeanie Roberts
Helen Splane
Billie Stockton
Lucille Watson
Pat West
The Stooges are devoted doctors who try to live up to the motto “For Duty and Humanity”, much to the dismay of thier supervisor, Dr. Graves and his office door.
This is the first "Official" Three Stooges comedy.
The opening title music is "I THOUGHT I WANTED YOU" by Archie Gottler and Edward Eliscu.
Much of the dialog during the operation scene was ad-libbed by the Stooges.
Nominated for an Academy Award.
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THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (12/8/1934)
Production Number 156
Director- Raymond McCarey
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler and Griffin Jay
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Lucille Ball
Gertie Green
Phyllis Crane
Harry Bowen
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Charles Dorety
William Irving
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Walter Long
Roger Moore
Jimmy Phillips
The Stooges are vagrants who are mistaken as The Three Horsemen, Boulder Dam University's top football players. They are hired to join gangster Walter Long’s football team for a sure-fire win.
Shooting Schedule: 10/25/1934-10/30/1934.
Filmed at Gilmore Stadium in Los Angeles. The site today is occupied by CBS Television City.
Loyola University's football team is featured during the game-action scenes.
A number of injuries occurred during the filming of this short. Larry's tooth was knocked out by actor Joseph Young, Curly broke a leg as he rode down the dumbwaiter, and even more broken limbs during the scene where the boys and the cameraman are tackled. Moe insisted on doubles for he and the boys or they wouldn't shoot it at all. Director McCarey rounded up the doubles for the shoot and the end result was that the cameraman, Moe's double and Larry's double had broken arms and legs....Curly's double escaped harm because of the extra padding used.
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HORSES’ COLLARS (1/10/1935)
Production Number 159
Director-Clyde Bruckman
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Boyle
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Dorothea Kent
Fred Kohler
Alice Belcher
Ralph Bucko
Roy Bucko
Bobby Callahan
Nancy Caswell
Alice Dahl
Milt Douglas
Allyn Drake
June Gittleson
Fred Kelsey
Bud McClure
Nelson McDowell
Hilda Title
Slim Whitaker
Leo Willis
The Stooges are detectives who go out west to help a girl recover an IOU from bad guy Double Deal Decker (Fred Kohler).
Shooting Schedule: 11/23/1934-11/27/1934.
Original working title was HYDEN ZEEKE.
The only Columbia short to be directed by writer Clyde Bruckman, whose battle with alcoholism caused on-the-set problems and derailed his career as a director.
Opening title music is "At The Races" by Louis Silvers.
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RESTLESS KNIGHTS (2/20/1935)
Production Number 160
Director-Charles Lamont
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William A. Bryant
Cast
Geneva Mitchell
Eadie Adams
George Baxter
Stanley Blystone
Walter Brennan
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Jack Duffy
Billy Franey
Chris Franke
Oscar “Dutch” Hendrian
James Howard
William Irving
Dorothy King
Bud O’ Neill
Joseph Perry
Patty Price
George Speer
Al Thompson
Marie Wells
Corinne Williams
Bert Young
Ernie Young
Set in Medieval times, the Stooges are palace guards who must save the queen when she is abducted.
Shooting Schedule: 12/19/1934-12/22/1934.
This is the first short to use the triple slap, here executed by the Stooges father (Walter Brennan).
The opening theme music is "Entry of the Giants" by Louis Silvers.
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POP GOES THE EASEL (3/29/1935)
Production Number 163
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Bobby Burns
Phyllis Crane
Lew Davis
Jack Duffy
Phyllis Fine
Joan Howard
William Irving
Delos Jewkes
Jack Kenny
Louis Mason
Geneva Mitchell
Al Thompson
Ellinor Vanderrveer
Leo White
The Stooges are vagrants, who on the run from a detective, duck into an art school and are mistaken for students. Before long, a fight with artist clay breaks out.
Shooting Schedule: 2/6/1935-2/11/1935.
Larry’s daughter Phyllis and Moe’s daughter Joan can be seen as extras in the Hopscotch scene, marking their one and only appearance with their fathers in a Stooges comedy.
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UNCIVIL WARRIORS (4/26/1935)
Production Number 165
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Lou Archer
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Phyllis Crane
Charles Cross
Lew Davis
Hubert Diltz
Charles Dorety
Celeste Edwards
Billy Engle
George Gray
Jennifer Gray
Bud Jamison
Si Jenks
Harry Keaton
Jack Kenny
Marvin Loback
Ted Lorch
James C. Morton
John Rand
Ford West
The Stooges are Yankee soldiers who must infiltrate enemy lines by attending a social event at the mansion of General Butts (Bud Jamison). All goes well until a baby is needed to further the charade...
Shooting Schedule: 3/13/1935-3/18/1935.
The original working title was OPERATORS 13, 14, AND 15.
The opening credits theme is an arrangement of "Dixie" and "John Brown's Brody" by Louis Silvers.
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PARDON MY SCOTCH (8/1/1935)
Production Number 168
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-James Sweeney
Cast
Nat Carr
James C. Morton
Wilson Benge
Billy Bletcher
Symona Boniface
Barlowe Borland
Ettore Campana
Nina Campana
Alec Craig
Scotty Dunsmuir
Gladys Dale
Billy Gilbert
Grace Goodall
George Gray
Pauline High
William Irving
Delos Jewkes
William H. O’Brien
Al Thompson
The Stooges are janitors who mix up a potion that they sell as scotch. They, then, try to fool the proprietor by dressing up as Scotsmen at a party and market it.
Moe broke several ribs and suffered a concussion after falling from the sawed-off table at the beginning of the short.
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HOI POLLOI (8/29/1935)
Production Number 207
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-John Rawlins
Cast
Gail Arnold
Gino Corrado
Phyllis Crane
Harriett DeBussman
Mary Dees
Celeste Edwards
George B. French
Grace Goodall
Robert Graves
Harry Holman
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Billy Mann
Kathryn McHugh
Robert McKenzie
Betty McMahon
Geneva Mitchell
James C. Morton
Blanche Payson
Arthur Rankin
Don Roberts
Poppy Wilde
The Stooges are garbage men who take part in a bet with two professors who want to turn them into gentlemen. Their transformation to be unveiled at a swanky party.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) as HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947) and again with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as PIES AND GUYS (1958).
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THREE LITTLE BEERS (11/28/1935)
Production Number 210
Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Bud Jamison
Nanette Crawford
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
George Gray
Althea Hanley
William Irving
Jack Kenny
Eddie Laughton
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
George Magrill
Frank Mills
Eve Reynolds
Harry Semels
Frank Terry
Arthur Thalasso
John Tyrell
Larry Wheat
The Stooges are deliverymen for a brewing company who take part in a golfing tournament. After destroying the grounds, they are chased back to their delivery truck (chock full of beer barrels) and flee the course. Moments later, the barrels break loose from the truck and wreak havoc in the city.
Filmed at the Rancho Golf Course on Pico Blvd in Beverly Hills, CA (which was near the 20th Century Fox studios (the watertower from Fox can be seen in the background as the Stooges flee the golf course towards the end of the short).
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ANTS IN THE PANTRY (2/6/1936)
Production Number 218
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Clara Kimball Young
Harrison Greene
Bud Jamison
Isabelle LaMal
Versey O'Davoren
Douglas Gerrard
Anne O'Neal
James C Morton
Bobby Burns
Lynton Brent
Al Thompson
The Stooges are pest exterminators who are instructed to start stirring up some new business. Their plan of attack is to plant mice, ants and moths at a swanky mansion and when the owner cries for help, the boys will swoop in and save the day...which backfires.
The working title for this short was PARDON MY ANT
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MOVIE MANIACS (2/20/1936)
Production Number 213
Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Mildred Harris
Kenneth Harlan
Bud Jamison
Harry Semels
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Charles Dorety
Althea Hanley
Jack Kenny
Eddie Laughton
Lois Lindsay
Antrim Short
Harry Tenbrook
Hilda Title
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
The Stooges are stowaways on a train bound for Hollywood. When they arrive, they try to break into the movie business by sneaking into a studio. Things are further complicated when the trio is mistaken as the new management team from the East Coast.
The original working title was G-A-G MEN.
One of the first shorts to be edited by Screen Gems as the Stooge comedies began their rotation in television syndication.
A deleted, alternate ending had the Stooges burning the studio down.
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HALF SHOT SHOOTERS (4/30/1936)
Production Number 225
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Vernon Dent
Lynton Brent
Charles "Heinie" Conklin
Lew Davis
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Edward LeSaint
Harry Semels
Bert Young
With WW1 over, the Stooges leave the army by paying back their nasty Sergeant MacGillicuddy (Stanley Blystone) with the same style of sadistic abuse he caused them while they served. Now, years later and unemployed, they mistakenly re-enlist and are welcomed back with open arms by their old "friend", Sergeant MacGillicuddy.
This short, along with HOI POLLOI, was blocked from being shown in Holland by their board of censorship.
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DISORDER IN THE COURT (5/30/1936)
Production Number 217
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Nick Baskovitch
Alice Belcher
Hank Bell
Dan Brady
Louise Carver
Billy Franey
Sol Horowitz
Bud Jamison
Tiny Jones
Suzanne Kaaren
Eddie Laughton
Edward LeSaint
Hank Mann
James C. Morton
Ed Mull
William J. O’Brien
Harry Semels
Arthur Thalasso
Al Thompson
With Kirk Robbin dead and dancer Gail Tempest (Suzanne Karaan) accused of his murder, the Stooges are called as star witnesses during the trial.
This is one of the most well-known of the Stooge comedies due to the fact that it (along with 3 titles from the Shemp years) fell into the Public Domain, allowing every mom and pop video distributor to dupe the titles for home video release.
The original working title was DISORDER IN THE COURTROOM.
Jury member Sol Horowitz is the father of Moe, Curly and Shemp Howard.
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A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (6/27/1936)
Production Number 223
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Preston Black
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast.
Loretta Andrews,
Gail Arnold,
Bobby Burns,
Phyllis Crane,
Jesse DeVorska,
Mary Lou Dix,
Bud Jamison,
Eddie Laughton,
Ethelreda Leopold,
James C. Morton,
Anne O’Neal,
Hilda Title,
Ray Turner.
The Stooges are small-time actors who, along with their pet monkey, disrupt passengers on a train.
A remake of the 1932 Hal Roach short SHOW BUSINESS starring Thelma Todd, Zazu Pitts and Monte Collins (Directed by Jules White).
Remade with Gus Schilling and Richard Lane as TRAINING FOR TROUBLE (1947).
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FALSE ALARMS (8/16/1936)
Production Number 224
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-John Grey
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Stanley Blystone
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
John Grey
Eddie Laughton
Charles Phillips
Bert Young
Firemen Moe and Larry borrow Chief Stanley Blystone's new car when Curly, who is at a party with his girlfriend and her two friends, sets off the fire alarm (instead of using a telephone) to invite the boys over. Knowing that the fire department is en route to the alarm call, and not wanting to get caught, the boys (and their dates) take the Chief's new car out for a joyride with disastrous results.
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WHOOPS, I’M AN INDIAN! (9/11/1936)
Production Number 226
Associate Producer-Jules White
D-Del Lord
Story-Searle Kramer and Herman Boxer
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Lew Davis
Al Ferguson
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Sam Lufkin
Robert McKenzie
Al Thompson
Hilda Title
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges are crooked gamblers who dress up as Indians to avoid the law and a hulking Indian hunter named Pierre (Bud Jamison), who vows to kill all Indians after finding out that his wife has run off with Chief Moulting Eagle...but weakens and falls for Curly (who is dressed as a female Indian).
The original working title was FRONTIER DAZE.
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SLIPPERY SILKS (12/27/1936)
Production Number 221
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-William Lyon
Cast
Loretta Andrews
Gail Arnold
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Beatrice Curtis
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Mary Lou Dix
June Gittleson
William Irving
Eddie Laughton
Caryl Lincoln
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Getrude Messinger
Blanche Payson
Charles Phillips
Aileen Ransom
Harry Tenbrook
Martha Tibbetts
Hilda Title
Ellinor Vanderveer
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Robert Williams
Bert Young
After they destroy a priceless Ming Dynasty vase, the Stooges learn they've inherited their late uncle’s dress shop. They immediately go into business by staging a fashion show that ends with a cream puff throwing free-for-all.
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GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS (1/13/1937)
Productin Number 259
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story-Searle Kramer and Herman Boxer
Screenply-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Chuck Callahan
Tony Chavex
Casey Colombo
Budd Fine
Harrison Greene
William Irving
Sam Lufkin
Cy Schindell
Herb Stagman
Everett Sullivan
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
Harry Wilson
Vagrants Moe, Larry and Curly become trainers to a wrestler named Bustoff (Harrison Greene) who (on their watch) gets drunk the night before the big bout. The match-day arrives and the Stooges have to keep Bustoff's hangover a secret from his manager, Tony (Casey Columbo), who has just wagered a large bankroll on the match. Things get worse when Curly and Larry accidentally drops dumbells on Bustoff's head, rendering him completely unconscious and not able to wrestle. Moe decides that Curly (who naturally resembles Bustoff) to take his place in the ring.
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DIZZY DOCTORS (3/19/1937)
Production Number 263
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story-Charles Melson
Screenplay-Al Ray
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast.
Earle D. Bunn
Bobby Burns
Chuck Callahan
Louise Carver
Casey Colombo
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
George Gray
A.R. Haysel
Sol Horowitz
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Ione Leslie
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Wildfred Lucas
Sam Lufkin
Betty MacMahon
Ella McKenzie
Robert McKenzie
Gertrude Messinger
Frank Mills
James C. Morton
Horace Murphy
Eva Murray
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Harley Wood
Bert Young
The Stooges become salesman for Brighto Medicine, but they don't quite realize it's a medicine...they believe it to be a polish...and in the process ruin a new pain job on a car. Once they realize it's a medicine, they make their first stop to make a sales pitch at a local hospital.
Some of Vernon Dent's dialogue was re-dubbed by Jules White during the chase scene at the hospital.
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3 DUMB CLUCKS (4/17/1937)
Production Number 266
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Andre Bartatier
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Frank Austin
Lynton Brent
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
Eddie Laughton
Lucille Lund
Frank Mills
Cy Schindell
Harry Tenbrook
Al Thompson
Elaine Waters
The Stooges escape from jail to save their Pa from gangsters and a gold-digging blonde. Curly is a dead-ringer for his father, so the boys decide to put him in their Pa's place at the wedding.
Curly Howard plays dual roles in this film.
It was during the last day of production on this short that Curly fell down an elevator shaft and severely cut his head.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as UP IN DAISY’S PENTHOUSE (1953).
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BACK TO THE WOODS (5/14/1937)
Production Number 268
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Preston Black
Story-Searle Kramer
Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Beatrice Curtis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Budd Fine
Bud Jamison
Ethelreda Leopold
Ted Lorch
Cy Schindell
Blackie Whiteford
Harley Wood
Bert Young
The Stooges are English prisoners who are sent to America to defend their colonies from Indians. When Larry is kidnapped by the savages, Moe and Curly must devise a plan of rescue.
The ending is stock footage from WHOOPS, I'M AN INDIAN (1936).
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GOOFS AND SADDLES (7/2/1937)
Production Number 274
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Hank Bell
Stanley Blystone
Bob Burns
Jack Cooper
Lew Davis
George Gray
Ethan Laidlaw
Eddie Laughton
Ethelreda Leopold
Ted Lorch
Sam Lufkin
Hank Mann
Joe Palma
Eve Reynolds
Cy Schindell
Tiny Ward
Elaine Waters
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges are spies who are assigned to catch some cattle rustlers, lead by the ruthless Longhorn Pete (Stanley Blystone). Disguised as gamblers, the boys get into a game of poker with Pete, who sees through their cheating ways and chases them...Pete and his men on horseback, the Stooges in a Medicine Show covered wagon.
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CASH AND CARRY (9/3/1937)
Production Number 400
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story-Clyde Bruckman
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Sonny Bupp
Nick Copeland
Lew Davis
Lester Dorr
John Ince
Eddie Laughton
Stanley Mack
Al Richardson
Cy Schindell
Harley Wood
The Stooges try to raise money for a crippled boy’s operation and buy a treasure map from two con men.
The original working title was GOLD-DIGGING IN THE TREASURY.
Remade with Andy Clyde and Charles Rogers as A MINER AFFAIR (1945) and reworked again with Clyde and Rogers as TWO APRIL FOOLS (1954).
In 1958, Screen Gems used a slightly edited version of this short as the pilot film to help sell the Stooge comedies into television syndication. Many stations did not return the print (which had a specially made title sequence) and it remained in the rotation of shorts for many years...turning up on WTBS as late as 1984.
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PLAYING THE PONIES (10/15/1937)
Production Number 401
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Charles Lamont
Story-Will Harr and Irving Frisch
Screenplay-Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman and Charles Melson
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Charles Hochberg.
Cast
Billy Bletcher
Nick Copeland
Lew Davis
Charles Dorety
William Irving
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Sam Lufkin
Charles Phillips
The Stooges are restaurant owners who buy a horse from two con men and then train it for an upcoming race. They hit gold when they discover that the horse runs a lot faster when given chili pepperinos (which were mistaken for peanuts).
Filmed at the Providencia Ranch, which today is the site of Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills.
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THE SITTER DOWNERS (11/26/1937)
Production Number 402
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Charles Dorety
June Gittleson
Marcia Healy
Jack Hill
Jack Long
Betty Mack
Robert McKenzie
James C. Morton
Charles Phillips
Bert Young
The Stooges stage a sitdown strike when their sweethearts father refuses to let his girls marry them. The sitdown strike gains national attention, and the Stooges receive several complimentary gifts from companies. One gift is a house on a lot. The girls father agrees to let the boys marry them, and when they arrive at their new home, they find that the lot and a pre-fabricated home await, but the house has to be assembled. The girls stage a strike of their own vowing "No House-No Honeymoon". The Stooges then attempt to build the house with disastrous results.
Curly’s wife in the film is played by Marcia Healy, sister of their late boss Ted Healy.
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TERMITES OF 1938 (1/7/1938)
Production Number 416
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Andre Barlatier
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Bess Flowers
Dorothy Granger
Bud Jamison
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Lew Davis
Richard Fiske
John Ince
Delos Jewkes
Etta McDaniel
The Stooges are exterminators who are mistakenly hired as male escorts for a socialite’s dinner party.
Remade with Shemp Howard and Tom Kennedy as SOCIETY MUGS (1946).
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WEE WEE MONSIEUR (2/18/1938)
Production Number 404
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Andre Barlatier
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Vernon Dent
William Irving
Bud Jamison
John Lester Johnson
Ethelreda Leopold
Harry Semels
Leo White
The Stooges are starving artists in Paris who mistakenly join the Foreign Legion. When their general is kidnapped, the boys don disguises of Santa Claus to rescue him.
The original working titles were THE FOREIGN LEGIONEERS and WE WE MONSIEUR.
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TASSELS IN THE AIR (4/1/1938)
Production Number 420
Associate Producers-Hugh McCollum and Charley Chase
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G Siegler
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Symona Boniface
Vernon Dent
Bess Flowers
Bud Jamison
Victor Travers
Leo White
Moe is mistaken for a famous interior decorator, and Curly and Larry his assistants, by Mrs. Smirch (Bess Flowers). They are invited to redecorate her house, and do so during one of Mrs. Smirch's bridge games.
Director Chase's first short with the Stooges. Chase was also appearing in his own series of two-reel comedies for Columbia.
This was a partial remake of Chase's own 1933 Hal Roach short LUNCHEON AT TWELVE.
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FLAT FOOT STOOGES (5/13/1938)
Production Number 439
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Charley Chase
Director-Charley Chase
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Art Seid
Cast
Chester Conklin
Dick Curtis
Lola Jensen
Charles “Heinie” Conklin
Kerman Cripps
Harry Myers
Al Thompson
The Stooges are firemen who try to save the firehouse from a crooked salesman.
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HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB (5/20/1938)
Production Number 422
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Allen G Siegler
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Bobby Burns
Jean Carmen
Earlene Heath
Bud Jamison
Lucille Lund
James C. Morton
Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest, so the Stooges move to the high life by checking into a fancy hotel. There, they meet 3 golddiggers and their pet monkey.
The original working title was CUCKOO OVER CONTESTS.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as A MISSED FORTUNE (1952).
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VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY (7/2/1938)
Production Number 423
Associate Producer-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Dick Curtis
Marjorie Deanne
Eddie Featherston
Gladys Gale
Pat Gleason
Bud Jamison
Vesey O’Davoren
Al Thompson
The Stooges are gas station attendants who are mistaken for professors.
The song the Stooges sing, known in the film as SWINGING THE ALPHABET was originally composed by Septimus Winner and published in 1875 as THE SPELLING BEE. It was director Charley Chase who brought the song into this film, with a few tweaks. His maid had known the song and had taught the Chase children how to sing it.
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THREE MISSING LINKS (7/29/1938)
Production Number 426
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Charles Nelson.
Cast
Monte Collins
Jane Hamilton
Ray Corrigan
John Lester Johnson
James C. Morton
The Stooges are janitors at a movie studio who get their big break as Curly is cast as a gorilla, with Moe and Larry as his assistants. Before long, they are on location in Africa.
This was Jules White's first Three Stooges short as director.
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MUTTS TO YOU (10/14/1938)
Production Number 427
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story and Screenplay-Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Art Seid
Cast
Bess Flowers
Lane Chandler
Vernon Dent
Bud Jamison
Cy Schindell
The Stooges are dog washers who take in a baby they think was abandoned. Before long, the boys find themselves caught up in a kidnapping investigation.
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THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS (1/6/1939)
Production Number 419
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Phyllis Barry
Harry Semels
Lane Chandler
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Ned Glass
John Ince
Bud Jamison
James C. Morton
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Elaine Waters
Bert Young
The Stooges are tailors who are tricked into stealing a submarine by spies.
The original working titles were SUBMARINE BEHAVE and THREE GOOFY GOBS.
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WE WANT OUR MUMMY (2/24/1939)
Production Number 443
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen Seigler
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline, Ben Oakland and William Grant Still
Cast
Dick Curtis
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Ted Lorch
James C. Morton
John Tyrell
The Stooges are detectives who go to Egypt to locate a missing mummy.
One of two shorts that was edited down to approx. 9 minutes by Columbia Pictures that featured sound for the 8mm home-movie market in the 1960's. Film historian and author Ted Okuda recalled a time when WGN Television in Chicago once broadcast this 9 minute version.
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A DUCKING THEY DID GO (4/7/1939)
Production Number 444
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Lynton Brent
Chuck Callahan
Lane Chandler
Vernon Dent,
Jack Gardner
Jack Hill
William Irving
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Sam Lufkin
John Rand
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
The Stooges sell memberships for a duck club, unaware it is nothing but a scam. Before long, they have recruited the police chief, whom they take along on the phony duck hunt.
The original working title was NEVER DUCK A DUCK.
Shooting Schedule: 11/15/1938-11/18/1938.
Stock footage ending from A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN (6/27/1936).
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YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA (5/19/1939)
Production Number 438
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
Dick Curtis
Lynton Brent
Chuck Callahan
Jean Carmen
Vernon Dent
Lola Jensen
Suzanne Kaaren
Victor Travers
The Stooges are saloon workers who go out prospecting for gold.
The original working title was YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZAS. Shooting Schedule: 11/28/1938-12/1/1938. Complete short also reissued as part of THE THREE STOOGES FOLLIES (1974).
Reworked with Andy Clyde as GOLD IS WHERE YOU LOSE IT (1944) and PLEASURE TREASURE (1951).
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SAVED BY THE BELLE (6/30/1939)
Production Number 430
Associate Producers-Charley Chase and Hugh McCollum
Director-Charley Chase
Story-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Screenplay-Charley Chase
Photography-Allen Siegler
Editor-Art Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
LeRoy Mason
Carmen Laroux
Gino Corrado
Vernon Dent
Manuel Paris
Al Thompson
The Stooges are salesmen in the tropical Valeska, where they are accused of being spies with the intent of causing an uprising against the island's president.
Shooting Schedule: 12/12/1938-12/15/1938
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CALLING ALL CURS (8/25/1939)
Production Number 445
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story-Thea Goodan
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer
Photography-No Photographer Credited
Editor-Charles Nelson
Stock Music (Uncredited) Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland.
Cast
Beatrice Blinn
Lynton Brent
Beatrice Curtis
Isabel LaMal,
Ethelreda Leopold
Dorothy Moore
Robin Raymond
Cy Schindell
Libby Taylor
The Stooges are veterinarians who search for a prized poodle taken by dognappers.
The original working titles were CALL A DOCTOR and DOG HOSPITAL.
Shooting Schedule: 12/27/1938-12/30/1938
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OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (10/6/1939)
Production Number 449
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison and Mauri Grashin
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Linda Winters
Dorothy Moore
James Craig
Dick Curtis
Richard Fiske
Lorna Gray
Eddie Laughton
Eva McKenzie
Victor Travers
While eating lunch at a kindly woman’s house, the Stooges strike oil on her property...only to find out the woman had just sold her property to con men for $10 an acre.
Shooting Schedule: 3/16/1939-3/18-1939. An additional day of shooting commenced on 3/20/1939.
Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as OIL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (12/4/1958).
Linda Winters would go on to change her name to Dorothy Comingore. Her most prestigious role under this new name was appearing as one of the wives of CITIZEN KANE (1941).
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THREE SAPPY PEOPLE (12/1/1939)
Production Number 451
Associate Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Nelson
Cast
Lorna Gray
Don Beddoe
Bud Jamison
Beatrice Blinn
Ann Doran
Richard Fiske
Eddie Laughton
Forbes Murray
Victor Travers
Evelyn Young
The Stooges are telephone repairmen who are called to the offices of the vacationing doctors Ziller, Zeller and Zoller. While working on the office switchboard, they decide to make a few bucks and impersonate the pyschiatrists that an emergency call has come in for, which leads them to the Rumsford mansion.
The working title was THREE SLOPPY PEOPLE.
Shooting Schedule: 4/6/1939- 4/8/1939 with additional shooting on 4/10/1939.
During the cream puff fight, Lorna Gray gets hit square in the mouth, which took her by surprise (as evident on-screen...just look at her eyes). It has been rumored that the had a cream puff lodged into her throat, which required medical attention. Miss Gray has said that the story is exaggerated and that she was never in any distress.
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YOU NAZTY SPY! (1/19/1940)
Production Number 472
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-Harry Davis
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Don Beddoe
Chuck Callahan
Dick Curtis
Florine Dickson
Charles Dorety
Richard Fiske
Ned Glass
Lorna Gray
Eddie Laughton
Joe Murphy
John Rand
Billy Rhodes
Slim Summerville
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Bert Young
A shady group of cabinet members overthrow the King of Moronika and choose Moe to be the dictator, adding Larry and Curly as his assistants.
The working title was OH, YOU NAZTY SPY!
Shooting Schedule: 12/6/1939-12/9/1939.
A personal favorite of Stooges Moe and Larry, as well as director Jules White.
Writer Felix Adler's name is misspelled in the opening credits as "Felix Alder"
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ROCKIN THRU’ THE ROCKIES (3/8/1940)
Production Number 461
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography Henry Freulich
Editor-Arthur Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Ben Oakland
Cast
Linda Winters
Lorna Gray
Dorothy Appleby
Kathryn Sheldon
Dick Curtis
Richard Fiske
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Bert Young
The Stooges are frontier guides who try to protect a minstrel show group from Indians.
The original working title was NELL’S BELLES.
Shooting Schedule: 11/8/1939-11/11/1939
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A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (4/19/1940)
Production Number 462
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Stock Music (Uncredited)-Ben Oakland
Cast
Wilson Benge
Symona Boniface
Neal Burns
Monte Collins
Dudley Dickerson
Bess Flowers
George Gray
Bud Jamison
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Jules White (voice-over only)
The Stooges are vagrants who pretend to be plumbers to avoid police. They soon find themselves inside a mansion, working on the pipes during a swanky party.
Shooting Schedule: 12/13/1939-12/15/1939 with an additional day of shooting on 12/18/1939.
This was reportedly Curly’s favorite short.
A reworking of PLUMBING FOR GOLD (1934) with George Sidney and Charlie Murray.
Reworked with El Brendel and Shemp Howard as PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944).
Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949) and SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956).
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NUTTY BUT NICE (6/1/1940)
Production Number 465
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast
Lynton Brent
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Eddie Garcia
Ned Glass
Kit Guard
Johnny Kascier,
Ethelreda Leopold
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Harry Wilson
Duke York
Bert Young
Evelyn Young
The Stooges are singing waiters who try to rescue a bank teller from kidnappers.
The song I'M A COWBOY FROM THE WESTERN PLAINS was composed by director Jules White. It turns up again in the short FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940)
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HOW HIGH IS UP? (7/26/1940)
Production Number 458
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Allen G. Siegler
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast.
Bruce Bennett
Edmund Cobb
Vernon Dent
Marjorie Kane
Johnny Kascier
George Lloyd
Sam Lufkin
Charles Phillips
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
Duke York
Bert Young
Fleeing a policeman, the Stooges duck into a line where workers are looking for employment. The Stooges are then hired as riveters and their first job is to work atop a 97-story skyscraper that is under construction.
A scene with Chuck Hamilton and Lucille Lund was cut from general release.
Some moments of character breaking come when Larry and Moe laugh when Curly cries out "Don't mind me...DON'T MIND ME!!!"
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FROM NURSE TO WORSE (8/23/1940)
Production Number 468
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story-Charles L. Kimball
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Cast.
Dorothy Appleby
Lynton Brent
Vernon Dent
Dudley Dickerson
Charles Dorety
Ned Glass
Marjorie Kane
Johnny Kascier
Joe Palma
Blanche Payson
Charles Phillips
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
Poppy Wilde
Bert Young
The Stooges accept an insurance policy scheme where Curly pretends to be a dog, causing the medical examiner to operate on him.
Shooting Schedule: 5/15/1940-5/18/1940
The song used, I'M A COWBOY FROM THE WESTERN PLAINS, composed by Jules White, was also heard in NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)
Moe provides the voice of the radio announcer.
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NO CENSUS, NO FEELING (10/4/1940)
Production Number 474
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Harry Edwards
Photography-Lucien Ballard
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Bruce Bennett
Symona Boniface
Max Davidson
Vernon Dent
Frank Mills
Bert Stevens
John Tyrell
Elinor Vanderveer
Evelyn Young
Helen Godwin
Marjorie Kane
On the run from an angry shopkeeper, the Stooges wind up getting jobs as census takers. Looking for more people to census, they hear the roar of a crowd and head to a football game.
Shooting Schedule: 5/25/1940-5/29/1940.
The original working title was NO ANSWER, NO FEELING.
The football scenes were filmed at USC.
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COOKOO CAVALIERS (11/15/1940)
Production Number 455
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Ewart Adamson
Photography-Henry Freulich
Editor-Arthur Seid.
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Lynton Brent
Dorothy DeHaven
Anita Garvin
Bob O’Connor
Blanche Payson
Bianca Vischer
Marjorie Kane
The Stooges are fish salesman who unknowingly buy a salon (thinking it's a saloon) in Mexico.
Shooting Schedule: 6/6/1940-6/10/1940.
The original working title was BEAUTY A LA MUD.
In a moment of real-life Stooge fighting, both Moe and Curly seem to be displaying some true on-screen anger. This happens when the Stooges are applying mud to Rosita's (Dorothy Appleby) face. Moe and Curly begin to argue and start to hit each other with mud, causing Larry to laugh out-of-character.
A gag is set up, but it never pays off...viewers are never treated to see what happens to the dog when it's doused in hair remover.
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BOOBS IN ARMS (12/27/1940)
Production Number 486
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast.
Richard Fiske
Evelyn Young
Lynton Brent
Charles Dorety
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Philip Van Zandt
Blanca Vischer
Bobby Barber
The Stooges are greeting card salesmen who get mixed up with a jealous husband and when they accidentally enlist in the army, they discover their sergeant is the same person.
Shooting Schedule: 8/15/1940-8/20/1940.
The original working title was ALL THIS AND BULLETS TOO.
Supporting player Eddie Laughton appears twice in this short. First as a neighbor in the apartment building and later as a Commanding Officer.
A partial re-working of Laurel and Hardy's THE FIXER UPPERS (1935).
Reworked with Joe Besser as AIM, FIRE, SCOOT! (1952) and ARMY DAZE (1956).
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SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS (2/7/1941)
Production Number 484
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-Barney McGill
Editor-Mel Thorsen
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Bruce Bennett
Lynton Brent
Stanley Brown
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Kit Guard
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Sam Lufkin
Louis Mason
John Tyrell
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
The Stooges are street cleaners who uncover valuable bonds and return them to the owner, they then are hired to find a honest man, but have to go to prison to find him.
Shooting Schedule: 7/25/1940-7/30/1940
A scene with Bud Jamison as a policeman was cut from the final release. Still photos of this scene do however exist.
Bruce Bennett appears as two different characters in the film. First as a truck driver at the beginning and later as the rock pile prison guard.
During the rock pile scene, Larry is placing rocks on Curly's head and Moe swings down a sledge-hammer to bust the rocks. At one point, as Larry places a rock on Curly's head, it appears that an ad-lib by Curly ("Hey!... That's a REAL ONE...I'm no fool!!!") causes both Moe and Larry to break character and smile. This line by Curly was however not ad-libbed, nor was Moe or Larry's stage direction for their reaction. Both appear in the shooting script.
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DUTIFUL BUT DUMB (3/21/1941)
Production Number 485
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Eddie Acuff
Fred Aldrich
Bruce Bennett
Stanley Brown
Edmund Cobb
Chester Conlkin
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Kit Guard
Bud Jamison
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
James C. Morton
Harry Semels
Bianca Vischer
Bert Young
The Stooges are news photographers who go to Vulgaria to take a picture of a ray gun, unaware that cameras are prohibited in said country.
Shooting Schedule: 8/1/1940-8/5/1940.
The film's title is a spoof of the expression "beautiful but dumb".
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ALL THE WORLD’S A STOOGE (5/16/1941)
Production Number 487
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Director-Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-John Grey
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Arthur Seid
Cast
Lelah Tyler
Emory Parnell
Symona Boniface
Stanley Brown
Richard Fiske
Olaf Hytten
Bud Jamison
Ethelreda Leopold
Gwen Seager
John Tyrell
Poppy Wilde
Victor Travers
The Stooges are janitors who are hired to impersonate child refugees for a rich couple.
Shooting Schedule: 8/24/1940-8/28/1940
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I’LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN (7/4/1941)
Production Number 500
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Mary Ainslee
Don Barclay
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Vernon Dent
Ned Glass
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Bert Young
Moe Hailstone and his cronies try to avoid being overthrown from Moronika.
Shooting Schedule: 4/15/1941-4/18-1941
A sequel to YOU NAZTY SPY!
In Moe Howard's biography, MOE HOWARD & THE THREE STOOGES (1977), he tells a tale of how he left the studio in a hurry to get to his daughter Joan's birthday party...still dressed in his Moe Hailstone costume, which meant he looked an awful lot like Adolf Hitler speeding through the streets of Los Angeles, which set off a lot of complaints from civilians who mistook him as the real deal.
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AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (8/22/1941)
Production Number 488
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Lloyd French
Photography-Philip Tannura
Editor-Burton Kramer
Music-Ben Oakland and Morris Stoloff
Cast
Wilson Benge
Symona Boniface
Gino Corrado
Vernon Dent
Bess Flowers
Bud Jamison
Blanche Payson
Larry Steers77777
Victor Travers
Dorothy Vernon
Bert Young
The Stooges are icemen who are hired as cooks for a henpecked husband’s birthday party. TRIVIA: Partially remade with The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe and Shemp) as LISTEN, JUDGE (1952).
Shooting Schedule: 3/26/1941-3/29/1941
The long flight of stairs the Stooges attempt to deliver ice up are located at the end of a steep cul-de-sac at 2257 Fair Oak View Terrace in Los Angeles (The Silverlake District).
Click HERE for a map to the ACHE IN EVERY STAKE stairway.
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IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (10/16/1941)
Production Number 482
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Ewart Adamson
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Dorothy Appleby
Mary Ainslee
Ethelreda Leopold
Symona Boniface
Lynton Brent
Vernon Dent
Richard Fiske
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Bert Young
Joe Twerp
Lou Davis
Johnny Kascier
Jack Hill
George Gray
Al Morino
Geneva Mitchell
Three rich heiresses must get married before midnight to collect their inheritance. With their Navy fiancees shipping out...their lawyer devises a plan to have them marry three convicts who are about to be hanged. Enter Moe, Larry and Curly (the convicts) who are married, but then released when the real killers are caught. And now the women are stuck with their new husbands...
Shooting Schedule: 4/30/1941-5/3/1941
The working title was WELL, I'LL BE HANGED.
Stock footage from the dance lesson in HOI POLLOI (1935) is used.
The final Columbia short (to feature new footage) for actor Richard Fiske. He left acting behind to join the United States Army during World War II, and on August 10, 1944, he was killed in action in France. He was 28.
The dance lesson is stock footage from HOI POLLOI (1935).
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SOME MORE OF SAMOA (12/4/1941)
Production Number 511
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Harry Edwards and Elwood Ullman
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Burton Kramer
Cast
Mary Ainslee
Symona Boniface
Louise Carver
Dudley Dickerson
John Tyrell
Tiny Ward
Duke York
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are called to the estate of an eccentric millionaire to retrieve a mate for his persimmon tree...which leads them to the island of Rhum Boogie. It also puts them on the menu for a tribe of cannibals.
Shooting Schedule: 5/12/1941-5/15/1941
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LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD (1/8/1942)
Production Number 510
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman and Felix Adler
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Music-Oscar Hammerstein, Ben Oakland, Ted Koehler and Johnny Green
Lyrics-Moe Howard
Dorothy Appleby
John Tyrell
Symona Boniface
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Charles Dorety
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
Elinor Vanderveer
Bert Young
Duke York
George Grey
Sam Lufkin
Dorothy Vernon
Jack Cooper
The Stooges try to help an elderly woman turn her rundown hotel around.
Shooting Schedule: 7/29/1941-8/1/1941
Original working title was POOR BUT DISHONEST
Curly makes a suggestion to "Grandma" that she go see a single feature. This was a inside joke to those involved in the production of short-subjects. The popular double-feature theaters were beginning to run was leaving little room for two-reel comedies (and short-subjects in general).
Screenwriter Clyde Bruckman, Producer Jules White and Columbia Pictures were named in a lawsuit by comedian Harold Lloyd for the use of Lloyd's "Magician's Coat" sequence which had originally appeared in Lloyd's MOVIE CRAZY (1932). Bruckman, who worked on MOVIE CRAZY, had lifted the segment word-for-word and placed it into the script for LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD, which was determined when the scripts were compared. Lloyd sought $500,000.00 in damages.
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CACTUS MAKES PERFECT (2/26/1942)
Production Number 513
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Burton Kramer.
Cast
Ernie Adams
Monte Collins
Vernon Dent
Eddie Laughton
The Stooges head out west as prospecters for with the aid of Curly's latest invention, an arrow that seeks out gold.
Shooting Schedule: 8/7/1941-8/11/1941
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WHAT’S THE MATADOR? (4/23/1942)
Production Number 519
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Saul Ward
Photography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-JeromeThoms
Music-Ben Oakland and Gregory Stone
Cast
Suzanne Kaaren
Harry Burns
Dorothy Appleby
Eddie Laughton
Paul Ellis
Joe Garcia
Cy Schindell
John Tyrell
Bert Young
Don Zelaya
Al Thompson
The Stooges go to Mexico to perform their comedy bull-fighting act, with Curly as a matador and Moe and Larry in costume as a bull. Their suitcase gets switched with that of a beautiful woman's. They try to retrieve the suitcase at her home and before long they cross paths with her jealous husband. Later, when the boys are performing their act at a bullfighting stadium, the husband recognizes them and lets loose a real bull, which Curly mistakes as his partners in their bull costume.
Shooting Schedule: 8/14/1941-8/18/1941
The original working title was RUN, BULL, RUN.
Remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS (1959).
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MATRI-PHONY (7/2/1942)
Production Number 527
Directors-Harry Edwards and Del Lord (uncredited)
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Monte Collins and Elwood Ullman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Music-Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland
Cast
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Eddy Chandler
Monte Collins
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
Max Wagner
Bobby Barber
Ethelreda Leopold
Jack Hill
Set in ancient Rome, the Stooges are pottery makers who try to save a redhead from the clutches of Emperor Octopus Grabus (Vernon Dent).
The working title was MATRIMONY.
Shooting Schedule: 3/5/1942-3/25/1942
Due to this short being a troubled production, the exact number of shooting days is unknown. It is estimated that the short was completed in 6 days, over a 3 week period.
Production was plagued by script re-writes, retakes and the scrapping of previously shot material. As a result, Del Lord was called in to direct some of the footage (even though Harry Edwards is the only director credited).
This was the first short to use the faster rendition of the theme THREE BLIND MICE.
Edwards can be heard at the short's end as he shouts to Larry to grab a hold of the guard’s belt.
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THREE SMART SAPS (7/30/1942)
Production Number 542
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Music-Bob Wright and Chet Forrest
Julie Gibson
Julie Duncan
Ruth Skinner
John Tyrell
Bud Jamison
Barbara Slater
Sally Caims
Chuck Callahan
Frank Coleman
Jack Cooper
Lew Davis
Marjorie Deanne
Vernon Dent
Johnny Kascier
Eddie Laughton
Paul McVey
Frank Terry
Victor Travers
Dorothy Vernon
The Stooges are out to free their wrongly imprisoned, soon-to-be father in-law, who was framed by a corrupt warden.
Shooting Schedule: 4/7/1942-4/10/1942
The original working title was FATHER’S IN JAIL AGAIN
Barbara Pepper's name appears on the one-sheet and lobby cards, but she does not appear in the film.
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EVEN AS I.O.U. (9/18/1942)
Production Number 507
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Phtography-L.W. O'Connell
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff and Nico Grigor
Cast
Ruth Skinner
Stanley Blystone
Billy Bletcher (voice only)
Wheaton Chambers
Heinie Conklin
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
Jack Gardner
Bud Jamison
Suzanne Ridgeway
Bert Young
The Stooges are swindled by two con men when they try to help an evicted woman and her daughter by betting on a horse.
Shooting Schedule: 4/18/1942-4/22/1942
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SOCK-A-BYE-BABY (11/13/1942)
Production Number
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Cast
Joyce Gardner
Julie Gibson
Bud Jamison
Clarence Straight
Fred "Snowflake" Toones
The Stooges find a baby on their doorstep, but when the police arrive with the mother, they flee afraid that they'll be mistaken as kidnappers.
Shooting Schedule: 4/28/1942-5/1/1942
The original working title was THEIR FIRST BABY.
A remake of Andy Clyde’s MY LITTLE FELLER (1937).
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THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1/1/1943)
Production Number 533
Direcotr-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Lloyd Bridges
Stanley Brown
Vernon Dent
Dudley Dickerson
Julie Duncan
Dick Jensen
Robert Kellard
Eddie Laughton (voice only)
John Tyrell
Frederick Giermann
Minerva Urecal
Charles Sherlock
The Stooges are repairmen who unknowingly attempt to fix a doorbell at a house filled with German and Japanese spies.
Shooting Schedule: 5/6/1942-5/9/1942
It's been reported that this short was excised from the Screen Gems television package due to it's violent content. That is simply not true. Some television stations may have chosen not to air this short, while others may have edited out the now famous "climbing spike" gag...but this short was indeed part of the original television package, with the above mentioned gag intact.
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DIZZY DETECTIVES (2/5/1943)
Production Number 529
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay-Andrew Bennison (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Photography-George Meehan (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Jerome Thoms
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Lynton Brent
Ray Corrigan
Bud Jamison
Dick Jensen
John Tyrell
Dick Botiller
The Stooges apply as police officers and their assignment is to track down a gorilla trained to rob stores.
Shooting Schedule: 6/29/1942-7/2/1942
The working title was IDIOTS DELUXE
The opening scene with the Stooges as carpenters is lifted from PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935)
Remade with Joe Besser as FRAIDY CAT (1951) and HOOK A CROOK (1955).
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SPOOK LOUDER (4/5/1943)
Production Number 549
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Phtography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Music-Ben Oakland and Milton Drake
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Lew Kelly
Symona Boniface
Stanley Brown
William Kelley
Ted Lorch
Charles Middleton
Shirley Patterson
Helen Servis
Who threw those pies? A professor tells a reporter the tale of how he solved one of the most baffling mysteries ever that involved the Stooges, who are door-to-door salesman when they are mistaken as caretakers to inventor Dr. Grave's house. Dr. Graves has invented a new death ray, and before he leaves for Washington, he entrusts the boys to guard the machine that three spies are out to steal.
Shooting Schedule: 7/17/1942-7/21/1942
A remake of the Mack Sennett comedy THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY (1931), which was also directed by Del Lord.
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BACK FROM THE FRONT (5/28/1943)
Production Number 522
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Ewart Adamson
Phtography-John Stumar
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Neal Burns
Sally Caims
Tom Coleman
Heinie Conklin
Lew Davis
Vernon Dent
George Gray
Bud Jamison
Johnny Kascier
Jack “Tiny” Lipson
Sam Lufkin
Adele Mara
Harry Semels
Ruth Skinner
Al Thompson
The Stooges are sailors who are aboard a ship that is sunk by the Nazis. They eventually make their way aboard the Nazi war ship, and disguise themselves as Hitler, Goering and Gobbels to fool the ships officers.
Shooting Schedule: 7/24/1942-7/28/1942
The working title was A SAILOR'S MESS.
The original 1941 pre-war script was very different from the final filmed version. It was actually rejected by the Columbia front office as being offensive to the United States Navy.
Behind the scenes 16mm footage, in color, was discovered in early 2007. The footage captured shows, from a different angle, the Stooges fighting the Nazis on the ship's deck. Other behind-the-scenes footage features The Stooges, Jules White, Vernon Dent and Bud Jamison.
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THREE LITTLE TWIRPS (7/9/1943)
Production Number 551
Director-Harry Edwards
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Monte Collins and Elwood Ullman
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Carl Anderson
Music-Ben Oakland, Howard Jackson, R.H. Bassett and Raphael Penso
Cast
Stanley Blystone
Duke York
Al Thompson
Bud Jamison
Hank Bell
Chester Conklin
Blackie Whiteford
Heinie Conklin
The Stooges are paid off with circus tickets instead of cash after hanging posters. Later, at the circus, they are caught scalping tickets. Instead of being arrested, the circus owner offers them jobs...as the targets for the Mad Sultun of Abbadabba, a spear thrower.
Shooting Schedule: 8/3/1942-8/7/1942
This was the second and final Three Stooges short to be directed by Harry Edwards, whose on set issues and unreliability as a director was brought on by alcoholism.
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HIGHER THAN A KITE (7/30/1943)
Production Number 568
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Hugh McCollum and Del Lord
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Dick Curtis
Vernon Dent
Johnny Kascier
Duke York
George Gray
The Stooges, wanting to fly, join the RAF where they are repositioned as mechanics. After ruining a Colonel's automobile, they hide inside a sewer pipe, which turns out to be a bomb which is being loaded onto a plane. The bomb is dropped behind enemy lines, and Moe and Curly disguise themselves as German Officers, while Larry disguises himself as a "seductive" senorita. When Marshal Boring falls for Larry in drag, the Stooges use this as a distraction to steal the enemy war plans.
Shooting Schedule: 2/20/1943-2/25/1943
This is one of the few times in a Columbia short that supporting player Duke York is not made up as a monster.
Watch Curly when Larry says the line "Maybe they're droppin' the pipe in the ditch"....he is mouthing Larry's line.
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I CAN HARDLY WAIT (8/13/1943)
Production Number 570
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White4
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Lew Davis,
Bud Jamison,
Adele Mara,
Al Thompson.
Moe and Larry try to help a restless Curly by extracting a bad tooth of his so they can all get some sleep.
Shooting Schedule: 3/15/1943-3/18/1943
The original working title was NOTHING BUT THE TOOTH.
Watch Moe during the scene where Curlys says "My poor little, sweet little, adorable, loveable, sweet little, bushy-wushy tooth!" as he's about to laugh out of character. He quickly covers up his mouth with his hand to prevent this.
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DIZZY PILOTS (9/24/1943)
Production Number
Director-Jules White.
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Photography-John Stumar (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Charles Dorety
Richard Fiske
Harry Semels
Al Thompson
Bobby Barber
The Stooges are pilots who try to build a revolutionary airplane for government use...and if it tests unsuccessful, it's off to the Army for them.
Shooting Schedule: 4/6/1943-4/9/1943
The working title was PEST PILOTS
Acresses Judy Malcolm and Sethma Williams appear in lobby cards, the one-sheet and publicity photos, but are nowhere in the film. Jules White's copy of the shooting script does not offer any clues as to their parts in the film. It is assumed that whatever their roles, those scenes were deleted from the final film.
Stock footage from BOOBS IN ARMS (1940) is used to wrap up the storyline. It is assumed that this was done to save money during the war.
This short is sometimes named as actor Richard Fiske's final appearance in a Columbia short. Technically, his final appearance was IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE (1940), as he only appears here via stock footage.
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PHONY EXPRESS (11/18/1943)
Production Number 569
Director-Del Lord
Producers-Del Lord and Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman and Monte Collins
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Direction-Victor Greene
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Shirley Patterson
Bud Jamison
Ernie Adams
Sally Cleaves
Chester Conklin
Tex Cooper
Joel Friedkin
Herman Mack
John Merton
Joe Palma
Snub Pollard
Gwen Seager
Victor Travers
Blackie Whiteford
Bert Young
Bennie Pitti
George Morrell
The Stooges are mistaken as three famous marshalls coming to clean up a Western town...they soon find themselves guarding the bank...but when the bank is robbed anyways, it's up to them to get back the gold.
Shooting Schedule: 3/27/1943-3/31/1943
Partially remade with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Shemp) as MERRY MAVERICKS (1951).
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A GEM OF A JAM (12/30/1943)
Production Number 525
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-John Stumar
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Victor Greene
Cast
Dudley Dickerson
Al Hill
Fred Kelsey
Frank O’Connor
Al Thompson
John Tyrell
The Stooges are janitors who are mistaken for doctors by a group of bank robbers, one of whom has a gunshot wound. The wounded man accidentally falls out of the window and lands in a police car. The Stooges think they can make a break for it, but find themselves being chased after by the remaining bank robbers, as well as the police (who mistake the Stooges as the bank robbers).
Shooting Schedule: 6/12/1943-6/16/1943
This was the first Three Stooges short to feature the "Swing" version of their theme, 3 BLIND MICE. It is heard during the end titles.
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CRASH GOES THE HASH (2/4/1944)
Production Number 4010
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Original Story-Al Giebler, Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman
Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Dick Curtis
Bud Jamison
Vernon Dent
Beatrice Blinn
Symona Boniface
Elise Grover
Mae E. Johnson
Johnny Kascier
Judy Malcolm
Wally Rose
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Jay Eaton
Ida Mae Johnson
Harold Miller
The Stooges are mistaken for reporters and are hired to do a story on a visiting Prince who has intentions of marrying Mrs. Van Bustle, a wealthy socialite. To gain access into Van Bustle's extravagant dinner party, the boys disguise themselves as cook (Moe) and servants (Larry and Curly). Their attempts to secure a photo of the Prince and Mrs. Van Bustle together are fruitless...and when they destroy the dinner party, they are fired...but one final attempt at getting the story exposes a scam by the Prince and his cohort who are really out to rob the Van Bustle home.
Shooting Schedule: 10/11/1944-10/13/1944
CRASH GOES THE HASH marks the final appearance of Bud Jamison in a Stooges comedy. He passed away in September of 1944.
A remake of Collin and Kennedy’s NEW NEWS (1937).
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BUSY BUDDIES (3/18/1944)
Production Number 4001
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord and Elwood Ullman
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Eddie Gribbon
Johnny Kascier
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
The Stooges are restaurant owners in search of a way to pay off some of their business debts. When they take the job as poster hangers, they realize the posters they are putting up are adversments for the fair's cow milking contest, which offers a cash prize. Curly is nominated to be the contestant. After an unsuccessful practice attemp at milking a BULL, followed by a disasterous first round in the actual contest, Larry and Moe resort to cheating by dressing up in a fake cow costume for Curly to milk .
Shooting Schedule: 11/01/1943-11/05/1943
During the coughing-up-feathers bit, before Curly actually coughs any feathers up, there is evidence that there was either a rehearsal or previous take...as some feathers ae already floating around.
When the dummy of Curly is thrown over the fence for the first time, a crew member's hand is scene as the dummy is tossed.
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THE YOKE’S ON ME (5/26/1944)
Production Number 571
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Emmett Lynn
Eva McKenzie
Robert McKenzie
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
Judy Malcom (Scenes Deleted)
After being rejected by the Army, the Stooges are forced to work on a farm and eventually protect it from the threat of some men who escaped from a Japanese relocation camp.
Shooting Schedule: 11/8/1943-11/12/1943
The original working title was FOWLED BY A FOWL.
It is often mistaken by viewers of this short that the Japanese portrayed are POW's...they are not. In the 1942, the US Government wrongly mislabled as many as 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent as a security risk and moved them to safety centers (aka prison camps). In late 1944, these camps were disbanded, to which many of those sent to these camps returned too find that they no longer had homes (after the US Government assured them that their properties would be protected in a trust), thus destroying the established livlihoods of many who were natural-born citizens of the United States for decades. You can read more about these Japanese-American Relocation Camps HERE .
For this sensitive underlying plot, some television stations pulled the film from their rotation. Listen for Emmett Lynn to mumble the word "Bastard" uring the scene where the Stooges trade their car to the farmer for his run-down farm. It's the last thing he says (under his breath) as he attempts to start the car.
Curly Howard's appearance in this short offers viewers some hints of the beginning stages to his declining health.
The six actors portraying the relocated escapees remain unidentified.
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IDLE ROOMERS (7/15/1944)
Production Number 4013
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord and Elwood Ullman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Wolf Man Make Up-Clay Campbell
Music-Ben Oakland, Howard Jackson and Raphael Penso
Cast
Duke York
Christine McIntyre
Vernon Dent
Joanne Frank
Esther Howard
Eddie Laughton
Mr. and Mrs. Leander, a showbiz couple, are staying at a fancy hotel the Stooges just happen to be bellboys at. When the boys enter the Leander's room to do some straightening up. Unbeknownst to them, Mr. Leander's latest discovery and carnival attraction, Lupe, the Wolf Man, is also in the room with them. Lupe is a relatively calm beast, that is until he hears music...then he goes insane...
Shooting Schedule: 11/17/1943-11/20/1943
IMDB lists this short as having premiered in Portugal on October 25, 1943...a full month before the film even started shooting.
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GENTS WITHOUT CENTS (9/22/1944)
Production Number 4020
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules Whiter
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Phtography-Benjamin Cline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Raphael Penso, Howard Jackson, Gene de Paul, Don Raye, Nico Grigor, Lyle "Spud" Murphy, R.H. Bassett,
John Leipold, Ben Oakland and Leigh Harline
Lyrics-Felix Adler
Cast
Lindsay Bourquin
Laverne Thompson
Betty Phares
Eddie Borden
Lynton Brent
Bobby Burns
Lew Davis
Judy Malcolm
John Tyrell
Victor Travers
The Stooges are small-time actors who are attempting to perfect their "Niagara Falls" sketch, only to mess up every time they reach the point in the sketch where the lines "inch by inch" are said. After they meet three beautiful dancers, they set out in search of a job, which lands them a gig performing at a shipyard. With the girls dance routine and the boys rendition of "Niagara Falls" (or "Slowly I Turned" as it is sometimes called) proving to be a success, they marry the dancers...and decide to honeymoon at Niagara Falls.
Shooting Schedule: 6/14/1944-6/16/1944
The "Niagara Falls" sketch was filmed on April 18, 1943, as it was originally intended for use in the Columbia feature GOOD LUCK, MR. YATES. When the sketch was cut from the feature, Jules White had a storyline crafted around it .
The original script does NOT contain the Niagara Falls sketch. It does contain a sketch called The Army Induction. That sketch was swapped out to put Niagara Falls in it's place. The Army Induction sketch does turn up later in the short RHYTHM AND WEEP.
The original working title was TENDERIZED HAMS.
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NO DOUGH BOYS (11/24/1944)
Production Number 564
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George Meehan
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Christine McIntyre
Kelly Flint
Judy Malcolm
Brian O’Hara
John Tyrell
The Stooges are magazine models dressed as Japanese soldiers. When they break for lunch, in costume, they start a panic and flee to a house filled with Axis sympathizers. The Nazi ring leader, thinks the Stooges are the three Japanese soldiers who survived a recent Jap submarine attack, so the boys play along in attempts to thwart the Nazi plans...that is until the three real Japanese soldiers turn up.
Shooting Schedule: 4/25/1944-4/28/1944
The original working title was THE NEW WORLD ODOR.
The actors portraying the Japanese soldiers remain unidentified.
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THREE PESTS IN A MESS (1/19/1945)
Production Number 4022
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Brian O’Hara
Vernon Dent
Heinie Conklin
Paul Kruger
Snub Pollard
Victor Travers
Robert Williams
Johnny Kascier
The Stooges are inventors who shoot a mannequin and when they think they killed a real man, they set out to bury it.
Shooting Schedule: 6/22/1944-6/26/1944
A partial reworking of the 1933 Paramount two-reel comedy SAILOR'S BEWARE with Walter Catlett and Eugene Pallete, as well as the Hal Roach short WRECKETY WRECKS with The Taxi Boys. Later remade at Columbia with El Brendel and Tom Kennedy as READY, WILLLING, BUT UNABLE (1941). All three variations of this storyline were directed by Del Lord.
This was the final short in which Curly cries out his famous "Woo Woo Woo". It was dubbed in as the film fades out.
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BOOBY DUPES (3/17/1945)
Production Number 4006
Director-Del Lord
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Del Lord
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Walter Samuels
Cast
Rebel Randall
Vernon Dent
Geene Courtney
Lola Gogan
Wanda Perry
Snub Pollard
John Tyrell
Dorothy Vernon
The Stooges are fish salesman who decide to catch their own fish to save money.
Shooting Schedule: 9/27/1944-9/30/1944
A partial reworking of the 1932 Laurel and Hardy short TOWED IN A HOLE.
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IDIOTS DELUXE (7/20/1945)
Production Number 4030
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Hilyard Brown
Music-Mischa K Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Vernon Dent
Paul Kruger
Al Thompson
Johnny Kascier
Gwen Seager (Scenes Deleted)
Moe is suffering a nervous breakdown and in need of peace and quiet; Larry and Curly decide to take him on a hunting trip where the trio encounter a bear.
Shooting Schedule: 10/5/1944-10/9/1944
The original working title was THE MALADY LINGERS ON
A reworking of Collins and Kennedy’s OH, MY NERVES! (1935). Reworked with The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Joe Besser) as GUNS A POPPIN! (1957).
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IF A BODY MEETS A BODY (8/30/1945)
Production Number
Direcotr-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Gilbert Pratt
Screenplay-Jack White
Photography-Benjamin Kline
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-John Leipold and Nico Grigor
Cast
Ted Lorch
Fred Kelsey
Judy Malcolm
Joe Palma
Al Thompson
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Dorothy Vernon
Al Rosen
Dell Henderson
Curly learns he is the heir of his deceased uncle, so the Stooges go to a spooky mansion to collect it.
Shooting Schedule: 3/9/1945-3/13/1945
The original working title was NEARLY IN THE DOUGH
This is a remake of the 1930 Hal Roach short THE LAUREL AND HARDY MURDER CASE. Two of the original cast members of the Laurel and Hardy film, Dell Henderson and Fred Kelsey, appear in this version, with Kelsey reprising the exact same role from 15 years earlier.
The opening titles debut a slower "Three Blind Mice" theme, arranged by John Leipold and Nico Grigor. This theme would be heard into the Shemp era until 1948.
This marks the first in the series of what fans have dubbed the "ill Curly" period. The final handful of shorts in which he appears as his health issues begin to stand out. His timing is off, his skin appears pale, and his voice is deeper.
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MICRO-PHONIES (11/15/1945)
Production Number 4044
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-Glen Gano
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Symona Boniface
Gino Corrado
Lynton Brent
Chester Conklin
Heinie Conklin
Sam Flint
Bess Flowers
Fred Kelsey
Ted Lorch
Judy Malcolm
Frank Mayo
John Tyrell
The Stooges are workers at a radio station who are mistaken for opera singers. They are hired to perform at a party later that night, where they are called out as fakes by famous opera star Signor Spumoni.
Shooting Schedule: 6/4/1945-6/7/1945
This short was writer/director Ed Bernds debut with the Stooges, but that is based solely on release date. Bernds had written and directed both A BIRD IN THE HEAD and THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS before MICROPHONIES. Due to Curly's illness and lack of performance in those shorts, Bernds was able to convince Hugh McCollum and Jules White into pushing MICROPHONIES up in release. Curly's performance is top notch and this short remains one of the best-loved from any dates in the Curly era, and as a result of moving the short into a quicker release, it gave Bernds an outstanding debut as both writer and director with the Stooges.
During the scene where Curly is lip synching to VOICES OF SPRING, Moe and Larry look at each other and begin to crack up.
Posters and even the title lobby card erroneously list Harry Edwards as the writer and director of this short.
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BEER BARREL POLECATS (1/10/1946)
Production Number 4045
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Gilbert Pratt
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-George F Kelley
Photography-George Meehan (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Photography-Barney McGill (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Editor-Jerome Thoms (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Editor-Mel Thorsen (Stock Footage; Uncredited)
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Robert Williams
Vernon Dent
Bruce Bennett
Lynton Brent
Eddie Laughton
Joe Palma
Al Thompson
Blackie Whiteford
Al Rosen
Budd Fine
Sam Lufkin
Frank Mills
Al Morino
Set during prohibition, the Stooges decide to brew their own beer, but they get arrested when Curly unknowingly sells a bottle to a detective. Arrested for bootlegging, the boys attempt to smuggle in a keg of their homemade brew...when they are caught, they are sentenced to a much longer stay.
Shooting Schedule: 4/25/1945-4/26/1945
The original working title was THREE DUDS IN THE SUDS and was originally intended to be a two-reel version of Laurel and Hardy's feature, PARDON US (1930). The original script contains many gags used in the Laurel and Hardy film, including a reworking of the scene in prison school that appears in PARDON US.
During the prison line-up, Curly speaks in his natural voice when he says "Gee it's warm in here. I hope the beer don't spoil".
Uses stock-footage from both SO LONG MR CHUMPS and IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE.
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A BIRD IN THE HEAD (2/28/1946)
Production Number 4043
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-Burnett Guffey
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Robert Williams
Frank Lackteen
Art Miles
The Stooges are paperhangers who become guineapigs for a mad scientist out to find a human brain for his gorilla.
Shooting Schedule: 4/9/1945-4/13/1945
Production was shut down for a day when Columbia Pictures closed the studio the day President Franklin Roosevelt died.
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UNCIVIL WAR BIRDS (3/29/1946)
Production Number 4050
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story-Clyde Bruckman
Screenplay-Jules White
Photography-Phillip Tannura
Editor-Charles Hochberg
Art Director-Charles Clague
Lyrics-Jules White
Music-Daniel Emmett
Cast
Eleanor Counts
Lew Davis
Maury Dexter
Marilyn Johnson
Johnny Kascier
Ted Lorch
Joe Palma
Al Rosen
Cy Schindell
Victor Travers
John Tyrell
Blackie Whiteford
Faye Williams
Robert Williams
The Stooges enlist into the Civil War: Moe and Larry join the Union Army...Curly, the Confederate Army.
Shooting Schedule: 8/24/1945-8/28/1945
The original working title was THREE SOUTHERN DUMBBELLS.
A remake, with stock footage, of Buster Keaton’s MOOCHING THROUGH GEORGIA (1939).
Behind-the-scenes 16mm home movie footage, in color, exists. The silent film materials were discovered in 2007 and feature the Stooges, Jules White and the actresses who portray the Stooges girlfriends on set at the Columbia Ranch.
The storyline found it's way into an episode of THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW (1952) called "South Of Dixie". That episode was written by Clyde Bruckman.
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THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS (4/25/1946)
Production Number 4046
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Jack White
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Henry Batista
Art Director-Charles Clague
Christine McIntyre
Dick Curtis
Hank Bell
Steve Clark
Budd Fine
Joe Garcia
Ethan Laidlaw
Victor Travers
Si Jenks
Blackie Whiteford
Jack Evans
Elmo Lincoln
Charless Cross (Larry's stunt-double)
Harold Breen (Moe's stund-double)
Al Rosen (Curly's stunt-double)
The Stooges are cowboys who try to prevent a blacksmith’s daughter from marrying a notorious outlaw.
Shooting Schedule: 5/11/1945-5/15/1945
Moe suffered an injury when the black soot from the pipe went into his eyes. The first aid man had to pry open Moe’s eyes to remove bits of chunks of soot.
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MONKEY BUSINESSMEN (6/20/1946)
Production Number
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Edward Bernds
Photography-
Editor-
Art Director-
Wade Crosby
Fred Kelsey
Kenneth McDonald
Snub Pollard
Cy Schindell
Jean Willes
Rocky Woods
The Stooges are electricians who check into a clinic for rest and relaxation. TRIVIA: The original working titles were MONKEY BUSINESS and SANITUARY STOOGE. A remake of Smith and Dale’s MUTINY ON THE BODY (1939).
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THREE LOAN WOLVES (7/4/1946)
Production Number 4053
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Tommy Flood
Cast
Beverly Warren
Harold "Tiny" Brauer
Jackie Jackson
Joe Palma
Wally Rose
The Stooges are owners of a pawn shop who discover a baby thanks to Larry.
Shooting Schedule: 2/27/1946-3/2/1946
A scene featuring Vernon Dent and John Merton as detectives was cut from the final film.
The original working title was IN HOCK.
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G.I. WANNA HOME (9/5/1946)
Production Number 4063
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Doris Houck
Judy Malcolm
Ethelreda Leopold
Symona Boniface
Al Thompson
Unable to find a place to stay with their fiancees, the Stooges decide to build a house on a vacant lot.
Shooting Schedule: 3/22/1946-3/26/1946
During the scene where the eggs fall onto Moe's head, you can hear someone off camera laughing.
When Larry points out the bathroom/luggage area to the new brides, a stagehand can be seen in the shot. He realizes he is onscreen, and tries to duck out of the camera's eye, however, he remains noticeable for the rest of the scene.
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RHYTHM AND WEEP (10/3/1946)
Production Number 4057
Director-Jules White.
Cast
Gloria Patrice
Ruth Godfey
Nina Bieber
Jack Norton
Robert Kellard
Larry McGrath
Jack Parker
The Stooges are actors who decide to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but their luck changes when they meet three women planning to do the same thing.
Shooting Schedule: 4/23/1946-4/26/1946
The sketch Moe, Larry, and Curly perform of the army examination sequence was also used in Buster Keaton’s GENERAL NUISANCE (1941).
The original working title was ACTING UP.
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THREE LITTLE PIRATES (12/5/1946)
Production Number 4067
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Philip Tannura
Assistant Cameraman-George Meehan
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Carter DeHaven Jr.
Music-Sammy Cahn, Jules Styne
Gaffer-James Punter
Mixer-Lambert E. Day
Grip-Harold Banks
Props-Ray Hunt
Script Supervisor-Tessie Wise
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Robert Kellard
Vernon Dent
Dorothy DeHaven
Ethan Laidlaw
Larry McGrath
Joe Palma
Jack Parker
Cy Schindell
Al Thompson
The Stooges was ashore an island straight out of the 17th Century, where they are imprisoned by a tyrannical Governor. With the help of a woman also being held on the island, the Stooges break out of their cell and use the ruse of a visiting Maharajah to escape the island in search of Black Louie...a pirate who will take them back to the mainland (who is also in well-acquainted with the Governor).
Shooting Schedule: 4/15/1946-4/18/1946
When writing the short, Moe Howard dictated word-for-word the entire Maharajah routine to Clyde Bruckman. Silent, behind-the-scenes 16mm footage, in color, was discovered in 2007. The footage taken on the Columbia lot shows director Ed Bernds, co-star Cy Schindell, a visiting Shemp Howard, Moe's wife Helen and Moe and Curly in their very colorful Maharajah costumes.
The Stooges used the sketch previously in the 1941 Columbia feature TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM and would continue to use the sketch again many more times during their television appearances (and in the 1963 feature THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE). Moe Howard would even perform the sketch with "new" partners Mike Douglas and Soupy Sales on THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW (9/11/1973).
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HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1/9/1947)
Production Number 4056
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Zion Myers
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Cast
Vernon Dent
Barbara Slater
Ted Lorch
Symona Boniface
Helen Dickson
Johnny Kascier
Emil Sitka
Victor Travers
Al Thompson
The Stooges decide to take part in a bet by two professors who want to turn them into gentlemen.
Curly’s final short as a member of The Three Stooges. He suffered a massive stroke during filming and was written out of the climatic pie fight.
Emil Sitka's first appearance in a Three Stooges comedy.
The working title was NO GENTS---NO CENTS
A reworking of HOI POLLOI (1935).
Remade as PIES AND GUYS (1958) with Moe, Larry and Joe Besser.
MOE, LARRY & SHEMP
FRIGHT NIGHT (3/6/1947)
Production Number 4071
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Philip Tannura
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Tommy Flood
Cast
Dick Wessel
Clare Carleton
Stanley Blystone
Harold Brauer
Heinie Conklin
Dave Harper
Tom Kingston
Cy Schindell
Sammy Stein
The Stooges are boxing trainers who are told by a gangster to throw an upcoming fight.
Shemp’s first Columbia short as a member of The Three Stooges.
Shooting Schedule: 6/5/1946-6/8/1946
Remade as FLING IN THE RING (1955).
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OUT WEST (4/24/1947)
Production Number 4077
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Eddie Saeta
Sound Mixer-Frank Goodwin
Props-Ray Hunt
Gaffer-Paul Seckler
Grip-Al Becker
Music-Paul Mertz
Ned Washington
Sam Stept
Jack McTaggert
Bob Wright
Chet Forrest
Ben Oakland
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Norman Willis
Jock Mahoney
Stanley Blystone
George Chesebro
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Frank Ellis
Blackie Whiteford
Jim Diehl
The Stooges head out west to treat Shemp’s bum leg, but they soon find themselves helping a female saloonkeeper protect her establishment by bad guys.
Shooting Schedule: 7/8/1946-7/11/1946
Remade as PALS AND GALS (1954).
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HOLD THAT LION! (7/17/1947)
Production Number 4087
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Lyle "Spud" Murphy
Cast
Kenneth McDonald
Emil Sitka
Dudley Dickerson
Heinie Conklin
Curly Howard
Victor Travers
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges go after a crooked lawyer who has stolen their inheritance.
Shooting Schedule: 1/28/1947-1/31/1947
Shemp was terrified of the lion used in this short, so the prop men placed a pane of glass in-between the Stooges and the lion during the scene where the Stooges are inside of a box with the lion. If you look closely, you can see their reflections in the glass.
Former third Stooge Curly Howard makes an uncredited appearance as a sleeping train passenger. According to Jules White, he was visiting the set one day and he agreed to make the cameo. This marks the only time that brothers Moe, Shemp and Curly appear on screen together (although the footage was resued in BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953).
The original working title was THE LION AND THE LOUSE
Remade as LOOSE LOOT (1953).
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BRIDELESS GROOM (9/11/1947)
Production Number 4095
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Vincent Farrar
Editor-Henry DeMond
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Carter DeHaven Jr
Cast
Dee Green
Christine McIntyre
Doris Houck
Johnny Kascier
Alyn Lockwood
Nancy Saunders
Emil Sitka
Judy Malcom
Virginia Hunter
B. Edney (Moe's Stand-In)
Harold Breen (Shemp's Stand-In)
Joe Murphy (Larry's Stand-In)
Shemp learns his uncle has passed away and has left him $500,000. The catch is, he has to get married in 7 hours.
Shooting Schedule: 3/11/1947-3/14/1947
Shemp suffered a broken nose when Christine McIntyre punched him in the face.
This was the second of four shorts to enter the public domain in the early 1960s.
The original working title was LOVE AND LEARN.
Reworked as HUSBANDS BEWARE (1956).
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SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (10/30/1947) D: Jules White. Virginia Hunter, Tiny Brauer, Vernon Dent, Phil Arnold, Bing Connolly, Johnny Kascier, Cy Schindell, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are tailors who stumble across a safe combination belonging to a gangster. TRIVIA: This was the third in four shorts to enter the public domain. Remade as RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953).
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ALL GUMMED UP (12/18/1947) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Norman Ollestad, Cy Schindell, Al Thompson, Michael Towne, Victor Travers. The Stooges are druggists who invent a state-of-the-art Fountain of Youth formula. TRIVIA: The original working title was SWEET VITA-MINE. Remade as BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953).
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SHIVERING SHERLOCKS (1/8/1948) D: Del Lord. Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Frank Lackteen, Duke York, Stanley Blystone, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell. The Stooges are café workers who witness an armored car robbery.
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PARDON MY CLUTCH (2/26/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Matt McHugh, Stanley Blystone, George Lloyd, Alyn Lockwood, Wanda Perry, Doris Revier, Emil Sitka. The Stooges decide to go on a fishing trip to cure Shemp, who’s suffering from a bad toothache. TRIVIA: Remade as WHAM-BAM-SLAM! (1955).
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SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE (3/8/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Philip Van Zandt, Jock Mahoney, Vernon Dent, Tiny Brauer, Douglas D. Coppin, Joe Garcia, Robert Kellard, Judy Malcolm, Joe Palma. Set in Medieval times, the Stooges help a blacksmith win the heart of a princess. TRIVIA: Remade as KNUTZY KNIGHTS (1954).
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FIDDLER’S THREE (5/6/1948) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Philip Van Zandt, Sherry O’Neil, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell, Al Thompson. Set in Medeival times, the Stooges are fiddlers who must rescue the King’s daughter from a magician. TRIVIA: Remade as MUSTY MUSKETTERS (1954).
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THE HOT SCOTS (7/8/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Herbert Evans, Christine McIntyre, Charles Knight, Ted Lorch, Clive Morgan, James Logan. The Stooges are Scotland Yard detectives who investigate a spooky castle. TRIVIA: Remade as SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND (1954).
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HEAVENLY DAZE (9/2/1948) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton, Victor Travers. A deceased Shemp returns to earth to prevent Moe and Larry from selling a phony invention to two prospective clients. TRIVIA: Remade as BEDLAM IN PARADISE (1955).
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I’M A MONKEY’S UNCLE (10/7/1948) D: Jules White. Dee Green, Virginia Hunter, Nancy Saunders, Heinie Conklin, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell, Bill Wallace. The Stooges are cavemen who protect their sweethearts from their jealous boyfriends. TRIVIA: Reworked as STONE AGE ROMEOS (1955).
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MUMMY’S DUMMIES (11/4/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Vernon Dent, Ralph Dunn, Philip Van Zandt, Dee Green, Virginia S. Ellsworth, Wanda Perry, Suzanne Ridgeway. The Stooges are chariot salesman who are rewarded for extracting the Emperor’s bad tooth.
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CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (12/9/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Charles C. Wilson, Lester Allen, Heinie Conklin, Ray Corrigan, Budd Fine, George Lloyd, Frank O’Connor, Brian O’ Hara, Cy Schindell, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are janitors at a newspaper who try to impress their boss by investigating a diamond smuggling ring. TRIVIA: A reworking of Andy Clyde’s ALL WORK AND NO PAY (1942). Remade as HOT ICE (1955) and partially reworked as COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (1956).
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THE GHOST TALKS (2/3/1949) D: Jules White. Phil Arnold, Nancy Saunders, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are movers in a spooky house who befriend a kindly spirit inside a suit of armor. TRIVIA: The original working title was THAT’S THE SPIRIT. Remade as CREEPS (1956).
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WHO DONE IT? (3/3/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Ralph Dunn, Charles Knight, Emil Sitka, Duke York, Dudley Dickerson. The Stooges are detectives who search for a kidnapped millionaire. TRIVIA: During filming, Moe injured his foot in a stunt-related accident. If you watch a few shots in the film, you will notice Moe having a serious limp. A partial remake of Walter Catlett’s YOU’RE NEXT! (1940) and a reworking of Schilling and Lane’s PARDON MY TERROR (1946). Remade as FOR CRIMIN’ OUT LOUD (1956).
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HOKUS POKUS (5/5/1949) D: Jules White. Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Jimmie Lloyd, David Bond, Ned Glass, Johnny Kascier. The Stooges are poster pasters caring for their crippled neighbor when they become volunteers for a magician’s stunt. TRIVIA: Remade as FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956).
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FUELIN’ AROUND (7/7/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Philip Van Zandt, Hans Schrumm, Jock Mahoney, Tiny Brauer. Larry is mistaken for a famous professor. TRIVIA: Remade as HOT STUFF (1956).
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MALICE IN THE PALACE (9/1/1949) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, George J. Lewis, Frank Lackteen, Everett Brown, Johnny Kascier, Joe Palma. The Stooges are restaurant workers who are hired to track down a priceless diamond. TRIVIA: A barely recognizable Curly Howard had a supporting role as a mustached chef, but the part was rewritten for Larry and Curly’s scenes were deleted from the final film. The final of four shorts to enter the public domain. The original working title was HERE WE GO SCHMOW. Remade as RUMPHUS IN THE HAREM (1956).
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VAGABOND LOAFERS (10/6/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Symona Boniface, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Herbert Evans. The Stooges are plumbers in a fancy mansion where they hunt for a stolen painting. TRIVIA: A reworking of PLUMBING FOR GOLD (1933) with George Sidney and Charlie Murray and A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) with The Three Stooges. Also a reworking of El Brendel and Shemp Howard’s PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944). Remade as SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956).
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DUNKED IN THE DEEP (11/3/1949) D: Jules White. Gene Roth. The Stooges help their neighbor leave the country, unaware that he is a foreign spy. TRIVIA: This short is based on a real-life incident where a foreign spy smuggled important film in watermelons. Moe provides the voice of the radio announcer. Remade as COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (1956).
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PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS (1/5/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Dick Wessel, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, John L. Cason, George Chesebro, Heinie Conklin, Ted Mapes, Joe Palma, Stanley Price, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are cavalrymen who are sent to rid a town of outlaws.
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HUGS AND MUGS (2/2/1950) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Christine McIntyre, Kathleen O’Malley, Pat Moran, Joe Palma, Emil Sitka, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are furniture upholsters who stumble across a stolen necklace.
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DOPEY DICKS (3/2/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Philip Van Zandt, Stanley Price. The Stooges are janitors-turned-detectives who try to save a woman from a mad scientist and his assistant. TRIVIA: A reworking of El Brendel’s BOOBS IN THE NIGHT (1943).
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LOVE AT FIRST BITE (5/4/1950) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Yvette Renard, Marie Monteil, Al Thompson. The Stooges reminisce about how they met their future wives. TRIVIA: The original working title was NEW GROOMS SWEEP CLEAN.
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SELF MADE MAIDS (7/6/1950) D: Jules White. The Stooges, who are in love with three women, unknowingly assault their prospective father-in-law. TRIVIA: All the parts, with the exception of an uncredited extra in one scene, are all played by the Stooges themselves. During filming, Moe twisted his ankle and showed up the next day at work in crutches.
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THREE HAMS ON RYE (9/7/1950) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Ned Glass, Danny Lewis, Judy Malcolm, Brian O’Hara, Mildred Olsen, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges try to prevent a film critic from panning their boss’s latest show. TRIVIA: Danny Lewis is none other than the father of Jerry Lewis. The original working title was HOW HAMMY WAS MY HAMLET.
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STUDIO STOOPS (10/5/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Chuck Hamilton, Charles Jordan, Joe Palma, Stanley Price. The Stooges are publicity agents for a movie studio who stage a kidnapping which soon becomes a real one.
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SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS (11/9/1950) D: Jules White. Stanley Blystone, Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Nanette Bordeaux, Joe Palma, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are detectives who pose as gas station attendants to nail a gang of crooks.
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A SNITCH IN TIME (12/7/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Jean Willes, John L. Cason, Henry Kulky, John Merton, Fred F. Sears (voice-over only). The Stooges are furniture makers who tangle with a group of jewel thieves.
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THREE ARABIAN NUTS (1/4/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Philip Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Dick Curtis, Wesley Bly. The Stooges are crate deliverymen who uncover a magic lamp, with two Arabian thieves out to steal it. TRIVIA: The original working title was GENIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR.
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BABY SITTER JITTERS (2/1/1951) D: Jules White. Lynn Davis, David Windsor, Margie Lizst, Myron Healey. The Stooges are hired as babysitters, but they must rescue their charge when his father kidnaps him.
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DON’T THROW THAT KNIFE! (5/3/1951) D: Jules White. Jean Willes, Dick Curtis. The Stooges are census takers who run afoul of a jealous husband. TRIVIA: The original working title was NONCENSUS TAKERS.
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SCRAMBLED BRAINS (6/7/1951) D: Jules White. Babe London, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Royce Milne. Shemp, suffering from severe hallucinations, falls in love with his ugly nurse. TRIVIA: The original working title was IMPATIENT PATIENT.
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MERRY MAVERICKS (9/6/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Don C. Harvey, Marion Martin, Paul Campbell, Ernie Adams (stock footage), George Chesebro, John Merton, Emil Sitka, Al Thompson, Victor Travers (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are vagrants in the old west who are mistaken for law officers. A remake, with stock footage, of PHONY EXPRESS (1943).
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THE TOOTH WILL OUT (10/4/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Margie Lizst, Vernon Dent, Dick Curtis, Slim Gaut, Emil Sitka. The Stooges, on the run from a homicidal chef, duck into a dental school and are mistaken for students. TRIVIA: Emil Sitka ruined his one-take reputation by shouting curse words while chasing the Stooges, causing the crew to howl with laughter. The short’s second half where the Stooges set up shop out west was actually filmed for the previous short, MERRY MAVERICKS, but when the film ran too long, all the extra footage was shelved until a new storyline was written that could utilize the footage....with that, THE TOOTH WILL OUT was born. Watch Larry closely during the tooth extraction scene as he struggles to hide his laughter and smiles as he watches Shemp work his ad-libbing magic.
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HULA-LA-LA (11/1/1951) D: Hugh McCollum. Jean Willes, Kenneth McDonald, Emil Sitka, Joy Windsor, Lei Aloha, Heinie Conklin, Maxine Dovat. The Stooges ar dance instructors who must go to an island to teach natives to dance.
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PEST MAN WINS (12/6/1951) D: Jules White. Margie Lizst, Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Symona Boniface (stock footage), Heinie Conklin, Helen Dickson (stock footage), Eddie Laughton (stock footage), Ethelreda Leopold (stock footage), Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are exterminators who disrupt a socialite’s dinner party. TRIVIA: The original working title was MOUSERS IN THE TROUSERS. A remake, with stock footage, of ANTS IN THE PANTRY (1936).
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A MISSED FORTUNE (1/3/1952) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Vivian Mason, Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway. Shemp wins a radio contest, so the Stooges check into a fancy hotel. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB (1938).
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LISTEN, JUDGE (3/6/1952) D: Edward Bernds. Kitty McHugh, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Chick Collins, Mary Emory, John Hamilton, George J. Lewis, Gil Perkins, Betty Jane Pettit. The Stooges are fixer-uppers who manage to turn a judge’s house upside down. TRIVIA: A partial remake of two shorts: AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941) and THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943).
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CORNY CASANOVAS (5/1/1952) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon. The Stooges unknowingly fall in love with the same woman. TRIVIA: The original working title was ONE WON. Remade as RUSTY ROMEOS (1957).
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HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (7/3/1952) D: Jules White. Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens, Diana Darrin, Johnny Kascier. Larry creates a phony love triangle involving Moe, Shemp, and their wives. TRIVIA: Shortly after filming, the Stooges received the news that Curly passed away following a series of strokes. The original working title was CLAM UP. Remade as TRIPLE CROSSED (1959).
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GENTS IN A JAM (7/4/1952) D: Edward Bernds. Kitty McHugh, Emil Sitka, Danni Sue Nolan, Mickey Simpson, Snub Pollard. Shemp learns his rich uncle is coming to make him his sole heir, but so many things go wrong before and after he arrives. TRIVIA: The final Columbia short for Edward Bernds and Hugh McCollum due to a series of falling outs by Jules White. Bernds voluntarily left the shorts department out of loyalty to McCollum. The rest of the Columbia shorts, until its closure in 1957, were produced and directed by White. A remake of Hugh Herbert’s HOT HEIR (1947).
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THREE DARK HORSES (10/16/1952) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Ben Welden. The Stooges are janitors who go to work for a crooked campaign manager. TRIVIA: The man in the Hammond Egger posters is actor Bud Jamison, which was a way to pay tribute to him. The original working title was SMALL DELEGATES AT LARGE.
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CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO (12/4/1952) D: Jules White. Patricia Wright, Victoria Horne, Reggie Dvorak. Detective Moe is on the trail of Larry, Shemp, and their girlfriends who stole a box car. TRIVIA: This was reportedly Larry’s favorite short. The original working title was A TRAIN CALLED SCHMOW.
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UP IN DAISY’S PENTHOUSE (2/5/1953) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon, John Merton, Jack Kenney, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges try to save their father from gold-digging blonde. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of THREE DUMB CLUCKS (1937).
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BOOTY AND THE BEAST (3/5/1953) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Dudley Dickerson (stock footage), Curly Howard (stock footage), Sam Lufkin (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage). The Stooges unknowingly become assistants to a safecracker. TRIVIA: The short’s second half is stock footage taken from HOLD THAT LION! (1947). The original working title was FUN FOR THE MONEY.
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LOOSE LOOT (4/2/1953) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Tom Kennedy, Nanette Bordeaux, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway, Emil Sitka (stock footage). The Stooges go after a crooked lawyer who stole their inheritance. TRIVIA: The original working title was FILTHY LUCRE. A remake, with stock footage, of HOLD THAT LION! (1947).
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TRICKY DICKS (5/7/1953) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Connie Cezon, Ferris Taylor, Phil Arnold, Murray Alper, Suzanne Ridgeway. The Stooges are detectives who have 24 hours to catch a killer. TRIVIA: The original working title was COP AND BULL STORY.
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SPOOKS! (6/15/1953) D: Jules White. Norma Randall, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy, Steve Calvert. The Stooges are detectives who try to save a girl kidnapped by a mad scientist. TRIVIA: The first of two Stooges shorts to be filmed in 3-D. The original working titles were CUCKOO DETECTIVES and TAILS OF HORROR.
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PARDON MY BACKFIRE (8/15/1953) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold, Barbara Bartay, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Fred Kelsey, Angela Stevens. The Stooges are mechanics who try to earn enough money to marry their sweethearts, but they also have to deal with a gang of crooks. TRIVIA: The final Stooges short to be filmed in 3-D.
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RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (9/3/1953) D: Jules White. Phil Arnold (stock footage), Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Bing Connolly (stock footage), Vernon Dent (stock footage), Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Cy Schindell (stock footage), Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are tailors who stumble across a safe combination belonging to a gangster. TRIVIA: The original working title was WHERE THE VEST BEGINS. A remake, with stock footage, of SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947).
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BUBBLE TROUBLE (10/8/1953) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are druggists who invent a state-of-the-art Fountain of Youth formula. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of ALL GUMMED UP (1947).
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GOOF ON THE ROOF (12/3/1953) D: Jules White. Frank Mitchell, Maxine Gates. The Stooges try to help their landlord by cleaning his house and installing a brand new television set. TRIVIA: The final Columbia short written by Clyde Bruckman. He committed suicide in January 1955. A reworking of Vernon and Quillan’s LET DOWN YOUR AERIAL (1949).
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INCOME TAX SAPPY (2/4/1954) D: Jules White. Margie Lizst, Benny Rubin, Nanette Bordeaux, Vernon Dent, Joe Palma. The Stooges decide to gyp a client, not knowing he is an income tax officer. TRIVIA: The original working title was TAX SAPS.
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MUSTY MUSKETEERS (5/13/1954) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Philip Van Zandt, Heinie Conklin, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Johnny Kascier, Sherry O’Neil (stock footage), Joe Palma, Wanda Perry, Norma Randall, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Frank Sully, Al Thompson (stock footage). Set in Medieval times, the Stooges must rescue the king’s daughter in order to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of FIDDLER’S THREE (1948).
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PALS AND GALS (6/3/54) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, George Chesebro, Norman Willis (stock footage), Stanley Blystone (stock footage), Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Vernon Dent (stock footage), Jim Diehl (stock footage), Frank Ellis (stock footage), Ruth Godfrey, Joe Palma, Norma Randall, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges head out west to treat Shemp’s bum leg, but they soon try to protect a saloon from bad guys. TRIVIA: The chase towards the end is mostly stock footage lifted from GOOFS AND SADDLES (1937). The original working title was CUCKOO WESTERNERS. A remake, with stock footage, of OUT WEST (1947).
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KNUTZY KNIGHTS (9/2/1954) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Jock Mahoney, Philip Van Zandt, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Vernon Dent, Ruth Godfrey, Robert Kellard (stock footage), Joe Palma. Set in Medieval times, the Stooges help a blacksmith win the heart of a princess. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1948).
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SHOT IN THE FRONTIER (10/7/1954) D: Jules White. Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Emmett Lynn, Kenneth McDonald, Vivian Mason, Mort Mills, Joe Palma, Emil Sitka. Set in the Old West, the Stooges must go up against a group of desperados who want to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: The original working title was LOW AFTERNOON.
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SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND (11/4/1954) D: Jules White. Philip Van Zandt, Christine McIntyre, Charles Knight, Herbert Evans (stock footage), Ted Lorch (stock footage), George Pembroke, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are would-be detectives who are assigned to guard a spooky castle. TRIVIA: The original working title was HASSLE IN THE CASTLE. A remake, with stock footage, of THE HOT SCOTS (1948).
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FLING IN THE RING (1/6/1955) D: Jules White. Dick Wessel (stock footage), Claire Carleton (stock footage), Frank Sully, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Tom Kingston (stock footage), Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Sammy Stein (stock footage). The Stooges are boxing trainers who are told by a gangster to throw an upcoming fight. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of FRIGHT NIGHT (1947).
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OF CASH AND HASH (2/3/1955) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Frank Lackteen, Stanley Blystone (stock footage), Tom Kingston, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage), Duke York (stock footage). The Stooges are café workers who witness an armored car robbery. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of SHIVERING SHERLOCKS (1948).
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BEDLAM IN PARADISE (4/14/1955) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent (stock footage), Philip Van Zandt, Sylvia Lewis, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). A deceased Shemp returns to earth to stop Moe and Larry from selling a phony invention to two prospective clients. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HEAVENLY DAZE (1948).
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GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE (5/10/1955) D: Jules White. Jean Willes, Emil Sitka, Al Thompson. Set at a Woman-Haters club, members Larry and Shemp reminisce about their adventures with a gold-digger and her jealous husband, Moe.
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STONE AGE ROMEOS (6/2/1955) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Nancy Saunders (stock footage), Dee Green (stock footage), Barbara Bartay, Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Joe Palma (stock footage), Cy Schindell (stock footage), Bill Wallace (stock footage). The Stooges trick a museum curator by making a phony film featuring them as cavemen. TRIVIA: A reworking, with stock footage, of I’M A MONKEY’S UNCLE (1948).
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WHAM-BAM-SLAM! (9/1/1955) D: Jules White. Matt McHugh (stock footage), Alyn Lockwood, Doris Revier (stock footage), Wanda Perry (stock footage). Moe and Larry decide to take Shemp, recovering from a bad toothache, on a fishing trip. TRIVIA: The original working title was ENJOYING POOR HEALTH. A remake, with stock footage, of PARDON MY CLUTCH (1948).
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HOT ICE (10/6/1955) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Barbara Bartay, Lester Allen (stock footage), Ray Corrigan (stock footage), Budd Fine (stock footage), George Lloyd (stock footage), James Logan (stock footage), Clive Morgan (stock footage), Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage), Harry Wilson. The Stooges are Scotland Yard detectives who go to America to capture diamond smugglers. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (1948).
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BLUNDER BOYS (11/6/1955) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Angela Stevens, Kenneth McDonald, Barbara Bartay, Barbara Donaldson, Bonnie Henjum, Marjorie Jackson, June Lebow, Frank Sully, Al Thompson. The Stooges are detectives who try to hunt for an elusive thief. TRIVIA: The original working title was CUCKOO COPS.
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HUSBANDS BEWARE (1/5/1956) D: Jules White. Maxine Gates, Lu Leonard, Dee Green (stock footage), Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Doris Houck (stock footage), Nancy Saunders (stock footage), Emil Sitka. To get revenge on Shemp for marrying his obese sisters, Moe and Larry fool him into thinking he has inherited $500,000 from his dead uncle and he must get married in 7 hours. TRIVIA: The original working title was EAT, DRINK, AND BE MARRIED. A reworking, with stock footage, of BRIDELESS GROOM (1947).
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FLAGPOLE JITTERS (4/5/1956) D: Jules White. David Bond, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Richard Alexander, Barbara Bartay, Ned Glass (stock footage), Don C. Harvey, Bonnie Hedjum, Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Frank Sully, Beverly Thomas. The Stooges are caring for their crippled neighbor when they become volunteers for a magician’s stunt. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HOKUS POKUS (1949).
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FOR CRIMIN’ OUT LOUD (5/3/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Ralph Dunn (stock footage), Emil Sitka, Barbara Bartay, Charles Knight (stock footage), Duke York (stock footage). The Stooges are detectives who are on the trail for a kidnapped millionaire. TRIVIA: The final Stooges short featuring new footage with Shemp before his death in November 1955. A remake, with stock footage, of WHO DONE IT? (1949).
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RUMPUS IN THE HAREM (6/21/1956) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent (stock footage), George J. Lewis (stock footage), Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Helen Jay, Joe Palma, Suzanne Ridgeway, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges are restaurant owners who search for a priceless diamond which should be enough to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: The first of the final four Shemp shorts in which long-time Stooges supporting actor Joe Palma served as a stand-in for him. A remake, with stock footage, of MALICE IN THE PALACE (1949). These final four shorts are known as the "Fake Shemp" shorts.
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HOT STUFF (9/6/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka (stock footage), Philip Van Zandt, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Connie Cezon, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Evelyn Lovequist, Jock Mahoney (stock footage), Joe Palma, Suzanne Ridgeway, Gene Roth, Han Schrumm (stock footage). The Stooges are government agents who are assigned to protect a professor and his daughter. TRIVIA: The original working title was THEY GASSED WRONG. A remake, with stock footage, of FUELIN’ AROUND (1949).
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SCHEMING SCHEMERS (10/4/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka, Kenneth McDonald, Dudley Dickerson (stock footage), Symona Boniface (stock footage), Herbert Evans (stock footage), Judy Malcolm (stock footage), Joe Palma, Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are plumbers in a fancy mansion where they tangle with thieves. TRIVIA: The original working title was PIXILATED PLUMBERS. A reworking of A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) and El Brendel and Shemp Howard’s PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944). A remake, with stock footage, of VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949).
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COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (11/8/1956) D: Jules White. Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler, Charles C. Wilson (stock footage), Joe Palma. The Stooges are would-be reporters who investigate Foreign spy. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of DUNKED IN THE DEEP (1949), as well as a partial reworking of CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (1948), using stock footage of said short.
FRIGHT NIGHT (3/6/1947)
Production Number 4071
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Philip Tannura
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Tommy Flood
Cast
Dick Wessel
Clare Carleton
Stanley Blystone
Harold Brauer
Heinie Conklin
Dave Harper
Tom Kingston
Cy Schindell
Sammy Stein
The Stooges are boxing trainers who are told by a gangster to throw an upcoming fight.
Shemp’s first Columbia short as a member of The Three Stooges.
Shooting Schedule: 6/5/1946-6/8/1946
Remade as FLING IN THE RING (1955).
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OUT WEST (4/24/1947)
Production Number 4077
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Paul Borofsky
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Eddie Saeta
Sound Mixer-Frank Goodwin
Props-Ray Hunt
Gaffer-Paul Seckler
Grip-Al Becker
Music-Paul Mertz
Ned Washington
Sam Stept
Jack McTaggert
Bob Wright
Chet Forrest
Ben Oakland
Cast
Christine McIntyre
Norman Willis
Jock Mahoney
Stanley Blystone
George Chesebro
Heinie Conklin
Vernon Dent
Frank Ellis
Blackie Whiteford
Jim Diehl
The Stooges head out west to treat Shemp’s bum leg, but they soon find themselves helping a female saloonkeeper protect her establishment by bad guys.
Shooting Schedule: 7/8/1946-7/11/1946
Remade as PALS AND GALS (1954).
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HOLD THAT LION! (7/17/1947)
Production Number 4087
Director-Jules White
Producer-Jules White
Story and Screenplay-Felix Adler
Photography-George F. Kelley
Editor-Edwin Bryant
Art Director-Charles Clague
Music-Lyle "Spud" Murphy
Cast
Kenneth McDonald
Emil Sitka
Dudley Dickerson
Heinie Conklin
Curly Howard
Victor Travers
Blackie Whiteford
The Stooges go after a crooked lawyer who has stolen their inheritance.
Shooting Schedule: 1/28/1947-1/31/1947
Shemp was terrified of the lion used in this short, so the prop men placed a pane of glass in-between the Stooges and the lion during the scene where the Stooges are inside of a box with the lion. If you look closely, you can see their reflections in the glass.
Former third Stooge Curly Howard makes an uncredited appearance as a sleeping train passenger. According to Jules White, he was visiting the set one day and he agreed to make the cameo. This marks the only time that brothers Moe, Shemp and Curly appear on screen together (although the footage was resued in BOOTY AND THE BEAST (1953).
The original working title was THE LION AND THE LOUSE
Remade as LOOSE LOOT (1953).
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BRIDELESS GROOM (9/11/1947)
Production Number 4095
Director-Edward Bernds
Producer-Hugh McCollum
Story and Screenplay-Clyde Bruckman
Photography-Vincent Farrar
Editor-Henry DeMond
Art Director-Charles Clague
Assistant Director-Carter DeHaven Jr
Cast
Dee Green
Christine McIntyre
Doris Houck
Johnny Kascier
Alyn Lockwood
Nancy Saunders
Emil Sitka
Judy Malcom
Virginia Hunter
B. Edney (Moe's Stand-In)
Harold Breen (Shemp's Stand-In)
Joe Murphy (Larry's Stand-In)
Shemp learns his uncle has passed away and has left him $500,000. The catch is, he has to get married in 7 hours.
Shooting Schedule: 3/11/1947-3/14/1947
Shemp suffered a broken nose when Christine McIntyre punched him in the face.
This was the second of four shorts to enter the public domain in the early 1960s.
The original working title was LOVE AND LEARN.
Reworked as HUSBANDS BEWARE (1956).
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SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (10/30/1947) D: Jules White. Virginia Hunter, Tiny Brauer, Vernon Dent, Phil Arnold, Bing Connolly, Johnny Kascier, Cy Schindell, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are tailors who stumble across a safe combination belonging to a gangster. TRIVIA: This was the third in four shorts to enter the public domain. Remade as RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (1953).
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ALL GUMMED UP (12/18/1947) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Norman Ollestad, Cy Schindell, Al Thompson, Michael Towne, Victor Travers. The Stooges are druggists who invent a state-of-the-art Fountain of Youth formula. TRIVIA: The original working title was SWEET VITA-MINE. Remade as BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953).
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SHIVERING SHERLOCKS (1/8/1948) D: Del Lord. Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Frank Lackteen, Duke York, Stanley Blystone, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell. The Stooges are café workers who witness an armored car robbery.
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PARDON MY CLUTCH (2/26/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Matt McHugh, Stanley Blystone, George Lloyd, Alyn Lockwood, Wanda Perry, Doris Revier, Emil Sitka. The Stooges decide to go on a fishing trip to cure Shemp, who’s suffering from a bad toothache. TRIVIA: Remade as WHAM-BAM-SLAM! (1955).
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SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE (3/8/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Philip Van Zandt, Jock Mahoney, Vernon Dent, Tiny Brauer, Douglas D. Coppin, Joe Garcia, Robert Kellard, Judy Malcolm, Joe Palma. Set in Medieval times, the Stooges help a blacksmith win the heart of a princess. TRIVIA: Remade as KNUTZY KNIGHTS (1954).
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FIDDLER’S THREE (5/6/1948) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Philip Van Zandt, Sherry O’Neil, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell, Al Thompson. Set in Medeival times, the Stooges are fiddlers who must rescue the King’s daughter from a magician. TRIVIA: Remade as MUSTY MUSKETTERS (1954).
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THE HOT SCOTS (7/8/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Herbert Evans, Christine McIntyre, Charles Knight, Ted Lorch, Clive Morgan, James Logan. The Stooges are Scotland Yard detectives who investigate a spooky castle. TRIVIA: Remade as SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND (1954).
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HEAVENLY DAZE (9/2/1948) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton, Victor Travers. A deceased Shemp returns to earth to prevent Moe and Larry from selling a phony invention to two prospective clients. TRIVIA: Remade as BEDLAM IN PARADISE (1955).
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I’M A MONKEY’S UNCLE (10/7/1948) D: Jules White. Dee Green, Virginia Hunter, Nancy Saunders, Heinie Conklin, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell, Bill Wallace. The Stooges are cavemen who protect their sweethearts from their jealous boyfriends. TRIVIA: Reworked as STONE AGE ROMEOS (1955).
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MUMMY’S DUMMIES (11/4/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Vernon Dent, Ralph Dunn, Philip Van Zandt, Dee Green, Virginia S. Ellsworth, Wanda Perry, Suzanne Ridgeway. The Stooges are chariot salesman who are rewarded for extracting the Emperor’s bad tooth.
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CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (12/9/1948) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Charles C. Wilson, Lester Allen, Heinie Conklin, Ray Corrigan, Budd Fine, George Lloyd, Frank O’Connor, Brian O’ Hara, Cy Schindell, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are janitors at a newspaper who try to impress their boss by investigating a diamond smuggling ring. TRIVIA: A reworking of Andy Clyde’s ALL WORK AND NO PAY (1942). Remade as HOT ICE (1955) and partially reworked as COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (1956).
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THE GHOST TALKS (2/3/1949) D: Jules White. Phil Arnold, Nancy Saunders, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are movers in a spooky house who befriend a kindly spirit inside a suit of armor. TRIVIA: The original working title was THAT’S THE SPIRIT. Remade as CREEPS (1956).
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WHO DONE IT? (3/3/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Ralph Dunn, Charles Knight, Emil Sitka, Duke York, Dudley Dickerson. The Stooges are detectives who search for a kidnapped millionaire. TRIVIA: During filming, Moe injured his foot in a stunt-related accident. If you watch a few shots in the film, you will notice Moe having a serious limp. A partial remake of Walter Catlett’s YOU’RE NEXT! (1940) and a reworking of Schilling and Lane’s PARDON MY TERROR (1946). Remade as FOR CRIMIN’ OUT LOUD (1956).
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HOKUS POKUS (5/5/1949) D: Jules White. Mary Ainslee, Vernon Dent, Jimmie Lloyd, David Bond, Ned Glass, Johnny Kascier. The Stooges are poster pasters caring for their crippled neighbor when they become volunteers for a magician’s stunt. TRIVIA: Remade as FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956).
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FUELIN’ AROUND (7/7/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Philip Van Zandt, Hans Schrumm, Jock Mahoney, Tiny Brauer. Larry is mistaken for a famous professor. TRIVIA: Remade as HOT STUFF (1956).
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MALICE IN THE PALACE (9/1/1949) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, George J. Lewis, Frank Lackteen, Everett Brown, Johnny Kascier, Joe Palma. The Stooges are restaurant workers who are hired to track down a priceless diamond. TRIVIA: A barely recognizable Curly Howard had a supporting role as a mustached chef, but the part was rewritten for Larry and Curly’s scenes were deleted from the final film. The final of four shorts to enter the public domain. The original working title was HERE WE GO SCHMOW. Remade as RUMPHUS IN THE HAREM (1956).
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VAGABOND LOAFERS (10/6/1949) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Symona Boniface, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Herbert Evans. The Stooges are plumbers in a fancy mansion where they hunt for a stolen painting. TRIVIA: A reworking of PLUMBING FOR GOLD (1933) with George Sidney and Charlie Murray and A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) with The Three Stooges. Also a reworking of El Brendel and Shemp Howard’s PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944). Remade as SCHEMING SCHEMERS (1956).
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DUNKED IN THE DEEP (11/3/1949) D: Jules White. Gene Roth. The Stooges help their neighbor leave the country, unaware that he is a foreign spy. TRIVIA: This short is based on a real-life incident where a foreign spy smuggled important film in watermelons. Moe provides the voice of the radio announcer. Remade as COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (1956).
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PUNCHY COWPUNCHERS (1/5/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Jock Mahoney, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Dick Wessel, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, John L. Cason, George Chesebro, Heinie Conklin, Ted Mapes, Joe Palma, Stanley Price, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are cavalrymen who are sent to rid a town of outlaws.
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HUGS AND MUGS (2/2/1950) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Christine McIntyre, Kathleen O’Malley, Pat Moran, Joe Palma, Emil Sitka, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are furniture upholsters who stumble across a stolen necklace.
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DOPEY DICKS (3/2/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Philip Van Zandt, Stanley Price. The Stooges are janitors-turned-detectives who try to save a woman from a mad scientist and his assistant. TRIVIA: A reworking of El Brendel’s BOOBS IN THE NIGHT (1943).
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LOVE AT FIRST BITE (5/4/1950) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Yvette Renard, Marie Monteil, Al Thompson. The Stooges reminisce about how they met their future wives. TRIVIA: The original working title was NEW GROOMS SWEEP CLEAN.
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SELF MADE MAIDS (7/6/1950) D: Jules White. The Stooges, who are in love with three women, unknowingly assault their prospective father-in-law. TRIVIA: All the parts, with the exception of an uncredited extra in one scene, are all played by the Stooges themselves. During filming, Moe twisted his ankle and showed up the next day at work in crutches.
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THREE HAMS ON RYE (9/7/1950) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Ned Glass, Danny Lewis, Judy Malcolm, Brian O’Hara, Mildred Olsen, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges try to prevent a film critic from panning their boss’s latest show. TRIVIA: Danny Lewis is none other than the father of Jerry Lewis. The original working title was HOW HAMMY WAS MY HAMLET.
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STUDIO STOOPS (10/5/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Christine McIntyre, Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Chuck Hamilton, Charles Jordan, Joe Palma, Stanley Price. The Stooges are publicity agents for a movie studio who stage a kidnapping which soon becomes a real one.
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SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS (11/9/1950) D: Jules White. Stanley Blystone, Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Nanette Bordeaux, Joe Palma, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are detectives who pose as gas station attendants to nail a gang of crooks.
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A SNITCH IN TIME (12/7/1950) D: Edward Bernds. Jean Willes, John L. Cason, Henry Kulky, John Merton, Fred F. Sears (voice-over only). The Stooges are furniture makers who tangle with a group of jewel thieves.
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THREE ARABIAN NUTS (1/4/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Philip Van Zandt, Vernon Dent, Dick Curtis, Wesley Bly. The Stooges are crate deliverymen who uncover a magic lamp, with two Arabian thieves out to steal it. TRIVIA: The original working title was GENIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR.
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BABY SITTER JITTERS (2/1/1951) D: Jules White. Lynn Davis, David Windsor, Margie Lizst, Myron Healey. The Stooges are hired as babysitters, but they must rescue their charge when his father kidnaps him.
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DON’T THROW THAT KNIFE! (5/3/1951) D: Jules White. Jean Willes, Dick Curtis. The Stooges are census takers who run afoul of a jealous husband. TRIVIA: The original working title was NONCENSUS TAKERS.
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SCRAMBLED BRAINS (6/7/1951) D: Jules White. Babe London, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Royce Milne. Shemp, suffering from severe hallucinations, falls in love with his ugly nurse. TRIVIA: The original working title was IMPATIENT PATIENT.
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MERRY MAVERICKS (9/6/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Don C. Harvey, Marion Martin, Paul Campbell, Ernie Adams (stock footage), George Chesebro, John Merton, Emil Sitka, Al Thompson, Victor Travers (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges are vagrants in the old west who are mistaken for law officers. A remake, with stock footage, of PHONY EXPRESS (1943).
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THE TOOTH WILL OUT (10/4/1951) D: Edward Bernds. Margie Lizst, Vernon Dent, Dick Curtis, Slim Gaut, Emil Sitka. The Stooges, on the run from a homicidal chef, duck into a dental school and are mistaken for students. TRIVIA: Emil Sitka ruined his one-take reputation by shouting curse words while chasing the Stooges, causing the crew to howl with laughter. The short’s second half where the Stooges set up shop out west was actually filmed for the previous short, MERRY MAVERICKS, but when the film ran too long, all the extra footage was shelved until a new storyline was written that could utilize the footage....with that, THE TOOTH WILL OUT was born. Watch Larry closely during the tooth extraction scene as he struggles to hide his laughter and smiles as he watches Shemp work his ad-libbing magic.
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HULA-LA-LA (11/1/1951) D: Hugh McCollum. Jean Willes, Kenneth McDonald, Emil Sitka, Joy Windsor, Lei Aloha, Heinie Conklin, Maxine Dovat. The Stooges ar dance instructors who must go to an island to teach natives to dance.
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PEST MAN WINS (12/6/1951) D: Jules White. Margie Lizst, Nanette Bordeaux, Emil Sitka, Vernon Dent, Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Symona Boniface (stock footage), Heinie Conklin, Helen Dickson (stock footage), Eddie Laughton (stock footage), Ethelreda Leopold (stock footage), Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are exterminators who disrupt a socialite’s dinner party. TRIVIA: The original working title was MOUSERS IN THE TROUSERS. A remake, with stock footage, of ANTS IN THE PANTRY (1936).
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A MISSED FORTUNE (1/3/1952) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Vivian Mason, Vernon Dent, Stanley Blystone, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway. Shemp wins a radio contest, so the Stooges check into a fancy hotel. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB (1938).
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LISTEN, JUDGE (3/6/1952) D: Edward Bernds. Kitty McHugh, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka, Chick Collins, Mary Emory, John Hamilton, George J. Lewis, Gil Perkins, Betty Jane Pettit. The Stooges are fixer-uppers who manage to turn a judge’s house upside down. TRIVIA: A partial remake of two shorts: AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941) and THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943).
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CORNY CASANOVAS (5/1/1952) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon. The Stooges unknowingly fall in love with the same woman. TRIVIA: The original working title was ONE WON. Remade as RUSTY ROMEOS (1957).
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HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (7/3/1952) D: Jules White. Mary Ainslee, Angela Stevens, Diana Darrin, Johnny Kascier. Larry creates a phony love triangle involving Moe, Shemp, and their wives. TRIVIA: Shortly after filming, the Stooges received the news that Curly passed away following a series of strokes. The original working title was CLAM UP. Remade as TRIPLE CROSSED (1959).
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GENTS IN A JAM (7/4/1952) D: Edward Bernds. Kitty McHugh, Emil Sitka, Danni Sue Nolan, Mickey Simpson, Snub Pollard. Shemp learns his rich uncle is coming to make him his sole heir, but so many things go wrong before and after he arrives. TRIVIA: The final Columbia short for Edward Bernds and Hugh McCollum due to a series of falling outs by Jules White. Bernds voluntarily left the shorts department out of loyalty to McCollum. The rest of the Columbia shorts, until its closure in 1957, were produced and directed by White. A remake of Hugh Herbert’s HOT HEIR (1947).
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THREE DARK HORSES (10/16/1952) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Ben Welden. The Stooges are janitors who go to work for a crooked campaign manager. TRIVIA: The man in the Hammond Egger posters is actor Bud Jamison, which was a way to pay tribute to him. The original working title was SMALL DELEGATES AT LARGE.
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CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO (12/4/1952) D: Jules White. Patricia Wright, Victoria Horne, Reggie Dvorak. Detective Moe is on the trail of Larry, Shemp, and their girlfriends who stole a box car. TRIVIA: This was reportedly Larry’s favorite short. The original working title was A TRAIN CALLED SCHMOW.
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UP IN DAISY’S PENTHOUSE (2/5/1953) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon, John Merton, Jack Kenney, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges try to save their father from gold-digging blonde. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of THREE DUMB CLUCKS (1937).
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BOOTY AND THE BEAST (3/5/1953) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Vernon Dent, Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Dudley Dickerson (stock footage), Curly Howard (stock footage), Sam Lufkin (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage). The Stooges unknowingly become assistants to a safecracker. TRIVIA: The short’s second half is stock footage taken from HOLD THAT LION! (1947). The original working title was FUN FOR THE MONEY.
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LOOSE LOOT (4/2/1953) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Tom Kennedy, Nanette Bordeaux, Johnny Kascier, Suzanne Ridgeway, Emil Sitka (stock footage). The Stooges go after a crooked lawyer who stole their inheritance. TRIVIA: The original working title was FILTHY LUCRE. A remake, with stock footage, of HOLD THAT LION! (1947).
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TRICKY DICKS (5/7/1953) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Connie Cezon, Ferris Taylor, Phil Arnold, Murray Alper, Suzanne Ridgeway. The Stooges are detectives who have 24 hours to catch a killer. TRIVIA: The original working title was COP AND BULL STORY.
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SPOOKS! (6/15/1953) D: Jules White. Norma Randall, Philip Van Zandt, Tom Kennedy, Steve Calvert. The Stooges are detectives who try to save a girl kidnapped by a mad scientist. TRIVIA: The first of two Stooges shorts to be filmed in 3-D. The original working titles were CUCKOO DETECTIVES and TAILS OF HORROR.
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PARDON MY BACKFIRE (8/15/1953) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Frank Sully, Phil Arnold, Barbara Bartay, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Fred Kelsey, Angela Stevens. The Stooges are mechanics who try to earn enough money to marry their sweethearts, but they also have to deal with a gang of crooks. TRIVIA: The final Stooges short to be filmed in 3-D.
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RIP, SEW, AND STITCH (9/3/1953) D: Jules White. Phil Arnold (stock footage), Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Bing Connolly (stock footage), Vernon Dent (stock footage), Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Cy Schindell (stock footage), Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are tailors who stumble across a safe combination belonging to a gangster. TRIVIA: The original working title was WHERE THE VEST BEGINS. A remake, with stock footage, of SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS (1947).
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BUBBLE TROUBLE (10/8/1953) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are druggists who invent a state-of-the-art Fountain of Youth formula. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of ALL GUMMED UP (1947).
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GOOF ON THE ROOF (12/3/1953) D: Jules White. Frank Mitchell, Maxine Gates. The Stooges try to help their landlord by cleaning his house and installing a brand new television set. TRIVIA: The final Columbia short written by Clyde Bruckman. He committed suicide in January 1955. A reworking of Vernon and Quillan’s LET DOWN YOUR AERIAL (1949).
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INCOME TAX SAPPY (2/4/1954) D: Jules White. Margie Lizst, Benny Rubin, Nanette Bordeaux, Vernon Dent, Joe Palma. The Stooges decide to gyp a client, not knowing he is an income tax officer. TRIVIA: The original working title was TAX SAPS.
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MUSTY MUSKETEERS (5/13/1954) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent, Philip Van Zandt, Heinie Conklin, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Johnny Kascier, Sherry O’Neil (stock footage), Joe Palma, Wanda Perry, Norma Randall, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Frank Sully, Al Thompson (stock footage). Set in Medieval times, the Stooges must rescue the king’s daughter in order to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of FIDDLER’S THREE (1948).
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PALS AND GALS (6/3/54) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, George Chesebro, Norman Willis (stock footage), Stanley Blystone (stock footage), Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Vernon Dent (stock footage), Jim Diehl (stock footage), Frank Ellis (stock footage), Ruth Godfrey, Joe Palma, Norma Randall, Blackie Whiteford. The Stooges head out west to treat Shemp’s bum leg, but they soon try to protect a saloon from bad guys. TRIVIA: The chase towards the end is mostly stock footage lifted from GOOFS AND SADDLES (1937). The original working title was CUCKOO WESTERNERS. A remake, with stock footage, of OUT WEST (1947).
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KNUTZY KNIGHTS (9/2/1954) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Jock Mahoney, Philip Van Zandt, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Vernon Dent, Ruth Godfrey, Robert Kellard (stock footage), Joe Palma. Set in Medieval times, the Stooges help a blacksmith win the heart of a princess. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of SQUAREHEADS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1948).
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SHOT IN THE FRONTIER (10/7/1954) D: Jules White. Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Emmett Lynn, Kenneth McDonald, Vivian Mason, Mort Mills, Joe Palma, Emil Sitka. Set in the Old West, the Stooges must go up against a group of desperados who want to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: The original working title was LOW AFTERNOON.
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SCOTCHED IN SCOTLAND (11/4/1954) D: Jules White. Philip Van Zandt, Christine McIntyre, Charles Knight, Herbert Evans (stock footage), Ted Lorch (stock footage), George Pembroke, Jules White (voice-over only). The Stooges are would-be detectives who are assigned to guard a spooky castle. TRIVIA: The original working title was HASSLE IN THE CASTLE. A remake, with stock footage, of THE HOT SCOTS (1948).
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FLING IN THE RING (1/6/1955) D: Jules White. Dick Wessel (stock footage), Claire Carleton (stock footage), Frank Sully, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Tom Kingston (stock footage), Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Sammy Stein (stock footage). The Stooges are boxing trainers who are told by a gangster to throw an upcoming fight. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of FRIGHT NIGHT (1947).
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OF CASH AND HASH (2/3/1955) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Kenneth McDonald, Frank Lackteen, Stanley Blystone (stock footage), Tom Kingston, Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage), Duke York (stock footage). The Stooges are café workers who witness an armored car robbery. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of SHIVERING SHERLOCKS (1948).
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BEDLAM IN PARADISE (4/14/1955) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent (stock footage), Philip Van Zandt, Sylvia Lewis, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). A deceased Shemp returns to earth to stop Moe and Larry from selling a phony invention to two prospective clients. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HEAVENLY DAZE (1948).
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GYPPED IN THE PENTHOUSE (5/10/1955) D: Jules White. Jean Willes, Emil Sitka, Al Thompson. Set at a Woman-Haters club, members Larry and Shemp reminisce about their adventures with a gold-digger and her jealous husband, Moe.
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STONE AGE ROMEOS (6/2/1955) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Virginia Hunter (stock footage), Nancy Saunders (stock footage), Dee Green (stock footage), Barbara Bartay, Heinie Conklin (stock footage), Joe Palma (stock footage), Cy Schindell (stock footage), Bill Wallace (stock footage). The Stooges trick a museum curator by making a phony film featuring them as cavemen. TRIVIA: A reworking, with stock footage, of I’M A MONKEY’S UNCLE (1948).
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WHAM-BAM-SLAM! (9/1/1955) D: Jules White. Matt McHugh (stock footage), Alyn Lockwood, Doris Revier (stock footage), Wanda Perry (stock footage). Moe and Larry decide to take Shemp, recovering from a bad toothache, on a fishing trip. TRIVIA: The original working title was ENJOYING POOR HEALTH. A remake, with stock footage, of PARDON MY CLUTCH (1948).
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HOT ICE (10/6/1955) D: Jules White. Kenneth McDonald, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Barbara Bartay, Lester Allen (stock footage), Ray Corrigan (stock footage), Budd Fine (stock footage), George Lloyd (stock footage), James Logan (stock footage), Clive Morgan (stock footage), Joe Palma, Cy Schindell (stock footage), Blackie Whiteford (stock footage), Harry Wilson. The Stooges are Scotland Yard detectives who go to America to capture diamond smugglers. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (1948).
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BLUNDER BOYS (11/6/1955) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Angela Stevens, Kenneth McDonald, Barbara Bartay, Barbara Donaldson, Bonnie Henjum, Marjorie Jackson, June Lebow, Frank Sully, Al Thompson. The Stooges are detectives who try to hunt for an elusive thief. TRIVIA: The original working title was CUCKOO COPS.
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HUSBANDS BEWARE (1/5/1956) D: Jules White. Maxine Gates, Lu Leonard, Dee Green (stock footage), Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Doris Houck (stock footage), Nancy Saunders (stock footage), Emil Sitka. To get revenge on Shemp for marrying his obese sisters, Moe and Larry fool him into thinking he has inherited $500,000 from his dead uncle and he must get married in 7 hours. TRIVIA: The original working title was EAT, DRINK, AND BE MARRIED. A reworking, with stock footage, of BRIDELESS GROOM (1947).
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FLAGPOLE JITTERS (4/5/1956) D: Jules White. David Bond, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Richard Alexander, Barbara Bartay, Ned Glass (stock footage), Don C. Harvey, Bonnie Hedjum, Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Frank Sully, Beverly Thomas. The Stooges are caring for their crippled neighbor when they become volunteers for a magician’s stunt. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HOKUS POKUS (1949).
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FOR CRIMIN’ OUT LOUD (5/3/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Ralph Dunn (stock footage), Emil Sitka, Barbara Bartay, Charles Knight (stock footage), Duke York (stock footage). The Stooges are detectives who are on the trail for a kidnapped millionaire. TRIVIA: The final Stooges short featuring new footage with Shemp before his death in November 1955. A remake, with stock footage, of WHO DONE IT? (1949).
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RUMPUS IN THE HAREM (6/21/1956) D: Jules White. Vernon Dent (stock footage), George J. Lewis (stock footage), Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Helen Jay, Joe Palma, Suzanne Ridgeway, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges are restaurant owners who search for a priceless diamond which should be enough to marry their sweethearts. TRIVIA: The first of the final four Shemp shorts in which long-time Stooges supporting actor Joe Palma served as a stand-in for him. A remake, with stock footage, of MALICE IN THE PALACE (1949). These final four shorts are known as the "Fake Shemp" shorts.
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HOT STUFF (9/6/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka (stock footage), Philip Van Zandt, Tiny Brauer (stock footage), Connie Cezon, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Evelyn Lovequist, Jock Mahoney (stock footage), Joe Palma, Suzanne Ridgeway, Gene Roth, Han Schrumm (stock footage). The Stooges are government agents who are assigned to protect a professor and his daughter. TRIVIA: The original working title was THEY GASSED WRONG. A remake, with stock footage, of FUELIN’ AROUND (1949).
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SCHEMING SCHEMERS (10/4/1956) D: Jules White. Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Emil Sitka, Kenneth McDonald, Dudley Dickerson (stock footage), Symona Boniface (stock footage), Herbert Evans (stock footage), Judy Malcolm (stock footage), Joe Palma, Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are plumbers in a fancy mansion where they tangle with thieves. TRIVIA: The original working title was PIXILATED PLUMBERS. A reworking of A PLUMBING WE WILL GO (1940) and El Brendel and Shemp Howard’s PICK A PECK OF PLUMBERS (1944). A remake, with stock footage, of VAGABOND LOAFERS (1949).
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COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN (11/8/1956) D: Jules White. Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler, Charles C. Wilson (stock footage), Joe Palma. The Stooges are would-be reporters who investigate Foreign spy. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of DUNKED IN THE DEEP (1949), as well as a partial reworking of CRIME ON THEIR HANDS (1948), using stock footage of said short.
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HOOFS AND GOOFS (1/31/1957) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Harriette Tarler, Joe Palma. Joe discovers his long-lost sister has been reincarnated as a horse. TRIVIA: The first Stooges short to feature Joe Besser as the third Stooge. The original working title was GALLOPING BRIDE.
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MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER (2/28/1957) D: Jules White. Maxine Gates, Harriette Tarler, Ruth Godfrey, Matt Murphy.The Stooges turn amateur detectives when Tiny's ring goes missing. TRIVIA: The original working title was BUILDER UPPERS.
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A MERRY MIX-UP (3/28/1957) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Jeanne Carmen, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Suzanne Ridgeway, Frank Sully (also voice-over), Harriette Tarler. The Stooges long-lost brothers create confusion and turmoil for their wives and girlfriends. TRIVIA: The original working title was A MERRY MARRIAGE MIX-UP.
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SPACE SHIP SAPPY (4/18/1957) D: Jules White. Doreen Woodbury, Benny Rubin, Marilyn Harold, Lorraine Crawford, Harriette Tarler, Emil Sitka. The Stooges are onboard of a rocketship with a professor and his daughter.
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GUNS A POPPIN’! (6/13/1957) D: Jules White. Frank Sully, Joe Palma, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Paul Kruger (stock footage). Larry and Joe take a nerve-stricken Moe on a camping trip. TRIVIA: A reworking of Collins and Kennedy’s OH, MY NERVES! (1935). A remake, with stock footage, of IDIOTS DELUXE (1945).
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HORSING AROUND (9/13/1957) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges go on a journey to find Birdie’s mate who will get shot by circus personnel. TRIVIA: A sequel to HOOFS AND GOOFS (1957).
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RUSTY ROMEOS (10/17/1957) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon. The Stooges unknowingly fall in love with the same woman. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of CORNY CASANOVAS (1952).
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OUTER SPACE JITTERS (12/5/57) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Philip Van Zandt, Dan Blocker, Diana Darrin, Arline Hunter, Joe Palma, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges are in outer space who must free a kidnapped professor.
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QUIZ WHIZZ (2/13/1958) D: Jules White. Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Emil Sitka, Tiny Brauer. The Stooges go after crooks who stole Joe’s contest money.
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FIFI BLOWS HER TOP (4/10/1958) D: Jules White. Vanda Dupre, Philip Van Zandt, Harriette Tarler, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Heinie Conklin, Marie Monteil (stock footage), Joe Palma, Al Thompson (stock footage).
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PIES AND GUYS (6/13/1958) D: Jules White. Greta Thyssen, Milton Frome, Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler, Helen Dickson (stock footage), Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Barbara Slater (stock footage), Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are repairmen who take part in a bet who want to turn them into gentlemen. TRIVIA: A remake of HOI POLLOI (1935) and HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947), using stock footage from both.
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SWEET AND HOT (9/4/1958) D: Jules White. Muriel Landers. Larry and Joe take Joe’s sister Tiny to German psychiatrist Moe to cure her of stage fright.
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FLYING SAUCER DAFFY (10/9/1958) D: Jules White. Gail Bonney, Emil Sitka, Bek Nelson, Diana Darrin, Billy Engle, Arline Hunter, Roy Jensen, Joe Palma, Harriette Tarler. Moe and Larry take a picture of a supposed flying saucer with Joe’s camera, but they soon pay the price when it becomes a phony. TRIVIA: The original working title was PARDON MY FLYING SAUCER.
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OILS WELL THAT ENDS WELL (12/4/1958) D: Jules White. The Stooges head to prospect for uranium to pay for their father’s operation. TRIVIA: A slight reworking, with stock footage, of OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (1939).
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TRIPLE CROSSED (2/2/1959) D: Jules White. Angela Stevens, Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Diana Darrin (stock footage), Johnny Kascier. Larry creates a love triangle between Moe, Joe and their wives. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (1952).
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SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS (6/4/1959)
Production Number 1912
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Assistant Director-Max Stein
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Saul Ward
Photography-Iriving Lippman
Editor-Harold White
Art Director-Walter Holscher
Set Decorator-Sidney Clifford
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Greta Thyssen
George J. Lewis
Paul Ellis
Joe Palma
Cy Schindell
Eddie Laughton
The Stooges are down-on-their-luck actors in Mexico who become bull targets thanks to a jealous husband.
The original working title was THAT’S BULLY. Shooting Schedule: 6/30/1957-7/1/1957 A remake, with stock footage, of WHAT’S THE MATATDOR? (1942).
MOE, LARRY & CURLY-JOE
THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK
Filmed in 1960 and in color, THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK was originally shot as a television pilot...it did not sell. All was not lost however, as the film was distributed to theaters in September of 1963 as two short-subjects. The first, a two-reeler dubbed here as CREEPY MANOR ran 14 minutes. The second, a one-reeler dubbed THE SPAIN MUTINY, clocked in at 10 minutes. Both shorts retained the original color and the sitcom-style laugh-track as originally intended for television. For an idea of how the complete pilot would have aired, just combine both plot synopsis.
In a money-saving move, Norman Maurer devised a storyline which allowed the reuse of much of the footage from the first half of the pilot, and printed it in black & white for the feature film THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962).
CREEPY MANOR (9/1963)
Producer-Norman Maurer
Director-Sidney Miller
Assistant Director-Harry Slott
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Music-Paul Dunlap
Title Song-George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
Song Vocals-The Eligibles
Photography-Hal McAlpin
Editor-Chuck Gladden
Sound-Leon Leon
Cast
Don Lamond (Narrator)
Emil Sitka
Marjorie Eaton
Edward Innes
Albert Grazier
While rehearsing for their television program THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK, Moe, Larry & Curly Joe are evicted by their landlady for cooking in the rooming house. Their search for a new apartment that allows home cooking takes them to Creepy Manor, where an eccentric scientist asks them to help him guard his new invention from enemy spies. When the Stooges head to bed, an enemy spy works on scaring them off.
THE SPAIN MUTINY (9/1963)
Producer-Norman Maurer
Director-Sidney Miller
Assistant Director-Harry Slott
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Music-Paul Dunlap
Title Song-George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
Song Vocals-The Eligibles
Photography-Hal McAlpin
Editor-Chuck Gladden
Sound-Leon Leon
Animation Story-Al Bertino and Dick Kinney
Animation Director-Sam Nicholson
Animation-Fred Madison, David Weidman and Norm Gottfredson
Cast
Norman Maurer
Don Lamond
Mel Blanc (voice only)
The Stooges arrive at the television studio for the taping of their show THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK and introduce their new cartoon, THE SPAIN MUTINY. The animated Stooges respond to a want ad from Christopher Columbus, and join him on his sea journey to prove that the world is not square. When Columbus takes a nap, the Stooges have to deal with a mutinous parrot named Feathers.
HOOFS AND GOOFS (1/31/1957) D: Jules White. Benny Rubin, Harriette Tarler, Joe Palma. Joe discovers his long-lost sister has been reincarnated as a horse. TRIVIA: The first Stooges short to feature Joe Besser as the third Stooge. The original working title was GALLOPING BRIDE.
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MUSCLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER (2/28/1957) D: Jules White. Maxine Gates, Harriette Tarler, Ruth Godfrey, Matt Murphy.The Stooges turn amateur detectives when Tiny's ring goes missing. TRIVIA: The original working title was BUILDER UPPERS.
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A MERRY MIX-UP (3/28/1957) D: Jules White. Nanette Bordeaux, Jeanne Carmen, Diana Darrin, Ruth Godfrey, Suzanne Ridgeway, Frank Sully (also voice-over), Harriette Tarler. The Stooges long-lost brothers create confusion and turmoil for their wives and girlfriends. TRIVIA: The original working title was A MERRY MARRIAGE MIX-UP.
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SPACE SHIP SAPPY (4/18/1957) D: Jules White. Doreen Woodbury, Benny Rubin, Marilyn Harold, Lorraine Crawford, Harriette Tarler, Emil Sitka. The Stooges are onboard of a rocketship with a professor and his daughter.
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GUNS A POPPIN’! (6/13/1957) D: Jules White. Frank Sully, Joe Palma, Vernon Dent (stock footage), Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Paul Kruger (stock footage). Larry and Joe take a nerve-stricken Moe on a camping trip. TRIVIA: A reworking of Collins and Kennedy’s OH, MY NERVES! (1935). A remake, with stock footage, of IDIOTS DELUXE (1945).
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HORSING AROUND (9/13/1957) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges go on a journey to find Birdie’s mate who will get shot by circus personnel. TRIVIA: A sequel to HOOFS AND GOOFS (1957).
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RUSTY ROMEOS (10/17/1957) D: Jules White. Connie Cezon. The Stooges unknowingly fall in love with the same woman. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of CORNY CASANOVAS (1952).
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OUTER SPACE JITTERS (12/5/57) D: Jules White. Emil Sitka, Gene Roth, Philip Van Zandt, Dan Blocker, Diana Darrin, Arline Hunter, Joe Palma, Harriette Tarler. The Stooges are in outer space who must free a kidnapped professor.
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QUIZ WHIZZ (2/13/1958) D: Jules White. Greta Thyssen, Gene Roth, Milton Frome, Emil Sitka, Tiny Brauer. The Stooges go after crooks who stole Joe’s contest money.
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FIFI BLOWS HER TOP (4/10/1958) D: Jules White. Vanda Dupre, Philip Van Zandt, Harriette Tarler, Christine McIntyre (stock footage), Heinie Conklin, Marie Monteil (stock footage), Joe Palma, Al Thompson (stock footage).
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PIES AND GUYS (6/13/1958) D: Jules White. Greta Thyssen, Milton Frome, Gene Roth, Emil Sitka, Harriette Tarler, Helen Dickson (stock footage), Johnny Kascier (stock footage), Barbara Slater (stock footage), Al Thompson (stock footage), Victor Travers (stock footage). The Stooges are repairmen who take part in a bet who want to turn them into gentlemen. TRIVIA: A remake of HOI POLLOI (1935) and HALF-WITS HOLIDAY (1947), using stock footage from both.
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SWEET AND HOT (9/4/1958) D: Jules White. Muriel Landers. Larry and Joe take Joe’s sister Tiny to German psychiatrist Moe to cure her of stage fright.
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FLYING SAUCER DAFFY (10/9/1958) D: Jules White. Gail Bonney, Emil Sitka, Bek Nelson, Diana Darrin, Billy Engle, Arline Hunter, Roy Jensen, Joe Palma, Harriette Tarler. Moe and Larry take a picture of a supposed flying saucer with Joe’s camera, but they soon pay the price when it becomes a phony. TRIVIA: The original working title was PARDON MY FLYING SAUCER.
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OILS WELL THAT ENDS WELL (12/4/1958) D: Jules White. The Stooges head to prospect for uranium to pay for their father’s operation. TRIVIA: A slight reworking, with stock footage, of OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE (1939).
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TRIPLE CROSSED (2/2/1959) D: Jules White. Angela Stevens, Mary Ainslee (stock footage), Diana Darrin (stock footage), Johnny Kascier. Larry creates a love triangle between Moe, Joe and their wives. TRIVIA: A remake, with stock footage, of HE COOKED HIS GOOSE (1952).
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SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS (6/4/1959)
Production Number 1912
Producer-Jules White
Director-Jules White
Assistant Director-Max Stein
Story and Screenplay-Jack White and Saul Ward
Photography-Iriving Lippman
Editor-Harold White
Art Director-Walter Holscher
Set Decorator-Sidney Clifford
Music-Mischa K. Bakaleinikoff
Cast
Greta Thyssen
George J. Lewis
Paul Ellis
Joe Palma
Cy Schindell
Eddie Laughton
The Stooges are down-on-their-luck actors in Mexico who become bull targets thanks to a jealous husband.
The original working title was THAT’S BULLY. Shooting Schedule: 6/30/1957-7/1/1957 A remake, with stock footage, of WHAT’S THE MATATDOR? (1942).
MOE, LARRY & CURLY-JOE
THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK
Filmed in 1960 and in color, THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK was originally shot as a television pilot...it did not sell. All was not lost however, as the film was distributed to theaters in September of 1963 as two short-subjects. The first, a two-reeler dubbed here as CREEPY MANOR ran 14 minutes. The second, a one-reeler dubbed THE SPAIN MUTINY, clocked in at 10 minutes. Both shorts retained the original color and the sitcom-style laugh-track as originally intended for television. For an idea of how the complete pilot would have aired, just combine both plot synopsis.
In a money-saving move, Norman Maurer devised a storyline which allowed the reuse of much of the footage from the first half of the pilot, and printed it in black & white for the feature film THE THREE STOOGES IN ORBIT (1962).
CREEPY MANOR (9/1963)
Producer-Norman Maurer
Director-Sidney Miller
Assistant Director-Harry Slott
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Music-Paul Dunlap
Title Song-George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
Song Vocals-The Eligibles
Photography-Hal McAlpin
Editor-Chuck Gladden
Sound-Leon Leon
Cast
Don Lamond (Narrator)
Emil Sitka
Marjorie Eaton
Edward Innes
Albert Grazier
While rehearsing for their television program THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK, Moe, Larry & Curly Joe are evicted by their landlady for cooking in the rooming house. Their search for a new apartment that allows home cooking takes them to Creepy Manor, where an eccentric scientist asks them to help him guard his new invention from enemy spies. When the Stooges head to bed, an enemy spy works on scaring them off.
THE SPAIN MUTINY (9/1963)
Producer-Norman Maurer
Director-Sidney Miller
Assistant Director-Harry Slott
Screenplay-Elwood Ullman
Music-Paul Dunlap
Title Song-George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
Song Vocals-The Eligibles
Photography-Hal McAlpin
Editor-Chuck Gladden
Sound-Leon Leon
Animation Story-Al Bertino and Dick Kinney
Animation Director-Sam Nicholson
Animation-Fred Madison, David Weidman and Norm Gottfredson
Cast
Norman Maurer
Don Lamond
Mel Blanc (voice only)
The Stooges arrive at the television studio for the taping of their show THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK and introduce their new cartoon, THE SPAIN MUTINY. The animated Stooges respond to a want ad from Christopher Columbus, and join him on his sea journey to prove that the world is not square. When Columbus takes a nap, the Stooges have to deal with a mutinous parrot named Feathers.