JQ 18 months ago. Tim JQ 15 months ago. Did you not read the whole article? Like 1 Reply Delete. Runeshaper 20 months ago. Still watch these stooges with my folks and we still laugh :.
Jeffrey 20 months ago. I want to thank Me-TV for last saturday in the SE wis area ; chopping the heck out of "pain in the pullman" the short started with the stooges already on the train. A good 15min hack job,,,Thanks. Deleted 20 months ago. And what exactly does that have to do with "The Three Stooges"? Keithm 20 months ago. She bowled with my mother several times and when we found out about that of course we put together a list of questions to ask her.
Curly was forever forgetting his lines of course this is getting near the end of his career anyway. Larry was likable but a very neutral sort of personality. Moe was all business when it came to the group. Shemp, however was her favorite stooge. The part where she mistakes shemp four cousin basil was hilarious. Shemp told her don't go light on me make those slaps count. At the end of the scene shemp was almost ready to pass out! She really beat the crap out of him!
Shemp was still her favorite overall he was always amazingly kind and polite is what she told us. Like 4 Reply Delete. Sway Keithm 20 months ago. Nice story. Three stooges fan here. Always enjoyed the shorts Christine McIntyre was in. Funny lady, good sport, and good singer Voices of Spring. Now, i can see that she did seem to have a rapport with Shemp. BrittReid Keithm 20 months ago.
Shemp made a great punching bag when he joined after Jerry. Emil Sitka , a longtime actor in Stooge comedies, was contracted to replace Larry—but no film was ever made with him in the role, although publicity photographs exist of him with his hair combed similarly to Larry's posing with Moe and Curly-Joe see below.
However, Larry's paralyzing stroke in effectively marked the end of the act. He died in January Moe died of cancer a few months later. The Stooges' hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines.
In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep "interrupting" him. Healy would respond by verbally and physically abusing his stooges.
Brothers Moe and Shemp were joined later that year by violinist-comedian Larry Fine, and Fred Sanborn joined the group as well. The original Three Stooges in their film debut, Soup to Nuts. Many fans forget that Shemp Howard far left was the original third Stooge before his youngest brother Curly assumed the role.
The film was not a success with the critics, but the Stooges' performances were considered the highlight and Fox offered the trio a contract without Healy. This upset Healy, who told studio executives that the Stooges were his employees. The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theatre circuit.
Healy attempted to stop the new act with legal action, claiming they were using his copyrighted material. There are accounts of Healy threatening to bomb theaters if Howard, Fine and Howard ever performed there, which worried Shemp so much that he almost left the act; reportedly, only a pay raise kept him on board.
Healy tried to save his act by hiring replacement stooges, but they were not as well-received as their predecessors [2] In , with Moe now acting as business manager, Healy reached a new agreement with his former Stooges, and they were booked in a production of Jacob J. Shubert's The Passing Show of During rehearsals, Healy received a more lucrative offer and found a loophole in his contract allowing him to leave the production.
With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges Moe and Larry needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard. Healy reportedly took one look at Jerry, who had long chestnut red locks and a handlebar mustache, and remarked that he did not look like he was funny. There are varying accounts as to how the Curly character actually came about. They appeared in feature films and short subjects, either together, individually, or with various combinations of actors.
The trio was featured in a series of musical comedy shorts , beginning with Nertsery Rhymes. The short was one of a few shorts to be made with an early two-strip Technicolor process; the shorts themselves were built around recycled film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, some of which had been filmed in Technicolor. In , the team's contract with MGM expired, and the Stooges parted professional company with Healy.
According to Moe Howard in his autobiography, [3] the Stooges split with Ted Healy in once and for all because of Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness. Both Healy and the Stooges went on to separate success. Healy died under mysterious circumstances in The same year, the trio now christened The Three Stooges signed on to appear in two-reel comedy short subjects for Columbia Pictures. According to Moe, Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn would always wait until the last minute to renew the contract.
The Stooges appeared in film shorts and five features under the "original" contract with Columbia. Del Lord directed more than three dozen Three Stooges shorts. Jules White directed dozens more, and his brother Jack White directed several under the pseudonym "Preston Black". In the early shorts, Curly was billed as "Curley", and also as "Jerry Howard" when receiving a writing credit. This minute short subject starring Moe as an Adolf Hitler —like character satirized the Nazis in a period when America was still neutral and isolationist about WWII.
Reportedly this film caused the Stooges to be placed on Hitler's so-called "death list" because of its anti-Nazi stance. Chaplin, along with Jack Benny would also be on this list due to their later anti-Nazi films. The Stooges made occasional guest appearances in feature films, though generally they stuck to short subjects.
Columbia offered theater owners an entire program of two-reel comedies 15 to 25 titles annually featuring such stars as Buster Keaton , Andy Clyde , Charley Chase , and Hugh Herbert , but the Three Stooges shorts were the most popular of all. Curly was easily the most popular member of the team. The fact that Curly had to shave his head for the act led him to feel unappealing to women. To mask his insecurities, Curly excessively drank, ate, and caroused whenever the Stooges made personal appearances, which was approximately seven months out of the year.
His weight ballooned in the s, and his blood pressure was dangerously high. Anyone viewing Curly's last dozen shorts will see a seriously ill Curly, struggling to get through even the most basic scenes. During the filming of Half-Wits Holiday on May 6, , Curly suffered a debilitating stroke , and the film was finished without him. He is absent from the last several minutes of the film. Curly's health necessitated a temporary retirement from the act, and while the Stooges hoped for a full recovery, Curly never starred in a film again.
He did make one brief cameo appearance in the third film after Shemp returned to the trio, Hold That Lion! It was the only film that contained all four of the original Stooges the three Howard brothers and Larry on screen simultaneously; Jules White recalled Curly visiting the set one day, and White had him do this bit for fun.
Curly's cameo appearance was recycled in the remake Booty and the Beast. Moe Howard turned to his older brother Shemp Howard to take Curly's place. Shemp, however, was hesitant to rejoin the Stooges, as he had a successful solo career at the time of Curly's untimely illness. However, he realized that Moe's and Larry's careers would be finished without the Stooge act. Shemp wanted some kind of assurance that his rejoining was indeed temporary, and that he could leave the Stooges once Curly recovered.
Unfortunately, Curly's condition declined he remained gravely ill until his death on January 18, from a cerebral hemorrhage. Moe Larry and Shemp during the — era with Hold That Lion which marks the only time the four stooges appear at once. Shemp appeared with the Stooges in 73 more shorts and a quickie Western comedy feature titled Gold Raiders.
The Three Stooges would sign a contract with Columbia Pictures. After debuting for Columbia in the musical short Woman Haters as somewhat different characters, the Stooges appeared in their classic iteration in the comedy short Punch Drunks , which features the now-famous plot of Curly playing a boxer who becomes incredibly skilled whenever he hears the song "Pop Goes the Weasel.
It is the only Three Stooges film to be nominated for an Oscar. By , the Stooges' short films had become incredibly popular with audiences and they released eight per year for the rest of the decade. Very quickly the Stooges established their famous personas: Moe as the quick-to-anger leader who frequently attacked his partners with physical abuse, Curly as a childlike dimwit, and Larry as the "middle Stooge.
In , the Three Stooges starred in their first feature film, Rockin' in the Rockies. The classic Three Stooges lineup appeared together for the final time with their ninety-seventh Columbia short, Half-Wits Holiday , which was released in January Sadly, Curly suffered a stroke during the final day of filming of this short and never returned to the team, though he appeared in a cameo in the trio's hundredth Columbia short, Hold That Lion!
Jerry "Curly" Howard died on January 7, , after suffering several more strokes. With Curly unable to perform, Shemp returned to the Three Stooges to replace his brother. Since he left the Stooges in , Shemp had become a successful supporting actor in comedy films, and starting in he had also starred in his own series of comedy shorts for Columbia. Instead of imitating Curly, Shemp presented his own version of a dimwitted Stooge. However, with the popularity of shorts declining in the early s the Stooges faced significant budget cuts and many of their new releases featured copious footage recycled from earlier shorts for example, six of the Stooges' eight shorts contained recycled footage, as did all eight of their shorts.
On November 22, , Shemp died of a heart attack. Infamously, Moe and Larry completed four Three Stooges shorts left on their yearly contract with Columbia for release by recycling footage of Shemp from earlier shorts and having actor Joe Palma, who frequently appeared in Stooges shorts as a supporting character since 's Goofs and Saddles , stand in for Shemp. Though Moe and Larry were open to the idea of continuing as a duo, Shemp was replaced in the team with Columbia comedian Joe Besser, who often played supporting roles in Abbott and Costello films and on their television show.
Besser was less of a physical comedian than Curly or Shemp, and his character did not receive much physical abuse. The Three Stooges only made sixteen shorts with Besser as a member of the team because Columbia halted production on comedy shorts at the end of , though the shorts would continue to be released until June , when the final Columbia short, Sappy Bull Fighters , was released.
In almost 25 years, the Three Stooges starred in shorts for Columbia. Columbia did not renew the Stooges' contract. While the market for comedy shorts in theaters had ended, the Three Stooges saw their popularity explode when their shorts began airing on television in Moe and Larry gained an entirely new, younger audience and realized that their careers as entertainers were far from over.
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