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The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–2. They were commonly known by their first names: . The act originally featured Moe Howard (born Harry . Shemp was later replaced by brother Curly Howard (born Jerome Lester . When Curly suffered a debilitating stroke in 1. Shemp rejoined the act.
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After Shemp's death in 1. Joe Besser, after the use of stuntman Joe Palma to record several .
After Larry suffered a serious stroke in 1. 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 1. He died in January 1. Moe died of cancer a few months later. In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep . 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. Many fans forget that Shemp Howard (far left) was the original third Stooge before his youngest brother Curly assumed the role.
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In 1. 93. 0, Ted Healy and His Stooges, including Sanborn, appeared in their first Hollywood feature film: Soup to Nuts, released by Fox Studios. 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 The offer was withdrawn, and after Howard, Fine and Howard learned of the reason, they left Healy to form their own act, which quickly took off with a tour of the theatre circuit.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.
Shubert's. The Passing Show of 1. During rehearsals, Healy received a more lucrative offer and found a loophole in his contract allowing him to leave the production. 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. 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 comedyshorts, 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. Soon, additional shorts followed (sans the experimental Technicolor), including Beer and Pretzels, Plane Nuts, and The Big Idea. Healy and the Stooges also appeared together in Myrt and Marge for Universal Pictures. In 1. 93. 4, the team's contract with MGM expired, and the Stooges parted professional company with Healy. According to Moe Howard in his autobiography. Their final film with Healy was MGM’s 1.
Hollywood Party. Healy died under mysterious circumstances in 1. In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $6. Ted Okuda–Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have gotten $1,0. Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $7,5.
According to Moe, Columbia Pictures studio head Harry Cohn would always wait until the last minute to renew the contract. The Stooges appeared in 1. 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 . Promotional photo from the 1.
Wee Wee Monsieur. This 1. 8- 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. You Nazty Spy was the first Hollywood film to spoof Hitler, and was released nine months before Charlie Chaplin's. The Great Dictator. Reportedly this film caused the Stooges to be placed on Hitler's so- called . Chaplin, along with Jack Benny would also be on this list due to their later anti- Nazi films.
Columbia offered theater owners an entire program of two- reel comedies (1. Buster Keaton, Andy Clyde, Charley Chase, and Hugh Herbert, but the Three Stooges shorts were the most popular of all. 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 1. Anyone viewing Curly's last dozen shorts will see a seriously ill Curly, struggling to get through even the most basic scenes.
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. 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 until his death on January 1. During this period, Moe, Larry and Shemp made a pilot for a Three Stoogestelevision show called Jerks of All Trades in 1.
The series was never picked up, although the pilot is currently in the public domain and is available on home video, as is an early television appearance from around the same time on a vaudeville- style comedy series, Camel Comedy Caravan, originally broadcast live on CBS- TV on March 1. Ed Wynn. Also available commercially is a kinescope of Moe, Larry and Shemp's appearance on The Frank Sinatra Show, broadcast live over CBS- TV on January 1, 1. Sinatra was reportedly a big fan of the Stooges and slapstick comedy in general. On this broadcast, the Stooges are joined by one of their longtime stock- company members Vernon Dent, who plays . The Stooges oblige with disastrous results. Producer Hugh Mc. Collum was discharged and director Edward Bernds resigned out of loyalty to Mc.
Collum, leaving only Jules White to both produce and direct the Stooges' remaining Columbia comedies. Production was significantly faster, with the former four- day filming schedules now tightened to two or three days. In another cost- cutting measure, White would create a .
White was initially very subtle when recycling older footage: he would reuse only a single sequence of old film, re- edited so cleverly that it was not easy to detect. The later shorts were cheaper and the recycling more obvious, with as much as 7. White came to rely so much on older material that he could film the . Archived footage of Shemp, combined with new footage of his stand- in, Joe Palma (filmed from behind or with his face hidden), were used to complete the last four films of Shemp's contract: Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers and Commotion on the Ocean.
Besser, noting how one side of Larry Fine's face seemed . Sitcoms, though, were now available for free. Television was the new popular medium, and by the time Besser joined the act, the Stooges were generally considered throwbacks to an obsolete era. In addition, Moe and Larry were growing older, and could not perform pratfalls and physical comedy as they once had. Columbia was the last studio still producing shorts, and the market for such films had all but dried up. As a result, the studio opted not to renew the Stooges' contract when it expired in late December 1. The final comedy produced was Flying Saucer Daffy, filmed on December 1.
Joan Howard Maurer, daughter of Moe, wrote the following in 1. The boys' careers had suddenly come to an end. They were at Columbia one day and gone the next—no 'Thank yous,' no farewell party for their 2.
Moe Howard recalled that a few weeks after their exit from Columbia, he drove to the studio to say goodbye to several studio executives when he was stopped by a guard at the gate (obviously, not a Stooges fan) and, since he did not have the current year's studio pass, was refused entry. For the moment, it was a crushing blow. The final Stooge release, Sappy Bull Fighters, did not reach theaters until June 4, 1. With no active contract in place, Moe and Larry discussed plans for a personal appearance tour; meanwhile, Besser's wife had a minor heart attack, and he preferred to stay local, leading him to withdraw from the act.
For the first time in nearly 3. Stooges hit a dead end.
ABC television had even expressed interest as far back as 1. In January 1. 95. Columbia's television subsidiary Screen Gems offered a package consisting of 7. Stooge shorts (mainly from the Curly era), which were well received. Almost immediately, an additional 4. Stooge shorts were airing regularly.
Due to the massive quantity of Stooge product available for broadcast, the films were broadcast Monday through Friday, leading to heavy exposure aimed squarely at children. This led to their baby boomer parents to watch alongside of the their offspring, and before long, Howard and Fine found themselves in high demand.