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The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges began in the "Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen" show and included Healy with the three 'Horwitz' brothers: young Moe Howard, his brother, Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine. In 1958, comic actor Joe DeRita, who looked remarkably like Curly, became known as "Curly Joe." Through the 1960s, television made The Three Stooges into stars. The Three Stooges' antics continue today in syndicated television programs.
199 Questions
Did the three stooges ever appear in a thin man series?
Shemp had a bit role as an ex con in Another Thin Man released in 1939.
Who was the last living member of The Three Stooges?
Technically, it was Emil Sitka who was scheduled to take over for Larry when he passed in January, 1975. But Moe fell ill to lung cancer and passed in April, 1975 and Sitka never got to play with the Stooges. He was a role player in many Stooges two-reel shorts of the 1940s and 1950s. He passed away in 1998.
Moe Howard - 1897-1975
Larry Fine - 1902-1975
Curly Howard - 1903-1952
Shemp Howard - 1895-1955
Joe Besser - 1907-1988
Curly Joe DeRita - 1909-1993
Joe Palma - 1905-1994*
Emil Sitka - 1914-1998
* - Shemp passed away with four two-reel shorts left in the contract. Joe Palma stepped in and 'played' Shemp for those four shorts. Palma had no lines, kept his face away from the camera, and wore a wig that looked like Shemp's hair. Palma, like Emil Sitka, played in many Stooges shorts in the 40s and 50s. At the end of the contract Joe Besser was signed to become the third Stooge.
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Were the Three Stooges rich at death?
No , only Moe Howard lived within his budget whereas Larry Fine passed away nearly penniless .
Re Three Stooges-Back to the Woods Is that a Mozart piece playing on Moe's music box dancing scene?
It is a minuet by Beethoven
The Three Stooges weak back joke?
That is in Uncivil Warriors.
The Stooges are spies in the Civil War. The folks they are spying on get suspicious and start asking Moe questions about his wife. Larry decides to 'excuse' himself so he can dress up as a woman and come back, pretending to be Moe's wife. Larry's excuse is that he has a 'weak back'. When asked how long he's had a weak back Larry says 'Ohhhhh, about a week back'.
What 3 stooges episode when they sold a broken caridge for 400 shekels?
Mummies Dummies.
The short takes place in Ancient Egypt with the boys as used chariots salesmen. They sell a 'lemon' used chariot for 400 sheckels to a guy that happens to work for the King. The King's employee takes them to His Highness and wants them thrown to the crocodiles. But the King has a bad tooth and the Stooges convince him that Shemp is a dentist and can help him. They later discover that a couple of the King's employees are crooks and catch them after a chase that has just about everybody getting conked over the head with something.
What were pies made of in the Three Stooges shorts?
Usually a baked crust filled with a stiffened whipped cream.
Was the a Shep in the three stooges?
Shemp, whose real name was Sam, but his mother's accent made it sound like "Shemp"when she said "Sam"
Who owns the Copyright to The Three Stooges collected works?
All Three Stooges elements are controlled at least in part by C3 Entertainment, linked below.
Who designed the mask on the opening credits of the three stooges shorts?
The mask is called "Comedy", and goes back to the ancient Greeks. It is usually paired with a "crying" mask to symbolize "Theater".
What three stooges episode are they married in a prison?
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
The Stooges are in prison awaiting hanging at the same time three sisters are needing to be married within 48 hours to get their father's $10 million inheritance. The sisters don't really want to be married, they just want the money. So their lawyer comes up with a plan ... they marry three convicts today that will be hanged tomorrow. They like that idea and go to the prison and marry the Stooges.
When the Stooges are going to be hanged, the ropes break after the trap doors open and all fall to the ground. While on the ground, the warden comes up to them with a telegram from the Governor that says someone else has admitted to the crime and the Stooges are free men.
They find the sisters and move in with them. After a while the sisters talk to their lawyer and tell him he's got to get them out of the marriages. He comes up with a plan to throw a swanky party where the Stooges will certainly embarrass them and they will be able to annul the marriages. They like this idea and agree to it.
The party turns into a pie throwing event, started by the lawyer when he pays off the butler to trip while carrying a big cake and smush the cake into Moe's face. No one is spared from wearing the goo. A senator is talking to one of the sisters ... "As a rule, parties bore me but I know I'm gonna get a bang out of this one!" ... WHAM! ... a pie right in the chops. A guy is talking to another woman and one of the sisters about his hunting trip ... "I raised my rifle and FIRED!" ... WHAM!
The lawyer, who left the room after paying off the butler, comes out and sees the fracas and yells at the Stooges and slaps them across their pie covered faces. The sisters tell the lawyer that his scheme worked perfectly and each one throws a pie in his face. The short ends with all the guests throwing pies at the lawyer.
When did the original three stooges begin?
The Stooges were born in 1925 with Ted Healy, Moe Howard, and Shemp Howard. They were originally called 'Ted Healy and His Stooges' and kept this name until Healy and Moe Howard split in 1934 due to Healy's problems with alcohol. When they signed with Columbia Pictures after the breakup to do two reel comedies, the name was changed to 'The Three Stooges'.
"Malice in the Palace" from 1949
Did Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy come before the three stooges?
Laurel and Hardy's first film was "Duck Soup" (1927). It was a comedy short not to be confused with the 1933 Marx brothers film of the same name.
The first stooge film was "Nertsery Rhymes" (1933). This is the first stooge film starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard. There was an earlier 1930 film "Soup to Nuts" starring Moe, Larry, and Shemp Howard. In the early years the team was actually led by Ted Healy.
What children's rhyme also became the theme song for the Three Stooges?
I heard it being played by billy-bob thorton in the period piece "The Alamo". So if it was even a remotely accurate, I assume it's older than the stooges. To update the info that I previously entered, the name of the song is "Listen to the Mockingbird" by Winner, Septimus (Hawthorne, Alice).Philadelphia: Winner & Shuster, 1855. It being written in 1855 and the battle of the Alamo being fought in 1836 makes it a bit suspect but tunes of that era were played throughout the country before finally being written down for posterity. It can be heard WITH THE ORIGINAL LYRICS @ http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/Songs/mockingbird.html ---- The theme song is "Three Blind Mice"! It is/was a nursery rhyme written in 1609 by English composer Thomas Ravenscroft in 1609. Earlier, the other thyme song, "Pop Goes the Weasel", was used. ----
What play did the Three stooges get their skit slowly he turned from?
Vaudville comic Joey Faye claimed authorship of "Slowly I Turned" in its many formats . (I'm not sure as to which play this skit was first performed .)
