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.
Jeffrey BrittReid 20 months ago. Shemps funniest short was Brideless Groom. HerbF 20 months ago. There's actually a couple of still photographs of Curly with the other three from "Malice in the Palace" in existence.
Curly was supposed to be the chef in the restaurant and wore a big fake mustache. Keithm HerbF 20 months ago. Yeah his footage was cut because just looking at that picture I have it as well he really looked in pretty sad shape I would say I think he passed away probably about maybe two years after that was done cuz he passed away in 52 and that was only a few years after that short have been made.
LeeHarper HerbF 19 months ago. For the first time in nearly 30 years, the Stooges hit a dead end. Seeing the success of how television, in its early years, allowed a backlog of short films thought unmarketable, the Stooge films seemed perfect for the burgeoning genre.
ABC television had even expressed interest as far back as , purchasing exclusive rights to 30 of trio's shorts. In January , Columbia's television subsidiary Screen Gems offered a package consisting of 78 Stooge shorts mainly from the Curly era , which were well received.
Almost immediately, an additional 40 shorts hit the market, and by , all 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. This Three Stooges lineup went on to make a series of popular full-length films from to The films were aimed at the kiddie-matinee market, and most were slapstick outings in the Stooge tradition, with the exception of Snow White and the Three Stooges , a children's fantasy in Technicolor.
Throughout the s, The Three Stooges were one of the most popular and highest-paid live acts in America.
From the feature film Snow White and the Three Stooges. The trio also filmed 41 short comedy skits for The New Three Stooges , animated cartoons produced for television. The Stooges appeared in live-action color footage, which preceded and followed each animated adventure in which they voiced their respective characters. In , the Three Stooges filmed a pilot episode for a new TV series titled Kook's Tour , a combination travelogue - sitcom that had the "retired" Stooges traveling around the world, with the episodes filmed on location.
On January 9, , during production of the pilot, Larry suffered a paralyzing stroke , ending his acting career, as well as plans for the television series. A minute version of Kook's Tour was edited together from usable material and initially only made available for the home movie market years before the popularity of home video ; it has subsequently been released to DVD , in an unrestored version.
Larry Fine suffered another stroke just before Christmas The following month, he suffered a more serious one, and slipped into a coma. He died on January 24, , at the age of Devastated by his friend's death, Moe nevertheless decided that the Three Stooges would continue, and longtime Stooge supporting actor Emil Sitka would replace Larry, and be dubbed "The Middle Stooge".
Sitka later said he accepted the offer after receiving Larry's blessings. Several movie ideas were considered, including one called Blazing Stewardesses according to Leonard Maltin , who also uncovered a pre-production photo the film was ultimately made with the last surviving Ritz Brothers. However, Moe fell ill from lung cancer , and died on May 4, The final incarnation of the Three Stooges. With Moe gone, it was inconceivable that the Three Stooges would continue without a Howard.
Emil Sitka died on January 16, , making him the last "Stooge" to die though Sitka never performed on film as a member of the trio, but did appear in a few publicity shots.
Curly takes it in the ear in 's Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb. This photo remains one of the most popular publicity shots of the team. Joe DeRita. Emil Sitka [11]. Throughout their career, Moe acted as both their main creative force and business manager. Lugosi and Larry Fine's grandson, majority owner Eric Lamond. Comedy III has also, since , authorized and provided the services of veteran actors Jim Skousen, Alan Semok, and the late Dave Knight as Moe, Larry, and Curly respectively for numerous "personal appearances" by the Stooge characters for a variety of merchandising and promotional events.
This latter day trio has also provided voices for the characters in a variety of radio spots, merchandising tie-ins, and most recently for the first new Three Stooges short in fifty years It was not until that Screen Gems packaged 78 shorts for national syndication; the package was gradually enlarged to encompass the entire library of shorts. In the late s, AMC had held the rights to the Three Stooges shorts, airing them with host Leslie Nielsen , in the format of a college instructor for NYUK New Yuk University of Knuckleheads , with several shorts often grouped by a theme, such as similar schticks used in different films.
By , the network had discontinued airing the shorts. Spike TV had begun airing Stooges shorts again, this time every Sunday morning at As of late April , Three Stooges has disappeared from the network's schedule entirely. Since the s Columbia has preferred to license the Stooge shorts to cable networks, precluding the films from being shown on local broadcast TV.
Stations in Chicago and Boston, however, signed long-term syndication contracts with Columbia years ago and declined to terminate them. Some of the Stooge films have been colorized by two separate companies. The two-disc set contains shorts from the first three years the Stooges worked at Columbia Pictures. Furious, Healy immediately put the kibosh on this by claiming the Stooges were his employees.
The offer was duly rescinded. When Larry, Moe and Shemp got word of this, they decided to cut Healy loose anyway and struck out on their own. True to form, Healy was incensed, forbidding them to use any of their old routines, which he considered his own copyrighted material, even threatening to bomb theatres if the Stooges dared to play them.
In desperation, Healy made a failed attempt to salvage his act by hiring replacement Stooges. It proved anything but a joyful reunion. This left the Stooges a man down. Healy was scathing. With all the foresight and perception that comes with drinking Wild Turkey for breakfast, he took one look at the future Curly Howard, the most beloved of all the Stooges, and dismissed him as not funny. Admittedly, Jerry did not much resemble his iconic alter ego at that point, sporting long red hair and a handlebar moustache.
This earned him a huge laugh from the crowd vaudeville audiences were obviously a push-over , and one of the most gifted comic performers of the 20th century had officially arrived. The contract was not renewed, and in Healy and his Stooges finally went their separate ways. Not only was he prone to violent, drunken rages, he was apt to do some very dumb things indeed. Already several sheets to the wind when he arrived at the Trocadero on the Sunset Strip, Healy lost no time in mixing things up with another famously belligerent drunk, character actor Wallace Beery, who was drinking at the bar with DiCicco.
Healy suggested they take things outside. They duly did, and Beery and DiCicco proceeded to beat Healy to a pulp. The beating was so savage, in fact, that the following day Healy fell into a coma and died. Mayer deployed his infamous fixers Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling to protect Beery, one of his top stars, by covering up the incident.
MGM story editor Samuel Marx confirmed this in an interview shortly before his death in And by then, they had quite another ruthless sociopath to contend with. They were on the brink of their greatest success and had honed their act into the classic Stooge mode that defines them to this day.
The internal mechanism of The Three Stooges is deceptively simple. Moe, with his gravelly voice, permanent scowl and menacing helmet of bowl-cut hair, was the leader, invariably the under-boss entreated with overseeing whatever hopelessly doomed endeavour the Stooges found themselves pursuing and whatever it was, you can bet it involved heavy objects and the potential for maximum mayhem; plumbing, not surprisingly, was a favourite Stooge profession.
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