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Over time, they were joined by Moe's brother, Shemp Howard, and then Larry Fine. The four appeared in one feature film, Soup to Nuts, before Shemp left to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Moe's younger brother, Jerome "Curly" Howard, in 1932.
His parents and brothers Benjamin ("Jack") and Irving were not involved in show business, however he, his older brother Shemp Howard (Samuel), and his younger brother Curly Howard (Jerome) eventually became known as members of The Three Stooges.
- Some of Them Are Related
- They Built New Identities
- Tragedy Struck Early on
- He Had A Horrific Accident
- The Incident Changed His Life—And History
- There Was Another Close Call
- They Weren’T All That Studious
- He Had A Strange Path to Show Business
- His First Gig Had An Abrupt Ending
- His Hair Really Looked Like That
Some like to paint the Three Stooges as a family act—but were they really? The answer is...sort of yes, and sort of no. Essentially all incarnations of the group consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and a third stooge. While Moe and Larry shared no real-life familial relation, the two most famous “third” stooges—Curly Howard and Shemp Howard—were b...
Moe, Shemp, and Curly were all brothers in real life, but their last name was not really Howard. As brothers, they all took on the last name “Howard” as a shared stage name—despite their brotherly relationship not playing any overt part in their act. Their real last name was Horwitz, and they had two other brothers in addition to the ones in the ac...
Larry Fine’s original name was “Louis Feinberg.” He grew up in a modest, working-class Russian Jewish family in Philadelphia. Tragically, the family suffered a horrific loss during Fine’s childhood. The future lost his infant brother when he was still just a boy—a grief that would haunt his family forever. And the misfortunes didn’t end there. Wiki...
Fine’s parents supported the family by running a jewelry store. On one occasion, young Larry was hanging around the store and spotted something he assumed to be an appetizing beverage. He didn't realize his terrible mistake until it was too late.He picked up the bottle and was about to start drinking when his father abruptly smacked it out of his h...
If not for the acid incident that nearly claimed Larry’s young life, the Three Stooges as we know them might never have existed. In response to the damage the acid did to his forearm, his parents signed him up for violin lessons to help rebuild the arm’s strength. This musical training is what first inspired Larry’s interest in show business and pe...
Fine wasn’t the only future Stooge to survive his childhood by the skin of his teeth. Jerome Howard, later to be known to the world as Curly, nearly deprived the world of his talents when he had an accident with a firearm at the age of 12. The youngster was in the process of cleaning the weapon when he accidentally caused it to go off. Curly looked...
Moe Howard had a fascination with the world of performing since early childhood. Although this eventually paid off for him, it caused a lot of problems with his schooling. Young Moe’s hobby distracted him from his studies, resulting in poor grades. The poor grades then demotivated him from taking school seriously, resulting in him skipping class an...
As an adolescent, Moe took on any kind of theater-related odd job he could find—anything to be close to real live actors. He even ran errands for actors without getting paid, all just to get on their good side. Eventually, this paid off for him in a huge way. A local film company started giving him bit parts in their movies as a gesture of gratitud...
If you’re surprised to hear about young Moe’s pre-Stooges film career, there’s a perfectly good reason why you’ve never encountered any of these works before. In 1910, when the future comedian was still just a teenager, the film studio that he worked for suffered a devastating fire. All known copies of every movie Moe had appeared in during this er...
One of the most easily identifiable aspects of the Stooges is their wacky hairstyles. But as funny as their hair is, it wasn’t part of the act—in one case, at least. Moe’s famous “bowl cut” is the way his hair really looked both on and off the screen. As a young man, his mother refused to cut his hair, since she liked to see it grown out nice and l...
- Moe Howard. The Ringleader. Instantly recognized by his signature bowl cut, Moe Howard was a consistent member of the Three Stooges for the entirety of the group’s existence.
- Larry Fine. The Middle Stooge. Larry Fine, known as “the middle Stooge,” sported a shock of frizzy auburn hair, sprouting from a point far back on his balding head.
- Curly Howard. The Silliest Member of the Stooges. After Shemp Howard decided to leave the Ted Healy act, he recommended that his brother Curly be brought in as a replacement.
- Shemp Howard. Moe and Curly's Brother. The oldest of the Howard brothers, Shemp Howard began performing on the vaudeville circuit at a young age alongside his brother, Moe.
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- The Howards are born. The backbone of the Three Stooges was the Howard brothers. Born to Solomon and Jennie Gorovitz — whose surname was changed to Horwitz with U.S. immigration (via Michael Fleming's "The Three Stooges: Amalgamated Morons to American Icons") — the brothers went through another name change when they arrived in Hollywood: Howard.
- Moe enters show business. Moses Horwitz was the first of his family to catch the acting bug. While an avid reader, the future Moe Howard was a regular truant, put off by bullying classmates and the call of the stage.
- They create a unique style with their haircuts. Call it a bowl cut, a mushroom cut, or a mop top. By any name, it was one of Moe Howard's trademarks. Throughout his adult life, the leader of the Three Stooges always sported the same unnaturally sharp fringe of hair.
- Larry Fine transforms from violinist to stooge. The Howard brothers and Ted Healy may have founded the iconic act, but besides Moe Howard, the one constant over the decades was the balding, frizzy-haired Larry Fine from the Three Stooges.
Moe was the fourth eldest of five Howard brothers. Two of Moe’s brothers, Jerome (Curly), and Shemp performed with him as members of The Three Stooges. Moe’s other two brothers, Jack and Irving, never entered show business. Moe graduated from P.S. 163 in Brooklyn.
The Horowitz brothers, Moe, Curly, and Shemp, were born to a moderately prosperous Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn. Their mother Jennie was a successful real-estate agent, although she could barely speak English, and their father Solomon was a fabric cutter.
