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- The act began in the early 1920s as part of a vaudeville comedy act billed as "Ted Healy and His Stooges", consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe Howard. Over time, they were joined by Moe's brother, Shemp Howard, and then Larry Fine.
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- 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.
Moe Howard, Joe DeRita, and Emil Sitka were cast as POWs in a World War II Japanese prison camp, plotting an escape with fellow prisoners. The film would have been a departure from typical Stooge fare, with dark-edged humor and scenes of war violence, but insufficient funding prevented production from advancing beyond the script stage.
The Three Stooges, American comedy team noted for violent anarchic slapstick and routines rooted in the burlesque tradition. Members included Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and ‘Curly Joe’ DeRita. Their act was characterized by cartoonishly violent acts punctuated by exaggerated sound effects.
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Ted Healy and His Stooges
The Three Stooges started in 1925 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called 'Ted Healy and His Stooges' (a.k.a. 'Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen', 'Ted Healy and His Three Lost Souls' and 'Ted Healy and His Racketeers'—the moniker 'Three Stooges' was never used during their tenure with Healy). 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. Br...
The Columbia years: Moe, Larry and Curly
The same year, the trio (now christened The Three Stooges) signed on to appear in two-reel comedy short subjects for Columbia Pictures. In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option; in the Ted Okuda–Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have gotten $1,000 between them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $7,500 per film, to be divided among the trio. Accor...
Shemp returns
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...
Ted Healy Real Name: Clarence Ernst Lee Nash Born: 1, 1896(1896-Template:MONTHNUMBER-01) Died: 21, 1937 (aged 41) Stooge Years: 1922–1925, 1929–1934 Moe Howard Real Name: Moses Harry Horwitz Born: 19, 1897(1897-Template:MONTHNUMBER-19) Died: 4, 1975 (aged 77) Stooge years: 1922, 1926, 1929–1975 Larry Fine Real Name: Louis Feinberg Born: 5, 1902(190...
Throughout their career, Moe acted as both their main creative force and business manager. Comedy III Productions, Inc., formed by Moe, Larry and Curly-Joe DeRita in 1959, is presently the owner of all Three Stooges trademarks and merchandising. After a court battle with the grandsons of Moe Howard, the company is currently operated by DeRita's ste...
A handful of Three Stooges shorts first aired on television in 1949, on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. It was not until 1958 that Screen Gems packaged 78 shorts for national syndication; the package was gradually enlarged to encompass the entire library of 190 shorts. In 1959, KTTV in Los Angeles purchased the Three Stooges films ...
On October 30, 2007, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released The Three Stooges Collection, Volume One: 1934–1936 on DVD. The two-disc set contains shorts from the first three years the Stooges worked at Columbia Pictures. This is the first time ever that all 19 shorts have been released in their original theatrical order to DVD. Every short was r...
You'll Never Know Just What tears are 1. Several instrumental tunes were played over the opening credits at different times in the production of the short features. The most commonly used themes were: 1.1. The verse portion of "Listen to the Mockingbird", played in a comical way, complete with sounds of cuckoo birds and such. This was first used in...
Template:DablinkThe Three Stooges also made appearances in many feature length movies in the course of their careers: 1. Soup to Nuts(1930) 2. Turn Back the Clock(1933) 3. Meet the Baron(1933) 4. Dancing Lady(1933) 5. Broadway to Hollywood(1933) -- Moe and Curly almost unrecognizable as Otto and Fritz, two clowns in makeup 6. Myrt and Marge(1933) 7...
Gary Lassin opened the Stoogeum in 2004 in a renovated architect's office in Spring House, Pennsylvania, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Philadelphia. The museum-quality exhibits fill three stories (10,000 square feet or 929 square meters), including an 85-seat theater. Peter Seely, editor of the book Stoogeology: Essays on the Three Stooges said...
Television
In addition to the unsuccessful (see "History" section, above) television series pilot, Jerks of All Trades and the incomplete Kook's Tour, the Stooges appeared in a show called The New Three Stoogeswhich ran from 1965 to 1966. This series featured a mix of thirty-nine live-action segments which were used as wraparounds to 156 animated Stooges shorts. That cartoon program became the only regularly scheduled television show in history for the Stooges. Unlike other films shorts that aired on TV...
Comic books
Over the years, several Three Stooges comics were produced. 1. St. John Publicationspublished the first Three Stooges comics in 1949 with 2 issues, then again in 1953–54 with 7 issues. 1. Dell Comics published a Three Stooges series first as one-shots in their Four Color Comics line for 5 issues, then gave them a numbered series for four more issues (#6-9). With #10, the title would be published by Gold Key Comics. Under Gold Key, the series lasted through issue #55 in 1972. 2. Gold Key Comic...
Mobisode
A mobisode featuring CGIstooges has been announced, and a short trailer released. The theme involves the Stooges running for president.
Bibliography
1. Stroke of Luck, by Larry Fine and James Carone (Siena Publishing Co., 1973). (Larry Fine's autobiography, transcribed from interviews toward the end of his life) 1. Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard , (Citadel Press, 1977). (Moe Howard's autobiography, completed and released posthumously by his daughter) 1. The Stooges Chronicles, by Jeffrey Forrester , (Contemporary Books, Inc., 1981); reissued as The Three Stooges: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Most Popular Comedy Team...
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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.
Mar 27, 2019 · Though officially a trio, six actors served as members of the comedy team throughout its five-decade history, with two Stooges, Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897 - May 4, 1975) and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg, October 5, 1902 - January 24, 1975) remaining constant members, and several others—most famously Curly Howard ...
Aug 22, 2012 · 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 ...