Parte 1

FILMES PRÉ-COLUMBIA (1930-1934)

SOUP TO NUTS. 1930. Realizado pela Fox. Dirigido por Benjamin Stoloff. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry and Shemp. Ted Healy e seus Patetas estrearam nesse primeiro filme do grupo. Na história, os Patetas são bombeiros de meio expediente que querem escapar do quartel para ir a uma festa com garotas e mais tarde aparecem como membros do exército revolucionário mexicano. Duração – 71 minutos.

HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE. 1933. Realizado por Paramount. Produzido por Louis Lewyn. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry e Curly. Uma antiga e rara aparição dos Patetas num curta metragem realizado pela Paramount (Criterion Pictures). Também com Jimmy Durante, Rudy Valle, Ben Turpin, Bonnie Bonnell e Florence Desmond. Este foi o primeiro filme de Curly com os três Patetas (ainda com cabelos). Duração – 11 minutos.

NERTSERY RHYMES. 1933. Realizado pela MGM. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry e Curly. Dirigidi por Benjamin Stoloff. Quando crianças, os Patetas não conseguiam dormir em seu berço King-Size triplo sem que seu pai, Ted Healy, lhe contasse alguma histórias para dormir. Duração – 19:12 minutos.

BEER AND PRETZELS. 1933. Realizado pela MGM. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry e Curly. Dirigido por Benjamin Stoloff. Ainda na fase infantil, travestidos de crianças, os Patetas no berço triplex, chama o pai aos berros, que conta-lhes mais histórias. Duração - 19:25 minutos.

PLANE NUTS. 1933. Realizado pela MGM. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry e Curly. Números de Vaudville e musicais. Dirigido por Jack Cummings. Duração – 19:21 minutos.

THE BIG IDEA. 1934. Realizado pela MGM. Apresentando Ted Healy e seus Patetas, Moe, Larry e Curly. Dirigido por William Crowley. Ted Healy está escrevendo e é interrompido dezenas de vezes pelos Patetas e por outras pessoas, deixando-o muito irritado. Duração – 18:40 minutos.

CURTA-METRAGENS DA COLUMBIA (1934-1936)

Moe, Larry e Curly

WOMAN HATERS. 1934. With Marjorie White. Directed by Archie Gottler from a story by Jerome S. Gottler. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are traveling salesmen who vow not to get involved with women – except Larry has just been secretly married! First Columbia Pictures Three Stooges short feature. Dialogue for this short was billed as a "Musical Novelty," and is spoken all in rhyme. Long time Stooge supporting actor, Bud Jamison also makes his first appearance in a Stooge short. Walter Brennan also makes an appearance. Length – 19:22.

PUNCH DRUNKS. 1934. With Dorothy Granger. Story by Jerry Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard. Directed by Lou Breslow with Jack Cluett. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Curly gets fighting mad whenever he hears the tune ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ – of which fight manager Moe plans to take full advantage. First film in which the Stooges were officially called "The Three Stooges." Only Stooge film actually written by the Stooges themselves. Length – 17:32.

MEN IN BLACK. 1934. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Raymond McCarey. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A parody of MGM’s Clark Cable movie ‘Men in White.’ "For Duty and Humanity" is the pledge the Stooges made when they play medical students who have graduated with the "highest temperatures in their class." Only Stooge film to receive an Oscar nomination. Length – 18:06.

THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS. 1934. With Lucille Ball, Gertie Green, Phyllis Crane. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler, Griffin Jay. Directed by Raymond McCarey. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. While dressed for an advertising gimmick, the Stooges are mistaken for college football players and asked to play privately for a gangster. Features Lucille Ball of "Lucy" fame. Length – 18:25.

HORSES’ COLLARS. 1935. With Dorothy Kent, Fred Kohler. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Clyde Bruckman. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are detectives in the old west, who must divert a Ranch Deed from dastardly Double Deal Decker’s devious dealings. Clyde Bruckman’s only short he directed for the Stooges. He had previously co-directed "The General" with Buster Keaton in 1929. Length – 18:05.

RESTLESS KNIGHTS. 1935. With Geneva Mitchell. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Charles Lamont. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are in the royal kingdom of Anesthesia when they learn they are of royal blood and offer their protection to the Queen – who is promptly kidnapped. Also features Walter Brennan. Famous quote: Moe: "One for all"; Larry: "All for one"; Curly: "Every man for himself." Length – 16:17.

POP GOES THE EASEL. 1935. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges seek refuge in an art school and decide they are the artists. Watch for the climactic fight with modeling clay. Directing debut for famous Stooge director Del Lord. The girls playing hopscotch on the sidewalk are Moe’s daughter, Joan Howard Maurer, and Larry’s daughter, Phyllis Fine Lamond. Only Stooge short to use "Pop Goes The Weasel" as its musical theme song. First "triple slap" in a Columbia Stooge short. Length – 18:08.

UNCIVIL WARRIORS. 1935. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are Civil War spies for the Union. As operators 12, 14 and 15, the Stooges are sent behind southern lines during the Civil War. Famous Curly line: "Let’s have a Nip and Tuck… One nip and they tuck you away for the night." Length – 19:39.

PARDON MY SCOTCH. 1935. With Nat Carr, James C. Norton. Story and screenplay by Andrew Bennison. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. During Prohibition, the Stooges are asked to mix spirits for a bootlegger. Long time Stooge supporting actress Symona Boniface makes her first appearance in a Stooge short. First Stooge short to use "Listen To The Mockingbird" as its musical theme song. Length – 18:46.

HOI POLLOI. 1935. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Two rich guys argue over what molds gentlemen, heredity or environment. The Stooges become the experiment. The theme was originated by Moe and his wife Helen. When Helen suggested turning it into a Stooge short, she was offered story credit or fifty dollars. She took the cash. Theme later became basis the for the Eddie Murphy/Dan Ackroyd film "Trading Places." The dance lesson scene is a Stooge classic. Later remade in "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947). Length – 17:54

THREE LITTLE BEERS. 1935. With Bud Jamison. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced by Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. When the Stooges learn their Brewery is having a golf tournament, they sneak off to a nearby course to get in some practice. Features famous Brewery "Panther Brewing Co." Length – 16:16.

ANTS IN THE PANTRY. 1936. With Clara Kimball Young, Douglas Gerrard. Story and screenplay by Al Giebler. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are exterminators who drum up business by supplying the insects and mice, and crash a high society party. Director Preston Black is actually famous Stooges producer and director Jules White’s older brother, Jack White. He changed his name to hide income from his divorced wife. Clark Kimball Young was a silent film star. Length – 17:48

MOVIE MANIACS. 1936. With Mildred Harris, Kenneth Harlan, Bud Jamison, Harry Semels. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced by Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges travel to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune in the movies, and are mistaken for studio bigshots. Actress Milred Harris was Charlie Chaplan’s first wife. Length – 17:13.

HALF-SHOT SHOOTERS. 1936. With Stanley Blystone and Vernon Dent. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges serve in the military. After being discharged, the Stooges are tricked into enlisting again to serve the same angry sergeant. First short in which the Stooges actually get killed. Debut of Stooge supporting actor Vernon Dent. Length – 18:35.

DISORDER IN THE COURT. 1936. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are key witnesses in a murder trial, and create havoc in the courtroom. The plot involves a murder mystery with the question "Who killed Kirk Robbin?" Polly, the parrot, has the answer. Famous swearing in scene with Curly. Sol Horowtiz, father of Moe, Curly and Shemp makes his lone Stooge film appearance in the audience. First Stooge short to spell Curly as "Curly" and not "Curley." Length – 16:40.

A PAIN IN THE PULLMAN. 1936. Associate producer, Jules White. Written and directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are an unemployed vaudeville act living in a boarding house. Without money to pay the rent, the boys and their pet monkey sneak out of the boarding house to catch a train with the rest of the show’s cast. Their pet monkey causes havoc on the train. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Ethelreda Leopard. This is the longest Stooge short at Columbia. Length - 19:46.

FALSE ALARMS. 1936. Story and screenplay by John Grey. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are inept firemen and almost lose their jobs. Curly is encouraged by his girlfriend and her friends to call Moe and Larry to join them. Instead of calling them on the telephone, Curly pulls the fire alarm. To get to the fire on time, Moe and Larry take the chief’s car and crash it. Length – 16:48.

WHOOPS, I’M AN INDIAN. 1936. Story by Searle Kramer, Herman Boxer. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are caught cheating at roulette and disguise themselves as Indians. Curly is mistaken as an Indian girl and gets married to Pierre (Bud Jamison). Pierre says: "You keep my wigwam?"; Curly: "You keep your own wig warm!" Length – 17:12.

SLIPPERY SILKS. 1936. Story and screenplay by Ewart Adamson. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges begin as antique furniture restorers, and after destroying a rare Chinese cabinet, they inherit the Madame de France dress shop. First Stooges cream dessert fight. Length – 17:15.

GRIPS, GRUNTS AND GROANS. 1937. Story by Searle Kramer, Herman Boxer. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Fighter Ivan Bustoff takes a liking to the Stooges, so they are hired by the champ’s manager to keep Bustoff out of trouble. When they accidentally knock Bustoff cold, Curly has to take his place in the ring. Length – 18:44.

DIZZY DOCTORS. 1937. Story by Charlie Nelson. Screenplay by Al ray. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are lazy-bum husbands, inept salesmen, and misfit fugitives in a hospital. The hospital scene, like "Men In Black," is located at Los Angeles Hospital. First Stooge short in which all the Stooges are married. Length – 17:41

THREE DUMB CLUCKS. 1937. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges try to prevent their millionaire father, who has divorced their mother, from marrying a young gold digger. Curly plays a dual role as Curly and father. Length – 16:49.

BACK TO THE WOODS. 1937. Story by Searle Kramer. Screenplay by Andrew Bennison. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Preston Black. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Lawbreakers in England, the Stooges are sent by the government to the new colonies to help fight the "red man savage." Last of seven shorts directed by Jack White, aka Preston Black. Length – 19:27.

GOOFS & SADDLES. 1937. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Associate producer, Jules white. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. General Muster dispatches the Stooges to catch cattle rustlers. Curly is Buffalo Billius, Larry is Wild Bill Hiccup and Larry is Just Plain Bill. Length – 17:10

CASH & CARRY. 1937. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman, Elwood Ullman. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are gold prospectors housed in the city dump. The are sent on a treasure hunt and dig through to a Federal Bank. Debut of Stooge scriptor Elwood Ullman. Length – 18:21

PLAYING THE PONIES. 1937. Screenplay by Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman, Charles Nielson. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Charles Lamont. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges make what they think is a good swap – their restaurant for a rundown race horse. Length – 17:07.

THE SITTER-DOWNERS. 1937. Story and screenplay by Ewart Adamson. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A man refuses his daughters’ permission to marry the Stooges so they stage a sit down strike in his house and win the nation’s sympathy. The lovebirds are awarded a free house which the Stooges have to assemble. Length – 15:34.

TERMITES OF 1938. 1938. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Al Giebler. Associate producers, Charles Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are exterminators at Acme Exterminator Co., and provide their "services" at a swanky mansion. Stooge motto: "At your service day and night, we do the job and do it right, A-C-M-E." Length – 16:33.

WEE WEE MONSIEUR. 1938. Story and screenplay by Searle Kramer. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are artists in Paris, and wind up in the French Foreign Legend. Length – 17:23.

TASSELS IN THE AIR. 1938. Story and screenplay by Al Giebler and Elwood Ullman. Associate producers, Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Charley Chase. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are mistaken for Omay, the famous interior decorator. This short is a partial reworking of "Luncheon At Twelve" (1933), also directed and co-produced by Charley Chase. Length – 17:09.

FLAT FOOT STOOGES. 1938. With Dick Curtis, Chester Conklin, Lola Jensen. Associate producers, Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Charley Chase. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are firemen and take the firehouse ponies to a Turkish bath for a massage. First use of the introductory theme music "Three Blind Mice." First appearance by Stooge supporting actor Dick Curtis. Length – 15:37.

HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND DUMB. 1938. Story and screenplay by Searle Kramer. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Radio contest winners, the Stooges run up a large tab at the Hotel Costa Plente, and are the target of three gold diggers. First use of Stooges collapsing triple bunk beds. Lucille Lund plays "Daisy" again, as she did in "3 dumb clucks." This short was later remade with Shemp in "A Missed Fortune" (1952). Length – 16:24.

VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY. 1938. Story and screenplay by Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman. Associate producers, Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Charley Chase. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges pose as professors at Mildew College. Contains classic Stooge song – "Swinging the Alphabet." Curly suffered some scorching while strapped to the spit above an open flame. Title is a parody of "Valient is the Word for Carrie," an RK movie (1936). Length – 17:37.

THREE MISSING LINKS. 1938. With Monte Collins, Jane Hamilton and Naba the Gorilla. Story and screenplay by Searle Kramer. Associate producer and director, Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. B.O. Botswaddle is looking for a new star to appear in a jungle epic… so they cast Curly as a gorilla. First Stooge short directed by famous Stooge director and producer Jules White. Dr. Ba Loni Sulami played by John Lester Johnson; He also played the man from Borneo in the classic Our Gang’s "The Kid From Borneo" (1933) ("Eat ‘em up, Yum! Yum!…") Length – 18:04.

MUTTS TO YOU. 1938. With Bess Flowers. Story and screenplay by Al Giebler, Elwood Ullman. Associate producers, Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Charley Chase. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are the operators of a dog laundry who find what they think is an abandoned baby. They next learn they are wanted for kidnapping the child. Length – 18:02.

THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS. 1939. With Phyllis Barry and Harry Semels. Story and screenplay by Ewart Adamson. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are tailors in the Navy. This is the second short in which the Stooges are killed. However, they become angels at the end of this one. Length – 15:47.

WE WANT OUR MUMMY. 1939. Story and screenplya by Elwood Ullman and Searle Kramer. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Detective Stooges travel to Egypt to find a missing Egyptology professor and the cursed mummy of King Rutentuten. First time the Stooges find themselves in a scary/haunted situation. "Three Blind Mice" becomes the permanent theme song for all Stooge shorts from this film on. Length – 16:27.

A DUCKING THEY DID GO. 1939. Original screenplay by Andrew Bennison. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are conned into selling shares in a phony duck hunting club. Their first customers are the Mayor and the Police Department. Length – 16:16.

YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA. 1939. With Dick Curtis, Lynton Brent. Original screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Searle Kramer. Associate producer, Jules White. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Out West, the Stooges are waiters who take up prospecting to help out their sweethearts. But what they dig up is the buried loot from a recent bank robbery. Length – 15:47.

SAVED BY THE BELLE. 1939. With LeRoy Mason and Carmen LaRoux. Story by Searle Kramer, Elwood Ullman. Associate producers, Charley Chase, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Charley Chase. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are salesmen stranded south of the border, and caught in the middle of a revolution. Last Stooge short directed by Charley Chase who died the next year in 1940. Length – 17:22

CALLING ALL CURS. 1939. Screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Searle Kramer. Story by Thea Goodan. Associate producer and director, Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Mrs. Bedford's prize poodle is dognapped from the Stooges' animal hospital, and they must get the poodle back! Famous Curly quote: "I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!" Length - 17:20.

OILY TO BED, OILY TO RISE. 1939. Original screenplay by Andrew Bennison, Mauri Grashin. Associate producer and director, Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. When the Stooges discover oil on the widow Jenkins' property, they have to retrieve the deed from swindlers. First appearances by Stooge supporting actor Richard Fiske, and actress Adrian Booth, aka Lorna Gray. Later remade with Joe Besser in "Oils Well That Ends Well" (1958). Length - 18:13.

THREE SAPPY PEOPLE. 1939. With Lorna Gray, Don Beddoe, Bud Jamison. Original screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Associate producer and director, Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges masquerade as Drs. Ziller, Zeller and Zoller, eminent psychiatrists, to diagnose a flamboyant newlywed. Features classic cream puff fight. One actually became lodged in Adrian Booth's (Lorna Gray) mouth and she needed emergency medical assistance on the set. Length - 17:17.

ROCKIN’ THROUGH THE ROCKIES. 1940. With Linda Winters, Lorna Gray, Dorothy Appleby, Kathryn Sheldon. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A wagon train full of show biz girls tours the West, and the Stooges are assigned to protect them from Indians. First appearance by Stooge player Dorothy Appleby (former Miss Maine). Length – 17:24.

A PLUMBING WE WILL GO. 1940. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are would-be plumbers and mistake pipes filled with wires for water pipes. One of the most popular Stooge shorts. Dudly Dickerson’s battle in the kitchen is a classic, as well as his famous line: "This house is sho’ goin’ crazy!" Later remade with Shemp in "Vagabond Loafers" (1949) and "Scheming Shemers" (1956).

NUTTY BY NICE. 1940. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman, Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges operate a restaurant and try to help a little girl who becomes ill when her father, a bail bondsman, disappears with a lot of cash and the Stooges have to fight gangsters. Length – 17:45.

HOW HIGH IS UP. 1940. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges secure construction jobs on a new building, but find they have to start on the 97th story! Length – 16:26.

FROM NURSE TO WORSE. 1940. Story by Charles L. Kimball. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A buddy in the insurance racket tells the Stooges how to collect benefits by claiming Curly is crazy. But the scheme backfires when the doctor wants to operate! Length - 16:43.

NO CENSUS, NO FEELING. 1940. Story and screenplay by Harry Edwards, Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges’ new jobs have them taking the census, from an afternoon society party to a local football game. Length – 16:29.

COOKOO CAVALIERS. 1940. Story and screenplay by Ewart Adamson. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Messrs. Hook, Line and Sinker decide to get out of the fish business and into the saloon business. But their business broker mistakenly believes they want to buy a beauty salon, and sells them a dilapidated shop in Mexico. Length – 17:24.

BOOBS IN ARMS. 1940. With Richard Fiske, Evelyn Young. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Greeting card salesmen Larry, Moe and Curly hide from an irate man in what they think is a bread line and find themselves inducted into military service. Title is a parody of MGM film "Babes in Arms" (1939) starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Length – 17:55.

SO LONG, MR. CHUMPS. 1941. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman, Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Larry, Moe and Curly are on a quest to find an honest man, and they finally find one – in jail! Title is a parody of MGM’s "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (1939). Length – 17:32.

DUTIFUL BUT DUMB. 1941. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are candid cameramen assigned by WHACK! Magazine to bring back photos of a top secret ray machine from Vulgaria – a military dictatorship where photographers are usually shot. Famous Stooge scene in which Curly does battle for the first time with a feisty oyster in his oyster soup. Length – 16:47.

ALL THE WORLD’S A STOOGE. 1941. Story and screenplay by John Grey. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Ajax Bullion, the millionaire, has a wife who wants to do the "in" thing by adopting war refugees. The Stooges are fugitives from an irate dentist. Mr. Bullion tries to turn figutive Stooges into wartime "refugees" by dressing them as children. Famous Stooge dentist scene. Length – 16:03.

I’LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN. 1941. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler, Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The king of Moronica and his daughter plot the downfall of the dictator Hailstone (Moe). Looked upon as sequel to previous year’s wartime satire - "You Nazty Spy!" (1940) as the Stooges continue to parody Nazi Germany and the axis powers. Length – 18:09.

AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE. 1941. Story and screenplay by Lloyd A. French. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are ice men who take on new jobs as kitchen help for a fancy birthday party. Famous Stooge scene in which Curly "shaves" the ice. Later partially remade with Shemp in "Listen, Judge" (1952). Length – 18:05.

IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE. 1941. Story by Ewart Adamson. Screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are convicts who win freedom to be with Three gold digging women: Tiska, Taska and Baska. The catch is that the Stooges have to become accepted into "society." Contains the mother of all pie fights for Stooge films. Final Stooge appearance by Stooges supporting actor Richard Fiske, who was killed in World War II. Length – 17:25.

SOME MORE OF SOMOA. 1941. Story and screenplay by Harry Edwards, Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Drs. Howard, Fine and Howard are tree surgeons who search for the rare and maigcial persimmon tree on the cannibal isle of Rhum Boogie. Length – 16:40.

LOCO BOY MAKES GOOD. 1942. With Dorothy Appleby, Lohn Tyrrell. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler, Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges help a little old lady by transforming her run-down hotel into a posh nightclub. During show time, Curly gets the magician’s coat by mistake. Length – 17:24.

CACTUS MAKES PERFECT. 1942. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges’ mother kicks them out of the house and they are scammed into buying a lost mine. Soon Curly is using his invention (the collar button locator) to make a fortune. Length – 17:18.

WHAT’S THE MATADOR. 1942. With Suzanne Kaaren, Harry Burns, Dorothy Appleby. Story by Jack White. Screenplay by Jack White, Saul Ward. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges take their comedy bullfighting act to Mexico and run afoul of a jealous husband who arranges for Curly to meet a real bull in the ring. Later remade with Joe Besser in "Sappy Bull Fighters" (1958). Length – 16:16.

MATRI-PHONY. 1942. With Marjorie Deanne, Vernon Dent. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Harry Edwards. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. To save an innocent slave girl forced into marriage with the nearsighted Emperor Octopus Grabus, Curly takes her place on the wedding night. Harry Edwards directing debut of Stooge shorts. Length – 17:10.

THREE SMART SAPS. 1942. With Bud Jamison, Barbara Slater, John Tyrrell. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. It’s the Stooges to the rescue when they find out their sweethearts’ father, the local warden, has been imprisoned by a crooked administration. Length – 16:40.

EVEN AS I O U. 1942. With Ruth Skinner, Stanley Blystone. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges decide to make a worthwhile investment of a little girl’s savings – betting on the races. At the track, Curly meets up with a talking horse. Length – 15:37.

SOCK-A-BYE BABY. 1942. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges resign themselves to parenthood when a distraught woman leaves her baby on their doorstep, but they are later taken as childnappers. Remake of previous Stooge short "Mutts to You" (1938). Length -

THEY STOOGE TO CONGA. 1943. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are fix-it men who stumble across a nest of Nazi spies. Third film after "You Nazty Spy!" (1939) and "I’ll Never Heil Again" (1940) to parody Hitler and the Nazis during World War II. Length – 15:32.

DIZZY DETECTIVES. 1943. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges begin as handymen and then join the police force to solve the ape man burglaries. Later remade twice in "Fraidy Cat" (1951) and "Hook a Crook" (1955). Length – 18:32.

SPOOK LOUDER. 1943. With Stanley Blystone, Lew Kelly. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges emerge as key characters in a story told by a detective to a reporter about the breaking up of the Great Spy Ring. Parody against Japanese spies in World War II. Charles Middleton (the Butler) is best known for his role as "Ming the Merciless" in the "Flash Garden" series. Length – 15:59.

BACK FROM THE FRONT. 1943. Story and screenplay by Jack White, Ewart Adamson. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are merchant marines Inky, Winky and Dinky who confront the Nazis at sea. This is the fifth World War II film from the Stooges which parody the Nazis and Japanese during World War II. Length – 17:41.

THREE LITTLE TWIRPS. 1943. With Chester Conklin, Stanley Blystone. Story and screenplay by Monty Collins, Elwood Ullman. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Harry Edwards. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges crash a circus and wind up a part of the featured act as targets for the Sulton of Abbadabba, a spear chucking wildman. This was Harry Edward’s second and last Stooge short that he directed. The Stooges reportedly requested never to work with him again and he was later fired by Columbia. Length – 15:27.

HIGHER THAN A KITE. 1943. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. After messing up in the motorpool, the Stooges go AWOL in what they think is a sewer pipe. But it’s actually a blockbuster bomb headed for Nazi Germany. Sixth World War II film from the Stooges. Length – 17:28.

I CAN HARDLY WAIT. 1943. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Defense workers Moe and Larry are kept awake when curly suffers from a troublesome tooth. When home remedies fail, it’s off to the dentist. Length – 18:27.

DIZZY PILOTS. 1943. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are the Wrong Brothers, aviators trying to sell a new airplane to the government to avoid the draft. Moe takes unusual punishment when covered with a batch of inflatable rubber. Length – 16:45.

PHONEY EXPRESS. 1943. With Shirley Patterson, Bud Jamison. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman, Monte Collins. Produced by Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. In order to scare off a group of rowdies, the Mayor of Peaceful Gulch prints flyers saying a famous lawman is coming to clean up the town. But the accompanying photo is from a wanted poster for three vagrants – who then show up. Last of nine Stooge shorts in which Monte Collins was involved as an actor or writer. Length – 17:09.

A GEM OF A JAM. 1943. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Written and directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Stooge janitors are mistaken for doctors by crooks. Curly trips into a tray of plaster and arises as a ghost scaring everyone except the police, who arrest the crooks. Length – 16:27.

CRASH GOES THE HASH. 1944. With Dick Curtis, Bud Jamison, Vernon Dent. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. It’s suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcom. Length – 17:36.

BUSY BUDDIES. 1944. Story and screenplay by Del Lord, Elwood Ullman. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesn’t know a cow from a bull! Length – 16:42.

THE YOKE’S ON ME. 1944. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges become farmers as a last resort when every branch of the armed services turns them down. Strong anti-Japanese content during World War II caused this short to later be banned from television. Length – 16:08.

IDLE ROOMERS. 1944. With Duke York, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent. Story and screenplay by Del Lord, Elwood Ullman. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Hotel workers, Moe, Larry and Curly run afoul of a showman’s latest exhibit – a wolfman who hates music! Debut of Stooge supporting actress Christine McIntyre. Length – 16:49.

GENTS WITHOUT CENTS. 1944. With Lindsay, LaVerne, Betty. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are entertainers and meet up with three dancers, Flo, Mary and Shirley. The Stooges then move from rags to riches and find love along the way. Famous for the "Niagra Falls" scene. Length – 18:58.

NO DOUGH BOYS. 1944. With Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Anti-Nazi and Japanese satire during World War II. The Stooges are mistaken for Japanese soldiers by Nazi spies. The expression "Dough Boys" means G.I.’s. Length – 16:54.

BOOBY DUPES. 1945. With Rebel Randall, Vernon Dent. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Written and directed by Del Lord. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are fish salesmen with a better idea – they’ll buy their own boat, catch their own fish and eliminate the middleman. But it’s an idea that won’t hold water as the Stooges are mistaken for the Japanese enemy in World War II. Last Stooge war film. Length – 17:02.

IDIOTS DELUXE. 1945. Story and screenplay by Elwood Ullman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Having suffered a nervous breakdown, Moe is taken for an outing in the country, tangles with a car driving bear – and ends up on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry. Later remade with Joe Besser in "Guns A Poppin!" (1957). Length – 17:28.

IF A BODY MEETS A BODY. 1945. With Theodore Lorch, Fred Kelsey. Story by Gil Pratt. Screenplay by Jack White. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Curly Q. Link is heir to the late millionaire Bob O. Link. But when the Stooges go to claim the inheritance, they find themselves marooned in a spooky haunted house where a couple of murders have taken place. Length – 18:07.

MICRO-PHONIES. 1945. With Christine McIntyre, Symona Boniface, Gino Carrado. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Written and directed by Edward Bernds. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. While fooling around at a recording studio, Curly is mistaken for a lovely soprano opera singer and is asked to sing at a society party. Features Christine McIntyre singing "The Voices of Spring." Producer Hugh McCollum had asked Ed Bernds to write a script to display Christine McIntyre’s singing voice. First release of a Stooge short directed by Ed Bernds, although his first directing was "A Bird in the Head" (1946) released by Columbia the following year. Debut of Stooge supporting actor Gino Corrado. Length – 16:45.

BEER BARREL POLECATS. 1946. With Robert Williams, Vernon Dent. Story and screenplay by Gilbert W. Pratt. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Trouble brews when the Stooges decide to make their own beer. Oh no, they all put in the yeast! Contains footage from previous Stooge shorts "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" (1941) and "So Long, Mr. Chumps" (1941). Length – 17:21.

A BIRD IN THE HEAD. 1946. With Vernon Dent, Robert Williams, Frank Lackteen. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Written and directed by Edward Bernds. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A mad scientist wants to transplant a human brain into the skull of a gorilla – and Curly’s is just the right size! Length – 16:54.

UNCIVIL WARBIRDS. 1946. Story by Clyde Bruckman. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Civil war breaks out between the states, but the Stooges don’t know which side their state will be on. Moe and Larry join the Union, Curly the Confderates. Last appearance of Stooge supporting actor John Tyrrell. Length – 17:04.

THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS. 1946. With Christine McIntyre, Dick Curtis. Story and screenplay by Jack White. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Directed by Edward Bernds. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The fair Nell vows to marry Sheriff "Coney Island" Curly if he rescues her father from the clutches of the villainous Badlands Blackie. Length – 17:04.

MONKEY BUSINESSMEN. 1946. Story and screenplay by Edward Bernds. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Directed by Edward Bernds. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges seek rest and relaxation at a sanitarium run by a quack named Doc Mallard. Debut of Stooge supporting actor Kenneth MacDonald. Curly’s health was reportedly degenerating badly at this point such that Moe had to help Curly with many of his lines in filming this short. Length – 18:00.

THREE LOAN WOLVES. 1946. With Beverly Warren, Harold Brauer. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges recount to their ward how they came to adopt him. A woman left him with Larry at the Stooges’ pawn shop. Debut of supporting Stooge actor Harold Brauer. Length – 16:40.

G.I. WANNA HOME. 1946. With Doris Houck, Judy Malcolm, Ethelreda Leopold. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges return home from the war to find themselves in the middle of the housing shortage and their sweethearts out on the street. Length – 15:44.

RHYTHM AND WEEP. 1946. With Gloria Patrice, Ruth Godfrey, Nita Bieber, Jack Norton. Story and screenplay by Felix Adler. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. Unsuccessful musicians Moe, Larry and Curly decide to end it all by jumping from a skyscraper, where they meet three unsuccessful dancers and a strange man "afflicted with millions." Debut of Stooge supporting actress Ruth Godfrey (White), Jules White’s daughter-in-law. Length – 17:37.

THREE LITTLE PIRATES. 1946. With Christine McIntyre, Robert Stevens, Vernon Dent, Dorothy De Haven. Story and screenplay by Clyde Bruckman. Produced by Hugh McCollum. Directed by Edward Bernds. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. The Stooges are shipwrecked on an island run by an evil governor whose ward promises to help the boys escape if they’ll take her with them. Contains famous Maharaja scene later used again with Curly-Joe in "The Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze." Length - 17:51.

HALF-WITS’ HOLIDAY. 1947.With Vernon Dent, Barbara Slater, Ted Lorch. Story and screenplay by Zion Myers. Produced and directed by Jules White. Features Larry, Moe and Curly. A professor bets another he can turn slobs into gentlemen and uses the Stooges as his control group. Remake of previous Stooges short "Hoi Polloi" (1935). During filming on May 6, 1946, Curly suffered a severe stroke that ended his career as a Stooge. Debut of the great Stooge supporting actor Emil Sitka. Classic pie scene. Later remade again with Joe Besser in "Pies and Guys" (1958). Length – 17:29.

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