Joe DeRita

Joe DeRita

Born: July 12, 1909
Died: July 3, 1993
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Joe DeRita (July 12, 1909 – July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American comedian who is best known as Curly-Joe DeRita, the "sixth" member of the Three Stooges.

DeRita was born into a show-business family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wardell's father was a stage technician, his mother a professional stage dancer, and the three often acted on stage together from his early childhood. Taking his mother's maiden name, DeRita (Portuguese), the actor joined the burlesque circuit during the 1920s, gaining fame as a comedian. During World War II, DeRita joined the USO, performing through Britain and France with such celebrities as Bing Crosby and Randolph Scott.

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Title: The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: May 5, 2015
Type: TV
Celebrate a century of Stoogery with this long-anticipated collection that will smack you over the head with private home movies, family photographs, and classic clips of their Columbia shorts. From their Vaudeville days, through the Great Depression, two world wars, and decades of classic side-splitting shorts, this is the inside, intimate story of Hollywood’s most beloved group of knuckleheads. The complete OFFICIAL story of The Three Stooges. Packed with Columbia shorts and unseen family footage.
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Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Title: Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Character: Joe (archive footage)
Released: April 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Woody Harrelson hosts a special tribute to the Three Stooges in honor of their 75th Anniversary. In addition to classic Stooges routines, there are feature film clips, ultra-rare shorts, solo appearances, and TV performances, rare home movies, and interviews with Stooge family members and special guest stars. A must for any Stooge fan? Why soitenly!
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Title: Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 5, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
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The Three Stooges Funniest Moments - Volume II
Title: The Three Stooges Funniest Moments - Volume II
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
These rare glimpses of Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita in color were shot in 1965 as live-action scenes for The New Three Stooges cartoon, representing the team at the peak of its popularity. You'll see Moe at his exasperated best as a short-tempered chef, a cold-hearted ice cream salesman, an aspiring dentist (with Curly-Joe in drag in as his nurse and Larry as his impatient patient). as "Dr. Ben Crazy." They also appear as clueless campers facing an escaped lion, sappy sailors and soldiers, addle-brained actors, timid test pilots, moronic magicians, over-eager electricians, witless waiters and horseless cowboys..
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The Three Stooges Funniest Moments - Volume I
Title: The Three Stooges Funniest Moments - Volume I
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
These rare glimpses of Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita in color were shot in 1965 as live-action scenes for The New Three Stooges cartoon, representing the team at the peak of its popularity. While cleaning a musty mansion, they discover a suit of armor that appears to be inhabited and Moe matches wits withs a checker-playing chimp (we won't tell you who wins) as the boys play zany zookeepers. They wreak havoc open a golf course, the open road, a fishing boat, a camping trip, an airport scale and the beach, and as perplexed paperhangers, foolish photographers, short-tempered chefs and dim-bulb doctors.
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The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Title: The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Character: Joe
Released: May 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Three's never a crowd when it comes to the immortal Stooges, as demonstrated by this no-holds-barred, back-to-back compilation of mayhem, wild comedy, and classic routines from TV, film shorts, and features. The boys appear with Steve Allen, Ed Wynn, and original front man Ted Healy as bungling barbers, clueless cowboys, goofy golfers, bumbling beach bums, witless witnesses, hare-brained house cleaners, and more. You'll split your sides when you see Curly as a jumbo jockey who can't mount a horse, Shemp as a ghostly do-gooder determined to reform his partners, and Curly Joe as a near-sighted knife-thrower menacing Larry.
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The Three Stooges Story
Title: The Three Stooges Story
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: May 2, 2001
Type: Movie
You'll see all six of the Three Stooges - brothers Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita - in this exhaustive "Nyukumentary" covering their comedic career in all its goofy glory. Starting in the early 1920s as sidekicks for comedian Ted Healy, the Stooges made their movie debut in Soup to Nuts (1930), and gained their greatest fame in a series of short films for Columbia from 1934-'57. You'll see the Stooges and many of their collaborators from both sides of the camera (actor Emil Sitka, directors Edward Bernds and Jules White) in rare film clips, documentary footage, TV Interviews, and more. Narrated by Mike Eagan
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The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Title: The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A tribute to the Three Stooges comedy team, featuring old clips and home movies mixed with music performances of Stooge-themed songs.
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Batmania: From Comics to Screen
Title: Batmania: From Comics to Screen
Character: Self / Curly-Joe (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This is the fully documented story of Batman, his genesis, his development, and his overall entertainment career. Told with dramatic insight, this action filled documentary will satisfy every fan who ever delighted in Batmania.
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Kook's Tour
Title: Kook's Tour
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: February 4, 1970
Type: Movie
After nearly 50 years of eye-poking and face-slapping, the Stooges decide to retire and tour the world with their dog, Moose. They start by touring America's national parks, however, with the stooges, it is truly a "kook's tour". This especially proves to be the case, for Larry, who despite his best efforts, simply cannot seem to catch a fish. Larry is driven to the height of frustration as he is continually outfished by Moe, Joe, Moose, and even his own hat!
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Star Spangled Salesman
Title: Star Spangled Salesman
Character: Curly Joe
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.
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The New 3 Stooges: Mummies Boys
Title: The New 3 Stooges: Mummies Boys
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: May 7, 1966
Type: Movie
As archaeologists in Egypt, the Stooges enter a pyramid and are surprised to discover not only mummies but their ghosts as well.
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The Outlaws Is Coming
Title: The Outlaws Is Coming
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: January 14, 1965
Type: Movie
Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.
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Title: The New 3 Stooges
Character: Curly Joe (voice)
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: TV
Larry, Moe and Curly Joe bring their mastery of mirth, merriment and mayhem to plenty of places from the Old West to Outer Space and everywhere in between. The hijinks never stop as The Boys bumble and fumble their way from one zany adventure to the next in this animated slapstick series.
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4 for Texas
Title: 4 for Texas
Character: Painting Deliveryman
Released: December 21, 1963
Type: Movie
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Title: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Character: Airport Firemen #3
Released: November 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Title: The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: August 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, However, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime. This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. Can they make it back to England in time ?
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The Three Stooges in Orbit
Title: The Three Stooges in Orbit
Character: Curly-Joe
Released: July 4, 1962
Type: Movie
The fate of the planet in the hands of Larry, Moe and Curly Joe? That's exactly the situation the trio finds themselves in when they befriend a wacky scientist and must defend his secret invention from a pair of malevolent Martians. Sight gags, slapstick and plenty of nyuks abound as the Stooges bumble their way through an adventure of intergalactic proportions.
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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
Title: The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
Character: Curly Joe
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges manage to crash through the time barrier with their slap-happy antics in this classic feature-length comedy. Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe are friends of a young scientist, Schuyler Davis, who has created a time machine. Together with Schuyler's girlfriend, Diane, they are all transported back to ancient Ithaca which is ruled by the tyrannical King Odius. The lecherous king promptly takes a liking to Diane and banishes Schuyler and The Stooges to the galleys. When they manage to escape, they begin promoting Schuyler as "Hercules" at local gladiatorial combats - until the real Hercules shows up. But, with their unique "charm," The Stooges convince Hercules to help them rescue Diane. Written by Robert Lynch
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Snow White and the Three Stooges
Title: Snow White and the Three Stooges
Character: Curley-Joe
Released: December 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Fortunia, a noble king and his lovely young queen lack but one blessing to make their joy complete. The queen gives birth to a daughter named Snow White, but dies soon after. The king mourns her, but in time, he remarries because of the pleading of his people. His new queen is a beautiful, but evil woman who soon becomes jealous of Snow White's beauty.
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Have Rocket, Will Travel
Title: Have Rocket, Will Travel
Character: Curley-Joe
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The Stooges are janitors working at a space center who accidentally blast off to Venus. They encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing tarantula, and an alien computer who has destroyed all human life on the planet and creates three evil duplicates of the Stooges. When the boys return home triumphant, they are given a hero's welcome.
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Title: Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
Released: October 6, 1958
Type: TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
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The Bravados
Title: The Bravados
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape, Jim tracks them into Mexico, determined to see that justice is done. But the farther Jim goes in his quest for vengeance, the more merciless he becomes, losing himself in an unrelenting spiral of hatred and violence.
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self - Operating Room Attendant
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Title: The Steve Allen Show
Character: Self (The Three Stooges)
Released: June 24, 1956
Type: TV
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Coroner Creek
Title: Coroner Creek
Character: Jack the Bartender
Released: July 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A man is bent on taking revenge on those responsible for his fiancée's death.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Curly Joe
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - the Three Stooges
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Jitter Bughouse
Title: Jitter Bughouse
Character: Joe
Released: April 29, 1948
Type: Movie
A member of a band practicing for an upcoming commercial finds out from his girlfriend that she got a job as nurse to a rich but eccentric old man, Mr. Lark. Believing that music can cure those with mental problems, he and his band accompanies the nurse to Lark's mansion in order to "cure" him.
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Wedlock Deadlock
Title: Wedlock Deadlock
Character: Eddie
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther Howard), aunt (Patsy Moran) and brother (Charles Williams) show up and give every indication of becoming permanent free-loading guests. Dick (William Newell) gives Eddie a plan that will cause his unwanted guests to vacate the premises, by having Dick and his wife, Ruby (Dorothy Granger), move in as Eddie's relatives, and even bigger pests, thereby causing Betty's relatives to move out. The plan works and Eddie and Betty are pleased until Dick announces that he and Ruby have intentions of staying on.
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The Good Bad Egg
Title: The Good Bad Egg
Character: Joe Priggle
Released: March 20, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.
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Slappily Married
Title: Slappily Married
Character: Joe Bates
Released: November 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Joe's wife, who thinks he's been carrying on with another woman, moves out.
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High School Hero
Title: High School Hero
Character: Tiny
Released: September 6, 1946
Type: Movie
The students at Whitney High School are down in the dumps since their football team faces almost certain defeat and hasn't won a game in 28 years. The school paper may have to suspend publication because the circulation is so low and the principal intends to replace student performers at the school bazaar with professionals.
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The French Key
Title: The French Key
Character: Fox
Released: May 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
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People Are Funny
Title: People Are Funny
Character: Mr. Hinkley (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."
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The Sailor Takes a Wife
Title: The Sailor Takes a Wife
Character: Waiter
Released: December 28, 1945
Type: Movie
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.
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The Doughgirls
Title: The Doughgirls
Character: Snoring Man
Released: November 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
Title: Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Meek Man
Released: September 25, 1943
Type: Movie
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.