Shemp Howard

Shemp Howard

Born: March 10, 1895
Died: November 22, 1955
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Samuel (born Shmuel) Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He is best known today for his role as the third stooge in the Three Stooges, a role he first portrayed at the beginning of the act in the early 1920s (1923–1932) while the act was still associated with Ted Healy and known as "Ted Healy and his Stooges", and again from 1946 until his death in 1955. Between his times with the Stooges, Shemp had a successful film career as a solo comedian.

He was born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Brooklyn, the third-born of five Horwitz brothers, sons of Lithuanian Jewish parents. Moses - professionally known as Moe Howard - and Jerome - professionally known as Curly Howard - were his younger brothers.

Throughout his career Shemp seldom stuck to the script and would liven up scenes with ad-libbed incidental dialogue or wisecracks. This became a trademark of his performances. His most notable characteristic as a Stooge was a high-pitched "bee-bee-bee-bee-bee-bee!" sound, a sort of soft screech done by inhaling. It became his signature sound. He used his somewhat homely appearance for comic effect, often mugging grotesquely or allowing his hair to fall in disarray.

Shemp was married to the former Gertrude Frank, whom he wed in September 1925. The couple had one child, Morton (1926–1972).

On November 22, 1955, while returning home in a taxicab following attending a boxing match with friends, Shemp, age 60, died of a sudden massive heart attack.

The Three Stooges have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street.

Movies for Shemp Howard...

Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!
Title: Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!
Released: July 11, 2023
Type: Movie
CineMusuem LLC and Kit Parker Films offer fans of the Amalgamated Morons a Chance to revisit the Golden Age of Stoogery with a collection of archival rarities.
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Title: The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!
Character: Shemp
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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The Three Stooges in 3D
Title: The Three Stooges in 3D
Character: Shemp
Released: October 30, 2012
Type: Movie
This is The Three Stooges at their bumbling, eye-poking, hair-pulling best! Including a full, high-quality restoration and colorization, this feature offers something that none before it have done: a stunning, stereoscopic 3D transfer. See the boys like you've never seen them before with antics that jump off the screen as every slap, fall and nose-tweak is brought to life within your home. This set is a must-have for every fan and is the perfect complement to your home video library!
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 8: 1955-1959
Title: The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 8: 1955-1959
Released: June 1, 2010
Type: Movie
This eighth volume of The Three Stooges Collection features the last 32 digitally remastered shorts from 1955-1959. It also marks the end of an era for a comedy team that to this day remains unparalledled in its success and popularity. In November of 1955 Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack, forcing Moe and Larry to use a stand-in for Shemp on some of the shorts and previously shot footage in others. Moe originally wanted vaudeville veteran Joe DeRita to fill in for Shemp but he couldn't get out of his contract, so Moe went with Joe Besser, who was also well-known on the vaudeville and burlesque circuits. Columbia Pictures closed its short-subjects unit in 1958, thus ending the Three Stooges' run after 24 years and 190 shorts; hald a century later The Three Stooges are entertainment legends.
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 7: 1952-1954
Title: The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 7: 1952-1954
Released: October 11, 2009
Type: Movie
These 22 digitally remastered shorts from 1952-1954 were made during a tumultuous time for The Three Stooges. First, in 1952 Curly succumbed to the illness brought on by his stroke six years earlier; he was only forty-eight when he died. Shemp had really hit his stride by this time and he is at the top of his game in the new shorts from this period, but budget cutbacks at Columbia forced director Jules White to recycle some old footage, so although the work in this collection is first-rate, one can't help but wonder what could have been done if they'd had the opportunity to develop more new material.
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 6: 1949-1951
Title: The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 6: 1949-1951
Released: June 16, 2009
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges return with the next 24 digtially remastered shorts covering the years 1949-1951 in this sixth collection, which continues with Shemp as the third Stooge, who had stepped in two years earlier to fill the shoes left empty when Curly became ill and retired. This collection contains such classics as MERRY MAVERICKS (1951), a reworking of PHONY EXPRESS (1943) featuring Red Morgan and his gang of bandits; SELF MADE MAIDS (1950), in which the Stooges not only play themselves but assume the roles of their fiances, their fiances father (played by Moe) and their three babies; and DON'T THROW THAT KNIFE (1951), which features Larry, Moe and Shemp in brilliant improvisation with nothing but household items while confined to a single room. The Three Stooges Collection Volume 6 showcases Larry, Moe and Shemp at their best - and things just keep getting better!
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The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts
Title: The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Relive the hilarity of The Three Stooges with this compilation of five of their greatest shorts. Included are: Brideless Groom, Color Craziness, Disorder in the Court, Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants
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Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
Title: Shemp Cocktail: A Toast to the Original Stooge
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: March 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A compilation that highlights works from the Three Stooges. It includes the shorts Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Malice in the Palace, also Ed Wynn's live TV Camel Comedy Caravan starring Shemp, Larry, and Moe.
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Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Title: Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Character: Shemp (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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The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Title: The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Character: Shemp
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: Shemp
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 - Simply Hilarious
Title: The Three Stooges - Simply Hilarious
Character: Shemp
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Four of the immortal Stooges (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, and Curly Howard) star in four side-splitting 15-minute sketches that highlight their signature brand of humor, and will leave you in stitches. In "Disorder in the Court", they raise havoc when they come to testify at a murder trial, while Shemp is a "Brideless Groom" who stands to inherit half a million dollars--but only if he marries within forty-eight hours. "Malice in the Palace" follows their comic misadventures as they search for a diamond, and they are comically inept tailors who inadvertently aid a robber on the run from the law in "Sing a Song of Six Pants."
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The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Title: The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Character: Self / Shemp (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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The Lost Stooges
Title: The Lost Stooges
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin featuring rare clips of the Three Stooges
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Three Stooges: Greatest Routines
Title: Three Stooges: Greatest Routines
Character: Shemp
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Join Moe, Larry and Curly Joe for 35 hilarious misadventures! Hosted by Mike Nelson of RiffTrax.
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Triple Crossed
Title: Triple Crossed
Character: Shemp (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1959
Type: Movie
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Joe's fiancée. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Joe as the boyfriend. Larry's plan backfires when Joe catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.
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Commotion On The Ocean
Title: Commotion On The Ocean
Character: Shemp (archive footage)
Released: November 8, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are would-be reporters, who are tricked into becoming stowaways by "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that Borscht has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
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Scheming Schemers
Title: Scheming Schemers
Character: Shemp (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are three incompetent plumbers who foul up the plumbing in a fancy mansion where a society party is going on. They manage to catch a couple of thieves masquerading as guests before the whole party degenerates into a pie fight.
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Hot Stuff
Title: Hot Stuff
Character: Shemp (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are government agent entrusted with protecting professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
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Rumpus in the Harem
Title: Rumpus in the Harem
Character: Shemp (archive footage)
Released: June 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys need money to pay their fiancée's taxes, or the girls will be sold as slaves. Some crooks come into their restaurant and convince the boys to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond. The stooges decide to return the diamond to the government and get the reward money. They learn that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
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For Crimin' Out Loud
Title: For Crimin' Out Loud
Character: Shemp
Released: May 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are private detectives hired to protect a rich politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his spooky mansion confronting various villains and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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Flagpole Jitters
Title: Flagpole Jitters
Character: Shemp
Released: April 5, 1956
Type: Movie
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
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Creeps
Title: Creeps
Character: Shemp / Shemp's son
Released: February 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The Stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the their attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's revealed that the they were only telling a bedtime story to their "sons", also played by the Stooges.
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Husbands Beware
Title: Husbands Beware
Character: Prof. Shemp Howard
Released: January 5, 1956
Type: Movie
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters.
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Columbia Laff Hour
Title: Columbia Laff Hour
Character: Shemp
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
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Blunder Boys
Title: Blunder Boys
Character: Various Days
Released: November 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. This was Shemp's last completed film.
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Hot Ice
Title: Hot Ice
Character: Shemp
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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Wham-Bam-Slam!
Title: Wham-Bam-Slam!
Character: Shemp
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Shemp is a sick man with a bad case of nerves. The stooge's friend Claude, a self-taught healer, tries to cure Shemp with various home- made remedies. When nothing seems to work, Claude suggests they buy his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp on a trip to the country. The car won't start, and the trip never gets off the ground, but not to worry, Shemp is cured by all the excitement.
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Stone Age Romeos
Title: Stone Age Romeos
Character: Shemp
Released: June 2, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.
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Gypped in the Penthouse
Title: Gypped in the Penthouse
Character: Shemp
Released: May 10, 1955
Type: Movie
Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge.
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Bedlam in Paradise
Title: Bedlam in Paradise
Character: Shemp
Released: April 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates.
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Of Cash and Hash
Title: Of Cash and Hash
Character: Shemp
Released: February 3, 1955
Type: Movie
The Stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed and go back to their jobs in a cafe. When one of the robbers comes into the cafe, the boys recognize him and along with their friend Gladys trail him to a spooky house in the country where the crooks are hiding out. The bad guys abduct Gladys and the Stooges must rescue her.
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Fling in the Ring
Title: Fling in the Ring
Character: Shemp
Released: January 6, 1955
Type: Movie
The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.
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Scotched in Scotland
Title: Scotched in Scotland
Character: Shemp
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Would be detectives, the stooges get a job guarding a Scotch castle while the owner is away. The servants are crooks intent on robbing the castle of its valuables. Though they do their best to frighten the boys off, the stooges prevail and expose the crooked goings-on.
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Shot in the Frontier
Title: Shot in the Frontier
Character: Shemp
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the stooges are courting.
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Knutzy Knights
Title: Knutzy Knights
Character: Shemp
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in Elizabethan times, the stooges help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. The only problem is that Elaine is promised to the Black Prince who is plotting to take over the kingdom. The stooges manage to foil the plot and the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
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Pals and Gals
Title: Pals and Gals
Character: Shemp
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health. The boys soon run afoul of a local villain who is forcing pretty Nell to marry him. The bad guy has Nell's sisters locked up, and its up to the stooges to rescue them and save the day.
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Musty Musketeers
Title: Musty Musketeers
Character: Shemp
Released: May 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
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Income Tax Sappy
Title: Income Tax Sappy
Character: Shemp
Released: February 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Tax cheats Moe, Larry and Shemp decide they're so good at cheating the government, that they start a business as crooked tax advisors. They become rich, but an undercover agent from the IRS gets the goods on them, and its off to jail for the stooges.
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Goof on the Roof
Title: Goof on the Roof
Character: Shemp
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
The Stooges take care of a house while their friend is getting married. Their friend wants them to get a TV and have an antenna installed on the house. The Stooges have a great idea. They decide to install the TV themselves and save the money for a wedding present. Shemp keeps on slipping on soap and having his head dunked in a bucket of water while cleaning the house. Larry totally wrecks the wall by setting it on fire and turning it into swiss cheese with a hammer. Shemp takes apart the TV and while installing the antenna, falls and breaks it. The friend comes back, married, and when his fat wife sees the house, she leaves him.
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Bubble Trouble
Title: Bubble Trouble
Character: Shemp
Released: October 8, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are pharmacists who invent a fountain of youth formula that can turn old people young. They turn an old lady into a beautiful young woman, but when her husband takes the formula it turns him into a gorilla.
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Rip, Sew and Stitch
Title: Rip, Sew and Stitch
Character: Shemp
Released: September 3, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges run a tailor shop and need money to pay their creditors. A bank robber leaves his coat in the shop with a combination to a safe. When the crook comes back to retrieve the coat, the stooges capture him and get his bankroll.
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Pardon My Backfire
Title: Pardon My Backfire
Character: Shemp
Released: August 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are auto mechanics who need money so they can marry their girls. When some escaped convicts pull into their garage, the boys manage to capture them and use the reward money to marry their sweethearts. It appears to be an early attempt at 3D with the closeups and effects used.
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Spooks!
Title: Spooks!
Character: Shemp
Released: June 15, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are private detectives hired to find a missing girl. The boys disguise as pie salesmen and end up wandering around a mad scientist's mansion, trying to find the girl. The boys confront a gorilla and various other bad guys, before rescuing the girl.
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Tricky Dicks
Title: Tricky Dicks
Character: Shemp
Released: May 7, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are policemen on the trail of a murderer. They unsuccessfully interrogate an Italian organ grinder, among other suspects, and then catch the bad guy after a gun fight that nearly destroys the police station.
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Loose Loot
Title: Loose Loot
Character: Shemp
Released: April 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges are willed a lot of dough from a rich uncle, but the executor of the estate, Icabob Slipp, is a crook who absconds with the money. The stooges trail him to a a theater where they engage in a wild chase and ultimately recover their inheritance.
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Booty And The Beast
Title: Booty And The Beast
Character: Shemp
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Title: Up in Daisy's Penthouse
Character: Shemp / Shemp Howard Sr.
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The Stooges are sent by their mother to stop their rich father's plan to remarry. Shemp plays dual role as Shemp and Father.
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Cuckoo on a Choo Choo
Title: Cuckoo on a Choo Choo
Character: Shemp
Released: December 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A satirization of the Oscar winning film A Street Car Named Desire (1951). Larry mimics Brando in the story which takes place on a train car named Schmow. The most controversial Stooge short. While it is considered by some to be the most daring, contemporary and innovative of all Stooge shorts, others contend it is the worst Stooge short ever made.
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Three Dark Horses
Title: Three Dark Horses
Character: Shemp
Released: October 16, 1952
Type: Movie
A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond Egger, is a crook. Enter the stooges as janitors sent to clean the man's office. After some of their antics, the boy's suitability for the job is apparent and they're hired. The stooges go to the convention, but double cross their boss and vote for another candidate, Abel Lamb Stewer. When the boss and his muscle man come looking for revenge, the boys defeat them in a wild fight.
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Gents in a Jam
Title: Gents in a Jam
Character: Shemp
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.
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He Cooked His Goose
Title: He Cooked His Goose
Character: Shemp
Released: July 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiancée. When Moe's become suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job as a door to door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment, and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancée to go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.
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Listen Judge
Title: Listen Judge
Character: Shemp
Released: May 6, 1952
Type: Movie
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
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Corny Casanovas
Title: Corny Casanovas
Character: Shemp
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The stooges knock each other senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.
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A Missed Fortune
Title: A Missed Fortune
Character: Shemp
Released: January 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Shemp wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente where they live it up and wreck their fancy suite. While they wait for the prize money to arrive, the boys are pursued by three gold-digging dames after their winnings. When the check arrives however, it's only for $4.85 after tax deductions.
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Pest Man Wins
Title: Pest Man Wins
Character: Shemp
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
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Hula-La-La
Title: Hula-La-La
Character: Shemp
Released: November 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
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The Tooth Will Out
Title: The Tooth Will Out
Character: Shemp
Released: October 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges graduate from dental school and go out west to open a practice. Everything goes well until Shemp "cures" an outlaw's toothache from the instructions in a carpentry book, and the boys must leave on the run.
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Gold Raiders
Title: Gold Raiders
Character: Shemp
Released: September 9, 1951
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges travel West where they become heroes by nabbing a gang of would-be robbers.
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Merry Mavericks
Title: Merry Mavericks
Character: Shemp
Released: September 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in the old west, the stooges are mistaken for lawmen and manage to capture a gang of crooks. The boys then get the job of guarding some money in an old house reputed to be haunted by the ghost of an Indian Chief. The crooks escape and go after the money disguised as ghosts, but Shemp, disguised as the Indian Chief, manages to knock them out.
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Scrambled Brains
Title: Scrambled Brains
Character: Shemp
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
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Don't Throw That Knife
Title: Don't Throw That Knife
Character: Shemp
Released: May 3, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges become census takers and wind up in the apartment of a lady whose husband is both jealous and a knife thrower. When the husband arrives home, the boys try to hide, but are discovered, and after dodging some knives, leave on the run.
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Baby Sitters Jitters
Title: Baby Sitters Jitters
Character: Shemp
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are facing eviction and decide to raise some money by becoming baby-sitters. Their first client is a women separated from her husband, who entrusts her son "Junior" to the boys' care. When The husband steals the baby, the stooges set out to find their missing charge and return him to his mother. The boys confront the husband and find Junior, and in the process the estranged couple is re-united.
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Three Arabian Nuts
Title: Three Arabian Nuts
Character: Shemp
Released: January 4, 1951
Type: Movie
The stooges are delivering some Arabian antiques, which include a magic lamp complete with genie. Three Arabian bad guys are after the magic lamp, but the stooges defeat them once they get the "genius", (as Shemp calls the genie) on their side.
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A Snitch in Time
Title: A Snitch in Time
Character: Shemp
Released: December 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The Stooges are painters who are re-staining some furniture at a boarding house, unaware that a gang of bank robbers has its hideout there.
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Slaphappy Sleuths
Title: Slaphappy Sleuths
Character: Shemp
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are investigators for the Onion Oil company. The company's service stations are being robbed by a gang of crooks, so the boys pose as gas station attendants to capture the bad guys.
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Studio Stoops
Title: Studio Stoops
Character: Shemp
Released: October 5, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are hired by a movie studio as publicity men. Their first assignment is to get publicity for Dolly Devore, a pretty starlet. They fake a kidnapping, but the cops won't believe their story. Then the girl is really kidnapped and the stooges must come to the rescue. Shemp winds up hanging out a tenth story window on an extending telephone.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Three Hams on Rye
Title: Three Hams on Rye
Character: Shemp
Released: September 7, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.
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Self Made Maids
Title: Self Made Maids
Character: Shemp / Shempetta
Released: July 6, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so the stooges tickle him into submission.
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Love at First Bite
Title: Love at First Bite
Character: Shemp
Released: May 4, 1950
Type: Movie
The Stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
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Dopey Dicks
Title: Dopey Dicks
Character: Shemp
Released: March 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.
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Hugs and Mugs
Title: Hugs and Mugs
Character: Shemp
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The stooges defeat the bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace to its rightful owner.
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Punchy Cowpunchers
Title: Punchy Cowpunchers
Character: Shemp
Released: January 5, 1950
Type: Movie
It is the old west and the Dillon clan are making life miserable for a small Western town. Sweetheart Nell (Christine McIntyre) and her dashing but dimwitted boyfriend Elmer (Jock Mahoney) rushes off to find help. Meanwhile, cavalrymen the Stooges are making life miserable for superior, Sergeant Mullins (Dick Wessel). Mullins tries to whip the boys into shape, but his plan backfire and has a run-in with his superior, Captain Daley (Emil Sitka). Daley informs Mullins about the Dillion clan's evildoings, and needs some men to run them out of town. Mullins does not miss a beat, and volunteers the unsuspecting Stooges.
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Jerks of All Trades
Title: Jerks of All Trades
Character: Shemp
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The Stooges are painters and paperhangers and completely wreck a hapless couples home.
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Dunked in the Deep
Title: Dunked in the Deep
Character: Shemp
Released: November 3, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
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Vagabond Loafers
Title: Vagabond Loafers
Character: Shemp
Released: October 6, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are the "Day and Night" plumbers. Called out to a fancy mansion where a society party is going on, they cross the electrical and water systems and generally ruin the place. Despite their incompetent plumbing, they save the day by recovering a painting stolen by a pair of thieves masquerading as party guests.
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Malice in the Palace
Title: Malice in the Palace
Character: Shemp
Released: September 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.
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Hokus Pokus
Title: Hokus Pokus
Character: Shemp
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: Movie
The Stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to a wheelchair. What they don't know is that Mary is only faking her disability to swindle the insurance company. When the boys witness a hypnotist, "The Great Svengarlic", doing his act on the street, they think he might be able to hypnotize Mary so she can walk. Instead, they become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament, they fall into a window, startling Mary, who jumps from her wheelchair just as the insurance adjuster is about to hand her a check.
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Africa Screams
Title: Africa Screams
Character: Gunner
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
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Fuelin' Around
Title: Fuelin' Around
Character: Shemp
Released: April 7, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are carpet layers working in the home of a scientist, Professor Sneed, who has invented a super rocket fuel. Larry is mistaken for the professor by foreign agents who kidnap the trio and take them to the country of Anemia where they are ordered to produce the rocket fuel or be executed. The boys come up with a concoction they try to pass of as the real stuff, but are exposed when the real professor and his daughter are also kidnapped. The stooges help them escape, using their secret formula to fuel a jeep.
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Who Done It?
Title: Who Done It?
Character: Shemp
Released: March 3, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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The Ghost Talks
Title: The Ghost Talks
Character: Shemp
Released: February 3, 1949
Type: Movie
The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together.
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Crime on Their Hands
Title: Crime on Their Hands
Character: Shemp
Released: December 9, 1948
Type: Movie
The Stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft of a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The crooks want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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Mummy's Dummies
Title: Mummy's Dummies
Character: Shemp
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Title: I'm a Monkey's Uncle
Character: Shemp
Released: October 7, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
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Heavenly Daze
Title: Heavenly Daze
Character: Shemp
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.
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The Hot Scots
Title: The Hot Scots
Character: Shemp
Released: July 8, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they learn that detectives are need to guard a Scottish castle where valuables have been disappearing, they masquerades as Scotsmen to get the job. After a spooky night in the castle, the boys expose the servants as the crooks.
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Fiddlers Three
Title: Fiddlers Three
Character: Shemp
Released: May 6, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
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Squareheads of the Round Table
Title: Squareheads of the Round Table
Character: Shemp
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
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Pardon My Clutch
Title: Pardon My Clutch
Character: Shemp
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooge's friend Claude sells them his old lemon of a car so they can take Shemp, who is sick with a toothache, camping. The car won't work and the boys are apparently out a bundle, when a car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. Claude backs out on the deal and gives the stooges their money back, only to discover the "collector" is an escaped lunatic.
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Shivering Sherlocks
Title: Shivering Sherlocks
Character: Shemp
Released: January 8, 1948
Type: Movie
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
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All Gummed Up
Title: All Gummed Up
Character: Shemp
Released: December 18, 1947
Type: Movie
The Stooges run a drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by Amos Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks his wife out for being too old, the Stooges try to help her by inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They agree, but after he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and the boys leave on the run.
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Sing a Song of Six Pants
Title: Sing a Song of Six Pants
Character: Shemp
Released: October 30, 1947
Type: Movie
The three stooges pursue a notorious burglar in order to pay past due notes to the Skin & Flint company and save their tailor shop.
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Brideless Groom
Title: Brideless Groom
Character: Shemp
Released: September 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious results.
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Hold That Lion!
Title: Hold That Lion!
Character: Shemp
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. The only Stooges SHORT where Moe, Curly and Shemp appear together.
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Out West
Title: Out West
Character: Shemp
Released: April 24, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges go out west for Shemp's health and get mixed up with some bad guys. The villains have locked up the Arizona Kid and their leader plans to marry his girl, Nell. The boys help the Arizona Kid escape and he rides to fetch the Cavalry. Somehow, the stooges manage to defeat the bad guys before the Cavalry arrives.
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Bride and Gloom
Title: Bride and Gloom
Character: Shemp
Released: March 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
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Fright Night
Title: Fright Night
Character: Shemp
Released: March 6, 1947
Type: Movie
The stooges are managers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. When a gangster tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys decide to play along. They try to soften Chopper up by feeding him rich food and having him spend time with their friend Kitty. The fight gets canceled when Kitty dumps Chopper for his opponent and the two boxers engage in some pre-match fisticuffs that result in a broken hand for the opponent. The stooges think they've put one over on the gangsters, only to have the bad guys corner them in a deserted warehouse. Instead of being rubbed out, the boys capture the crooks and get a reward.
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The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Edition: Tales from the Three Stooges Vol. 1
Title: The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Edition: Tales from the Three Stooges Vol. 1
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Slapstick icons Moe, Larry and Curly show off their comedic chops in seven short films, including "Sing a Song of Six Pants" and "Brideless Groom," as well as numerous trailers, a television ad and an appearance on "The Frank Sinatra Show." The funnymen are also seen in hilarious clips from "The Ed Wynn Show," in which Ed approaches three CBS network execs (played by The Three Stooges) seeking help to improve his program.
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Blondie Knows Best
Title: Blondie Knows Best
Character: Jim Gray
Released: October 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
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Society Mugs
Title: Society Mugs
Character: Shemp
Released: September 19, 1946
Type: Movie
Muriel Allen needs an escort to Alice Preston's dinner party, and her maid Petunia mistakenly places a telephone call to Acme Exterminators instead of Acme Escorts. It's Shemp and Tom to the rescue, and they're assumed to be cultured college seniors. Guest of honor Lord Wafflebottom follows the pest exterminators' lead in proper American party manners, turning the dinner party into an uncouth display. When mice are conveniently spotted, the boys go to work, disrupting the party and the entire mansion.
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Dangerous Business
Title: Dangerous Business
Character: Monk
Released: June 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.
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One Exciting Week
Title: One Exciting Week
Character: Marvin Lewis
Released: June 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant Marines. But before arriving he is stricken with amnesia and falls in with a gang of crooks...
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Jiggers, My Wife
Title: Jiggers, My Wife
Character: Woodcock 'Woody' J. Strinker
Released: April 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7438), knows many ways to get into trouble with his wife, and one he opts for here is stay out late playing poker with the boys and then tell his wife he has been working.
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Mr. Noisy
Title: Mr. Noisy
Character: Noisy
Released: March 22, 1946
Type: Movie
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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The Gentleman Misbehaves
Title: The Gentleman Misbehaves
Character: Marty
Released: February 28, 1946
Type: Movie
After his first attempt to obtain cash fails, a Broadway producer turns to a gambler to raise money for his show.
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A Hit with a Miss
Title: A Hit with a Miss
Character: Rameses - Prizefighter
Released: December 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard is a prizefighter in this Columbia All-Star Comedy who has a complex that leaves him a coward and unable to fight unless he hears "Pop Goes the Weasel." He hears it enough here, from various and outlandish sources, to eventually win his championship match.
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Where the Pest Begins
Title: Where the Pest Begins
Character: Shemp Howard
Released: October 4, 1945
Type: Movie
Jonathan Bass (Tom Kennedy), an inventor working for the government, makes the mistake of his life. He moves next door to Shemp. Lazy, obtuse and obnoxious, Shemp plays the good neighbor by wrecking the Bass' garage, car and china... and somehow makes it look to Bass' wife (Christine McIntyre) that Jonathan is clumsily at fault. Bass' latest project is a new bomb for the Army, and it's only a matter of time before helpful Shemp turns up in the laboratory basement offering his assistance.
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Trouble Chasers
Title: Trouble Chasers
Character: Shemp Howard
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
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Off Again, On Again
Title: Off Again, On Again
Character: Woodcock Q. Strinker
Released: February 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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Crazy Knights
Title: Crazy Knights
Character: Shemp
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
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Open Season for Saps
Title: Open Season for Saps
Character: Woodcock Q. Strinker
Released: October 27, 1944
Type: Movie
After his wife complains about the number of nights Woodcock (Shemp Howard) spends at the Hoot Owl Lodge, he takes her on a belated honeymoon. The first person they meet is lodge member Joe Wilson, who asks Woodcock to help him retrieve some ill-advised letters to lovely hotel guest Irene (Christine McIntyre). Woodcock soon finds himself caught between his jealous wife, and Irene's Latin-tempered fiancee Ricardo.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Laundry Truck Driver
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Moonlight and Cactus
Title: Moonlight and Cactus
Character: Punchy Carter
Released: September 8, 1944
Type: Movie
The swinging Andrews Sisters provide the musical interludes and romance in this western. They play a trio of WW II era ranchers. That they are so good at running it proves terrible surprise for a ranch hand who has just returned home after serving in the Navy.
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Title: Pick a Peck of Plumbers
Character: Elmer Peabody
Released: July 23, 1944
Type: Movie
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Three of a Kind
Title: Three of a Kind
Character: Shemp Howard
Released: July 22, 1944
Type: Movie
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Mumbo
Released: October 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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It Ain't Hay
Title: It Ain't Hay
Character: Umbrella Sam
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Keep 'Em Slugging
Title: Keep 'Em Slugging
Character: Binky
Released: March 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.
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How's About It
Title: How's About It
Character: Alf
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A song publisher gets sued for stealing lyrics.
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Arabian Nights
Title: Arabian Nights
Character: Sinbad
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
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Pittsburgh
Title: Pittsburgh
Character: Shorty (The Tailor)
Released: December 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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Strictly in the Groove
Title: Strictly in the Groove
Character: Pops
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
College student, cattle baron, confused love story.
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Private Buckaroo
Title: Private Buckaroo
Character: Sgt. 'Muggsy' Shavel
Released: June 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of army recruits following basic training, with the Andrew Sisters attending USO dances. The film is a mixture of comedy and songs.
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Mississippi Gambler
Title: Mississippi Gambler
Character: Milton Davis - Brooklyn Cab Driver
Released: April 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.
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The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Title: The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Character: Det. Sgt. Sweeney
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.
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Butch Minds the Baby
Title: Butch Minds the Baby
Character: 'Squinty' Sweeny
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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Hellzapoppin'
Title: Hellzapoppin'
Character: Louie
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
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The Three Stooges: Live and Hilarious
Title: The Three Stooges: Live and Hilarious
Character: Shemp
Released: December 16, 1941
Type: Movie
The Three Stooges are at it again in a hilarious and extremely hard-to-find turn on the Ed Wynn Show.
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Hold That Ghost
Title: Hold That Ghost
Character: Soda Jerk
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
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Too Many Blondes
Title: Too Many Blondes
Character: Hotel Manager Ambrose Tripp
Released: August 1, 1941
Type: Movie
The plot centers on a husband-wife radio team, Dick (Rudy Vallee) and Virginia (Helen Parrish). When Dick is caught in an innocent but compromising situation with brassy blonde showgirl Hortense (Iris Adrian), Virginia is encouraged to inaugurate divorce proceedings by her oily ex-beau Ted (Jerome Cowan). It all winds up in Mexico, with Dick ardently chasing Virginia until she catches him.
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Cracked Nuts
Title: Cracked Nuts
Character: Eddie / Ivan
Released: July 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked attorney and two con men...
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Hit the Road
Title: Hit the Road
Character: Dingbat
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.
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San Antonio Rose
Title: San Antonio Rose
Character: Benny the Bounce
Released: June 20, 1941
Type: Movie
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns. Robert Paige plays roadhouse operator Con Conway, whose establishment is in danger of being squeezed out by its competition. Stranded entertainers Hope Holloway (Jane Frazee) and Gabby Trent (Eve Arden) decide to revivify Conway's establishment by staging an energetic floor show built around the talented Merry Macs. A rival club owner dispatches his two top hooligans Jigsaw Kennedy (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Benny the Bounce (Shemp Howard) to wreck Conway's club by posing as waiters, but the two stupes are easily cowed into submission--by the leading ladies!
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Tight Shoes
Title: Tight Shoes
Character: Okay
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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In the Navy
Title: In the Navy
Character: Dizzy
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.
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Mr. Dynamite
Title: Mr. Dynamite
Character: 'Abdullah'
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
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Road Show
Title: Road Show
Character: Moe Parker (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1941
Type: Movie
Rich playboy Drogo Gaines is in imminent danger of marrying a gold digger, and escapes by feigning insanity. The joke's on him when he wakes up in an asylum full of comical lunatics. There he befriends Colonel Carraway, and together they escape, catching a ride with a beautiful blonde who proves to be Penguin Moore, carnival owner.
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Meet the Chump
Title: Meet the Chump
Character: Stinky Fink
Released: February 14, 1941
Type: Movie
A comedy about a man who tries to avoid giving up the $10,000,000 trust he's been administering so well that there's hardly any money left.
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Buck Privates
Title: Buck Privates
Character: Chef
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.
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Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Title: Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Character: Gabby
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
The brash, opinionated owner of a nightclub manages to drive everybody crazy on a boat trip to Havana.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Frankie
Released: December 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
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Give Us Wings
Title: Give Us Wings
Character: Buzz Berger
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, whose planes are flying deathtraps.
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Murder Over New York
Title: Murder Over New York
Character: Shorty McCoy alias Rashid the Fakir
Released: December 13, 1940
Type: Movie
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
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The Bank Dick
Title: The Bank Dick
Character: Joe Guelpe
Released: November 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a bank guard. Soon, he is approached by charlatan J. Frothingham Waterbury about buying shares in a mining company. Egbert persuades teller Og Oggilby to lend him bank money, to be returned when the scheme pays off. Unfortunately, bank inspector Snoopington then makes a surprise appearance.
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The Leather Pushers
Title: The Leather Pushers
Character: Sailor McNeill
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
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Pleased to Mitt You
Title: Pleased to Mitt You
Character: Pat Patrick
Released: September 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The bigger surprise is Uncle Pat's gift of $1400 for Terry's tuition, money he earned promoting Terry as an amateur boxer. Accompanying Terry and Kitty's school friends to the party is Diggins, Terry's rival for Kitty's affections. After an argument, Diggins takes off... with the envelope containing Pat's gift. The kids track Diggins down at Regan's Road House, and a brawl breaks out.
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Millionaires in Prison
Title: Millionaires in Prison
Character: Professor
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.
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Boobs in the Woods
Title: Boobs in the Woods
Character: Gus
Released: May 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy's annoying brother-in-law Gus gets him fired from his job, and then tag-a-longs on a vacation with Andy and his wife.
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The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Title: The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
Character: Joe - a Pickpocket
Released: May 30, 1940
Type: Movie
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.
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Money Squawks
Title: Money Squawks
Character: Shemp
Released: April 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Glove Slingers
Title: Glove Slingers
Character: Pat Patrick
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A fighter trains for the big bout, and discovers that his opponent is his girlfriend's brother.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Wacky (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Home on the Rage
Title: Home on the Rage
Character: Happy
Released: December 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Andy mistakenly believes his wife and brother-in-law are conspiring to murder him for insurance.
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Not Guilty Enough
Title: Not Guilty Enough
Character: Brother-in-Law
Released: July 30, 1938
Type: Movie
At his trial, Andy tries to explain why he was arrested for assaulting his brother-in-law
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Headin' East
Title: Headin' East
Character: Windy Wylie
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.
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Hollywood Round-Up
Title: Hollywood Round-Up
Character: Oscar Bush
Released: November 6, 1937
Type: Movie
While filming a western on location, the stand-in/stunt double for an egotistical cowboy movie star proves his heroics when a "fake" bank robbery turns out to be the real thing.
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Taking the Count
Title: Taking the Count
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
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Kick Me Again
Title: Kick Me Again
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: February 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.
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The Blonde Bomber
Title: The Blonde Bomber
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.
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The Choke's on You
Title: The Choke's on You
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: September 12, 1936
Type: Movie
Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.
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Punch and Beauty
Title: Punch and Beauty
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: August 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.
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Here's Howe
Title: Here's Howe
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: June 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The farmer sends the local sheriff to collect from Knobby.
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Absorbing Junior
Title: Absorbing Junior
Character: Henry, the Husband
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.
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For the Love of Pete
Title: For the Love of Pete
Character: Knobby Walsh
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.
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While the Cat's Away
Title: While the Cat's Away
Character: Henry
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.
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The Officer's Mess
Title: The Officer's Mess
Character: Gus Doakes
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.
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Convention Girl
Title: Convention Girl
Character: Dan Higgins
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.
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On the Wagon
Title: On the Wagon
Character: Henry
Released: August 24, 1935
Type: Movie
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
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Serves You Right
Title: Serves You Right
Character: Johnny Spivens
Released: June 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before him, he's not only unsuccessful, but beat up for his efforts. Pete's only weakness is women, so Johnny switches clothes with girlfriend Helen, and goes after Pete in drag.
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Why Pay Rent?
Title: Why Pay Rent?
Character: Henry
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small, so Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
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His First Flame
Title: His First Flame
Character: Smokey Moe
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
After fire chief, Fire-Eating Sam's girlfriend is married to Smoky Moe, and his house is burned down during a wedding ceremony, he gets revenge on Moe and plays a humiliating joke on him.
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A Peach of a Pair
Title: A Peach of a Pair
Character: Butler
Released: December 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Vaudeville performers Cook and Butler are mistaken for domestic servants; hilarity ensues.
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Dizzy & Daffy
Title: Dizzy & Daffy
Character: Lefty Howard
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Title: So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Character: Henry
Released: November 1, 1934
Type: Movie
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish downstairs neighbors (Shemp Howard and Ruth Gillette). A pleasant getaway turns into a nightmare thanks to the antics of Junior, an uncooperative tent, a lazy and oblivious Henry, and a skunk.
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Smoked Hams
Title: Smoked Hams
Character: Henry Howard
Released: October 20, 1934
Type: Movie
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
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Daredevil O'Dare
Title: Daredevil O'Dare
Character: Butch
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.
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My Mummy's Arms
Title: My Mummy's Arms
Character: Kenneth
Released: June 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.
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Art Trouble
Title: Art Trouble
Character: Short Painter
Released: June 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon and Shemp Howard enter the world of fine art in Paris.
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9
Title: Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9
Character: Songwriters' Representative
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
An immigrant has become a mailman on Radio Row. One of his first duties is to deliver letters to Bunny Poe, Vera Van, Ramon & Rosalie and George Jessel. Each of them is doing a specialty, except for Jessel, who's been interrupted in his rehearsal by a fellow who wants him to appear on a benefit for starving "moonlight-song writers". Jessel accepts and tells his mother that he won't be home for dinner, until he is told that the benefit is not in town but in Philadelphia. But the fellow has a pretty secretary...
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I Scream
Title: I Scream
Character: Moran's Henchman
Released: May 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Gus Shy, an ice cream man, gets embroiled in a vicious gangland feud.
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Corn on the Cop
Title: Corn on the Cop
Character: Reginald / Reggie
Released: April 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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Pure Feud
Title: Pure Feud
Character: Clem McCarthy
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Edgar Appletree learns the ins and outs of family feuding courtesy of Charlie McCarthy.
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Very Close Veins
Title: Very Close Veins
Character: Sourdough
Released: April 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!
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Everybody Likes Music
Title: Everybody Likes Music
Character: Shemp Howard
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
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Pugs and Kisses
Title: Pugs and Kisses
Character: Dopey Traynor
Released: February 17, 1934
Type: Movie
A glass-jawed champ is the victim of an elaborate prank hatched by his manager in order to get him off of women and to focus on boxing.
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The Knife of the Party
Title: The Knife of the Party
Character: Shemp Howard
Released: February 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.
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Mushrooms
Title: Mushrooms
Character: Thorndike
Released: February 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
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The Wrong, Wrong Trail
Title: The Wrong, Wrong Trail
Character: Piano Mover
Released: February 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A freshly minted private eye is sent to a sanitarium as a gag.
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Henry the Ache
Title: Henry the Ache
Character: Artie - One of King Henry's Lackeys
Released: January 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Shemp Howard stars in this old parody of the then-current film "King Henry The Eighth". Also starring Bert Lahr in the title role.
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Howd' Ya Like That?
Title: Howd' Ya Like That?
Character: Sailor
Released: January 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Two sailors come ashore in New York with enough liquor--which was illegal at the time, due to Prohibition--to have a good time. They wind up getting involved with an actress in vaudeville and her very jealous boyfriend. Not only that, but a Customs Officer who found out they smuggled booze ashore is closing in on them.
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Here Comes Flossie!
Title: Here Comes Flossie!
Character: Ezry
Released: December 9, 1933
Type: Movie
A clumsy handyman mixes up a mail-order bride and a prize cow, both named "Flossie," with humorous results.
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In the Dough
Title: In the Dough
Character: Bugs
Released: November 15, 1933
Type: Movie
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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Gobs of Fun
Title: Gobs of Fun
Character: Club patron
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Two sailors have shore leave. They both plan on spending it with the same girl, Lulu. Lulu is the kind of girl who has a boyfriend on every ship and a husband on the side.
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Paul Revere, Jr.
Title: Paul Revere, Jr.
Character: Attendant
Released: October 7, 1933
Type: Movie
A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.
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Close Relations
Title: Close Relations
Character: One of the Moles
Released: September 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Salt Water Daffy
Title: Salt Water Daffy
Character: Wilbur the Kleptomaniac
Released: September 16, 1933
Type: Movie
In this comedic short, two screw-ups join the Navy and make life miserable for their supervisor.
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Soup to Nuts
Title: Soup to Nuts
Character: Fireman
Released: September 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.
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Spring Fever
Title: Spring Fever
Released: January 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Baseball legend Honus Wagner teaches Moe how to hit a baseball.