Production Information
Title: Sweet And Hot
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 186
Release Date: September 04, 1958
Running Time: 16:33
“I give him artificial respiration.” “Artificial!? For what you charge, you give him the real thing!”
(Moe & Larry)
Sweet And Hot Short Take
Small town boy made good, producer Larry returns to his home farm town and asks his friends, Joe and sister Tiny, to join his New York nightclub act. But Tiny has a fear of performing in front of a live audience, so Larry and Joe take Tiny to a German psychiatrist (Moe), who uses hypnosis to take Tiny back to the childhood origin of her problem.
Cast & Crew
| Directed by | Jules White |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Jerome S. Gottler Jack White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe Besser Muriel Landers |
| Cinematography | Irving Lippman |
| Edited by | Edwin H. Bryant |
Sweet And Hot Trivia
- The story and screenplay were written by Jerome Gottler, who also wrote the story and screenplay for their musical, WOMAN HATERS. Thus, in SWEET AND HOT, we again have a musical routine and the Stooges appearing in separate roles.
- Source: Jerome S. Gottler (crew)
- Added by MR77100 on 2009-05-29 01:17:34
- Status: Confirmed
Production Notes
Sweet and Hot was filmed over two days on August 22–23, 1957. Closing musical number “The Heat is On” featuring Muriel Landers (Tiny) performing alone was stock footage taken from her own solo 1957 Columbia short Tricky Chicks. The shot of a duck quacking was lifted from I’m a Monkey’s Uncle.
Sweet and Hot features Moe and Larry’s more “gentlemanly” haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. However, these had to be used sparingly, as most of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old.
Over the course of their 24 years at Columbia Pictures, the Stooges would occasionally be cast as separate characters. This course of action always worked against the team; author Jon Solomon concluded “when the writing divides them, they lose their comic dynamic.” In addition to this split occurring in Sweet and Hot, the trio also played separate characters in Rockin’ in the Rockies, Cuckoo on a Choo Choo, Flying Saucer Daffy, Gypped in the Penthouse, He Cooked His Goose, and its remake Triple Crossed.
Moe uses a heavy German accent to play the psychiatrist, the same one he used to mock Adolf Hitler in You Nazty Spy! and They Stooge to Conga over a decade earlier.
