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Production InformationTitle: Saved by the BelleStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 40Release Date: June 30, 1939Running Time: 17:22 “You know I’m temperamental.” “Yeah, 95% temper, 5% mental.” Short Take In Saved By The Belle, The Three Stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a fictional South American country prone to earthquakes. Unfortunately, they are having no luck selling fur coats to the natives.…

Production InformationTitle: Three Little Sew and SewsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 36Release Date: January 6, 1939Running Time: 15:47 “I’m gonna change my socks… what an experience!”(Moe) Short Take The Stooges are tailors in the Navy, and when they can’t get a pass they steal some officers’ uniforms. Curly is mistaken for Admiral Taylor, and the Stooges go to a party where some…

Production InformationTitle: Mutts to YouStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 35Release Date: October 14, 1938Running Time: 18:02 “That’s a fine broth of a boy you have there. Is he on the bottle yet?” “I should say not! He don’t smoke, drink nor chew.” Short Take The Stooges operate a successful dog grooming business featuring a conveyor belt and a water wheel that requires…

Production InformationTitle: Tassels In The AirStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 30Release Date: April 1, 1938Running Time: 17:09 “Sure, you can help. Go mix me a batch of spotted paint.”(Moe) Tassels In The Air Short Take Nouveau riche housewife Mrs. Smirch (Bess Flowers) has intentions to hire the in-demand interior decorator Omay (Jean De Briac) to redecorate her house in a bid to get…

Production InformationTitle: Wee Wee MonsieurStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 29Release Date: February 18, 1938Running Time: 17:23 Oui, Oui, We what? We ought to be more careful about what we’re doing.”(Curly and Moe) Short Take The Stooges are artists in Wee Wee Monsieur (Moe is a sculptor, Larry is a music composer, and Curly is a painter) living in Paris. When the landlord…

Production InformationTitle: Back to the WoodsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 23Release Date: May 14, 1937Running Time: 19:27 Short Take In Back To The Woods, Set in colonial times, The Stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive (and after a dancing fling with the governor’s daughters), they find that the colonists are starving…

Production InformationTitle: Dizzy DoctorsStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 21Release Date: March 19, 1937Running Time: 17:41 “Brighto! Brighto! It makes old bodies new! We’ll sell a million bottles, Woob, woob, woob, woob, woob, woob, woob!” – (Curly) Dizzy Doctors Short Take  The snoring Stooges are awakened near midday by their wives, who demand that they find jobs. The boys soon stumble on company…

Production InformationTitle: Slippery SilksStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 19Release Date: December 27, 1936Running Time: 17:15 “Is this work in competent hands?” “Coitainly, we’re all incompetent!”(Vernon Dent and Curly) Short Take Mr. Morgan borrows a valuable antique Chinese cabinet worth $50,000 from the museum, wanting an exact duplicate made, only to have three bungling carpenters (the Stooges) destroy it. After the Stooges…

Production InformationTitle: Half Shot ShootersStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 14Release Date: April 30, 1936Running Time: 18:35 “Every time you think you weaken the nation.” Short Take Half Shot Shooters opens in 1918, where, upon receiving medals for “wounds in action” (being beaten up by their sergeant after sleeping through an attack), The Three Stooges are discharged from the army immediately following the end…