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Production InformationTitle: Brideless GroomStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 101Release Date: September 11, 1947Running Time: 16:36 “Poor ol’ Uncle Caleb… give you the shirt off his back and throw in the buttons too.” Short Take Shemp plays a voice instructor to tone-deaf vocal student Miss Dinkelmeyer (Dee Green), with Larry as his musical accompanist. After an excruciating session, Moe enters his classroom to…

Production InformationTitle: Hold That LionStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 100Release Date: July 17, 1947Running Time: 16:27 “Hey, wake up and go to sleep.” Short Take In Hold That Lion, The Stooges are the sole heirs to a grandiose inheritance, but the money is in the hands of an underhanded broker named Icabod Slipp (Kenneth MacDonald). One by one, The Stooges confront Slipp…

Production InformationTitle: Fright NightStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 98Release Date: March 6, 1947Running Time: 17:41 “There goes Shemp with a left jab. There goes Shemp with a right upper-cut. There goes Shemp with a haymaker! (crash) There goes Shemp.” Short Take The Stooges are managers of a beefy boxer named Chopper Kane (Dick Wessel), and they bet their bankroll on his…

Production InformationStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 76Release Date: December 5, 1946Running Time: 17:51 “Eenie, Meenie, Minee, Moe. See, you can’t go wrong with Moe! Heh, heh.” “Thanks (slap). Get Busy!”(Curly and Moe) Short Take  Curly, Moe, and Larry, NYC garbage barge sailors, wash ashore on an island stuck in the 17th century, and ruled by a tyrannical Governor.…

Production InformationTitle: An Ache in Every StakeStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 57Release Date: August 22, 1941Running Time: 18:05 “Take the gas pipe.” …”Not you! The cake! I’ll kill you later… poisonally!”(Moe) Short Take  In An Ache in Every Stake, a quintessential fan favorite, The Three Stooges are icemen that have fallen asleep in their delivery wagon. Their horse wakes them up.…

Production InformationTitle: A Plumbing We Will GoStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 46Release Date: April 19, 1940Running Time: 17:31 “The best plumbers to ever plumb a plum.” A Plumbing We Will Go Short Take How much damage can the masters of mirth, merriment & mayhem accomplish in seventeen minutes? Well, while filming A Plumbing We Will Go they ruin the basement, upstairs bathroom, kitchen,…

Production InformationTitle: Termites of 1938Studio: ColumbiaShort Number: 28Release Date: January 7, 1938Running Time: 16:33 At yer service, day or night, we do the job and do it right… Acme!” Short Take Muriel Van Twitchett is distraught when she finds out she has no escort for a fancy party. Her husband has skipped out to go on a fishing…

Production InformationTitle: Ants In The Pantry Studio: ColumbiaShort Number: 12Release Date: February 6, 1936Running Time: 17:39 “I can’t see, I can’t see!” “What’s’a’matter!?” “I got my eyes closed.” [ploink!](Larry, Moe & Curly) Short Take In Ants In The Pantry, The Three Stooges are pest exterminators who, for want of business, also provide the pests. They select an upscale…

Production InformationTitle: Punch DrunksStudio: ColumbiaShort Number: 2Release Date: July 13, 1934Running Time: 17:29 “Every time I hear that Weasel tune, something POPS inside of me!” Short Take In Punch Drunks, Moe is a struggling boxing manager having lunch with several associates who are angry at him for their low payment and threatening to quit on him. He notices that their…

Birth Place: St. Louis, MissouriBirth Date: August 12, 1907Date of Passing: March 1, 1988Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, CAAge: 80  Height: 5′ 4″ After Shemp Howard died in 1955, the Stooges replaced him with Joe Besser. Joe Besser was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 12, 1907, to Fannie and Morris Besser. His parents were Orthodox Jews…