Curly Howard
Biography: Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and vaudevillian. He is best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his older brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine. Curly is generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He is well known for his high-pitched voice, vocal expressions ("nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!","woo-woo-woo!", and barking like a dog), as well as his inventive physical comedy, improvisations, and athleticism.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 22, 1903
Deathday: January 18, 1952
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Disorder in the Court
1936-05-30
Disorder in the Court
Overview: The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of killing Kirk Robin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-30
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Operator 13
1934-06-08
Operator 13
Overview: American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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My Sister Eileen
1942-09-24
My Sister Eileen
Overview: Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-24
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Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
2003-04-29
Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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Stop! Look! and Laugh!
1960-01-07
Stop! Look! and Laugh!
Overview: Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-07
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Dancing Lady
1933-11-24
Dancing Lady
Overview: Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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The Three Stooges Story
2001-05-02
The Three Stooges Story
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Swing Parade of 1946
1946-03-19
Swing Parade of 1946
Overview: A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-19
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A Ducking They Did Go
1939-04-07
A Ducking They Did Go
Overview: The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Booty and the Beast
1953-03-05
Booty and the Beast
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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Phony Express
1943-11-18
Phony Express
Overview: Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them to be three famous lawmen coming to clean up the town. Assigned to guard the bank, the boys have the local gang scared at first, but when the gang learns who the stooges really are, they rob the bank. The boys go in pursuit, find the bad guy's hideout, subdue the bandits and recover the money. Written by Mitch Shapiro
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
2001-05-02
The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-02
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Time Out for Rhythm
1941-06-05
Time Out for Rhythm
Overview: A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-05
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You Nazty Spy!
1940-01-19
You Nazty Spy!
Overview: In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When evil cabinet ministers overthrow the King, they decide to make Moe the new ruler as he'll be stupid enough to follow their orders. Moe becomes Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry becomes Minister of Propaganda. After successfully preventing a female spy from committing mayhem, the boys are run out of office by a mob and eaten by lions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-19
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They Stooge to Conga
1943-01-01
They Stooge to Conga
Overview: The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Dizzy Pilots
1943-09-24
Dizzy Pilots
Overview: The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-24
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Back from the Front
1943-05-28
Back from the Front
Overview: The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dungen (Vernon Dent), and then mistake a torpedo for a beached whale. Moe says they have to kill it, and it promptly explodes. After being lost at sea for several days, they come across the SS Schicklgruber and climb aboard. Now with fully grown beards, they come across Lt. Dungen again, who does not recognize them. After realizing they are on a German war ship they eventually overtake the crew and toss them overboard.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-28
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The Captain Hates the Sea
1934-11-02
The Captain Hates the Sea
Overview: Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett with a fortune in stolen bonds. Steve begins drinking, all the while observing the various stories of other passengers on board, several of whom turn out not to be who they seem to be.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
1997-05-15
The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!
Overview: A tribute to the Three Stooges comedy team, featuring old clips and home movies mixed with music performances of Stooge-themed songs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-15
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Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!
2023-07-11
Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-11
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Woman Haters
1934-05-05
Woman Haters
Overview: The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-05
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Restless Knights
1935-02-20
Restless Knights
Overview: Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the queen is abducted on the orders of the evil prime minister. The stooges escape, free the queen, and end up knocking each other out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-20
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Hoi Polloi
1935-08-29
Hoi Polloi
Overview: A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them etiquette, he brings them to a fancy society party. The stooges' new found manners don't last very long, and the party quickly degenerates. By the end, the other guests have adopted stooge-like behavior and the stooges leave as gentlemen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-29
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Pardon My Scotch
1935-08-01
Pardon My Scotch
Overview: The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at a party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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Three Little Beers
1935-11-28
Three Little Beers
Overview: The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-28
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Uncivil Warriors
1935-04-26
Uncivil Warriors
Overview: Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-26
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Ants in the Pantry
1936-02-06
Ants in the Pantry
Overview: The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-06
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Half Shot Shooters
1936-04-30
Half Shot Shooters
Overview: The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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Whoops, I'm an Indian!
1936-09-11
Whoops, I'm an Indian!
Overview: Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier town. They are discovered and must escape into the woods. To elude the sheriff they disguise themselves as Indians. Their plan works until Curly, dressed as a squaw, is forced to marry a local tough guy. The stooges are unmasked and wind up in the hoosegow.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-11
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From Nurse to Worse
1940-08-23
From Nurse to Worse
Overview: The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-23
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False Alarms
1936-08-16
False Alarms
Overview: Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-16
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Movie Maniacs
1936-02-20
Movie Maniacs
Overview: The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-20
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Three Little Pigskins
1934-12-08
Three Little Pigskins
Overview: The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-08
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A Pain in the Pullman
1936-06-27
A Pain in the Pullman
Overview: The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-27
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Dizzy Doctors
1937-03-19
Dizzy Doctors
Overview: The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of the hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-19
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Back to the Woods
1937-05-14
Back to the Woods
Overview: Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Cash and Carry
1937-09-03
Cash and Carry
Overview: The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boys operation they buy a phony treasure map from a con man. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a US treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-03
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Slippery Silks
1936-12-27
Slippery Silks
Overview: The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-27
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Grips, Grunts and Groans
1937-01-13
Grips, Grunts and Groans
Overview: The Stooges become trainers of Bustoff, a champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet on Bustoff and orders the boys to take good care of him. Instead they accidentally knock him out and Curly must disguise himself as Bustoff and wrestle in his place. The match doesn't go very well until Curly smells "Wild Hyacinth" perfume on a lady fan at ringside. This drives him crazy and he knocks out his opponent and half the people in the stadium.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-13
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Goofs and Saddles
1937-07-02
Goofs and Saddles
Overview: Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain, but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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3 Dumb Clucks
1937-04-17
3 Dumb Clucks
Overview: The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Playing the Ponies
1937-10-15
Playing the Ponies
Overview: The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-15
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Wee Wee Monsieur
1938-02-18
Wee Wee Monsieur
Overview: The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Three Missing Links
1938-07-29
Three Missing Links
Overview: The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive natives. On location in Africa, the stooges have a confrontation with a witch doctor from whom Curly buys some "love candy" with hopes of attracting the films leading lady. When a female gorilla disrupts the movie set, Curly eats some of the candy and chases after her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-29
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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
1938-05-20
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
Overview: Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-20
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The Sitter Downers
1937-11-26
The Sitter Downers
Overview: The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Termites of 1938
1938-01-07
Termites of 1938
Overview: The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a fancy society party. The stooges wreck the fancy mansion where the party is taking place and befuddle the guest of honor, an English Lord.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Tassels in the Air
1938-04-01
Tassels in the Air
Overview: The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for famous decorator Omay. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they proceed to ruin. More trouble ensues when the real Omay shows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Violent Is the Word for Curly
1938-07-02
Violent Is the Word for Curly
Overview: The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first customers, three famous European professors. The stooges steal some of the academics' clothes and wind up at "Mildew", a women's college where the three professors are expected. Mistaken as the real thing, the boys take their place on the faculty. When the real professors show up, the stooges try to convince a rich woman, the schools benefactor, that an athletics programs is more important. Their athletics demonstration comes to an explosive end when the real professors slip them a nitroglycerin basketball.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-02
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Mutts to You
1938-10-14
Mutts to You
Overview: The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Calling All Curs
1939-08-25
Calling All Curs
Overview: The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of socialite Mrs. Bedford . When two men posing as reporters kidnap the poodle, the boys frantically try track them down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Three Sappy People
1939-12-01
Three Sappy People
Overview: The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for submarine rides and the like. The boys ruin a dinner party at their clients mansion but their antics so amuse his wife the she is cured and the stooges are paid off handsomely.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Saved by the Belle
1939-06-30
Saved by the Belle
Overview: The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Yes, We Have No Bonanza
1939-05-19
Yes, We Have No Bonanza
Overview: Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they hope to marry. The proprietor of the saloon is a crook who, with his partner, has buried $40,000 of stolen money. The boys go prospecting in hopes of raising enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancée father, who owes money to their boss. They dig up the stolen money, which the crooks recognize as their loot and abscond with. A wild chase ensues, ending with the bad guy's car crashing into the Sheriff's office.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-19
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
1939-10-06
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
Overview: Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-06
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We Want Our Mummy
1939-02-24
We Want Our Mummy
Overview: The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay a $5000 prize. They wind up in the mummy's tomb where they are harassed by some bad guys after the same objective. The villains, who have kidnapped a professor from the museum, want the jewels buried inside the mummy. When Curly accidentally destroys the mummy, Moe and Larry wrap him in bandages to fool the bad guys. They manage to rescue the professor and retrieve the real mummy of Rootin-Tootin who turns out to have been a midget.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-24
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Three Little Sew and Sews
1939-01-06
Three Little Sew and Sews
Overview: The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, they steal officers uniforms and go to a party with Curly passing himself off as Admiral Taylor and Moe and Larry as his aides. Two spies, one of them a beautiful woman, trick the stooges into stealing a new submarine. The boys turn the table on the spies and capture them. When the real Admiral shows up, Curly's reenacts the capture and accidentally detonates a bomb, blowing them all to kingdom come.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Flat Foot Stooges
1938-12-05
Flat Foot Stooges
Overview: The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who wants to sell the chief some modern equipment plants gun powder in one of the engines. The chiefs daughter catches him and after a chase both are knocked unconscious. When a fire starts, the stooges respond to the alarm, but don't realize its their firehouse that's burning! Somehow they manage to arrive in time to save the girl, and the villain gets his just desserts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-05
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A Plumbing We Will Go
1940-04-19
A Plumbing We Will Go
Overview: To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy mansion, but they wind up crossing the electrical system with the plumbing and generally ruin the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-19
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Rockin' Thru the Rockies
1940-03-08
Rockin' Thru the Rockies
Overview: The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the horses run off they are stranded. They must contend with a snow storm and a marauding bear as well the Indians. After almost killing each other ice fishing they solve their problems by rigging up a sail on the wagon and sailing west.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-08
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Cookoo Cavaliers
1940-11-15
Cookoo Cavaliers
Overview: The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the girls' hair, and their manager finds out, the boys must leave on the run.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Nutty But Nice
1940-06-14
Nutty But Nice
Overview: The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed little girl, whose banker-father has gone missing with $300,000 worth of bonds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-14
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No Census, No Feeling
1940-10-04
No Census, No Feeling
Overview: The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to survey. Moe and Larry are recruited to join a bridge game, while Curly adds Alum to the lemonade. The resulting concoction is consumed by everyone, resulting in puckered lips and shrunken clothes. The boys next try to take the census at a football stadium. They disguise themselves as players and wind up in the middle of the game. Curly runs off with the ball and all the other players in pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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Boobs in Arms
1940-12-27
Boobs in Arms
Overview: The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-27
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All the World's a Stooge
1941-05-16
All the World's a Stooge
Overview: The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-16
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So Long Mr. Chumps
1941-02-07
So Long Mr. Chumps
Overview: The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The man is so grateful that he offers them a big reward if they can find an honest man with executive ability. Their search leads them to a woman who's fiancée is honest, but he's in jail. The boys decide to commit a crime so they can go behind bars to find him. In prison the boys locate the man and help him escape, only to find out that their benefactor is a con man and on the way himself to the slammer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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I'll Never Heil Again
1941-04-04
I'll Never Heil Again
Overview: The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a Field Marshal and Larry is Minister of Propaganda. The Stooges are planning with their allies to conquer the world, which mainly consists of fighting over a globe. The former king's daughter gets into their headquarters and plants a bomb which Curly detonates. All ends well as the king regains control of the country and the Stooges wind up as trophies on the wall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-04
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Dutiful But Dumb
1941-03-21
Dutiful But Dumb
Overview: The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent to the country of Vulgaria to get a picture of a death ray gun. Features the famous scene where Curly pits his wits against a strong drink, and then a defiant oyster in his stew.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-21
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An Ache in Every Stake
1941-08-22
An Ache in Every Stake
Overview: The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-22
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In the Sweet Pie and Pie
1941-10-16
In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Overview: The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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What's the Matador?
1942-04-23
What's the Matador?
Overview: The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Even as IOU
1942-09-18
Even as IOU
Overview: A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-18
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Three Pests in a Mess
1945-01-19
Three Pests in a Mess
Overview: The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching invention. When they learn they'll have to catch 100,000 flies to earn enough to get a patent, some crooks overhear and think the boys are the $100,000 sweepstakes winners. When the crooks give chase, the stooges hide in a sporting goods store where Curly shoots a dummy, which they mistake for a real person. The boys decide to bury the "body" in a pet cemetery, but the cemetery owner arrives from a costume party with his partners, all dressed as spooks, and they proceed to scare the devil out of the stooges.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-19
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If a Body Meets a Body
1945-08-30
If a Body Meets a Body
Overview: Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-30
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Some More of Samoa
1941-12-04
Some More of Samoa
Overview: The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-04
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Matri-Phony
1942-07-02
Matri-Phony
Overview: The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the emperor orders all beautiful red-headed women to be brought before him so he can select a wife, Diana, a pretty red-head, seeks refuge with the stooges. Some soldiers find Diana's hiding place and they are all brought to the palace where the stooges escape and try to pass of Curly as Diana, having broken the emperor's glasses. Their ruse fails and they're caught by the palace guards as they try to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Crash Goes the Hash
1944-02-04
Crash Goes the Hash
Overview: Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-04
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Busy Buddies
1944-03-18
Busy Buddies
Overview: The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County Fair. But when they take him to a pasture to practice, Curly doesnt know a cow from a bull!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-18
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Idiots Deluxe
1945-07-20
Idiots Deluxe
Overview: Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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Loco Boy Makes Good
1942-01-08
Loco Boy Makes Good
Overview: After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-08
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Gents Without Cents
1944-09-22
Gents Without Cents
Overview: The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the situation and get a small part in a big producers show at the shipyard. When the rest of the cast doesn't show up, the stooges and the girls must put on the whole show themselves. The show is a hit and the stooges marry the girls and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-09-22
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Three Smart Saps
1942-07-30
Three Smart Saps
Overview: The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the stooges are able to get married and all ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-30
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Higher Than a Kite
1943-07-30
Higher Than a Kite
Overview: The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-30
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The Yoke's on Me
1944-05-26
The Yoke's on Me
Overview: The Stooges become farmers as a last resort when every branch of the armed services turns them down. Strong anti-Japanese content during World War II caused this short to later be banned from television
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-26
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Cactus Makes Perfect
1942-04-23
Cactus Makes Perfect
Overview: The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-23
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Sock-a-Bye Baby
1942-11-13
Sock-a-Bye Baby
Overview: The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's mother come looking for the baby, the boys panic and flee into the country with the cops (one of them is the baby's father) pursuing them by motorcycle. It all ends happily with the baby reunited with its parents and the stooges running off disguised as bushes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-11-13
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Booby Dupes
1945-10-18
Booby Dupes
Overview: The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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Three Little Twirps
1943-07-09
Three Little Twirps
Overview: The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their pay is tickets to the show. When trying to scalp their tickets gets them in trouble, they hide out backstage where Curly has an encounter with a bearded lady and Moe and Larry hide in a horse suit. When they're caught, the circus manager gives them a choice of going to jail or joining the circus. What they don't know is that they are to be targets for the Zulu spear thrower. When Curly hits the spear thrower with one of his own spears, the boys are on the run once again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-09
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Spook Louder
1943-04-02
Spook Louder
Overview: The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the house of an eccentric inventor, where they are mistaken for new caretakers, are left to guard his house, and must contend with enemy spies and a mysterious pie thrower.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-02
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I Can Hardly Wait
1943-08-13
I Can Hardly Wait
Overview: The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy its going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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Dizzy Detectives
1943-02-05
Dizzy Detectives
Overview: The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police chief's job. The boys go on the case and pose as night watchmen at an antiques store. They confront the crook, who turns out to be a real gorilla owned by Dill. After defeating Dill and some other bad guys in a wild fight, the gorilla drinks some nitroglycerin and blows up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-05
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A Gem of a Jam
1943-12-30
A Gem of a Jam
Overview: The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-30
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Idle Roomers
1944-07-15
Idle Roomers
Overview: The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-15
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No Dough Boys
1944-11-24
No Dough Boys
Overview: The Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch break they go into a restaurant with their Japanese uniforms on, causing the proprietor to mistake them for the real thing, and a chase ensues. The boys fall through a trap door, and into a nest of Nazi spies where they are mistaken for "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki", three Japanese saboteurs. The Stooges try to act the part, including demonstrating acrobatics and jiu-jitsu to their hosts. When the real "Naki", "Saki" and "Waki" show up, the boys are exposed as impostors, but after a wild fight manage to capture all the Axis spies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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The Three Troubledoers
1946-04-26
The Three Troubledoers
Overview: Set in the old west, the stooges become marshals in a town with a high death rate for lawmen. The boys set out prevent a marriage between the villain Blackie and the heroine Nell, who's father Blackie has kidnapped. The stooges manage to defeat Blackie and his henchmen, but when Nell's father learns she promised to marry Curly if he could save her, he decides death would be a preferable fate.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-26
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Beer Barrel Polecats
1946-01-10
Beer Barrel Polecats
Overview: The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a cop. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a keg of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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Uncivil War Birds
1946-03-29
Uncivil War Birds
Overview: The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing armies. Eventually they decide to be loyal to the south, but remain disguised as Union soldiers. Curly is detected as a spy, but Moe and Larry prevent his execution. The boys escape with a secret map and marry their three southern belles.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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Monkey Businessmen
1946-06-20
Monkey Businessmen
Overview: The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for their incompetence. The rest home they choose is run by Dr. Mallard, a quack who gyps the patients for everything they've got. When the boys discover the crooked goings on they escape, but not before Curly accidentally cures another patient who rewards him with a thousand dollars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-20
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Three Loan Wolves
1946-07-04
Three Loan Wolves
Overview: Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges, owners of a pawn shop, owed money to the gashouse protection society, a bunch of loan sharks. To complicate matters, a lady leaves a baby in the shop as part of a plan to sell a phony diamond and the stooges wind up caring for the kid. The stooges manage to defeat the crooks and when they finish telling the story, the kid goes off to find his real mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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A Bird in the Head
1946-02-28
A Bird in the Head
Overview: The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly as the perfect donor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-28
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G.I. Wanna Home
1946-09-05
G.I. Wanna Home
Overview: The stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancée, but find they have been dispossessed and the wedding is off until they find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant apartment so they set up housekeeping in a vacant lot. Their housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their new home with a tractor. The stooges then build a house of their own, but the girls aren't impressed with the one room mansion and walk out on them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-05
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Micro-Phonies
1945-11-15
Micro-Phonies
Overview: The Stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of "Voices of Spring" under an assumed name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Rhythm and Weep
1946-10-03
Rhythm and Weep
Overview: The Stooges are actors who can't hold a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end it all. On the roof top they meet three pretty dancers with the same idea. Before they can jump, they meet a millionaire Broadway producer who hires them all for his next show. The rehearsal goes so well that he doubles their salary, but it all comes to naught when they discover that the "producer" is an escaped patient from Dr. Dippy's retreat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-03
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Three Little Pirates
1946-12-05
Three Little Pirates
Overview: The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-05
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Hold That Lion!
1947-07-17
Hold That Lion!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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Half-Wits Holiday
1947-01-09
Half-Wits Holiday
Overview: A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-09
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Punch Drunks
1934-07-13
Punch Drunks
Overview: Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Horses' Collars
1935-01-10
Horses' Collars
Overview: The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet and then from a safe meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-10
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Pop Goes the Easel
1935-03-29
Pop Goes the Easel
Overview: The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-29
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Men in Black
1934-09-28
Men in Black
Overview: The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Nertsery Rhymes
1933-07-06
Nertsery Rhymes
Overview: Three boys play are told some "bedtime stories" by their parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-06
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The Three Stooges - Simply Hilarious
2000-01-01
The Three Stooges - Simply Hilarious
Overview: 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."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Plane Nuts
1933-10-13
Plane Nuts
Overview: Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Beer and Pretzels
1933-08-26
Beer and Pretzels
Overview: Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos and a few musical numbers ensue.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-26
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Rockin' in the Rockies
1945-04-17
Rockin' in the Rockies
Overview: Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Fugitive Lovers
1934-01-05
Fugitive Lovers
Overview: In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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The Big Idea
1934-05-12
The Big Idea
Overview: Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. These include a man with a machine gun, a woman who empties waste baskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-12
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Hollywood Party
1934-05-24
Hollywood Party
Overview: Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-24
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The Last Laugh
2016-04-18
The Last Laugh
Overview: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-18
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Steel Pier, Atlantic City, NJ
1938-07-01
Steel Pier, Atlantic City, NJ
Overview: Moe, Larry and Curly appear in their Stooge personas, each trying to flirt with Barbara Bradford. Moe and Larry strike out, while Curly's attempt is interrupted by the tall and angry George Mann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-01
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol 2: 1937-1939
2008-05-27
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol 2: 1937-1939
Overview: Get ready for more outrageous antics as The Three Stooges return in this second collection of chronological masterpieces. These 24 shorts, filmed from 1937-1939, are digitally remastered for the highest quality - every sight, gag and knuckle-cracking sound can be seen and heard with the utmost clarity for maximum effect. This period is considered to be when Larry, Moe, and Curly hit their stride and perfected their craft, when all the elements came together perfectly: the writing, directing, pacing, and performances. It's no wonder The Stooges made some of their best films during this period, proving laughter really is the best medicine in such classics as Dizzy Doctors, Saved By The Belle, and Calling All Curs. And audiences agreed - at least most of them did. By now The Stooges were wildly popular and their personal appearances were mobbed, but there were some who thought they were too violent and who over analyzed their eye-poking, pie-throwing behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-27
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
2008-08-26
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942
Overview: The Golden Age of the Three Stooges continues in this exceptional third chronological collection. These 23 shorts from 1940-1942 are all digitally remastered for the highest quality in sight and sound, and this collection is even more special as it features an historical first: Moe Howard was the first American to portray Hitler on film, in 1940's "You Nazty Spy", which was Moe's personal favorite. It also contains the outstanding 1941 sequel, I'll Never Heil Again. Moe as a vicious dictator - who would have thought?! With biting satire and merciless wit, the Three Stooges gave the world a brave new perspective on the absurdity of evil and the world powers of the time. This collection also contains Curly's favorite, "A Plumbing We Will Go", which features the brilliant sight gag of a burst of water flowing from a new television set just as it's broadcasting a live report from Niagara Falls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-26
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948
2009-03-17
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948
Overview: This fifth collection of The Three Stooges, which features 25 digitally remastered shorts from 1946-1948, marks the end of Curly's career with the Stooges and the return of original Stooge Shemp. Curly suffered a stroke on the final day of filming HALF-WITS HOLIDAY and retired at age 43. Moe realized there was only one person who could fill baby brother Curly's shoes: his older brother Shemp (who, ironically, Curly had replaced in 1932). The Three Stooges were born in 1925 when Moe and Shemp met Larry Fine. But the 1930's Shemp left to pursue a film career in Hollywood. By the time Moe called in 1946, he was starring in films with the likes of W.C. Fields, John Wayne and Abbott and Costello. But he accepted Moe's offer, and the original Three Stooges reunited. Shemp's first short upon his return was FRIGHT NIGHT . And Curly did recover enough to make an appearance in HOLD THAT LION, but his health continued to deteriorate and he unfortunately passed away in 1952 at age 48.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-17
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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945
2008-10-07
The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945
Overview: In this fourth chronological collection of The Three Stooges, we come to the final years of what has become regardedas the high point in their career - their Golden Age. These 21 digitally remastered shorts from the 1943-1945 era contain some of their best work, including the classic MICRO-PHONIES (1943) which Curly turns in a brilliant performance as opera diva Senorita Cucaracha. Also included in this collection are two favorites that are so outrageous that television programmers are always hesitant about airing them: THEY STOOGE TO CONGA (1943) features what is considered one of the most violent scenes ever filmed by the Three Stooges and THE YOKE'S ON ME (1944) is what we today refer to as "politically incorrect" in its portrayal of Japanese soldiers. The Three Stooges Collection Volume 4 is groundbreaking, hilarious and outrageous -- classic entertainment from Larry, Moe and Curly at the height of their creativity. Don't miss out on the fun!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-07
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Overview: Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Start Cheering
1938-03-03
Start Cheering
Overview: After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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Myrt and Marge
1933-11-25
Myrt and Marge
Overview: Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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The Three Stooges: Stooged & Confoosed
2004-08-10
The Three Stooges: Stooged & Confoosed
Overview: Funnier in Color! Each classic short has been painstakingly restored from the original negative for the very best picture and audio quality. Dedicated Stooge-o-philes needn't worry - the black and white originals are also here, fully restored and remastered in high definition. Includes: "Violent is the Word for Curly" (1938) - "You Nazty Spy" (1940) - "No Census, No Feeling" (1940) - "An Ache in Every Stake" (1941)
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-10
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The Lost Stooges
1990-01-01
The Lost Stooges
Overview: A documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin featuring rare clips of the Three Stooges
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Three Stooges in 3D
2012-10-30
The Three Stooges in 3D
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-30
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Roast-Beef and Movies
1934-02-09
Roast-Beef and Movies
Overview: A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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Hollywood on Parade
1932-06-05
Hollywood on Parade
Overview: A short featuring many stars
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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Broadway to Hollywood
1933-09-15
Broadway to Hollywood
Overview: In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-15
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The Making of the Stooges
1984-01-01
The Making of the Stooges
Overview: A documentary recounting the personal and professional lives of the Three Stooges, including rare footage and interviews with family members.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Meet the Baron
1933-10-20
Meet the Baron
Overview: A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-20
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Three Stooges Comedy Collection
2024-01-06
Three Stooges Comedy Collection
Overview: A collection of 4 hilarious Three Stooges short films. Disorder in the court (1936) Brideless Groom (1947) Sing A Song Of Six Pants (1947) Malice in the Palace (1949)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-06
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Hello Pop
1933-09-16
Hello Pop
Overview: A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-16
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Turn Back the Clock
1933-08-25
Turn Back the Clock
Overview: While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-25
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Three Stooges: Greatest Routines
1964-12-01
Three Stooges: Greatest Routines
Overview: Join Moe, Larry and Curly Joe for 35 hilarious misadventures! Hosted by Mike Nelson of RiffTrax.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
1934-04-28
Hollywood on Parade No. B-9
Overview: Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-28
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How High Is Up?
1940-07-26
How High Is Up?
Overview: The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to drum up some business by punching holes in the unattended lunch boxes of some workmen. When they're caught in the act, they escape and accidentally get hired as riveters on a new building, working on the 97th floor. Their ineptitude and lousy workmanship screw up construction of the building and they must parachute off the building to escape the wrath of the boss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-26
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Columbia Laff Hour
1956-01-01
Columbia Laff Hour
Overview: A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring Shemp Howard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
1934-03-02
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1
Overview: Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries. He visits the Los Angeles Pier and a Gala Hollywood Premiere.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts
2009-01-01
The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts
Overview: 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
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
The Big Parade of Comedy
Overview: Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Edition: Tales from the Three Stooges Vol. 1
1947-01-01
The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Edition: Tales from the Three Stooges Vol. 1
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Jail Birds of Paradise
1934-03-10
Jail Birds of Paradise
Overview: While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise" Considered a Lost Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-10
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The Three Stooges Follies
1974-11-01
The Three Stooges Follies
Overview: Released to theaters in 1974, this collection of vintage Columbia short subjects included: "Yes, We Have No Bonanza" with The Three Stooges; "Violent Is the Word for Curly" with The Three Stooges; "You Nazty Spy!" with The Three Stooges (replaced by "Men in Black" for the nontheatrical reissue); "Nothing But Pleasure" with Buster Keaton; "Strife of the Party" with Vera Vague; Chapter 1 of the 1943 "Batman" serial with Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft; and "America Sings with Kate Smith."
Genres: Comedy Action Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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