Besides acting and being comedians, the Three Stooges werev businessmen.

[GaryS]

"Give me that filem!"

Among many, and I mean very many of the short's I watched as a NYC kid after school in the afternoon and saw at the movie house on saturdays, the episode where they were cops and the one which they were stowaways on a ship were my favorites. Now 50 years or more later, I can still chuckle recalling them. Funny, funny stuff.

Cheers;
Lefty

 

[the ringo kid]

Not sure about the gentleman part. Whenever someone greeted them with the word "gentlemen", they always looked over their shoulders and replied "who came in ?"

They actually were, in the episode called: Hoi Polloi or Ants in the Pantry. I forget which? Two professors have a bet on making gentlemen out of their three subjects, and one tells the other: ''You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear'' when they made that bet. Vernon Dent was the one who said that but I don't recall the other fellers name?

 

[the ringo kid]

I read that Curly had a great singing voice. He was also very agile and was an accomplished dancer. Yes I said Curly.

When I was little and the stooges were young...
CBS Jefferson City, Mo ran 15 minutes of the Stooges and 15 Minutes of Laurel and Hardy. It started just about the time the bus dropped me off. Hustle and and get in on the laughs...

I loved both of them.

Curly did indeed have a great voice. He sang a song called: Swinging the Alphabet or Singing the Alphabet. I forget what episode it was in but, they started out ad three gas station attendants but wound up taking the places of three German professors at an all girls' college. I think one was called: Von Stupid??

BTW, that song was released on record with the stooges singing it. My mother had the record and played it when I was a yonker.

 

[GaryS]

"Violent is the Word for Curly"

Curly did indeed have a great voice. He sang a song called: Swinging the Alphabet or Singing the Alphabet. I forget what episode it was in but, they started out ad three gas station attendants but wound up taking the places of three German professors at an all girls' college. I think one was called: Von Stupid??

BTW, that song was released on record with the stooges singing it. My mother had the record and played it when I was a yonker.

 

[GaryS]

"Hoi Polloi".

"There hasn't been a gentleman in our family in four generations."


"Ants in the Pantry" is the one where they're, no surprise, exterminators.

"Lady, we're all pest men."

The early "Shemp" shorts used original scripts, but later to save money they were mostly remakes of Curly shorts with Shemp scenes cut in to replace close ups of Curly.

The last Shemp was filmed with a stand in and most shots of "Shemp" from the rear as he died during production.

Sort of like early 3rd Gen, late 3rd Gen, and Value Line semi autos.

There was only one short filmed with all four of the original Stooges in it. "Hold that Lion". Curly had a very brief post stroke cameo.

It's because I can remember stuff like this that I have no room for useful knowledge in my brain.

They actually were, in the episode called: Hoi Polloi or Ants in the Pantry. I forget which? Two professors have a bet on making gentlemen out of their three subjects, and one tells the other: ''You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear'' when they made that bet. Vernon Dent was the one who said that but I don't recall the other fellers name?

 

[the ringo kid]

"Violent is the Word for Curly"

Oops, guess I'm not as much of a stoogeaholic as I thought?

 

[Leonard]

As a young boy I had a chance to meet them at the Holiday House in Monroeville Pa. It was Larry, Moe and I am not sure of who the 3rd one was it was not the original Curly or Shemp and was not nearly as entertaining as Moe and Larry.

 

[GaryS]

I really only know it because it's one of my favorites.

I can always break up my Stooge hating wife by saying "Welcome to Mildew!" in a falsetto voice.

I also had some dealing with a small local college that has it's administration building in an old mansion. The VP of Academic Affairs is as big a fan as am I. One time when he met me in the lobby I looked around and said, "Nice joint, reminds me of the reformatory." He broke up laughing.

Oops, guess I'm not as much of a stoogeaholic as I thought?

 

[Bell Charter Oak Holsters]

"Give me that filem!"

Now that's unmistakable "Brooklynease" Things like "turlet" "the earl man came toady" "get some filem for the Brownie" or "folly that guy" (that was Brooklyn and Bronx cop chatter on the radio). We had a Captain who was originally from Mississippi who if you had to drive for a night tour, couldn't understand a word on the radio communications. Someone suggested he watch a few shorts of the Three Stooges and The Dead End Kids (Leo Gorcey & Co.) Within a week, you would have thought he was from Greenpoint instead of Mississippi. Hell of a good guy though, great boss.

Cheers;
Lefty

 

[LOBO]

My Dad introduced me to the stooges when I was a kid. I would get up with him in the morning before he went to work and we would watch the stooges while we ate breakfast together. We are both stooge fans to this day.

 

[the ringo kid]

As a young boy I had a chance to meet them at the Holiday House in Monroeville Pa. It was Larry, Moe and I am not sure of who the 3rd one was it was not the original Curly or Shemp and was not nearly as entertaining as Moe and Larry.

It would have to be either Joe Besser, or Curly Joe DiReda. Joe Besser was never considered a stooge by the Stooges, but he was pretty funny when he was in the Abbott and Costello show.

 

[Leonard]

As a young boy I had a chance to meet them at the Holiday House in Monroeville Pa. It was Larry, Moe and I am not sure of who the 3rd one was it was not the original Curly or Shemp and was not nearly as entertaining as Moe and Larry.

Figured out who the third one was Joe Derita

Curly Joe DeRita | The Three Stooges

 

[the ringo kid]

My Dad introduced me to the stooges when I was a kid. I would get up with him in the morning before he went to work and we would watch the stooges while we ate breakfast together. We are both stooge fans to this day.

After school when I was in grade and middle school. One of the local stations would play a stooges short, in between cartoons. My dad came home early from work one afternoon, heard all the laughing going on upstairs and went to investigate. He saw me watching the Stooges and joined in on watching them. I had never heard of the stooges before then, so he splained them a bit. I remember the title of the first epidode I eversaw, it was Uncivil Warriors.