Curly Joe DeRitaFilmography

Born:: July 12, 1909 in Philadelphia, PA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Joe DeRita, sometimes known as "Curly Joe DeRita," was the last of the six members of the Three Stooges to join that august comedic trio. Born Joseph Wardell in Philadelphia in 1909, he came from a show business family, his mother a dancer and his father a stage hand. DeRita accompanied his...Read More

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Three Stooges' 75th Anniversary Special

Synopsis: Perhaps the most thorough (and least hokey) of the many TV Three Stooges retrospectives, this NBC special not only concentrates on the most popular members of the comic trio -- Jerry "Curly" Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine -- but also provides generous and laudatory screen time to Curly's Read More

2003
The Three Stooges: Funniest Moments

Synopsis: In 1965, with The Three Stooges enjoying a second wind of popularity after their two-reel comedy shorts had found a new audience on television, the funnymen lent their likenesses to a series of animated cartoons based on their distinctive style of slapstick. Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita Read More

2001
Kook's Tour

Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Joe DeRita

Synopsis: After a lifetime of gouging eyes and bashing heads, Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe decide to pack up and tour the world with their dog Moose. A bittersweet Stooge swan song. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
The Outlaws Is Coming

Actors: Curly Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Adam West, Nancy Kovack, Henry Gibson, Murray Alper, Sally Starr

Synopsis: The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe De Rita) leave Boston for the Wild West when they are fired from the Society for the Preservation of Wildlife. With Eastern editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West), the boys find themselves in lawless Wyoming and the target of every infamous Read More

1965
The New 3 Stooges [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Joe DeRita

1965
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Ethel Merman, Phil Silvers, Dick Shawn, Jimmy Durante, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: With this all-star Cinerama epic, producer/director Stanley Kramer vowed to make "the comedy that would end all comedies." The story begins during a massive traffic jam, caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante), who, before (literally) kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the Read More

11/7/63
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Joe DeRita, Jay Sheffield, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: This slapstick comedy is a hilarious spoof on "Around The World In 80 Days." The grandson of the celebrated Phinius Fogg makes a bet with his cohorts at the London Explorers Club that he can complete the journey. Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe are the dedicated servants who accompany the explorer along Read More

1963
4 for Texas

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, Ursula Andress, Charles Bronson, Victor Buono

Synopsis: In 4 for Texas, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin star as Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, a pair of rival mountebanks who spend most of the film battling over who will control the gambling and wenching in 1870 Galveston. Though they'd as soon cut each other's throats than cooperate, Zack and Joe are Read More

1963
The Three Stooges in Orbit

Actors: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Joe DeRita, Carol Christensen, Edson Stroll

Synopsis: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly-Joe DeRita are out of this world as The Three Stooges In Orbit. The veteran comedy trio defends a secret weapon invented by Professor Danforth (Emil Sitka) from falling into the hands of scheming Martians. Following his success as the villain in "The Three Stooges Read More

1962
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

Actors: Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker, George Neise

Synopsis: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe work in a pharmacy where a young professor works on a time machine. When the machine is sabotaged by foil Ralph Dimsal (George N. Neise), the Three Stooges, the professor and beautiful Diane (Vicki Trickett) are transported back in time to ancient Greece. The group lands Read More

1962
Snow White and the Three Stooges

Actors: Carol Heiss, Edson Stroll, Patricia Medina, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: In this family-oriented comedy, Snow White is taken to the woods to be killed at the behest of her evil stepmother and ends up abandoned and alone. Fortunately she stumbles across a charming cottage inhabited by the Three Stooges, and comical fairy-tale chaos ensues. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Read More

1961
Have Rocket, Will Travel

Actors: Curly Joe DeRita, Jerome Cowan, Anna-Lisa

Synopsis: Joe De Rita makes his debut as the third Stooge in this rollicking slapstick comedy that has the three bunglers accidentally locking themselves into a rocket ship and blasting off to Venus. Once on the second planet they find fantastic life forms, including a verbose unicorn. They also find Read More

1959
The Bravados

Actors: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant

Synopsis: Brooding Gregory Peck arrives in a small western town to witness the hanging of the men whom he holds responsible for the murder of his wife (they've been arrested for an unrelated crime). Through the help of a duplicitous executioner, the gang escapes--taking Kathleen Gallant as hostage. The Read More

1958
Coroner Creek

Actors: Randolph Scott, Marguerite Chapman, George Macready, Sally Eilers, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Randolph Scott is a single-minded gunman bent on tracking down and killing the white man responsible for an Indian raid on a stagecoach. Scott's fiancee was killed in the raid and a large army payroll was stolen. The villain is George Macready, a "solid citizen" with fingers in several dirty pies. Read More

1948
People Are Funny

Actors: Jack Haley, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee, Ozzie Nelson, Phillip Reed

Synopsis: Art Linkletter had only recently taken over the popular audience-participation radio series People are Funny from Art Baker when he appeared as "himself" in this lighthearted musical comedy. The film's plot concerns a rivalry between two radio producers, both of whom want to produce a Read More

1946
The French Key

Actors: Albert Dekker, Mike Mazurki, Evelyn Ankers, John Eldredge, Frank Fenton

Synopsis: French Key is a Republic Pictures murder mystery with all of the studio's genre trademarks: Good cast, reasonably good direction, fairly good sets and middling story values. Albert Dekker plays a private eye who is framed for murder. With the police breathing down his neck, it's up to the Read More

1946
The Sailor Takes a Wife

Actors: Robert Walker, June Allyson, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Synopsis: A quickie post-WWII marriage becomes complicated in this romantic comedy, the second film pairing of Robert Walker and June Allyson. Swept off her feet in one whirlwind night by dashing U.S. Navy man John (Walker), the young, attractive Mary (Allyson) agrees to a fast, ill-considered wedding. John Read More

1946
High School Hero

Actors: Frankie Darro, Curly Joe DeRita, Dick Elliott, Edythe Elliott

Synopsis: High School Hero is all about a high school hero (what else?), played by Monogram musical star Freddy Stewart. A student at Whitney High, Freddy agonizes when the Big Football Game approaches with the school's principal rival, who have emerged victorious in all previous gridiron clashes. Director Read More

1946
The Doughgirls

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning

Synopsis: The wartime housing shortage in Washington DC is the basis for this comedy. Several attractive young ladies rent a single DC apartment, causing no end of complications to their various professional and private lives. Also moving in (due to a misunderstanding) is a young newlywed (Jane Wyman) Read More

1944
Thank Your Lucky Stars

Actors: Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Bette Davis, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: Practically everybody on the Warner Bros. lot shows up in the wartime morale-boosting musical extravaganza Thank Your Lucky Stars. Believe it or not, this one has a wisp of a plot. A pair of enterprising producers, played by S.Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton, want to hire singer Dinah Shore Read More

1943