Enjoying a career renaissance in 1959 when their old Columbia two-reelers were released to television, The Three Stooges...
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1960
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Released on June 4, 1959, Sappy Bull Fighters ended the Three Stooges' 20-year-plus association with the Columbia short...
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1959
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A professor (Gene Roth) wages that he can turn the Three Stooges into refined gentlemen in this remake, with stock footage of...
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1958
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About the best thing that can be said about this Joe Besser-era Three Stooges comedy is that it's not an exact remake of the...
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1958
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In their penultimate two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges used mainly stock footage from their earlier He Cooked His Goose....
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1958
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Joe Besser's photograph of a paper plate is mistaken for an UFO in this two-reel comedy starring the Three Stooges. Moe and...
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1958
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In their first two-reel comedy of 1958 (although filmed in 1957), the Three Stooges welcome blonde Greta Thyssen, Miss...
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1958
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Filmed in 1957, this Three Stooges two-reel comedy featured Muriel Landers as Joe Besser's sister, a singer suffering from...
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1958
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Joe Besser's French wartime girlfriend, Fifi (Vanda Dupre), moves in next door to the boys in this Three Stooges comedy...
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1958
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Unbeknownst to each other, the Three Stooges fall in love with the same gold digger (Connie Cezan) in this two-reel comedy...
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1957
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This Three Stooges comedy was the second with Joe Besser in the lineup, and from the beginning it hardly seems like a...
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1957
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In their first sci-fi comedy, the Three Stooges land on Sunev (Venus spelled backwards), a planet inhabited by cannibalistic...
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1957
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1957
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1957
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A remake with stock footage of the Three Stooges' earlier Idiots Deluxe, Guns A-Poppin' has Moe Howard on trial for...
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1957
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The first Three Stooges short to co-star Joe Besser as the third Stooge, Hoofs and Goofs features Moe Howard in drag playing...
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1957
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1957
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Containing a wealth of stock footage from the earlier Malice in the Palace (1949), this Three Stooges two-reel comedy...
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1956
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Containing a wealth of stock footage from the earlier Fuelin' Around (1949), this Three Stooges two-reeler features a gang of...
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1956
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The Three Stooges play plumbers searching for a diamond ring in this two-reel comedy which added footage from the earlier A...
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1956
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1956
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A remake -- with plenty of stock footage -- of Brideless Groom (1947), Husbands Beware once again asks the burning question:...
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1956
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Starring the Three Stooges, this derivative two-reel haunted house comedy was a remake -- with at least ten minutes of stock...
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1956
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Ostensibly a remake, this Three Stooges comedy was basically stock footage from the earlier Who Done It? (1949) with a few...
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1956
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A remake with stock footage of the earlier Hokus Pokus (1949), this Three Stooges comedy once again featured Vernon Dent as...
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1956
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For their first release of 1955, the Three Stooges dug out their old Fright Night (1947), filmed a couple of new scenes, and...
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1955
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The final Three Stooges two-reel comedy of 1955 was only the second of the year to feature mostly new scenes. The boys play...
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1955
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With only a couple of new scenes added, this Three Stooges short comedy was actually 1948's I'm a Monkey's Uncle in...
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1955
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Shemp is suffering from a case of bad nerves in this Three Stooges two-reel comedy, and Moe and Larry invite him on a...
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1955
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In this two-reel comedy, released as a remake of Crime on Their Hands (1948), the Three Stooges are novice Scotland Yard...
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1955
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In their first original comedy of 1955 (their first two releases had been revamped stock footage), the Three Stooges are...
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1955
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Following Gypped in the Penthouse, a rare original comedy short, the battle-fatigued Three Stooges returned to revamping one...
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1955
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As had become their habit, the Three Stooges revamped their old comedy shorts -- in this case 1948's Shivering Sherlocks --...
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1955
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This was a particularly witty short for the Three Stooges during the latter part of their Shemp Howard era. Three young...
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1954
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1954
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In this, their first comedy short of 1954, the Three Stooges make income tax cheating a cottage industry -- until caught and...
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1954
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A remake of the Three Stooges' earlier Squareheads of the Round Table, this two-reel comedy features the boys as troubadours...
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1954
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A remake, with stock footage, of the earlier Fiddlers Three (1948), this Three Stooges comedy short features the boys as...
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1954
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This two-reel Western spoof is a remake with plenty of stock footage of The Three Stooges earlier Out West (1947) and Goofs...
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1954
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For their final two-reel comedy of 1954, the Three Stooges remade their earlier The Hot Scots (1948), playing detective...
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1954
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The first of two misguided Three Stooges comedy shorts released in 3-D, Spooks mainly consisted of flying pies as the boys...
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1953
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The Three Stooges play druggists inventing a youth serum in this remake of All Gummed Up (1947). Christine McIntyre, Emil...
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1953
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While the Three Stooges are best known for their violent brand of slapstick -- and director Jules White generally played the...
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1953
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1953
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The second of two Three Stooges comedy shorts laboriously filmed in unfunny 3-D, Pardon My Backfire featured the boys as...
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1953
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In this weak Three Stooges entry, the boys find themselves backstage at the Circle Follies Theatre in search of a con man...
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1953
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The Three Stooges chase a safe-cracker (Kenneth MacDonald) to Las Vegas in this two-reel comedy, which mainly consists of...
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1953
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The Three Stooges are house sitters in this typical two-reel farce, ending up wrecking the house in an attempt to put up a...
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1953
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1952
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Bringing the waning Vera Vague series of 2-reel comedies to a less than spectacular close, Columbia released Happy Go Wacky...
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1952
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1952 was a presidential election year, and it's no surprise that politics wound up as the subject of this Three Stooges...
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1952
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This is rather an odd Three Stooges short -- instead of the warm (although knockabout) friendship they usually have, here...
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1952
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This Three Stooges comedy was a remake of the 1938 short Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb, with Shemp in Curly's role. The boys are...
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1952
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Like many Three Stooges comedies, this one seems to be divided into two parts: the first one involves the inept trio cleaning...
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1952
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Facing eviction from their apartment, The Three Stooges attempt to raise the rent money by becoming professional baby...
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1951
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The Three Stooges are census-takers this time around, running afoul of a knife-wielding magician (series regular Dick...
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1951
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In her penultimate 2-reel comedy for Columbia, former radio comedienne Vera Vague (aka Barbara Jo Allen remade her 1944 short...
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1951
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In the fourth Three Stooges comedy of 1951, Moe and Larry attempt to cure Shemp of the hallucinations that caused him to...
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1951
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Though it doesn't borrow any footage, this Columbia short is essentially a remake of The Three Stooges' 1936 short, Ants in...
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1951
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This Three Stooges short opens up with the boys happily cleaning house in anticipation of the arrival of their fiancees (not...
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1950
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In this fairly amusing two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges play theater with aspirations to become thespians. They are finally...
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1950
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Proprietors of the Shangri-La Upholstery Shop, the Three Stooges purchase a chair which comes complete with a concealed...
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1950
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Beginning a new decade on a rather low note, comedienne Vera Vague (aka Barbara Jo Allen) played a hospital nurse caring for...
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1950
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A remake of an earlier Harry Langdon short, His Marriage Mixup (1935), this Vera Vague comedy 2-reeler featured the...
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1949
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This Shemp Howard-era Three Stooges short has quite a few good gags. It opens up at the Cafe Casbah Bah, where two...
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1949
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In this Vera Vague 2-reel comedy, the dizzy Vera is arrested for speeding on the way to the airport. When her scheduled...
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1949
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When blonde Mary Ainslee picks three saps to unwittingly help her swindle an insurance company, she has the misfortune of...
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1949
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In their premiere comedy short of 1949, the Three Stooges are moving men assigned to the haunted Smorgasbord Castle. The...
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1949
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Despite the appearance of such veteran scene-stealers as Dorothy Granger and Tim Ryan, Wha' Happen proved to be one of...
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1949
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This fast-paced Three Stooges comedy is one of the funnier Shemp-era films. On a radio, an announcer is reporting the theft...
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1949
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1948
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Filmed on standing sets from Columbia's Bandits of Sherwood Forest (1946), this average Three Stooges comedy featured the...
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1948
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One of the better Three Stooges comedy two-reelers of the "Shemp era," I'm a Monkey's Uncle featured the boys as cavemen...
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1948
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A fine Three Stooges two-reel comedy, Hold That Lion is proof positive that the underrated Shemp Howard was a worthy...
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1947
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According to their storefront, The Three Stooges are "unaccustomed tailors" who do "Cleaning, pressing and altercations." But...
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1947
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Filmed in 1946 but held over until January of 1947, Half-Wits Holiday proved a rather sad occasion for the Three Stooges. A...
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1947
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This modest 2-reel comedy from the firm that gave the world The Three Stooges offered two Vera Vagues for the price of one....
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1947
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In this classic Three Stooges comedy short, the boys play drug store operators who help the boss' wife by inventing a youth...
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1947
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In this two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges found themselves caught in the middle of the war between the states, a setting not...
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1946
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In their first released two-reel comedy of 1946, the Three Stooges are jailed for bootlegging. Their combined efforts to...
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1946
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In this typical Columbia 2-reel comedy, the shrill-voiced Vera Vague (aka Barbara Jo Allen) fought valiantly against stale...
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1946
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The postwar housing shortage played a large role in this Three Stooges two-reeler, which cast the boys as returning G.I.s who...
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1946
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In this typical Vera Vague 2-reel comedy, the scatterbrained Vera mistakes a stage magician, Bluebeard the Great (Barton...
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1946
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In one of her better 2-reel comedies for Columbia, the dizzy Vera Vague (aka Barbara Jo Allen) vies for the affections of a...
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1946
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1946
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A rather lackluster Three Stooges comedy short (mainly because of Curly Howard's ill health), Three Loan Wolves featured the...
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1946
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The Three Stooges co-star with a bear for much of this short. It begins in a courtroom where Moe is on trial for assaulting...
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1945
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In her perhaps most elaborate 2-reel comedy, the dizzy Vera Vague plays the only juror in a murder trial who considers the...
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1945
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In her first 2-reel comedy of 1945, dizzy Vera Vague pretends to have been injured in a car accident in order to avoid...
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1945
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Written, produced, and directed by the White brothers, Jules and Jack, this two-reeler starred the Three Stooges in a...
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1945
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In this patriotic two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges are labeled 4-F by the draft board, aiding the war effort instead by...
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1944
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While not among their very best, this Three Stooges short is loaded with funny moments. Fuller Bull (Vernon Dent), managing...
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1944
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Columbia's shorts producer (and sometime Stooges director), Jules White, was especially fired up with the patriotic spirit...
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1944
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A remake of Charley Chase's Calling All Doctors (1937), this Vera Vague 2-reel comedy starred the eternal spinster as a...
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1944
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During WWII, many Three Stooges shorts were more than just a little propaganda-laden. It may be painful now to watch the...
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1944
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A typical World War II 2-reel comedy, She Snoops to Conquer starred the irrepressible Vera Vague as a cup reporter tangling...
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1944
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In between four mediocre 2-reel comedies opposite Harry Langdon, Swedish-accented vaudevillian El Brendel took time out for...
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1944
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A remake of Charley Chase's The Wrong Miss Wright (1937) and the first of seventeen 2-reel comedies starring former radio...
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1943
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Rube comic El Brendel, of "Yumpin' Yimminy" fame, plays a rookie cop who falls for a girl involved with a numbers racket in...
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1943
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Gorillas, both fake and (supposedly) real, play a big part in this amusing Three Stooges comedy two-reeler. The boys are...
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1943
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From the references to "Japs" and rations, it's clear that this is one of the Three Stooges shorts filmed during World War...
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1943
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The Three Stooges join the war effort in this two-reel comedy when they board an enemy submarine masquerading as Hitler...
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1943
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A typical World War II farce, I Spied for You featured hillbilly comedian El Brendel as a brave seaman who unwittingly...
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1943
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The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Bothers, aided the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy....
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1943
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Having failed at teaming Swedish-dialect comic El Brendel with dumb-cop Tom Kennedy, the Columbia short subject department...
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1942
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Parodying the previous year's Blood and Sand, this two-reel comedy starred the Three Stooges as vaudeville entertainers...
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1942
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The first part of this Three Stooges comedy is pretty amusing, but it's even funnier if you realize that the actor playing...
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1942
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A very weak entry in Columbia's El Brendel 2-reel series, Olaf's Last Laugh presented the Swedish accented, Philadelphia-born...
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1942
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Because there's not much plot to this Three Stooges short, it has almost a sitcom-like feel. It's late at night and a...
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1942
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Three lovely young ladies have to rely on their fiancés -- the Three Stooges -- to get their father out of prison....
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1942
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This Three Stooges comedy opens with the boys being tossed out of a flea bag hotel -- they were eight months behind on the...
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1942
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1941
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1941
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The first in a series of Columbia short subjects featuring El Brendel, Yumpin' Yimminy! presented the Swedish-accented...
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1941
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Even though The Three Stooges, as dictators of Moronica, get eaten by lions at the end of 1940's You Natzy Spy!, they're...
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1941
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In the 190 comic shorts that the Three Stooges made for Columbia, they worked at just about every blue-collar job imaginable...
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1941
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Hard-working Columbia starlets Mary Ainslee, Dorothy Appleby, and Ethelreda Leopold take center stage in this Three Stooges...
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1941
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Buster Keaton invents a novel solution to paying alimony in this Columbia two-reeler: He decides to let his obnoxious ex-wife...
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1940
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1940
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Buster Keaton is sadly miscast in this two-reel comedy about the capture of a jewel thief. Mainly nonstop slapstick, the...
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1940
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Whether in the newsroom or on board a speeding train, aspiring reporter Buster Keaton creates havoc in this funny short. To...
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1940
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Nothing But Pleasure was hardly any pleasure at all. The third of Buster Keaton's ten two-reel comedies for Columbia went...
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1940
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The plot to this particular Three Stooges short actually makes some sort of sense! The boys are singing waiters, known as the...
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1940
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This Three Stooges comedy is loaded with funny gags. The boys are painters who run into their old friend Jerry, an insurance...
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1940
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World War II was just heating up, but the U.S. hadn't yet entered the fighting when the Three Stooges made this comic short....
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1940
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A constant in nearly all Three Stooges comedies is at least one pretty girl -- this short has three. One of them, billed as...
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1940
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The United States had not yet entered World War II when The Three Stooges made this short (and its 1941 sequel, I'll Never...
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1940
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"It's gotta have class and gotta have beauty," the Three Stooges tell a Mexican real estate dealer in this hilarious...
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1940
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This Civil War comedy, related in flashbacks, depicts the misadventures of Buster Keaton as he tries to avoid getting killed...
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1939
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The first, and best, of ten comedy two-reelers Buster Keaton was to make for the Columbia short subject department, Pest From...
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1939
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As so often in their comic shorts, The Three Stooges start off here in the ranks of the gainfully unemployed. After an...
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1939
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The Three Stooges found themselves in Egypt in this typical two-reel farce, the team's second release of 1939. Hired by the...
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1939
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While working in a doctor's office, the Three Stooges are mistaken for psychiatrists Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller. Hired by...
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1939
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In this typical Columbia two-reel comedy, the Three Stooges play dog groomers whose chief client, Symona Boniface's pooch...
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1939
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The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, and Curly), are tramps in this two-reel comedy directed by Jules White. The boys come to the...
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1939
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Almost like a special bonus, the slapstick of this Three Stooges short is sprinkled with a few dashes of subtle humor. When...
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1938
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A mysterious burglar, wearing only a nightshirt, is terrorizing Selkirk College. The dean calls in an expert -- the school's...
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1938
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The Three Stooges play inept Navy tailors for the Republic of Telvana in this comic short. The Admiral has been invited to a...
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1938
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1938
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The Three Stooges strike it rich -- at least temporarily -- in this comic short. While Moe and Larry are playing cards (using...
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1938
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The Three Stooges play aspiring artists in this comic short. They're honing their craft in "Paris -- somewhere in France" (as...
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1938
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In this Three Stooges comedy, the boys wind up starring in a big movie. First, of course, they start off on the low end of...
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1938
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As in their earlier False Alarms (1936), the Three Stooges play firemen in this two-reel farce directed by comedian Charley...
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1938
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The Three Stooges are restaurateurs who get into the horseracing business in this comic short. Quitting the restaurant is...
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1937
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In this classic Three Stooges short, the boys are tramps on the lam from the railroad police when they happen in on an...
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1937
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The Three Stooges actually play different characters here (or at least they have different names, different hairstyles, and...
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1937
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This Three Stooges comedy is actually a send up of Universal's Deanna Durbin film, Three Smart Girls. But instead of a trio...
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1937
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This Three Stooges comedy is especially fast-paced. The boys wake up at their usual time -- 11 a.m. -- and fix themselves...
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1937
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In her third Three Stooges short, pretty Harley Wood (aka Harlene Wood) played a young girl living with her crippled kid...
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1937
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The Three Stooges are lawbreakers in merry olde England in this comic short. For their crimes, the Stooges are sent to the...
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1937
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The ever-growing unionization during the 1930s forms the very basis for this Three Stooges short. The Stooges are courting...
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1937
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Even a run-of-the-mill Three Stooges short had its moments, as this one proves. It begins in November, 1918, and Larry, Moe...
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1936
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This Three Stooges short is a remake of the Thelma Todd/Zasu Pitts comedy, Show Business. The Stooges are staying at Mrs....
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1936
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The Three Stooges play slap-happy exterminators in this comic short. The Lightning Pest Control Company is having trouble...
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1936
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Directed by Jack White (under his usual pseudonym of Preston Black), this two-reel courtroom caper is, by many, regarded as...
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1936
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The Three Stooges try to break into show business in this Columbia short subject. They're first seen as stowaways on a train...
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1936
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The Three Stooges play firemen in this comic short. While the other firemen are off fighting a fire, the Stooges are still...
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1936
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Although it was nominated for an Academy Award, the third Three Stooges comedy two-reeler for Columbia has not dated well. A...
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1934
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Tall, slinky Anita Garvin took time out from menacing Laurel and Hardy to terrorize the female Stan and Ollie next door,...
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1932
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Buster Keaton once described his 1931 vehicle Sidewalks of New York as "God-awful"; it's hardly that bad, though admittedly...
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1931
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In The Dogway Melody an all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly...
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1930
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