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These gods of comedy never get old.

- Can you name every Stooge? There’s Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard (who started before Curly, then replaced him), Joe Besser, Curly Joe DeRita, Ted Healy (who started the group with Moe), Joe Palma (Shemp’s body double), and although he never got to perform as a Stooge Emil Josef Sitka appeared in nearly 40 Stooges films and was named as Larry’s replacement before Moe’s passing.

- Lucille Ball made one of her earliest film appearances in the Three Stooges short entitled “Three Little Pigskins.”At the time she was a blonde “Goldwyn Girl,” and was quoted as saying, "The only thing I learned from The Three Stooges was how to duck!"

- According to Metroactive Moe, Larry, and frequent Stooge director Jules White considered You Nazty Spy! to be the best Stooge film. It featured Moe as an Adolf Hitler substitute, and reportedly put the Stooges on Hitler's "death list.”

The Three Stooges

Rating: Not Rated Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

Curly Howard, Larry Fine, and Moe Howard are The Three Stooges. They turned eye pokes, face slaps, and unchecked aggression into a true art form. They taught comedians the value of humiliation, and action stars that violence mixed with one-liners is the only way to work.

Starring:

Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Curly Joe