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The Three Stooges
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The Three Stooges (disambiguation)
.
The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges in 1937:
(clockwise from left)
Larry Fine
,
Curly Howard
, and
Moe Howard
Medium
Vaudeville
, film, television
Nationality
American
Years active
1922–1970
Genres
Farce
,
slapstick
,
musical comedy
Former members
Moe Howard
Shemp Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Joe Besser
"Curly" Joe DeRita
The Three Stooges
were an American
vaudeville
and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190
short subject
films by
Columbia Pictures
. Their hallmark styles were
physical
farce
and
slapstick
. Six Stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time):
Moe Howard
(
true name
(t/n) Moses Horwitz) and
Larry Fine
(t/n Louis Feinberg) were mainstays throughout the ensemble's nearly 50-year run and the pivotal "third stooge" was played by (in order of appearance)
Shemp Howard
(t/n Samuel Horwitz),
Curly Howard
(t/n Jerome Horwitz), Shemp Howard again,
Joe Besser
and
"Curly" Joe DeRita
.
The act began in the early 1920s as part of a vaudeville comedy act billed as "
Ted Healy and His Stooges
", consisting originally of
Healy
and Moe Howard. Over time, they were joined by Moe's brother, Shemp Howard, and then Larry Fine. The four appeared in one feature film,
Soup to Nuts
, before Shemp left to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by his and Moe's younger brother, Jerome "Curly" Howard, in 1932. Two years later, after appearing in several movies, the trio left Healy and signed on to appear in their own short-subject comedies for
Columbia Pictures
, now billed as "The Three Stooges". From 1934 to 1946, Moe, Larry and Curly produced over 90 short films for Columbia. It was during this period that the three were at their peak popularity.
Curly suffered a debilitating
stroke
in May 1946, and Shemp returned, reconstituting the original lineup, until his death of a
heart attack
on November 22, 1955, three years after Curly's death of a
cerebral hemorrhage
on January 18, 1952. Film actor
Joe Palma
was used as a stand-in to complete four Shemp-era shorts under contract. This procedure – disguising one actor for another outside of stunt shots – became known as the "
fake Shemp
". Columbia contract player Joe Besser joined as the third Stooge for two years (1956–57), departing in 1958 to nurse his ill wife after Columbia terminated its shorts division. The studio then released all the shorts via
Screen Gems
, Columbia's television studio and distribution unit. Screen Gems then syndicated the shorts to television, whereupon the Stooges became one of the most popular comedy acts of the early 1960s.
Comic actor Joe DeRita became "Curly Joe" in 1958, replacing Besser for a new series of full-length theatrical films. With intense television exposure in the United States, the act regained momentum throughout the 1960s as popular kids' fare, until Larry's paralyzing stroke in the midst of filming a
pilot for a
Three Stooges
TV series
in January 1970. Larry Fine died in January 1975 after a further series of strokes. Unsuccessful attempts were made to revive the Stooges with longtime supporting actor
Emil Sitka
in Fine's role in 1970 and again in 1975, but this attempt was cut short by Moe Howard's death on May 4, 1975.