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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight! The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of physical comedy and their willingness to do anything for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Telling the full story of the head Stooge, this work reveals the life-long career of a legendary funnyman. Born into a working-class family in Brooklyn, Moe Howard transformed his real-life experiences of getting into mischief with his brother Shemp into the plots that would have millions rolling in the aisles. From childhood, Moe's ambition was to perform whether it was plucking a ukulele on the beach, or playing a halfwit on a Mississippi showboat....
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Language
English
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While the Three Stooges were the longest active and most productive comedy team in Hollywood, their artistic height coincided with the years Curly was with them, and this is his definitive biography. From 1932 to 1946 Curly was the zaniest of the Stooges, becoming famous for his high-pitched voice, his "nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" and "why, soitenly," and his astonishing athleticism. He was a true natural, an untrained actor with a knack for improvisation, yet...
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1959, a TV executive tries to persuade Moe Howard to reunite with his former onscreen partners to publicize the television premiere of a package of Three Stooges classic comedy shorts. Howard flashes back on his long and remarkable career with Shemp, Larry, and Curly. Success proves to be a bumpy road fraught with bad deals, poor health, rocky relationships and group disharmony.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Features Larry, Curly, and Moe, with a side order of Shemp, at their boisterous best, showcasing the famed trio at nearly every stage of their five-decade run of riotousness! See the Stooges at their mid-1930s peak in Disorder in the Court. Revisit the group's mid-1940s prime with the musical mayhem of their first starring feature film, The Swing Parade of 1946. Finally, the Stooges go out in style in their justly famous Kook's Tour. Also includes...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This period is considered to be when the Stooges hit their stride and perfected their craft, when all the elements came together perfectly. When the Stooges get a prizefighter drunk, Curly has not choice but to step in and take his place. The Stooges make pests of themselves at a high society party when a maid mistakenly phones their exterminator company instead of an escort service. Working as tailors on a navy ship puts the Stooges in a pressing...
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