• "Swingin' the Alphabet" is a novelty song sung by The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard) in their 1938 short film Violent Is the...
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    Moe Howard (category The Three Stooges members)
    American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures...
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    trial. Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938) was a quality Chase-directed short that featured the musical interlude "Swingin' the Alphabet". In A Plumbing...
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    Larry Fine (category The Three Stooges members)
    and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges and was often called "The Middle Stooge". Fine was born to a Russian Jewish...
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    Joe DeRita (category The Three Stooges members)
    as a member of The Three Stooges in the persona of Curly Joe DeRita. DeRita was born into a show-business family in Philadelphia, the son of Florenz (née...
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    Curly Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was a member of the comedy team The Three Stooges, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp...
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  • 1951 and 1964. Born in Oakland, California, Cezon attended the Hollywood Community School of the Theater as a child. She has a younger brother, Ricardo....
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  • Rich Koz (redirect from The Koz Zone)
    children's cartoon showcase The Koz Zone. Koz is also the host of the syndicated Stooge-a-Palooza program. In 2021, he was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Classic...
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    Fake Shemp (category The Three Stooges)
    the actor. Coined by film director Sam Raimi, the term is named after Shemp Howard of The Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use...
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    Shemp Howard (category The Three Stooges members)
    comedian and actor. He is best known as the third Stooge in The Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it...
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    Joe Besser (category The Three Stooges members)
    into Thurston's train after the St. Louis run of the show and was discovered the next day in Detroit sleeping on top of the lion's cage. Thurston informed...
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  • Scrambled Brains (category The Three Stooges films)
    team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 132nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians...
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    one of the "four queens" pursuing Clark Gable in The King and Four Queens (1956). Later that year she appeared as Nurse Sally Withers in the original...
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    Inc., 27. ISBN 0-7864-0577-5. Finegan, Richard. "Swingin' the Alphabet Composer Finally Identified." The Three Stooges Journal (Winter 2005): 4. "Charley...
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    comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of The Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous,...
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    appeared in various films in the 1930s and 1940s. She is mainly remembered as the beautiful blonde actress who appeared in many of The Three Stooges shorts produced...
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  • is familiar to modern viewers as the tall, lanky brunette in several Three Stooges short subjects such as Rumpus in the Harem, A Missed Fortune, and A Merry...
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  • Pardon My Backfire (category The Three Stooges films)
    team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 149th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians...
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  • films from the 1940s. She was the rumba dancing partner of Curly Howard in Three Smart Saps. Standing nearly six feet tall, Slater towers over the short Stooge...
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  • Soup to Nuts (category The Three Stooges films)
    Benjamin Stoloff. It was the film debut of the original four members who would later, minus Ted Healy, go on to become known as The Three Stooges comic trio...
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  • The Three Stooges is an American biographical comedy television film about the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges directed by James Frawley. The...
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    Brideless Groom (category The Three Stooges films)
    team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 101st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians...
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  • Shemp Howard). It is the 145th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934...
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  • association with The Three Stooges comedy team from the late 1940s onwards. Maurer's lifelong association with the Three Stooges began about the time of his...
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  • and Mike Mazurki, with a cameo appearance by Arthur Godfrey and the Three Stooges. The film was written by Teddi Sherman and Robert Aldrich, who also directed...
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    the 117th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The...
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    known for several film roles in the early 1960s. She is probably best known for her role as Diane Quigley in the film The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962)...
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  • Lou Garfield co-authored the story for the 1978 film The Deer Hunter. Throughout 1960, Redeker was cast as a photographer on the short-lived NBC crime drama...
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  • for The Three Stooges and his brief tenure as a body double to member Shemp Howard for four shorts produced after Shemp's death, which led to the coining...
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  • Stooges shorts. She also worked under the name of Ruth Godfrey White. Godfrey danced in a production of Meet the People at La Conga, a New York night club...
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