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contract and take them to court if they tried to sell the series. To avert a legal hassle, the pilot was shelved and the project abandoned. The kinescope film is now in the public domain and widely available. However, Columbia did allow The Stooges to make guest appearances on various TV variety shows.
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In 1922, Howard joined Ted Healy in a vaudeville routine. In 1923, Moe saw Shemp in the audience during a theater performance and yelled at him from the stage. Shemp responded by heckling Moe, and the two brothers' amusing bickering during the performance resulted in Healy's immediately hiring Shemp
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from school: "I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and ask them to buy my ticket. An adult needed to accompany a juvenile into the theater. When I succeeded, I'd give him my ten cents—that's all it cost—and I'd
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On August 20, the day after Shemp's departure, Moe suggested adding his youngest brother Jerome ("Babe" to Moe and Shemp) to the act; contrary to some sources, no search for a replacement was conducted. Healy initially passed on Jerry, but Jerry was so eager to join the act that he shaved off his
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B.B. Kahane, Columbia Pictures' vice president of business affairs, stopped the show from being broadcast. Kahane warned the Stooges that a contract stipulation restricted them from performing in a TV series that might compete with their two-reel comedies. Columbia threatened to cancel the boys'
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With Healy's departure, Moe assumed Healy's prior role as the aggressive, take-charge leader of the team: a short-tempered bully, prone to slapstick violence against the other two Stooges. Despite his outwardly rather cruel demeanor towards his pals, Moe was also very loyal and protective of the
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books, and it was Moe's greatest pleasure to read them. They started his imaginative mind working and gave him ideas by the dozen. I think they were instrumental in putting thoughts into his head to become a person of good character and successful." This helped him in his acting career; he could
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The Stooges replaced Shemp with Besser; already an established Columbia comedy shorts star in his own right and frequent movie supporting player. Joe, Larry, and Moe filmed 16 shorts through December 1957. Shortly before Cohn's death in February 1958, the making of short subjects ended. Keeping
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In one of Douglas's episodes, Moe, his hair in a style popular at the time, made a surprise appearance during an interview with the writer of a "where-are-they-now" book. When the audience was given a chance to ask the writer about famous people, Howard asked, "Whatever happened to the Three
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Howard's "bowl cut" hairstyle became his trademark, despite his mother initially refusing to cut his hair in childhood, letting it grow to shoulder length. He secretly cut his hair in his backyard shed after being frequently teased in school. During one appearance on
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and to differentiate him from Joe Besser) as the new "third Stooge". DeRita, like Shemp Howard and Joe Besser, had starred in a series of his comedy shorts. Several local television children's shows around the country began running the Stooges films, among them
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that the ill-tempered aspects of his on-screen persona did not reflect his real personality. He also boasted of being a shrewd businessman by wisely investing the money made from his film career. Still, the Stooges received no subsequent
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rehearsals in New York, Ted walked out on the Shuberts over a contract dispute. On August 19, 1932, Shemp gave his notice, having not seen eye-to-eye with the hard-drinking and sometimes belligerent Healy, and decided to remain with
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luxuriant auburn mustache and hair and ran on stage during Healy's routine. That finally got Healy to hire Jerry, who took the stage name Curly. The new lineup of Moe, Larry, and Curly premiered with Ted on stage at Cleveland's
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and was rewarded with bit parts in movies in production there, until a 1910 fire destroyed the films done there, and with it, most of Howard's work. Already in 1909, he had met a young man named Ernest Lea Nash (later known as
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go up to the top of the balcony where I'd put my chin on the rail and watch, spellbound, from the first act to the last. I would usually select the actor I liked the most and follow his performance throughout the play."
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Moe retired in June 1925 after his marriage to Helen Schonberger and went into real estate with his mother. Meanwhile, Healy's act with frequent stooge Shemp Howard went on to national fame in the Shubert Brothers'
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Howard continued his attempts at gaining show-business experience by singing in a bar with his older brother Shemp, until their father put a stop to it. Starting in 1914, they performed with a
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and coaxed Moe Howard out of retirement to rejoin the act in December 1928. In rehearsals in early 1929, Howard, Larry Fine, and Shemp Howard came together for the first time as a trio. When
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ancestry. He was called Moe as a child and later called himself Harry. His parents and brothers Benjamin ("Jack") and Irving were not involved in show business, however he, his older brother
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himself busy, Moe was hired by Harry Romm as associate producer. According to Moe, stories (and later, scenes in a 2000 made-for-TV biopic) that he was forced to take a job as a
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showboat for two summers, presenting an act they called "Howard and Howard—A Study in Black". At the same time, they worked for a rival vaudeville circuit without makeup.
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after only two months, ending his formal education. He took an electric shop course to please his parents but quit after a few months to pursue a career in show business.
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circuit. Moe's distinctive hairstyle came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of scissors, producing an irregular shape approximating a
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vaudeville circuit, they toured for almost two years, eventually dubbing themselves as "Three Lost Souls" and taking on Jack Walsh as their straight man.
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name. With this, the Three Stooges quickly gained a new audience of young fans. Ever the businessman, Moe Howard put together a new Stooges act, with
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in 1956. According to Moe's autobiography, Howard wanted a "two-stooge" act, and Cohn's idea, not Howard's, was to replace Shemp as part of the act.
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The Three Stooges' series of shorts continued to be popular through the 1950s; Shemp co-starred in 73 comedies. The Stooges also co-starred in a
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closed in March 1930, Healy and the trio toured for a while as "Ted Healy and His Racketeers" (later changed to Ted Healy and His Stooges).
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was eventually released in a 52-minute version to home video. After Fine's stroke, Howard asked longtime Three Stooges supporting actor
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After several appearances in several MGM films, Healy was being groomed as a solo character comedian. In 1934, his Stooges, then named
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but, by the late 1960s, they were all at an age where they could no longer risk serious injury while performing slapstick comedy.
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for their later efforts and continued to receive the bulk of the profits from sales of Stooges merchandise. Moe sold
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when his show-business life slowed down. However, he still did minor solo roles and walk-on bits in movies, such as
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Howard, Larry, and Curly-Joe continued to make live appearances, many notable "guest appearances", particularly in
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other Stooges on film, keeping them from harm, and, should it befall them, doing whatever it took to save them.
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comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. That group initially started out as
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In July 1932, Moe, Larry, and Shemp were approached by Healy to rejoin him for the new Shubert Broadway revue
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On June 7, 1925, Moe Howard married Helen Schonberger (December 19, 1899 - October 31, 1975), a cousin of
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on August 27, 1932. Early in 1933 during appearances in Los Angeles, Healy and the Stooges were hired by
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in the 1970s, he stated, "I used to fight my way to school, in school, and back home from school."
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in Los Angeles, where he had been admitted a week earlier in April, just over three months after
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In the 1940s, the Three Stooges became topical, making several anti-Nazi short films, including
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Ted Healy and His Stooges were on the verge of hitting the big time and made their first movie,
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Despite his waning attendance, Howard graduated from P.S. 163 in Brooklyn but dropped out of
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Howard developed an interest in acting causing his grades to worsen and spurred him to play
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After Shemp rejoined the act, Moe, Shemp, and Larry shot a television pilot for ABC called
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During this period, Moe and the Stooges appeared on numerous television shows, including
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Stooges?" Finally recognized by Douglas, he combed his hair into his trademark style.
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Columbia sold the Three Stooges' library of short films to television under the
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as "nut" comics to liven up feature films and short subjects with their antics.
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After the show ended in late November, Healy signed for the Shuberts' new revue
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used old footage of Shemp to complete four more films, with Columbia regular
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to replace Larry, but this final lineup never shot any material.
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in Brooklyn in May 1933, where he stayed for almost four years.
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Howard was born as Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897, in the
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Howard and the Three Stooges received a posthumous star on the
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Lenburg, Jeff, Joan Howard Maurer, and Greg Lenburg (2012).
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The revitalized trio starred in six feature-length movies:
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highlighted these shorts, the first of which preceded
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One Fine Stooge: Larry Fine's Frizzy Life in Pictures
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