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That tour also included an ill-advised, short-lived marriage to a golddigger who turned him into an emotional wreck. When the Stooges returned home in mid-November , Curly's health was irrevocably ruined. Resuming production at Columbia in late January , it became apparent that he lacked the strength to perform much of the physical comedy that had been his specialty.
Although the three did not tour at this time, they continued to book personal appearances in the L. In May , during the filming of Half-Wits Holiday , Curly suffered a major stroke on the set, effectively ending his tenure with the Three Stooges. Unable to continue, Curly retired to live with his fourth wife Valerie m. July and his daughter Janie b.
He lived peacefully in retirement for approximately 3 years. Late in he suffered another serious stroke, and his health progressively worsened until he passed away on January 18, After Curly left the group, his brother Shemp returned to the act. Shemp appeared in 77 shorts with the Stooges, starting with 's Fright Night.
The Shemp era was often dismissed in prior years, but time and comedy gems like Brideless Groom , Squareheads of the Round Table , Three Arabian Nuts , Studio Stoops and Goof on the Roof have earned this period the respect it deserves. Shemp provided the team with a new spark that had been missing with Curly's illness.
The first few years with Shemp also remained busy with personal appearances, but that venue dried up quickly as the movie palaces closed one after another in the post-war economy. A Vegas attempt in failed, and the act found itself largely unemployed save for a shortened filming schedule at Columbia due to stock footage remakes Shemp died unexpectedly on November 22, After losing his second brother, Moe seriously considered retiring from the act.
However, a couple years still remained on their contract with Columbia. The group decided to enlist comedy veteran Joe Besser as the third Stooge, and he appeared with the team in 16 shorts until their contract was abruptly terminated in December Passing on Moe's idea to do some personal appearances, Besser left the team a few weeks later to remain home and care for his ill wife.
Joe retired in the early s. Buoyed by the September television release of 78 Three Stooges shorts, the group enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, mostly with kids due to the films appearing on childrens programs. By the end of all shorts were distributed for TV.
In Columbia produced a compilation feature entitled Stop! For 's The Outlaws Is Coming , many of the TV hosts that screened their films were rewarded with roles as the "outlaws. The team formed its own company in , which oversaw an explosion of licensed Three Stooges merchandise with a wide range of toys and games, plus trading cards, coloring books and comic books.
The latter half of the s things slowed down considerably with changes in social attitudes, new fads, the boys' kid audience growing up, and the trio's ages.
In this he was as mistaken as many observers have been since. And if it was not immediately apparent to Cohn what replacing Curly entailed, the endless auditions for a new third Stooge alerted him to what Moe and Larry already knew: they were not going to find another Curly.
But the decision to bring Shemp back into the act was not that simple. After some initial trepidation, Harry Cohn was keen for Shemp to rejoin the act, and with Shemp under contract to Columbia, Cohn began to exert his influence of course, he expected Shemp to take a 50 per cent pay cut for relinquishing his hard-won independence. Reluctantly, he signed on — but only, he insisted, until a permanent replacement for Curly could be found.
In the end, Shemp remained a Stooge until his dying day. One is that, after Curly retired, Shemp did a valiant job but there was always something missing. Such wines are Shemps. Although devastated, Moe and Larry kept the act alive, recruiting comedian Joe Besser as the third Stooge.
This, as any Stooge fan will tell you, was the beginning of the end. Besser was never happy as a Stooge and, wary of what had happened to Curly, had a clause in his contract forbidding Moe from hitting him. By now, Columbia was the only studio in town producing shorts, and in , with television taking over the market, the department was shut down. A few weeks later, Moe returned to the studio to say goodbye to some old friends.
He was refused entry by a security guard. Shortly afterwards, amid negotiations for a live tour, Joe Besser left the act. By rights, this should have been the end of the road. But, in a supremely ironic twist of fate, the Stooges were actually on the brink of a major comeback. In Columbia offered a package of 78 Curly-era shorts for TV broadcast. Picked up by a number of networks across the US, they were an instant hit, particularly with children, and soon all Stooge shorts were in circulation and drawing huge audiences.
But it was, in many ways, a triumphant one. From to they made a series of feature films in the classic Stooge vein, including the infamous Snow White And The Three Stooges which is not nearly as bad as people would have you believe — well, not quite. They also recorded 41 live wraparound segments for The New Three Stooges cartoon series. It was not to be. In January , Larry Fine suffered a debilitating stroke, ending his career. Larry, aka Louis Feinberg, grew up in South Philadelphia to Joseph and Fannie Feinberg and took up his trademark violin at a very young age.
It was the result of a very serious accident that severely burned his left arm. At the age of four, Larry accidentally grabbed a bottle of oxalic acid, a substance used to test the quality of gold, and spilled some of it on his left arm.
The acid burned it from the skin to the muscles. He was able to get a skin graft but the muscles were still weak and the doctor recommend Larry take up boxing to regain control of it. He turned out to be a gifted musician who would go on to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age 9 and took his famous fiddle with him into his show business career.
The first group, Shemp, Larry and Moe, got their start in film thanks in part to fellow vaudeville star Ted Healy who called the act his "Stooges. Fine and the Howard boys later teamed up with Healy again for two more films, but Shemp grew tired of being slapped around by Healy and left the act. Moe brought Curly into the act but tensions rose between Moe and Healy and Moe decided to go in films along with his brother Babe and Larry. He wouldn't give him the name "Stooges" and Moe had to sue him in court for the rights to the name.
Neither group lasted very long. In the midst of all this switching and recasting and asking the real Stooges to please stand up, none stood out more than the original chowderhead Curly. Healy agreed to take the young comedian into the group under one condition.
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