In From Nurse to Worse, the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) are inept painters who run into their old friend Jerry, an insurance salesman (Lynton Brent). Jerry entices them to engage in insurance fraud — he promises them that if they take out a policy on Curly, proving that he has gone insane, they can collect $500 a month.
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Slippery Silks begins with a photograph of the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) dressed as young children, which a lawyer is trying to use, with the help of the police, to find these three nephews of a recently-deceased man. “That’s the only photograph we could find among his effects. The old man died very suddenly.” “Probably took a look at the picture and couldn’t stand the shock.” It turns out that the Three Stooges have inherited a “swanky dress shop.” In the meantime, those three missing nephews are working as “artistic woodworkers” where the rich Mr. Morgan (played by Three Stooges regular Vernon Dent) is bringing his $50,000 ornate box from a museum, to have a duplicate made. The inevitable destruction of that poor little Chinese box is hilarious, slowly building up to a crescendo of slapstick, and is the highlight of the film.
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The Three Stooges blackmailed to become gentlemen? Pie fights at their coming out party? Slapstick galore? It’s all in Hoi Polloi! A classic!
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Three Stooges short film, ‘Pop Goes the Easel‘ where Moe, Larry, Curly pretend to be art students and get into a flying clay fight!
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An Ache in Every Stake – The Three Stooges are delivering ice up a very long stair case to a mansion, leading to the Stooges being hired as kitchen help. This leads to a turkey being stuffed as only Curly can, and Moe inflating a fallen cake with oven gas, leading to an explosive ending. One of the Three Stooges’ best shorts.
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