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Articles tagged with the name “Joe Besser” – the least popular of the Three Stooges, but funny with Joey Bishop, Abbott & Costello, among others

Joe Besser spanking Connie Cezon, after shooting her posterior full of tacks, in Rusty Romeos

Rusty Romeos

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Rusty Romeos (1957) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser), Connie Cezon

In Rusty Romeos, the Three Stooges are all engaged to the same gold-digger. She plans to get engagement rings from each, and abandon them. This leads to a fight, until Joe gets his revenge “in the end”.

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Muscle Up a Little Closer title card

Muscle Up a Little Closer

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Muscle Up a Little Closer (1957) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Maxine Gates

Moe, Larry and Joe are about propose marriage to their girlfriends. Joe’s fiancée is a nice, oversized young lady named Tiny (Maxine Gates). Later, the boys discover that Tiny’s ring, worth $5,000.00 has been stolen. The Stooges suspect it’s a muscular bully named Elmo (Matt Murphy), the trucking foreman who works at the same factory as them.

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The lovely Greta Thyssen helps the Three Stooges (Joe Besser, Larry Fine, Moe Howard) out with a new job, as her dog looks on

Sappy Bullfighters

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Sappy Bullfighters (1959) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser), Greta Thyssen, George J. Lewis

Sappy Bullfighters is the final Three Stooges short film – a reworking of What’s the Matador? The short film begins with the Three Stooges  (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser) having been fired. Fired from their engagement in Mexico for refusing to do 10 additional shows for free. Stranded without the money needed to get back home, a fellow performer — the lovely and kind-hearted Greta (Greta Thyssen) gets them an engagement, performing their comedy act at an actual bullfight at a stadium.

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Pies and Guys - reading lesson for the Three Stooges, once Moe turns his book right-side up

Pies and Guys

Pies and Guys (1958) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser

Pies and Guys - the Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe Besser)

Pies and Guys starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser) is a shot by shot remake of Half-Wits Holiday (Moe, Larry, Curly). Which, in turn, was a remake of Hoi Polloi (Moe, Larry, Curly). The basic plot in all three remains the same. The Three Stooges are inept workers, who become the object of a bet between two professors on whether nature or nurture define a person. Professor Quackenbush (Milton Frome) tries to train the Stooges into becoming gentlemen. With the aid of his beautiful daughter Lulu (Greta Thyssen). A stressful process.

Pies and Guys - Moe Howard, Greta Thyssen, Larry Fine
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Flying Saucer Daffy - Joe takes a photo

Flying Saucer Daffy

Flying Saucer Daffy‘ is the last Three Stooges short film ever made. It stars Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe Besser as they retell the Cinderella story. Using a flying saucer instead of a glass slipper …

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