Articles tagged with the name “Shemp Howard” – the original Third Stooge of the Three Stooges, and the only Stooge to have a successful career away from the trio
In The Tooth Will Out, the Three Stooges perform dentistry in the Old West. “Go West, young man, go west!” begs their dentistry professor, and so they do. Shemp does his classic blind act while trying to pull teeth, and the Stooges mix up “The Amateur Carpenter” with their dentistry manual.
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In Squareheads of the Round Table, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are troubadours who help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. But her father the king objects!
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In Pardon My Clutch, Shemp is feeling sick. The Stooges’ friend, Claude, “diagnoses” the need for a vacation, and sells them his car. The car is a lemon, but when a stranger offers to pay more for it, Claude reneges on the deal.
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For Crimin’ Out Loud begins with the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard) being inept criminal forensic scientists, with slapstick coming fast and furious. Oddly, Larry is tending to stand up for himself more than usual – to no effect. A mouse and toupee do the usual “parrot in a skull bit,” and soon Councilman Goodrich (Emil Sitka) calls for their help. And that’s virtually the end of the new material for the short film. The rest is taken from Who Done It?
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In Creeps, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) tell their three sons (also played by the Stooges) a bedtime story about when they worked as moving men, assigned to the haunted Smorgasbord Castle. All goes well until a clanking suit of armor inhabited by the ghost of Sir Tom (voiced by Phil Arnold) instructs the Stooges to leave him alone. Shemp, Larry and Moe all take turns trying to move Tom’s haunted armor, but he scares the Stooges away.
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