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Articles tagged with the name “Vernon Dent”, one of the most prolific of the Three Stooges’ regular co-stars, the “Stooge Heavy”

Punchy Cowpunchers (1950) title card, starring the Three Stooges - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard

Punchy Cowpunchers

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Punchy Cowpunchers (1950) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard)

Synopsis

In Punchy Cowpunchers, the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Shemp) are cavalrymen sent out west to capture the Killer Dillon’s gang. A very funny short, with a very large supporting cast, including Stooge regulars Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka and Christine McIntyre.

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Shemp's monster teeth from The Tooth Will Out

The Tooth Will Out

The Tooth Will Out (1951) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Emil Sitka

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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Three Smart Saps (1942) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

Three Smart Saps

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Three Smart Saps (1942) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

Synopsis of Three Smart Saps

Moe, Larry, and Curly are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden who’s lost his job.  The Stooges break into the prison to get proof of the illegal shenanigans going on inside.

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Curly and Moe in Dr. D. Lerious' (Vernon Dent's) office

From Nurse to Worse

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From Nurse to Worse (1940) starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent

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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Vernon Dent as Emperor Octopus Grabus in "Matri-Phony"

Matri-phony

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Matri-phony (1942) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard), Vernon Dent, Marjorie Deanne

The Three Stooges short film Matri-phony is set in ancient Rome, where the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) are makers of pottery — “the biggest chiselers in Rome” — and are doing what they do best: slapstick.

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