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Vernon Dent as a mad scientist in A Bird in the Head (1946) starring the Three Stooges - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

A Bird in the Head

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A Bird in the Head (1946) starring the Three Stooges – Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

Synopsis of A Bird in the Head

Moe, Larry, and Curly are inept paperhangers who, running away from a dissatisfied customer, run into the arms of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist played by Three Stooges regular Vernon Dent.  The mad scientist wants to transplant a human brain into his gorilla, Igor.  And Curly’s tiny brain is just right!  However, the Stooges (and Igor) have other ideas!

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Out West, starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard) and Christine McIntyre

Out West

Three Stooges short film Out West (1947) starring the Three Stooges – Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre

After a visit to the doctor (played by Three Stooges regular Vernon Dent), Moe, Larry and Shemp travel to the American Old West for the sake of healing Shemp’s leg of an enlarged vein. Once there, the villainous Doc Barker mistakenly thinks that the map of Shemp’s vein is a map to a gold vein worth millions.  

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Slippery Silks - Curly, Moe and Larry as inept carpenters

Slippery Silks

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Slippery Silks (1936) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) and Vernon Dent

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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Yes, We Have No Bonanza, (1939) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard), Dick Curtis, Vernon Dent

Yes, We Have No Bonanza

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Yes, We Have No Bonanza, (1939) starring the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard), Dick Curtis, Vernon Dent

Yes, We Have No Bonanza - Three Stooges original movie poster

The Three Stooges short film Yes, We Have No Bonanzas is set in the American West, where Moe and Larry are singing in a saloon with their three sweethearts, while Curly is late.  The owner of the saloon, the villainous Maxey (played by Dick Curtis), is unhappy with their performance, and the girls reveal that they’re being blackmailed into working for Maxey, or he’ll have their father thrown into jail for his debts. 

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