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Meet the Baron (1933) starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Red Healy and his Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly)
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Meet the Baron – mistaken identity leads to chaos as Jack Pearl and Jimmy Durante impersonate Baron Munchausen, come to Cuddle College & deal with the janitors – Ted Healy and his Stooges!

Meet the Baron (1933) starring Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante, Ted Healy and his Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly)

It should be said up front that Meet the Baron includes Ted Healy and his Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) — a lot — it’s not really a Three Stooges film. The basic story has two dim-witted assistants (Jack Pearl, Jimmy Durante) to the real Baron Munchausen, who are accidentally mistaken for him. They get caught up in the “hero’s return”, including a trip to Cuddle College 🙂 where Ted and the Stooges are janitors. Having said that, it’s a funny film, and the Stooges tend to steal every scene that they’re in.

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In one of their earliest screen appearances, the Stooges Meet the Baron. Radio comic Jack Pearl (with support from Jimmy Durante) plays the bogus baron on a speaking tour, and Larry, Curly (billed as Jerry) and Moe play janitors at the all-girl Cuddle College. What? No hot water in the shower? The boys will be right up!

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Meet the Baron (1933) captures Moe, Larry, and Curly at the beginning of their screen careers with original partner Ted Healy. The film itself is more a vehicle for radio comedian Jack “Vas you dere, Charlie?” Pearl as his signature character, Baron Munchausen.

Trivia

  • The opening credits list one of The Three Stooges as Jerry Howard, this was Curly Howard.
  • Film debut of Lynn Bari.
  • Released October 20, 1933.

Quotes

Dean Primrose: [on the phone] Somethings wrong with the showers. The water’s off. Hurry! These poor girls are standing around here without any clothes on.
Head Janitor (Ted Healy): We’ll be right up!

Janitor (Moe): [the Three Stooges march in with pitchers of water] Who ordered the ice water?
Joe McGoo (Jimmy Durante): I did!
Janitor (Moe): Alright, let him have it. [they toss the water on him]

A minor leak

Minor leak in the cellar - Moe, Larry, Curly enter the flooded cellar in a gondola!
Minor leak in the cellar – Moe, Larry, Curly enter the flooded cellar in a gondola!

Head Janitor (Ted Healy): [on the telephone] Hello, I’m the head janitor, if Miss Primrose wants me, tell her I’m fixing a tiny bit of a leak down in the janitor’s cellar.
[Moe, Larry and Curly come into the flooded cellar in a gondola boat, singing]
Larry: I got a fish!
Curly: I got a fish!
Moe: All us children got fish!
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):Wait a second, boys… That’s the first fish of the season. make a wish, take your time now, son.
Larry: [sings] Well, I wish I was in Dixie,
Moe: He would,
Curly: He should!
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):[catches a fish with his hands, sings] We’ll save this fish for the Baron’s breakfast, the best is none too good!

I’ll Triple

I'll triple!
I’ll triple!

Larry: [Curly and Larry sit down] Wait a minute now, I’m going to deal these cards!
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):You’re what?
Larry: I’m going to deal the cards!
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):I’m the boss, ain’t I? I’ll deal! I’ll hit you a crack in the kisser! [Ted slaps Larry]
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):I’ll do all the dealing. [Ted starts dealing out the cards] Here, there’s a 4 for you; there’s an ace, that’s for me; there’s an 8, and there’s a deuce. That takes too long: there’s some for you there, there’s some for you, there’s some for you, and that’s for me.

Moe: What do you bid?
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):I bid, uh… four spades.
Curly: I double.
Larry: I re-double.
Moe: I triple!
Head Janitor (Ted Healy):Triple? How do you like that? You can’t triple!
Moe: [Moe stands up] Why can’t I?
Curly: [Curly stands up] But the man says you can’t triple!
Moe: Ohhh, come on. [Moe pokes Curly in the eyes]
Curly: How do you like that guy?
[Ted slaps Curly]

Cast of characters

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