The Ultimate Three Stooges Filmography
The following is, what I believe to be, a complete list of just about everything that The Three Stooges ever appeared in (as a team, not their solo careers).
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- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsTed HealyCharles WinningerFrances McCoyMr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions. The creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out, and things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.The very beginning. Shemp is the third Stooge.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsTed HealyMoe HowardLarry FineA father tells bedtime stories to his three sons.An MGM short shot in early 2-strip technicolor. Curly now takes over as third Stooge.
- DirectorEdgar SelwynStarsLee TracyMae ClarkeOtto KrugerJoe and Mary barely get by with their tobacco store. After an old friend returns now married to wealthy Elvina, Joe wishes he married her instead when he had the chance. Will he be happy when his wish comes true?They have brief cameos in this feature.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardCurly HowardTed Healy and the 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted annoys women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos leads to destruction of the business. At the end, Ted pursues another woman.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsTed HealyHenry ArmettaMoe HowardA stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.Another short that was shot in 2-strip technicolor. Long thought of as a lost film, a complete print has now been found and restored.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardTed HealyTed Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsJack PearlJimmy DuranteZasu PittsThe famous Baron Munchausen dumps two dimwits in the African jungle. A rescue team mistakes one of them for the missing Baron, and returns them to the US, where they're greeted as heroes. While giving a speech at a college, the "Baron" falls for a pretty girl, gets tangled up with a trio of nutty janitors and faces being exposed as a phony.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJoan CrawfordClark GableFranchot ToneAn attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
- DirectorAl BoasbergStarsMyrtle VailDonna DamerelRay HedgeMyrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiStarsRobert MontgomeryMadge EvansTed HealyHoping to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.
- DirectorLouis LewynStarsTed HealyBonnie BonnellMoe HowardJimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of their songs. There is interplay with impersonator Florence Desmond, Ben Turpin, Rudy Vallee and many others.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLarry FineMoe HowardCurly HowardTed Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. These include a man with a machine gun, a woman who empties wastebaskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments.Their last MGM short with Ted Healy, although released a week after their first Columbia short (Woman Haters)
- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiAllan DwanEdmund GouldingStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJimmy DuranteJimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party for him so that he might use the lions in his next movie, but his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante can.Their last film with MGM.
- DirectorArchie GottlerStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.The first short of 190 made for Columbia.
- DirectorLou BreslowStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges become doctors at a large hospital where they disrupt patients and staff alike.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsVictor McLaglenWynne GibsonAlison SkipworthA cruise ship heads south from L.A. with a variety of passengers - a reporter, a P.I., crooks, a general etc.The Stooges have cameos in this feature film.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football players. Hired to play for his team, they blow the big game and get it in the end. Lucille Ball has a nice part as a gun moll.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet, then from a safe, meet with problems until Curly, who goes berserk whenever he sees a mouse, knocks out all the bad guys.
- DirectorCharles LamontStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardIn Medieval times, the Stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom. They become the Queen's royal guards but are sentenced to die when the Queen is abducted on the orders of the evil Prime Minister. The Stooges escape, free the Queen, and end by knocking one another.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardSet in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers and infiltrate the enemy ranks to get valuable information. On the run when they are discovered, they hide in a cannon and are blown back to their northern headquarters.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The stooges impersonate Scotsmen at party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardA professor plays Pygmalion to three bumbling garbagemen and tries to turn them into gentlemen.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.