The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges in 1937:  (clockwise from left) Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Moe Howard

The Three Stooges was a comedy act that made short movies from 1934 to 1970. The Three Stooges used physical comedy to entertain. This form of comedy is called slapstick comedy. The actors were Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jerome Curly Howard, and Shemp Howard.

The Three Stooges also made a cameo appearance in the 1963 comedy classic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

The Three Stooges Media

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  Lobby card with Healy, Joan Crawford and the Stooges in MGM's Dancing Lady (1933)

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  A thinner Curly (with a full head of hair and false handlebar mustache) as the cook in Malice in the Palace (1949) with Larry, Moe and Shemp: Curly's scene was deleted from the final release.

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  Moe and Larry with Shemp (center) from Malice in the Palace (1949)

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  Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe: The Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita (left) in 1959

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  The Stooges in 1936
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  Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe appeared in a 1962 TV ad promoting their earlier short subjects, though DeRita never appeared in any.

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  Lobby card for full-length film Swing Parade of 1946 with Gale Storm and Phil Regan

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  Larry and Curly Joe put Moe through his paces on the cover of The Three Stooges (Dell Comics, May 1961).