Shemp Howard — Actor (43)
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Mr. Noisy (1946) IMDb TMDB
Mr. Noisy
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Vernon Dent …
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
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Off Again, On Again (1945) IMDb TMDB
Off Again, On Again
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Dick Curtis …
Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.
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Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pick a Peck of Plumbers
director: Jules White actor: El Brendel / Shemp Howard …
After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.
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Pleased to Mitt You (1940) IMDb TMDB
Pleased to Mitt You
director: Jules White actor: David Durand / Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams …
Terry Kelly is leaving for college, and Ma Kelly and Uncle Pat invite his friends and sweetheart Kitty to the house for a going-away party. The bigger surprise is Uncle Pat's gift of $1400 for Terry's tuition, money he earned promoting Terry as an amateur boxer. Accompanying Terry and Kitty's school friends to the party is Diggins, Terry's rival for Kitty's affections. After an argument, Diggins takes off... with the envelope containing Pat's gift. The kids track Diggins down at Regan's Road House, and a brawl breaks out.
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Money Squawks (1940) IMDb TMDB
Money Squawks
director: Jules White actor: Andy Clyde / Shemp Howard …
Andy Clyde and Shemp Howard are station agents for the railroad. Their job is to defend against robberies but neither seems capable of doing anything but trouble. Through the course of the story, they shoot at some innocent hunters, are terrorized by a duck AND end up GIVING the money to the crooks by mistake. Can Andy and Shemp somehow redeem themselves?
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Corn on the Cop (1934) IMDb TMDB
Corn on the Cop
director: Ralph Staub actor: Harry Gribbon / Shemp Howard …
A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as salve for relief from corns and bunions. The idea, unfortunately, goes awry. Starring Harry Gribbon with Shemp Howard, Boyd Davis, and Mary Doran.
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The Knife of the Party (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Knife of the Party
director: Leigh Jason actor: Lillian Miles / Jack Goode …
A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9 (1934) IMDb TMDB
Rambling 'Round Radio Row #9
actor: George Jessel / Bonnie Poe …
An immigrant has become a mailman on Radio Row. One of his first duties is to deliver letters to Bunny Poe, Vera Van, Ramon & Rosalie and George Jessel. Each of them is doing a specialty, except for Jessel, who's been interrupted in his rehearsal by a fellow who wants him to appear on a benefit for starving "moonlight-song writers". Jessel accepts and tells his mother that he won't be home for dinner, until he is told that the benefit is not in town but in Philadelphia. But the fellow has a pretty secretary...
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Crazy House (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crazy House
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson …
other title: Fantasmas rumberos / Symphonie loufoque
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Where the Pest Begins (1945) IMDb TMDB
Where the Pest Begins
director: Harry Edwards actor: Shemp Howard / Tom Kennedy …
Jonathan Bass (Tom Kennedy), an inventor working for the government, makes the mistake of his life. He moves next door to Shemp. Lazy, obtuse and obnoxious, Shemp plays the good neighbor by wrecking the Bass' garage, car and china... and somehow makes it look to Bass' wife (Christine McIntyre) that Jonathan is clumsily at fault. Bass' latest project is a new bomb for the Army, and it's only a matter of time before helpful Shemp turns up in the laboratory basement offering his assistance.
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Hula-La-La (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hula-La-La
director: Hugh McCollum actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
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Scrambled Brains (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Scrambled Brains
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with.
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Pest Man Wins (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pest Man Wins
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.
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Stone Age Romeos (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stone Age Romeos
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.