Shemp Howard — Actor (43)
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Flagpole Jitters (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Flagpole Jitters
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are taking care of their invalid friend Mary who is confined to wheelchair. At their jobs in a theater, where they hope to earn money for an operation for Mary, they witness a hypnotist, doing his act. The stooges become subjects for his show and are hypnotized into walking out on a flagpole high above the ground. When they come out of their trance and realize their predicament they fall into a window and foil a robbery in progress thus earning reward money to pay for Mary's operation.
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Listen Judge (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Listen Judge
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Listen, Judge
The stooges are fix-it men who are brought before a judge on a charge of chicken stealing. They escape from the courtroom and wind up getting hired in the judges' house after their antics attempting to fix the doorbell cause the servants to quit. The boys are discovered when the cake they bakes explodes all over a political supporter of the judge and he loses his chance for re-election.
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Booty and the Beast (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Booty and the Beast
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's house. Actually the man is a crook and the boys were unwitting accomplices to a robbery. Once they realize what's happened, the stooges go after the bad guy and who's left on the train to Los Vegas. The boys trap the villain and recover the booty.
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Gents in a Jam (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gents in a Jam
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
Shemp's rich Uncle Phineas comes to visit the stooges who are broke and about to evicted. The boys convince their landlady Mrs. McGruder not to toss them out as Shemp is set to inherit a fortune. The boys also have trouble with a circus strongman after Shemp accidentally rips off his wife's dress. Uncle Phineas gets in the middle of the fight, and Mrs. McGruder ends it by knocking out the strongman. It turns out that Uncle Phineas and the landlady were childhood sweethearts and he marries her, leaving the stooges out of the bucks once again.
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Bedlam in Paradise (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bedlam in Paradise
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's plans in an effort to get through the pearly gates.
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He Cooked His Goose (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
He Cooked His Goose
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
Larry is a pet dealer who's seeing Moe's wife while at the same time trying to steal Shemp's fiancée. When Moe becomes suspicious, Larry attempts to frame Shemp as the boyfriend. He gets Shemp a job as a door-to-door pajama salesman and sends him to Moe's apartment, and then tells both Moe and Shemp's fiancée to go there and catch him in the act. Larry's plan backfires when Shemp catches him and lets Moe deliver some punishment.
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Musty Musketeers (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Musty Musketeers
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: The Three Stooges in musty muskeeters
Set in the middle ages, the stooges wish to marry their sweethearts, but the King won't give his consent until Princess Alicia gets married. The princess is abducted by Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry her and become ruler of the country. The stooges help the princess escape and then defeat the magician and his henchmen in a sword fight.
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Hot Ice (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hot Ice
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges apply for job as 'Yard Men' at Scotland Yard, thinking they'll become detectives, but instead wind up as gardeners. When they accidentally see a memo about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to go after the crooks. They find the crooks, but Shemp accidentally swallows the diamond which was hidden in a bowl of candy. The bad guys want to cut the diamond out, but the boys foil them with the help of a friendly gorilla.
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I'm a Monkey's Uncle (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I'm a Monkey's Uncle
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.
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Love at First Bite (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Love at First Bite
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The Stooges reminisce about the girls they met overseas while in the military. As they wait for the girls' ship to arrive, they get drunk and Shemp winds up asleep with his feet in a tub of cement. After sobering up, they free Shemp with a dynamite blast that lands them at the dock where their sweethearts are waiting.
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Mummy's Dummies (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mummy's Dummies
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in ancient Egypt, the stooges run a used chariot lot where they unload defective chariots on unsuspecting customers. When they gyp the head of the palace guard, they're brought to the palace to be executed, but instead become royal chamberlains after curing the King's toothache. When they recover some tax money stolen by a corrupt official, the King rewards them with marriage to his daughter. After getting a look at the ugly crone, Moe and Larry select Shemp to be the groom.
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Blondie Knows Best (1946) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blondie Knows Best
director: Abby Berlin actor: Penny Singleton / Arthur Lake …
Dagwood Bumstead poses as his boss Mr. Dithers so that a big business deal can be consummated while Dithers avoids nearsighted process server Jim Gray. The upshot of all this is that Dagwood ends up in a lunatic asylum, forcing Blondie to come to the rescue.
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Dopey Dicks (1950) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dopey Dicks
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges become detectives and go to the aid of girl in the clutches of a mad scientist. The boys arrive at a spooky mansion where the madman is building a mechanical man that needs a human head. After declining the opportunity to supply a stooge-head for the experiment, they find the girl and escape, only to wind up in a car driven by the headless robot.
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Dunked in the Deep (1949) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dunked in the Deep
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are tricked into becoming stowaways by their neighbor "Borscht", a spy for an enemy country. Stranded on a freighter on the high seas, they discover that their friend has concealed some stolen microfilm in watermelons they brought aboard for him. After a wild chase, they subdue Borscht and recover the microfilm.
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Squareheads of the Round Table (1948) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Squareheads of the Round Table
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in Arthurian times, the Stooges decide to help their friend Cedric the Blacksmith win the hand of the fair princess Elaine. At night the group sneaks into the castle to serenade Elaine, but pick the wrong window and are caught by the King. Tossed in the dungeon, the boys escape with Cedric's help and manage to foil the plans of the Black Prince who was plotting against the King. All turns out well when the grateful King allows Cedric to marry Elaine.
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Gypped in the Penthouse (1955) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gypped in the Penthouse
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
Larry and Shemp reminisce about their experiences with Jean, a diamond crazy gold digger each of them was gypped by. After telling their stories, they have a run in with Moe, who is now married to the same women. When Jean shows up, they deliver some stooge-style revenge.