Curly Howard — Actor (46)
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An Ache in Every Stake (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
An Ache in Every Stake
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry.
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The Big Idea (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Big Idea
director: William Beaudine actor: Ted Healy / Moe Howard …
Ted 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 waste baskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments.
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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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Booby Dupes (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Booby Dupes
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
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Idle Roomers (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Idle Roomers
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.
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Idiots Deluxe (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Idiots Deluxe
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the woods they confronted a bear which Curly and Larry stunned, and thinking it was dead, threw it in the back of their car, where it came awake, tossed Moe out and drove the car into a tree. The judge finds Moe not guilty and Moe promptly goes after Larry and Curly again with the ax.
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Rockin' in the Rockies (1945) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Rockin' in the Rockies
director: Vernon Keays actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: 幸运拍档
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
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Half-Wits Holiday (1947) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Half-Wits Holiday
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.
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I Can Hardly Wait (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
I Can Hardly Wait
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Ich kann es kaum erwarten
The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending tooth, but nothing works so they take Curly to the dentist. While Moe gets in the chair to show Curly how easy its going to be, the dentist enters and pulls Moe's tooth by mistake. Curly then wakes up and realizes its all been a dream and a punch to the mouth from Moe dislodges the tooth.
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Dizzy Pilots (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dizzy Pilots
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this below-average two-reel comedy. Actually, they are attempting to avoid the draft but when their plane, the Buzzard, fails miserably, they march off to war. Richard Fiske, formerly a busy supporting player in Stooges comedies, appears courtesy of stock footage from the earlier Boobs in Arms (1940). Ironically, Fiske had himself been drafted and would be killed in action in France in August of 1944.
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Even as IOU (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Even as IOU
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Even As IOU
A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help them. They steal the kids piggy bank and sneak into the race track. They bet on a long shot that wins and then are gypped out of their winnings by two con men who sell them a washed up race horse. Everything turns out happily when Curly swallows horse vitamins and gives birth to a colt!
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Some More of Samoa (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Some More of Samoa
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare puckerless persimmon tree. The boys sail to the tropical island of Rhum-Boogie to find the tree. When they arrive they are captured by the natives and will be eaten unless Curly marries the Chief's ugly daughter. The boys escape with the tree and, after a confrontation with an alligator, sail off with their prize.
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Loco Boy Makes Good (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Loco Boy Makes Good
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a hotel, slip on a cake of soap, and sue the owners to get a huge settlement. In their attempts they come across an old lady who is on the brink of losing her hotel if she doesn't pay the interest on her note. Taking pity on her, they immediately start fixing up the place, turn it into a swanky nightclub, and go all out to impress important columnist Waldo Twitchell on opening night.