Curly Howard — Actor (46)
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Higher Than a Kite (1943) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Higher Than a Kite
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car they need a place to hide, but their choice, a sewer pipe, turns out to a bomb which is dropped on the enemy. Finding themselves behind enemy lines, Moe and Curly disguise as German officers and Larry dresses as a seductive fraulein. While general Bommel chases after Larry, Moe and Curly steal the secret plans from the high command.
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Goofs and Saddles (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Goofs and Saddles
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup" and "Just Plain Bill". Sent by General "Muster" to catch a gang of cattle rustlers, they wind up in a saloon where the boss of the gang hangs out. The boys disguise themselves as gamblers and get into a card game with the villain, but must flee when their identities are discovered. They hole up in a cabin, fighting off the bad guys, until the calvary arrives.
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What's the Matador? (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
What's the Matador?
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally switch suitcases with that of Dolores, a lovely senorita they met on trip down, they must sneak into her house to retrieve their suitcase. When they are confronted by her jealous husband he vows to kill them if he sees them again. At the fiesta where they are performing a comedy bullfight (Curly is the matador, Moe and Larry are in a bull costume) the husband bribes the attendants to let a real bull into the ring. Curly knocks the bull out with a head butt and becomes a hero.
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Crash Goes the Hash (1944) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Crash Goes the Hash
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get the story, reporters Curly, Larry and Moe take jobs in her mansion as a cook and two butlers. The parrot climbing into the turkey scene is a Stooge classic. This was the last of many Stooge appearances by supporting actor Bud Jamison, who passed away in September, 1944, at the age of 50. First appearance by Stooge supporting actress Judy Malcolm.
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Half Shot Shooters (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Half Shot Shooters
director: Jack White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the Stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
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Cactus Makes Perfect (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cactus Makes Perfect
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
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Mutts to You (1938) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mutts to You
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, take it home. When they read in the paper the baby is believed to have been kidnapped, they disguise Curly as a the baby's mother and try to sneak past the local cop. They are caught, but when the baby's parents show up and realize what happened, the result is a happy ending.
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A Ducking They Did Go (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
A Ducking They Did Go
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell all the memberships to the police department. When the crooks skip town, the stooges are stranded at a duck-less lake with a lodge full of cops.
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Slippery Silks (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Slippery Silks
director: Jack White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture. During the show the owner of a antique box the stooges wrecked shows up and a wild cream puff fight ensues.
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From Nurse to Worse (1940) WikiData IMDb TMDB
From Nurse to Worse
director: Jules White actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act insane to collect. Moe and Larry put Curly on a leash and take him to the insurance doctor and have him act like a dog. Unfortunately, the insurance doctor wants to perform a brain operation (Cerebrum decapitation). The boys try to escape by hiding in the dog catchers wagon, but are caught and taken to the hospital. They escape again, this time by rigging a sheet to a gurney and sailing down the street, where they run into Jerry and knock him into wet cement.
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Playing the Ponies (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Playing the Ponies
director: Charles Lamont actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.
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Pop Goes the Easel (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pop Goes the Easel
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The 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.
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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
director: Jules White actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
other title: オイリー・トゥー・ベッド, オイリー・トゥー・ライズ
Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard Fiske) pile of firewood, the boys come to the assistance of the Widow Jenkins (Eva McKenzie), who has just been cheated out of her land by a trio of swindlers (Dick Curtis, Eddie Laughton, James Craig). Attempting to fix the woman's well, the Stooges instead unleash an oil geyser. They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets, and Curly replies, "We'll honeymoon in Canada!" (a reference to the Dionne quintuplets).
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Pardon My Scotch (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pardon My Scotch
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
The 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 a 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.
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Saved by the Belle (1939) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Saved by the Belle
director: Charley Chase actor: Curly Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes. Having no luck selling fur coats to the natives they are arrested when they receive a telegram instructing them to "get rid of present wardrobe" and an official thinks they are planning to assassinate president Ward Robey. With the help of Rita, a beautiful revolutionary, the boys escape a firing squad, and are sent on a mission to deliver important plans to the revolutionary leader. When they deliver a rolled up calendar by mistake, they are once again heading for a firing squad but are spared when Rita arrives with the real plans.
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3 Dumb Clucks (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
3 Dumb Clucks
director: Del Lord actor: Curly Howard / Moe Howard …
other title: Papai Perde a Cabeça
The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning to leave their mother and marry a young girl. Curly is mistaken for the stooges father (he plays both parts) and marries the girl instead. When they learn that she is working with gangsters who plan to kill their father for his money, they escape and take their father with them.
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Movie Maniacs (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Movie Maniacs
director: Del Lord actor: Moe Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: ムービー・マニアック
The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they hope to break into movies and become stars. Arriving at the Carnation Pictures Studios. Fuller Rath, the studio general manager, receives a telegram from the home office telling him that a certain "Mr. Smith and his two assistants" will arrive to take over the supervision of the studios. He mistakes the Stooges as the executives and gives them free reign over the studios, where they proceed to disrupt and destroy the production of a romantic drama.