Curly Howard

Born: 1903-10-22

Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and vaudevillian. He is best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his older brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and actor Larry Fine. Curly is generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He is well known for his high-pitched voice, vocal expressions ("nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!","woo-woo-woo!", and barking like a dog), as well as his inventive physical comedy, improvisations, and athleticism.


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Three Little Twirps

as Curly
Released: 1943-07-09

The Stooges get a job putting up posters for a circus but discover that instead of money, their...

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Disorder in the Court

as Curly
Released: 1936-05-30

The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the...

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The Last Laugh

as Self
Released: 2016-04-18

Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to...

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My Sister Eileen

as Subway Builder (uncredited)
Released: 1942-09-24

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their...

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Hollywood Party

as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Released: 1934-05-24

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake...

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Dutiful But Dumb

as Curly
Released: 1941-03-21

The Stooges are photographers for Whack magazine who, after messing up an assignment, are sent...

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Dancing Lady

as Stagehand Curly
Released: 1933-11-24

Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton,...

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I Can Hardly Wait

as Curly
Released: 1943-08-13

The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache....

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Goofs and Saddles

as Curly
Released: 1937-07-02

Set in the old west, the stooges are spies for US Calvary; "Buffalo Bilious", "Wild Bill Hiccup"...

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Monkey Businessmen

as Curly
Released: 1946-06-20

The stooges are bumbling electricians who decide to go away for a rest after they are fired for...

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Beer Barrel Polecats

as Curly
Released: 1946-01-10

The stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to...

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Mutts to You

as Curly
Released: 1938-10-14

The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be...

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From Nurse to Worse

as Curly
Released: 1940-08-23

The stooge's friend Jerry convinces them to take out on insurance on Curly and then have him act...

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3 Dumb Clucks

as Curly / Pop Howard
Released: 1937-04-17

The stooges escape from jail when they learn their father, who has just become rich, is planning...

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Uncivil War Birds

as Curly
Released: 1946-03-29

The stooges are civil war soldiers who are constantly changing uniforms to avoid the opposing...

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How High Is Up?

as Curley
Released: 1940-07-26

The stooges are the 'Minute Menders', three tinkers who live under their car. The boys decide to...

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Wee Wee Monsieur

as Curly
Released: 1938-02-18

The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the...

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An Ache in Every Stake

as Curly
Released: 1941-08-22

The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy...

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Higher Than a Kite

as Curly
Released: 1943-07-30

The stooges are auto mechanics working for the R.A.F. in England. After wrecking an officers car...

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Hoi Polloi

as Curly
Released: 1935-08-29

A professor bets that he can turn the stooges into gentlemen. After many attempts to teach them...

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Three Loan Wolves

as Curly
Released: 1946-07-04

Told in flash back, the stooges tell their son how he came to have three fathers. The stooges,...

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Roast-Beef and Movies

as Bogus Movie Producer (as Jerry Howard)
Released: 1934-02-09

A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new...

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Slippery Silks

as Curly
Released: 1936-12-27

The Stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with...

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Booby Dupes

as Curly
Released: 1945-10-18

The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own...

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Punch Drunks

as Curly
Released: 1934-07-13

Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when...

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Men in Black

as Dr. Howard
Released: 1934-09-28

The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years....

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The Sitter Downers

as Curly
Released: 1937-11-26

The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses...

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Calling All Curs

as Dr. Curly
Released: 1939-08-25

The Stooges run a pet hospital and are the proud surgeons of Garçon, a prized girl poodle of...

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Horses' Collars

as Curly
Released: 1935-01-10

The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a...

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A Bird in the Head

as Curly
Released: 1946-02-28

The stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking...

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Tassels in the Air

as Curly
Released: 1938-04-01

The stooges are janitors in an office building. They stencil the wrong names on all the offices,...

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Three Little Beers

as Curly
Released: 1935-11-28

The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament,...

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Termites of 1938

as Curly
Released: 1938-01-07

The stooges are pest exterminators, mistakenly hired by a rich lady looking for an escort to a...

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Rockin' in the Rockies

as Curly
Released: 1945-04-17

Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his...

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False Alarms

as Curly
Released: 1936-08-16

Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.

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You Nazty Spy!

as Curly Gallstone
Released: 1940-01-19

In this satire of the Nazis the Stooges are wallpaper hangers in the country of Moronica. When...

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Violent Is the Word for Curly

as Curly
Released: 1938-07-02

The stooges are left in charge of a gas station and manage to blow up the car of their first...

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Matri-Phony

as Curleycue
Released: 1942-07-02

The stooges are potters in ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Octopus Grabus. When the...

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Gents Without Cents

as Curly
Released: 1944-09-22

The stooges are three small time actors looking for a job. They meet three girl dancers in the...

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Yes, We Have No Bonanza

as Curly
Released: 1939-05-19

Set in a western town, the stooges are working as waiters in a saloon with the three girls they...

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Back to the Woods

as Curly
Released: 1937-05-14

Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the...

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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb

as Curly
Released: 1938-05-20

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their...

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Playing the Ponies

as Curly
Released: 1937-10-15

The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse....

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Crash Goes the Hash

as Curly
Released: 1944-02-04

Its suspected that a society matron, Mrs. Van Bustle, will marry the exotic Prince Shaam. To get...

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Three Little Pirates

as Curly
Released: 1946-12-05

The stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is...

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Flat Foot Stooges

as Curly
Released: 1938-12-05

The stooges are firemen at a station that still uses horses to pull the engines. A salesman who...

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Rockin' Thru the Rockies

as Curly
Released: 1940-03-08

The stooges are frontier guides leading a minstrel show west. When hostile Indians run the...

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Cash and Carry

as Curly
Released: 1937-09-03

The Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to...

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We Want Our Mummy

as Curly
Released: 1939-02-24

The stooges go to Egypt in search of the mummy of king Rootin-Tootin for which a museum will pay...

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Hollywood on Parade

as Self
Released: 1932-06-05

A short featuring many stars

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Nutty But Nice

as Curly
Released: 1940-06-14

The stooges are singing comedic waiters, enlisted by two doctors to try and cheer up a depressed...

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A Gem of a Jam

as Curly
Released: 1943-12-30

The stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Harts, Burns and Belcher. Some crooks...

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The Yoke's on Me

as Curly
Released: 1944-05-26

The Stooges become farmers as a last resort when every branch of the armed services turns them...

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Rhythm and Weep

as Curly
Released: 1946-10-03

The Stooges are actors who can't hold a job, so they decide to jump off a high building and end...

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Movie Maniacs

as Curly
Released: 1936-02-20

The boys are stowaways on a train box-car filled with furniture bound for Hollywood where they...

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A Pain in the Pullman

as Curly
Released: 1936-06-27

The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet...

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Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise

as Curly
Released: 1939-10-06

Once again, the Stooges are three hapless tramps. After nearly destroying a farmer's (Richard...

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Dizzy Doctors

as Curly
Released: 1937-03-19

The Stooges get jobs selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's...

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Three Pests in a Mess

as Curly
Released: 1945-01-19

The stooges are three inventors trying to a get a patent on their preposterous fly catching...

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Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special

as Curly (archive footage)
Released: 2003-04-29

Woody Harrelson hosts a special tribute to the Three Stooges in honor of their 75th Anniversary....

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Beer and Pretzels

as Curly
Released: 1933-08-26

Ted Healy and his Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women...

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Spook Louder

as Curly
Released: 1943-04-02

The stooges are door-to-door salesman peddling a weight reducing machine, until they come to the...

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Pardon My Scotch

as Curly
Released: 1935-08-01

The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman...

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They Stooge to Conga

as Curly
Released: 1943-01-01

The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret...

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Micro-Phonies

as Curly
Released: 1945-11-15

The Stooges are working in a radio station where a pretty girl has just made a recording of...

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Sock-a-Bye Baby

as Curly
Released: 1942-11-13

The stooges mistakenly kidnap a baby they find on their doorstep. When the cops and the baby's...

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Dizzy Detectives

as Curly
Released: 1943-02-05

The Stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has...

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The Big Idea

as Healy's Stooge
Released: 1934-05-12

Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait)....

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Idle Roomers

as Curly
Released: 1944-07-15

The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with...

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Woman Haters

as Jack
Released: 1934-05-05

The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry...

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Half Shot Shooters

as Curly
Released: 1936-04-30

The Stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to...

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No Dough Boys

as Curly
Released: 1944-11-24

The Stooges are dressed as Japanese soldiers for their job as magazine models. On their lunch...

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The Captain Hates the Sea

as Drummer
Released: 1934-11-02

Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit...

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Whoops, I'm an Indian!

as Curly
Released: 1936-09-11

Set in the Old West, the stooges are crooked gamblers swindling the residents of a frontier...

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Boobs in Arms

as Curly
Released: 1940-12-27

The stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping...

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All the World's a Stooge

as Curly
Released: 1941-05-16

The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose...

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Nertsery Rhymes

as Boy
Released: 1933-07-06

Three boys play are told some "bedtime stories" by their parents.

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Uncivil Warriors

as Curly
Released: 1935-04-26

Set in the civil war, the stooges are spies for the north. They impersonate southern officers...

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Saved by the Belle

as Curly
Released: 1939-06-30

The stooges are traveling salesmen stranded in Valeska, a tropical country prone to earthquakes....

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Three Little Sew and Sews

as Curly
Released: 1939-01-06

The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go...

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Some More of Samoa

as Curly
Released: 1941-12-04

The Stooges are tree surgeons who are enlisted by a rich old man to find a mate for his rare...

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Ants in the Pantry

as Curley
Released: 1936-02-06

The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion...

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The Three Troubledoers

as Curly
Released: 1946-04-26

Set in the old west, the stooges become marshals in a town with a high death rate for lawmen....

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Operator 13

as Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1934-06-08

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...

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If a Body Meets a Body

as Curly
Released: 1945-08-30

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's...

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In the Sweet Pie and Pie

as Curly
Released: 1941-10-16

The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit.

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Plane Nuts

as Curly
Released: 1933-10-13

Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate...

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Hollywood on Parade No. B-1

as uncredited
Released: 1934-03-02

Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations...

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Dizzy Pilots

as Curly Wrong
Released: 1943-09-24

The Three Stooges, as the Wrong Brothers, aid the war effort by inventing a new plane in this...

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A Plumbing We Will Go

as Curly
Released: 1940-04-19

To escape the police, the stooges pose as plumbers and are hired to fix a leak in a fancy...

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The Three Stooges in 3D

as Curly
Released: 2012-10-30

This is The Three Stooges at their bumbling, eye-poking, hair-pulling best! Including a full,...

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Start Cheering

as Curly Howard
Released: 1938-03-03

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have...

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Grips, Grunts and Groans

as Curly
Released: 1937-01-13

The Stooges become trainers of Bustoff, a champion wrestler. The big boss has a lot of money bet...

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No Census, No Feeling

as Curly
Released: 1940-10-04

The stooges get jobs as census takers and wind up in a fancy mansion looking for people to...

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Myrt and Marge

as Mullins' Helper
Released: 1933-11-25

Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't...

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Restless Knights

as Baron of Gray Manor
Released: 1935-02-20

Set in Medieval times, the stooges learn they are of royal blood and vow to save the kingdom....

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Three Missing Links

as Curly
Released: 1938-07-29

The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get...

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Back from the Front

as Curly
Released: 1943-05-28

The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a...

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I'll Never Heil Again

as Curly Gallstone
Released: 1941-04-04

The Stooges have taken over the country of Moronica. Moe is Hailstone the Dictator, Curly is a...

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Idiots Deluxe

as Curly
Released: 1945-07-20

Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took...

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G.I. Wanna Home

as Curly
Released: 1946-09-05

The stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancée, but find they have been...

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Loco Boy Makes Good

as Curly
Released: 1942-01-08

After being thrown out of their apartment, the Stooges try a scam to get some money: find a...

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Three Sappy People

as Curly
Released: 1939-12-01

The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are...

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So Long Mr. Chumps

as Curly
Released: 1941-02-07

The stooges are street cleaners who find some valuable bonds and return them to their owner. The...

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Hold That Lion!

as Curly - Sleeping Passenger (uncredited)
Released: 1947-07-17

The stooges are scammed out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys...

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Busy Buddies

as Curly
Released: 1944-03-18

The Stooges, not faring well with their diner, enter Curly in a milking contest at the County...

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Fugitive Lovers

as Bill, Second of Three Julians
Released: 1934-01-05

In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New...

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Cookoo Cavaliers

as Curly Sinker
Released: 1940-11-15

The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty...

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Stop! Look! and Laugh!

as Curly
Released: 1960-01-07

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

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What's the Matador?

as Curly
Released: 1942-04-23

The stooges are actors traveling to perform at a fiesta in Mexico. After they accidentally...

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Even as IOU

as Curly
Released: 1942-09-18

A destitute mother and child move into the stooge's vacant lot home and the boys decide to help...

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The Three Stooges Greatest Hits!

as Self / Curly (archive footage)
Released: 1997-05-15

A tribute to the Three Stooges comedy team, featuring old clips and home movies mixed with music...

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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 3: 1940-1942

as uncredited
Released: 2008-08-26

The Golden Age of the Three Stooges continues in this exceptional third chronological...

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Cactus Makes Perfect

as Curly
Released: 1942-04-23

The stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek...

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Time Out for Rhythm

as Curly
Released: 1941-06-05

A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

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Three Smart Saps

as Curly
Released: 1942-07-30

The stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some...

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Booty and the Beast

as Sleeping Passenger (uncredited) (archive footage)
Released: 1953-03-05

The stooges do a good turn and help a stranger open a safe in what they think is the man's...

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Meet the Baron

as A Stooge
Released: 1933-10-20

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

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Half-Wits Holiday

as Curly
Released: 1947-01-09

A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60...

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Phony Express

as Curly
Released: 1943-11-18

Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine...

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Stooge O-Rama: The Men Behind the Mayhem - And Even More Mayhem!

as uncredited
Released: 2023-07-11

CineMusuem LLC and Kit Parker Films offer fans of the Amalgamated Morons a Chance to revisit the...

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Three Little Pigskins

as Curly
Released: 1934-12-08

The stooges are mistaken by a gangster for the "Three Horsemen of Boulder Dam", famous football...

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Pop Goes the Easel

as Curly
Released: 1935-03-29

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where...

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The Three Stooges: Stooged & Confoosed

as uncredited
Released: 2004-08-10

Funnier in Color! Each classic short has been painstakingly restored from the original negative...

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Columbia Laff Hour

as Curley
Released: 1956-01-01

A Columbia Pictures feature, featuring 4 unedited shorts, released between 1947-1956, featuring...

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Hello Pop

as Son
Released: 1933-09-16

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with...

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Turn Back the Clock

as Wedding Singer (uncredited)
Released: 1933-08-25

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams...

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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945

as uncredited
Released: 2008-10-07

In this fourth chronological collection of The Three Stooges, we come to the final years of what...

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The Big Parade of Comedy

as One of The Three Stooges (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1964-09-02

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

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Broadway to Hollywood

as Fritz the Clown
Released: 1933-09-15

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife...

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Swing Parade of 1946

as Curly
Released: 1946-03-19

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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A Ducking They Did Go

as Curly
Released: 1939-04-07

The stooges, tricked by some con men into selling memberships to a phony duck hunting club, sell...

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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol 2: 1937-1939

as uncredited
Released: 2008-05-27

Get ready for more outrageous antics as The Three Stooges return in this second collection of...

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Hollywood on Parade No. B-9

as Curly
Released: 1934-04-28

Jimmy Durante asks popular song writing team Mack Gordon and Harry Revel to demonstrate some of...

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The Three Stooges Story

as Curly
Released: 2001-05-02

You'll see all six of the Three Stooges - brothers Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Joe...

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The Three Stooges: Kings Of Laughter

as Curly
Released: 2001-05-02

Three's never a crowd when it comes to the immortal Stooges, as demonstrated by this...

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Three Stooges Comedy Collection

as uncredited
Released: 2024-01-06

A collection of 4 hilarious Three Stooges short films. Disorder in the court (1936) Brideless...

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Steel Pier, Atlantic City, NJ

as Curly
Released: 1938-07-01

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in their Stooge personas, each trying to flirt with Barbara...

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The Lost Stooges

as Himself
Released: 1990-01-01

A documentary hosted by Leonard Maltin featuring rare clips of the Three Stooges

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The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 5: 1946-1948

as uncredited
Released: 2009-03-17

This fifth collection of The Three Stooges, which features 25 digitally remastered shorts from...

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Jail Birds of Paradise

as Prisoner
Released: 1934-03-10

While the warden is away, his daughter attempts to turn prison into 'Paradise" Considered a...

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The Three Stooges: Five of Their Greatest Shorts

as Himself
Released: 2009-01-01

Relive the hilarity of The Three Stooges with this compilation of five of their greatest shorts....

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The Three Stooges: Hey Moe! Hey Dad!

as Curly
First aired: 2015-05-05

Celebrate a century of Stoogery with this long-anticipated collection that will smack you over...

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