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ificandream

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3. The aggression was part of the act.

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 04:14 PM

Mar 2024

At the time of the filming of this newsreel footage, the Stooges hadn't yet appeared in a film as a solo act though they were likely an act since the first film with Shemp, Soup To Nuts, when they were still with Ted Healy, was released a year later in 1930, according to the book "Much More Than a Stooge: Shemp Howard." And I would guess that a lot of the "violence" was tempered for the films. It really had to have been.

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Reportedly the earliest footage of Three Stooges Moe and Shemp [View all] ificandream Mar 2024 OP

Banned from our house when kids were little, after pushing and shoving marybourg Mar 2024 #1

I can't get over how aggressive Moe was towards Shemp kimbutgar Mar 2024 #2

The aggression was part of the act. ificandream Mar 2024 #3