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Auggie

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8. Costas got this wrong too

Reply to John1956PA (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 3, 2021, 02:27 PM

Aug 2021

Shemp was not a "utility stooge" who came off the bench when another one got injured. Shemp was a full-time replacement following a massive stroke from which Jerome (Curly) never recovered.

Shemp (born Samuel Horwitz) was an original "stooge" (actually one of Ted Healy's Southern Gentlemen) who performed alongside brother Moses (Moe) in Vaudeville. He left the act to pursue a solo career in 1932, returning to The Three Stooges upon Curly's illness and long after they had left Healy.

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