by Lunkhead on June 6th, 2005, 9:18 pm
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stoogefan65
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(11/30/04 4:53 am)
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What stands out for me in this short is Curly's "Jackie" character. It is much more domineering than his future Curly character would be. I also found the rhyming dialogue a bit annoying upon earlier viewings of the short , but I do get a laugh or two out of it. I also believe that the lead actress, Majorie White (?), died in a car accident not long after fliming was completed.
Megaloman
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(12/2/04 8:12 pm)
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i was surprised at the verse in this one the first time i saw it, didn't know it was THE first short. but i quite enjoy it a lot, and find the Irish-Jewish coupling quite humerous now.
are we gonna do these in order? how long is 190 weeks? nearly four years! woo woo woo!
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What stands out for me in this short is Curly's "Jackie" character. It is much more domineering than his future Curly character would be.
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Yes. Very interesting to see Curly this way. Way different.
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I also believe that the lead actress, Majorie White (?), died in a car accident not long after fliming was completed.
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That's true SF65, and so sad. She sure was a cute little gal.
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are we gonna do these in order? how long is 190 weeks? nearly four years! woo woo woo!
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That's the plan Megs. Might help keep the board goin for the next 4 years.
Megaloman
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(12/6/04 10:50 pm)
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very cool.
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jamiemark
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(12/13/04 8:04 pm)
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The all singing stuff is unusual for Stooge fare, but it still has it's moments. I agree with the point made about Curly being a little more....uh....surly. A decent start though...
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Bruckman64
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(1/4/05 3:24 pm)
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Considering the script wasn't written with the Stooges in mind, but as part of a series of short musicals by Columbia, this is still a very fine debut for the boys, now freed of their subordination to Ted Healy. It's still quite close to the vaudeville format in which the boys had been working previously. One thing that always gets me in these earlier shorts is how incredibly fast & furious the pokes and slaps come - they'd slow them down and use them for punctuating a gag later on, instead of allowing them to be mayhem on their own account. In effect, the slaps and pokes became a way of prolonging a gag (much in the same way Stan Laurel used Babe Hardy's facial reactions to add to the payoff of a particular gag). Here, they're still in the knockabout vaudevillian style common to "stooges" in that medium, noticeable especially in their first scene where they charge into the Woman Haters club, and in the upper-berth scene.
I've always liked the musical format of this short, although given that the Stooges could (and did) sing in some of their earlier MGM pieces (albeit incompletely), it's strange they weren't given any musical numbers to sing in three-part harmony. Had the Stoogian format been more fixed, no doubt the writers would've added in such an opportunity. Likewise, the lack of an established Stooge formula allowed them to play separate characters only loosely affiliated w/each other. Later variations in the established formula, in the 50s, permitted a certain degree of dramatic irony, in that the viewer by that time knows the exact relationships of Stooge to Stooge.
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(3/16/05 7:57 am)
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Firstly, I have to say that I'm surprised the above picture of the Stooges looking down on Marjorie in the bath tub was even used as a publicity shot (Is that even a bath tub? I know tubs used to be quite short, and she does look to be naked except for the shoe-- lucky guys!). Wasn't it a bit risque for the time, and couldn't it give one an incorrect impression of the boys?
Anyway, I think I remember liking this short from the beginning and wishing they did at least a few more shorts with music and rhyming dialogue. Think how different this was from anything they did in the Ted Healy film years! I don't know if they had any such acts in Vaudeville, but if so, they had to adapt to it all over again for this short. It was like they were old pros at it too!
Bud Jamison was great in this and the short wouldn't have been the same without him.
"Gentleman, relax! I said, relax! Now please, at ease! Relax! Relax! I didn't tell you to break your backs!"
I also like his exchange with the guy at the door:
Man: Three men wait without.
Bud: Without what?
Marjorie really was a little hottie and Iwish she could've been in more shorts. Her singing was good, as was the Stooges. She was a great comedy actress. RIP
clint55
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(4/5/05 8:36 am)
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