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Post by snsurone on Jan 19, 2020 1:07:18 GMT
Born Jerome Lester Horowitz, Curly was the youngest brother of Moe and Shemp and a member of The Three Stooges.
Reading Curly's biography on Wiki is enough to make a Three Stooges fan cry! He suffered from a series of strokes starting in the mid-'40's, with the result of slurred speech and faulty timing. To make matters worse, the Stooges' shorts were being directed by a neophyte who was unable to handle Curly. Moe Howard's pleas to Columbia boss Harry Cohn for a more experienced director fell on deaf ears.
Over the years, Curly suffered from additional strokes, with the result of his being replaced with his older brother Shemp, who, IMHO, was a very good comic character actor (cf. THE BANK DICK, PITTSBURGH, and ARABIAN NIGHTS), but not a very good Stooge.
Curly eventually had another massive stroke and died at the early age of 48. He is interred with Shemp and another brother Benjamin in Culver City.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 19, 2020 1:34:27 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 19, 2020 7:11:32 GMT
Harry Cohn was the inspiration for the Jack Woltz character in The Godfather.
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Post by telegonus on Jan 19, 2020 8:58:21 GMT
Right about that, though I have to wonder just how "connected" Columbia, still one of the B grade studios, albeit coming up fast, was when Frank Sinatra was up for Maggio in From Here Eternity when in its casting stages. Harry Cohn was one tough badass of a studio chief, as nasty as the character based on me was shown to be in The Godfather. My sense: Cohn was on the cusp of becoming the massive mover and shaker Woltz was in The Godfather, yet just a bit short of having that much weight to throw around. So to my way of thinking, maybe there's some truth in that story or maybe it was based on somebody else
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Post by snsurone on Jan 19, 2020 10:21:28 GMT
"...based on me..."
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jan 19, 2020 12:56:38 GMT
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Post by msdemos on Jan 19, 2020 14:40:27 GMT
Whenever this subject comes up, I always think of this Stooge short, which was Curly's last appearance after his stroke, and, if I'm not mistaken, the only time the three brothers (and Larry Fine) appeared on film together! SAVE FERRIS
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Post by snsurone on Jan 19, 2020 14:56:13 GMT
msdemos, what is that thing that Moe is holding under Curly's nose? I vaguely remember that short and the scene of a sleeping Curly going, "Woo, woo, woo", as he snored. The other Stooges made a sad commentary there, but I can't remember what it was.
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Post by msdemos on Jan 19, 2020 15:07:38 GMT
msdemos, what is that thing that Moe holding under Curly's nose? I vaguely remember that short and the scene of a sleeping Curly going, "Woo, woo, woo", as he snored. The other Stooges made a sad commentary there, but I can't remember what it was. It's a clothespin...... SAVE FERRIS
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 19, 2020 15:15:07 GMT
Curly was the best!
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Post by bravomailer on Jan 19, 2020 16:12:32 GMT
Right about that, though I have to wonder just how "connected" Columbia, still one of the B grade studios, albeit coming up fast, was when Frank Sinatra was up for Maggio in From Here Eternity when in its casting stages. Harry Cohn was one tough badass of a studio chief, as nasty as the character based on me was shown to be in The Godfather. My sense: Cohn was on the cusp of becoming the massive mover and shaker Woltz was in The Godfather, yet just a bit short of having that much weight to throw around. So to my way of thinking, maybe there's some truth in that story or maybe it was based on somebody else Cohn was much despised in Hollywood. Nonetheless, when he died there were scores of stars, directors, and producers at his funeral. That caused Red Skelton to quip, "Well, Harry always said if you gave people what they wanted, they'd come out to see it."
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 19, 2020 16:23:57 GMT
I love the Stooges. I own a complete set of the original 3 Stooges bubble gum trading cards, several Bradford Exchange plates featuring the boys, and every short the Stooges ever made on DVD.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 19, 2020 18:05:33 GMT
Right about that, though I have to wonder just how "connected" Columbia, still one of the B grade studios, albeit coming up fast, was when Frank Sinatra was up for Maggio in From Here Eternity when in its casting stages. Harry Cohn was one tough badass of a studio chief, as nasty as the character based on me was shown to be in The Godfather. My sense: Cohn was on the cusp of becoming the massive mover and shaker Woltz was in The Godfather, yet just a bit short of having that much weight to throw around. So to my way of thinking, maybe there's some truth in that story or maybe it was based on somebody else Cohn was much despised in Hollywood. Nonetheless, when he died there were scores of stars, directors, and producers at his funeral. That caused Red Skelton to quip, "Well, Harry always said if you gave people what they wanted, they'd come out to see it." During my only visit ever to Los Angeles, My Lovely Wife and I were wandering through the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd near where we were staying looking for celebrity graves when who should I find but Harry Cohn. Of course, the first thing I thought of was Skelton's quip.
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Post by snsurone on Jan 19, 2020 20:01:39 GMT
There's a story about Harry Cohn's funeral. During the service, the officiant asked if anyone would care to say a few kind words about the deceased. Dead silence! But when the man persisted, someone finally stood up and said, "Ah, his brother-in-law was even worse!" This story was told to me by a man who closely resembled Louis B. Mayer.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 19, 2020 0:08:01 GMT
Born Jerome Lester Horowitz, Curly was the youngest brother of Moe and Shemp and a member of The Three Stooges. Reading Curly's biography on Wiki is enough to make a Three Stooges fan cry! He suffered from a series of strokes starting in the mid-'40's, with the result of slurred speech and faulty timing. To make matters worse, the Stooges' shorts were being directed by a neophyte who was unable to handle Curly. Moe Howard's pleas to Columbia boss Harry Cohn for a more experienced director fell on deaf ears. Over the years, Curly suffered from additional strokes, with the result of his being replaced with his older brother Shemp, who, IMHO, was a very good comic character actor (cf. THE BANK DICK, PITTSBURGH, and ARABIAN NIGHTS), but not a very good Stooge. Curly eventually had another massive stroke and died at the early age of 48. He is interred with Shemp and another brother Benjamin in Culver City. Saying Shemp wasn't a very good Stooge is like saying Atilla the Hun wasn't a very nice guy. To be fair, Curly set the bar high. And Shemp was infinitely better than Curly Joe.
Why to the Stooges get such a bad rap? They seem to be for comedy team, what Ed Wood is to movie directors. As cerebral as the Marx Bros. or Laurel and Hardy, no. Funny, hell yes.
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Post by snsurone on Apr 19, 2020 21:32:57 GMT
The Stooges generally get a "bad rap" from those who dislike slapstick comedy. And to be honest, Moe's bullying can be too much at times.
Their comedies were especially popular with kids who tended to imitate them, to their parents' dismay.
It's only been in the last 25 years or so that the Stooges have been "rediscovered", and their popularity renewed.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 19, 2020 21:57:04 GMT
Born Jerome Lester Horowitz, Curly was the youngest brother of Moe and Shemp and a member of The Three Stooges. Reading Curly's biography on Wiki is enough to make a Three Stooges fan cry! He suffered from a series of strokes starting in the mid-'40's, with the result of slurred speech and faulty timing. To make matters worse, the Stooges' shorts were being directed by a neophyte who was unable to handle Curly. Moe Howard's pleas to Columbia boss Harry Cohn for a more experienced director fell on deaf ears. Over the years, Curly suffered from additional strokes, with the result of his being replaced with his older brother Shemp, who, IMHO, was a very good comic character actor (cf. THE BANK DICK, PITTSBURGH, and ARABIAN NIGHTS), but not a very good Stooge. Curly eventually had another massive stroke and died at the early age of 48. He is interred with Shemp and another brother Benjamin in Culver City. Saying Shemp wasn't a very good Stooge is like saying Atilla the Hun wasn't a very nice guy. To be fair, Curly set the bar high. And Shemp was infinitely better than Curly Joe.
Why to the Stooges get such a bad rap? They seem to be for comedy team, what Ed Wood is to movie directors. As cerebral as the Marx Bros. or Laurel and Hardy, no. Funny, hell yes.
I got a controversial opinion, Shemp's my favorite Stooge sorry.
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