Mousie Garner (Autobiography of a Vaudeville Stooge)
THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934)
Film Pick of the Day
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Moe, Larry and Curly are three out-of-work tramps who are hired to promote a university football team. They're soon mistaken for the school's famous star athletes, "The Three Horsemen." As the star athletes, the Stooges are hired by a gangster to secretly play on his professional team, but of course the boys know nothing about football and bring their own set of skills to the game.
Costarring Lucille Ball.
Larry said that there were numerous injuries while this short was made, including him losing a tooth when he was socked by Joseph Young (actor Robert Young's brother), and Curly broke his leg after riding down the dumbwaiter. In the scene with the photographers during the football game, Larry insisted the studio use stunt doubles, one of whom was badly injured.
The original ending had the Stooges retelling the story to their children, but only photo stills remain of that footage (see Moe Howard & the 3 Stooges pp. 6-7, 68-69, 79 and 81). The scripted version with the Stooges' sons was published in The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, by Joan Howard Maurer, Citadel Press 1987.
Opening title music is "Eastmoor College March," by Louis Silvers; see The Three Stooges Journal # 87 (Fall 1998).
Details
Average Rating:   [ 8.89/10 ] 55 votes |
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| Featuring | Moe, Larry and Curly |
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| Release Date | Saturday, December 8, 1934 |
| Studio | Columbia |
| Production Type | Short Subject |
| Duration | 18.5 min. |
