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TASSELS IN THE AIR (1938)

Film Pick of the Day
Thursday, June 25, 2026

The Stooges are employed as maintenance men in an office building. Curly has a phobia about tassels, and goes crazy whenever he sees one; the only thing that calms him down is to tickle his chin with a brush. After trying to teach Curly how to speak pig latin, Moe is mistaked for one of the building's tenants (a decorator named Omay), and the Stooges are hired to redecorate Mrs. Smirch's home.

This short was a partial reworking of Charley Chase's LUNCHEON AT TWELVE (1933). The gags of painting an antique table and a cuckoo clock were reused in A SNITCH IN TIME (1950).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 9.26/10 ]   43 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Release Date Friday, April 1, 1938
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 17.1 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - June 25th


Births

W. Donn Hayes
(Music Editor)
b. 1893

Brookston, IN

Wilkie C. Mahoney
(Additional Dialogue)
b. 1897

San Miguel, CA

Buddy Roosevelt
(Actor)
b. 1898

Meeker, CO

Gerald Drayson Adams
(Screenplay)
b. 1900

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Anne Revere
(Actress)
b. 1903

New York, NY

Earl Eby
(Actor)
b. 1903

Hollister, CA

Harold Daniels
(Actor)
b. 1903

Buffalo, NY

Matty Fain
(Actor)
b. 1905

Kings, NY

Reed Hadley
(Actor)
b. 1911

Petrolin, TX

John Pickard
(Actor)
b. 1913

Lascassas, TN

Johnny Carpenter
(Actor)
b. 1914

Debinsville, AR

Peter Lind Hayes
(Actor)
b. 1915

San Francisco, CA

Bernard Gruver
(Animator)
b. 1923

Long Beach, CA

Virginia Patton
(Actress)
b. 1925

Cleveland, OH


Deaths

Colin Clive
(Actor)
d. 1937   (37)

Los Angeles, CA

Alec Craig
(Actor)
d. 1945   (60)

Los Angeles, CA

Gary Breckner
(Actor)
d. 1945   (53)

Redlands, CA

Alec Compinsky
(Music Supervisor)
d. 1960   (53)

California

Charles Sullivan
(Actor)
d. 1972   (73)

Los Angeles, CA

Frank Hagney
(Actor)
d. 1973   (89)

Los Angeles, CA

Jay Jostyn
(Actor)
d. 1976   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Johnny Mercer
(Music and Lyrics)
d. 1976   (66)

Los Angeles, CA

Russ Whiteman
(Actor)
d. 1983   (71)

Los Angeles, CA

James Knott
(Camera Operator)
d. 1989   (87)

Orange County, CA

Jay Sheffield
(Actor)
d. 1998   (63)

Los Angeles, CA

Carmen Dirigo
(Hair Stylist)
d. 2007   (99)

Van Nuys, CA

Hal Fryar
(Actor)
d. 2017   (90)

Bradenton, FL

Skip Homeier
(Actor)
d. 2017   (86)

Indian Wells, CA


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