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SCRAMBLED BRAINS (1951)

Film Pick of the Day
Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Shemp has been a very sick man, suffering from hallucinations, and has been in a sanitarium, but it gets too expensive for Moe and Larry to keep him there, so they bring him home. When they go to bring Shemp home, they learn that he's marrying his "beautiful" nurse, Nora (who is downright homely!) At Nora's apartment building, they have a run in with a stranger who is carrying groceries. They get the better of him, and he vows to get revenge if he ever sees them again. The day of the wedding, they discover that the stranger is Nora's father!

The Stooges' serenade tune "Nora" was written by... Moe, Larry & Shemp. They introduced the song in THREE HAMS ON RYE (1950) as "Jane," as well as the feature GOLD RAIDERS (1951); see The Three Stooges Journal # 96 (Winter 2000).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 9.39/10 ]   44 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
Release Date Saturday, July 7, 1951
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 15.75 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - November 3rd


Births

Ford Sterling
(Actor)
b. 1883

La Crosse, WI

Andrew Bennison
(Story and Screenplay)
b. 1886

Oakland, CA

Gene Lewis
(Dialogue Director)
b. 1887

Philadelphia, PA

Frances Williams
(Actress)
b. 1901

St. Paul, MN

John Sylvester
(Actor)
b. 1903

Mississippi

Jack Egan
(Actor)
b. 1904

Paterson, NJ

Frances Sawyer
(Actress)
b. 1909

Texas

Margaret McConnell
(Actress)
b. 1910

Oxford, IN

Dean Reisner
(Actor)
b. 1918

New York, NY

Jimmy Lloyd
(Actor)
b. 1918

Davenport, IA

Charles Bronson
(Actor)
b. 1921

Ehrenfeld, PA

Bernie Abramson
(Still Photography)
b. 1923

Los Angeles, CA

Robert Eggenweiler
(Assistant Producer)
b. 1923

Los Angeles, CA

Lucille Barkley
(Actress)
b. 1925

Pennsylvania

Gail Mosher
(Actress)
b. 1941

Gail Dianne Mosher


Deaths

Nelson McDowell
(Actor)
d. 1947   (77)

Los Angeles, CA

William Desmond
(Actor)
d. 1949   (71)

Los Angeles, CA

Bud O'Neill
(Actor)
d. 1954

Charles Brabin
(Director)
d. 1957   (74)

Santa Monica, CA

Harry Revel
(Actor)
d. 1958   (52)

New York, NY

Herbert Farjeon
(Dialogue Director)
d. 1972   (93)

San Marcos, CA

Milo Anderson
(Gowns)
d. 1984   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Abdullah Abbas
(Actor)
d. 1986   (79)

Glendale, CA

Valerie French
(Actress)
d. 1990   (62)

New York, NY

Jack Davis
(Actor)
d. 1992   (78)

Santa Monica, CA

Bob Kane
(Characters)
d. 1998   (83)

Los Angeles, CA

Martha O'Driscoll
(Actress)
d. 1998   (76)

Ocala, FL

Allyson Ames
(Actress)
d. 1999   (62)

Los Angeles, CA

Bill Shea
(Actor)
d. 2011   (77)

Los Angeles, CA

Carl Manoogian
(Key Grip)
d. 2015   (90)



Events

DIZZY & DAFFY (Shemp Howard) in production

1934-11-01 to 1934-11-06

SO YOU WON'T T-T-T-TALK (Shemp Howard) was released

1934-11-03

GRIPS, GRUNTS, AND GROANS in production

1936-11-02 to 1936-11-05

WE WANT OUR MUMMY in production

1938-11-01 to 1938-11-04

BUSY BUDDIES in production

1943-11-01 to 1943-11-05

WAITING IN THE LURCH (Joe Besser) in production

1948-11-02 to 1948-11-05

DUNKED IN THE DEEP was released

1949-11-03

BLUNDER BOYS was released

1955-11-03

Joe Besser costarred on THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW

1962-11-03

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