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CUCKOO ON A CHOO CHOO (1952)

Film Pick of the Day
Monday, September 21, 2026

Larry and Shemp live in a stolen train car. Larry wants to marry his girlfriend, but she won't marry him until Shemp marries her older sister. Shemp is constantly drunk, in love with an imaginary canary named Carrie. Moe is a railroad inspector, on the trail of the stolen car. Moe's old love is the older sister, setting up a competition between Shemp and Moe. Eventually, both girls want to marry Shemp, but Shemp prefers his imaginary canary. Huh!?

Patricia Wright ('Lenore') was a special guest of the 2008 Three Stooges Fan Club Meeting, in Ft. Washington PA.

CUCKOO parodies two movies from the previous year, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951) and HARVEY (1951).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 7.52/10 ]   56 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
Release Date Thursday, December 4, 1952
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 15.5 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - September 21st


Births

Henry Lewis Stimson
(Actor)
b. 1867

New York, NY

John Ardizoni
(Actor)
b. 1876

Italy

Al Thompson
(Actor)
b. 1884

Philadelphia, PA

Robert E. Hopkins
(Story)
b. 1886

Ottawa, KS

Alexander Steinert
(Original Music)
b. 1900

Boston, MA

Joseph Young
(Actor)
b. 1900

Chicago, IL

William E. Snyder
(Rear Screen Cinematographer)
b. 1901

New York

Al Becker
(Grip)
b. 1902

New York

Ronald R. Rondell
(Actor)
b. 1903

Naples, Italy

Bruce Warren
(Actor)
b. 1904

Houston, TX

Jack Mather
(Actor)
b. 1907

Illinois

Lloyd Gough
(Actor)
b. 1907

New York, NY

Richard Mansfield
(Set Decorator)
b. 1908

Napoleon Whiting
(Actor)
b. 1910

Canton, MS

Milton Stumph
(Set Decoration)
b. 1911

California

Victor Greene
(Art Director)
b. 1911

Minnesota

Grace Bradley
(Actress)
b. 1913

Brooklyn, NY

Roger Slager
(2nd Assistant Director)
b. 1914

Rochester, NY

Slam Stewart
(Actor)
b. 1914

Englewood, NJ

Gail Russell
(Actress)
b. 1924

Chicago, IL

Shirley Ballard
(Actress)
b. 1925

Los Angeles, CA

Henry Gibson
(Actor)
b. 1935

Germantown, PA

Sigrid Valdis
(Actress)
b. 1935

Bakersfield, CA

Cheryl Hines
(Actress)
b. 1965

Miami Beach, FL


Deaths

Harry Carey
(Actor)
d. 1947   (69)

Brentwood, CA

Stella LeSaint
(Actress)
d. 1948   (66)

Santa Monica, CA

Allen G. Siegler
(Director of Photography)
d. 1960   (68)

Los Angeles, CA

Harry Sauber
(Screenplay)
d. 1967   (82)

Los Angeles County, CA

Walter Brennan
(Actor)
d. 1974   (80)

Oxnard, CA

Pete King
(Music)
d. 1982   (68)

Newport Beach, CA

Harry Seiden
(Actor)
d. 1987   (85)

Los Angeles, CA

Sumner Getchell
(Actor)
d. 1990   (83)

Sebastopol, CA

Angelo Rossito
(Actor)
d. 1991   (83)

Los Angeles, CA

Bill Williams
(Actor)
d. 1992   (77)

Burbank, CA

Jennifer Holt
(Actress)
d. 1997   (76)

Dorset, England

Alice Ghostley
(Actress)
d. 2007   (81)

Studio City, CA

Grace Bradley
(Actress)
d. 2010   (97)

Dana Point, CA

Jack Donner
(Actor)
d. 2019   (90)

Santa Monica, CA

Joan Howard Maurer
(Actress)
d. 2021   (94)

Los Angeles, CA


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Joe Besser costarred on THE JOEY BISHOP SHOW

1963-09-21

Location filming on KOOK'S TOUR in progress

1969-09-08 to 1969-09-26

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