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ificandream

(9,373 posts) Sat Mar 16, 2024, 01:09 PM Mar 16

Reportedly the earliest footage of Three Stooges Moe and Shemp

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Reportedly the earliest footage of Three Stooges Moe and Shemp (Original Post) ificandream Mar 16 OP

Banned from our house when kids were little, after pushing and shoving marybourg Mar 16 #1

I can't get over how aggressive Moe was towards Shemp kimbutgar Mar 16 #2

The aggression was part of the act. ificandream Mar 16 #3

marybourg

(12,633 posts)

1. Banned from our house when kids were little, after pushing and shoving

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 02:19 PM

Mar 16

and smacking with pillows had become regular behavior and I figured out where it was being modeled.

kimbutgar

(21,163 posts)

2. I can't get over how aggressive Moe was towards Shemp

Reply to ificandream (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 04:10 PM

Mar 16

It’s as if they really didn’t like each other even though they were brothers.

I watched the 3 stooges when I was a kid but watching as an adult I was horrified by the violence and bullies of Moe.

ificandream

(9,373 posts)

3. The aggression was part of the act.

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 16, 2024, 05:14 PM

Mar 16

At the time of the filming of this newsreel footage, the Stooges hadn't yet appeared in a film as a solo act though they were likely an act since the first film with Shemp, Soup To Nuts, when they were still with Ted Healy, was released a year later in 1930, according to the book "Much More Than a Stooge: Shemp Howard." And I would guess that a lot of the "violence" was tempered for the films. It really had to have been.

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