S4E11-"Three Stooges!"- Curly Howard SUFFERS a STROKE During THIS Three Stooges Short!

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@kathypappas6867 4 ай бұрын

Curly was and still is my favorite Stooge . They were all so good together , but there was something lovable and special about Curly .

@lazzy2day 4 ай бұрын

I understand that Curly was a natural, He had no acting experience.

@ronaldshank7589 3 ай бұрын

Nyuk nyuk nyuk! Ole Curly was one of the best Stooges, that ever lived!

@revolution51 3 ай бұрын

Shemp is my favorite.

@8avexp 3 ай бұрын

@@ronaldshank7589 He soitenly was!

@dennismclaurin1487 2 ай бұрын

Echoed sentiment

@jeffreyoldham55 4 ай бұрын

Curly, or _Babe_ as his brothers called him, was such a a great personality. There will *never* be another like him. Thanks for your video, Rick!

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw 3 ай бұрын

He was the youngest too.

@tilliemaekirk9444 4 ай бұрын

I like the pun on the back of the laundry van " We dye for you"-- Thanks Rick for another informative vid.

@Rockhound6165 3 ай бұрын

Kind of reminds me of the hair salon the Mystery Woman(Carrie Fisher) worked at in the Blues Brothers Movie. It was called Curl up & Dye.

@renee4053 3 ай бұрын

Every now & then when I need a laugh, I watch them. They were hysterical! Curly was my favorite. Bless them all.

@terryhoagland6009 3 ай бұрын

Curly was a lot funnier than Shemp.

@dennismclaurin1487 Ай бұрын

@@terryhoagland6009 Facts.

@stevegallo8483 4 ай бұрын

At one point, probably after this short and this stroke, Moe wanted Curly to get some time off to rest and recover, but Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn wouldn't let Curly have the time off to do it. (Moe mentioned this in his autobiography.) That lack of time off to recover likely hastened Curly's decline.

@timothyweers8054 3 ай бұрын

I wonder how much Curly would have recovered if Columbia Pictures allowed him some time off to recover? It is a shame how back in the day they would work actors to the bone.

@ronaldshank7589 3 ай бұрын

@@timothyweers8054 Kinda like Vince McMahon, in WWE. He'd work his Wrestlers so hard sometimes, that they'd eventually wear down, to where they couldn't do what he wanted them to do anymore, and he'd kick 'em to the proverbial curb, and find somebody else to "Keep things going"! He could be very heartless!

@RollieKid 3 ай бұрын

@@timothyweers8054 and for peanuts now they get big money for one or two lines 🤦

@douglasanderson147 3 ай бұрын

@@stevegallo8483 bunch of greedy sob's ran those sudios

@terryhoagland6009 3 ай бұрын

@@timothyweers8054 That was before the union stepped in.

@vebnew 4 ай бұрын

RIP Curly

@yukon065 4 ай бұрын

It's amazing the amount of pleasure these men brought to generations of people, both young and old alike. I hope they're all resting in the peace that they so richly deserved.

@13thwho 4 ай бұрын

My favorite scene in this short is when the Stooges are sneaking down the hallway shushing each other, and the parrot inside the turkey behind them keeps going: “Jeepers Creepers, what a night!”, and Moe thinks it’s Curly.

@ddavenpAZ 4 ай бұрын

The soundbites you used in this video really brought the message home in this video. Even the quick imitation you did of Curly helped emphasize the changes that were happening in his health at this time. The stress of it all with the filming, the war, the amount of live appearances, and most importantly, Curly’s health, must have really challenged all the Stooges. I’m surprised all their voices and mannerisms didn’t change as a result. Proves how devoted to the craft they truly were. Great video Rick. We need to hear these things. Someone wise recently told me: “Sometimes history can be sad. But we can learn from it and hopefully use it to enrich our lives in some way.” Thank you for your hard work.

@donnicholas7552 4 ай бұрын

Curly was my favorite. It's sad he had health issues.

@Buggy-su4oy 4 ай бұрын

It had to be devastating for Moe to watch his brother deal with his bad health and he probably fought the urge to punch Harry Cohn😊😢

@KevinMiller-xn5vu 4 ай бұрын

If he did, I wouldn't blame him.

@jwchamberlain5862 3 ай бұрын

An eye tweak, anyway.

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw 3 ай бұрын

Cohn was thankfully replaced by Abe Schnieder the dad of Bert.

@MichaelOBrien-z8i 3 ай бұрын

Always Loved the Stooges! 🤗🔥☮️

@JamesHenry-o8m 3 ай бұрын

Rest in peace, Curly - you were the best 👌 👍 😍 🥰

@donwillet1201 4 ай бұрын

R.I.P legend(s) ♥️

@michaelskinner8296 4 ай бұрын

I thought I read somewhere that Curly had one of his strokes in Jules White’s directors chair during a break in between takes. Too bad he didn’t get the proper treatment and rest to heal up. He/they brought a ton of laughter to a world that craved it during the war.

@DXSaiyans90 3 ай бұрын

@michaelskinner8296 That was the major stroke while filming "Half-Wits Holiday" that ended his career in 1946. I can't imagine how Moe felt finding his little brother like that...

@Jared_Wignall 4 ай бұрын

These Three Stooges videos are always full of excellent information. It’s unfortunate that Curly had a stroke during the making of a short, but it’s good he focused on his health later on as that’s the most important thing for him to do. Keep up the great work Rick, I hope you’re doing well. Please take care and have a great rest of your weekend!

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Jared! I am doing fantastic. Thanks for asking

@Jared_Wignall 4 ай бұрын

@@ricknineg you’re welcome and great to hear!

@judykessinger3552 4 ай бұрын

Thank You for this video. Didn't know this about Bud Jamison, he was such a great addition to The Three Stooges team.

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@greatsilentwatcher 3 ай бұрын

Always enjoyed watching the Three Stooges as a kid in the '60s.

@ThomasGidley-kv2uj 4 ай бұрын

I noticed it many years ago but didn't know what was happening. Poor Curly. He still tried.

@MrNeatoMiniStock13 4 ай бұрын

This episode is one of my favorites, but never knew that Curly had a small stroke during the filming. I mostly remember him having the massive stroke filming "Half-Wits Holiday". I do remember reading about Bud Jamison being a devout Christian Scientist and refusing healthcare for his cancer and eventually passing away from it, but also read that when he was in some of the stooge episodes, during breaks in filming, he would sit around with Moe, Larry and Curly and they would all sing songs. Bud Jamison had a beautiful singing voice.

@13thwho 4 ай бұрын

@@MrNeatoMiniStock13 It was Bud Jamison who introduced the eye-poke shtick in the Stooges’ first Columbia short, “Woman Haters”.

@Bigbadwhitecracker 4 ай бұрын

The stooges had, bar none, the greatest supporting cast in any series, movie or TV. Not only Bud Jameison and the others mentioned, but Christine McIntyre who was just so luscious, so talented and a great singer.

@pitbull60 3 ай бұрын

% 100 true and Vernon Dent . Christine Mcintyre was smoking hot .

@marcm9999 3 ай бұрын

You do some serious homework!!! Very nice job on this one.

@marlenepearson3936 3 ай бұрын

Poor Curly 😢 This is sad to me. Thanks 😊 Rick.

@patrickwall8517 4 ай бұрын

Another fun fact, Kenneth MacDonald who often played bad guys, like Doctor Mallard and Icabod Slip also appeared in several episodes of Perry Mason as a judge

@Mr.N3cro 3 ай бұрын

I've been watching the threes stooges for the last 3 days, i jus found your channel, cool stuff, thank you.

@longron43 3 ай бұрын

@@Mr.N3cro same, been on a 3 day deep dive on Tubi. Mom said “aren’t you sick of them yet?” I said “a lot of joints help”

@Verge63 2 ай бұрын

Bud: Such levity, you remind me of the three stooges. Curly: That's an insult.

@dennisanderson3895 4 ай бұрын

The Stooges' devotion to performance despite *anything* that befalls NEVER ceases to impress me! (just one example: Your vid that revealed a stunt gone badly, seriously injuring Moe, yet Moe *got back up* and continued the scene! :-O Here, we learn how strongly Curly clung to the Important Thing: Making the comedy happen. Wow. Just, WOW!

@georgefieldsjr.640 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH 😂😂😂😂, However, ALL that slapping each other, you wonder ??? Larry was slapped the most, (he also had a stroke) ,Thankyou for your video 😂😂😂❤❤❤

@Buggy-su4oy 4 ай бұрын

Knowing Moe he likely had Jerry avoid the hard scenes and had himself and Larry do them.😊😢

@harrymann5523 4 ай бұрын

“Crash Goes The Hash” was the best short of 1944.

@gailwatson4927 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Rick for the information.

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

@pl5624 4 ай бұрын

Medical science back then was nothing like today.he would have survived now.

@paulstecker5693 3 ай бұрын

Boy could have fooled me with that. That is health was deteriorating. I thought he was normal in the short. I just heard the guy do the story on him that his health was deteriorating in this episode that they were doing The Three stooges. Too bad if Jerome took care of himself. He probably would have lived a lot longer. I always loved him as curly. I still watch them and get a kick and get a good laugh what they did. Thank you❤😂😅😊.

@paulstecker5693 3 ай бұрын

Thanks to someone loving my comment about Jerome being curly in the short that he had a minor stroke. Thank you for your response back God bless.

@patrickwall8517 4 ай бұрын

He almost never became a member of the Three Stooges because he didn't want to shave his head. it did make one appearance with the Three Stooges after he retired, it's in 'Hold that Lion'. As the stooges are going through the train looking for a person they come upon a passenger who is sleeping with his hat covering his face. They lift the hat and he has a clothespin on his face, they remove the clothes pin and you can hear him snoring. That passenger was played by Curly with a full head of hair.

@LandondeeL 3 ай бұрын

I remember seeing CGTH at a midnight show in the 1970's. As soon as the title card came on, the whole audience leapt to its feet, cheering!!!

@JohnWitherspoon-rh4rl 3 ай бұрын

I also noticed that he was a bit slower and if you think about it, he wasn't doing his 'woo-woo-woo-woo" anymore.

@johnrider5701 3 ай бұрын

Curly has always been my favourite stooge. It's so sad that his health deteriorated. R.I.P Curly..

@danielbowden6330 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for another great video, Rick!

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

@MrWill9002 3 ай бұрын

Tragic, but they truly are the masters of slapstick

@popjaw1andOnly 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for bringing this content, Rick. I subbed a while back. Like so many here, the 3 Stooges made me laugh so much as a kid in the 1970's, and even now, that they all will always hold a warm and special place on my heart. Even Shemp, LOL. Keep up your great work!

@WingsAsEaglesMinistries 4 ай бұрын

Love your stooges reviews !!!

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@stevenj9970 4 ай бұрын

Curly was the best. In Chicago in the 1980s while in college the biograph theater which was many years prior the theater in which the Valentine's Day massacre occurred they had on Friday nights 3 stooges night. I went one night and all was well until they started slipping in a shremp stooge short the crowd went crazy screaming throwing popcorn at the screen they had to stop in midpoint the shemp sketch and then exclusively only show curly shorts...I'll never forget it - it was quite quite a tribute to him I think

@Nunofurdambiznez 4 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT, as usual, Rick!

@jillmarshall4718 3 ай бұрын

IT'S A SHAME THAT COLUMBIA STUDIO PUSHED CURLY TO HIS LIMITS. HE WAS SUFFERING FROM A STROKE, AFTER STROKE UNTIL IT KILLED HIM. THIS HAD TO BE DIFFICULT FOR MOE TO SEE HIS BROTHER GOING THROUGHT THIS, RIP CURLY😊😊

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw 3 ай бұрын

His boss was replaced by Abe Schnieder.

@Brett33 3 ай бұрын

I never realized how short the stooges were .

@toma.4808 3 ай бұрын

Poor curly. Hes considered by many as the funniest stooge. But his personal life he was plagued by insecurities and illnesses. He hated being bald, he was abit of social recluse who loved dogs, women took advantage of him.

@TexasChicano 2 ай бұрын

Great and informative video!

@davescrimshaw7781 4 ай бұрын

Wondering if he was diabetic. Those so suffering often have coronary-related issues.

@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural 3 ай бұрын

Shemp died of a massive heart attack. High cholesterol was probably hereditary to them. If you take high cholesterol and add a high carb diet you make a lot of small dense ldl. That will cause both. In my family my Great, Great Great and thrice Great Grandfathers all died of massive heart attacks before 43years of age. My Grandfather missed that and died of a brain tumor and my father had a much more mild heart attack at 63. He also had an incidental finding of stage four lung cancer. I stopped exercising and took over the business and moved in to care for him. I let my diet go and shortly after he died I had my own massive heart attack at 43. Luckily I had the heart of an elite athlete and now I have a dead average ejection fraction despite the front and tip of my heart not working. I was actually skateboarding a little one month after. Most do not survive the type of heart attack I had. Heredity and bad diet are killers. I think that is probably what happened with the Howards.

@funkster007 3 ай бұрын

@@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural Moe did live to be 77. But many years of smoking was his downfall.

@JohnAvillaHerpetocultural 3 ай бұрын

@@funkster007 same in my family. There are some old ones but every generation has some drop. 77 isn’t bad. Most of history you got 65 years if you got past childhood.

@Verge63 3 ай бұрын

@davescrimshaw7781 Vernon Dent stop taking Insulin and allowed himself to go blind.

@brianjaber3171 4 ай бұрын

It’s so sad to hear these stories, as a child I never really thought of them beyond the characters I saw them play. I never thought of them as having normal lives like everyone else and all the troubles that could come with that life. I do remember this episode as vague as it is. Is this the episode where the Stooges, to gain entry in to the house, picked up buttons outside which had the word PRESS on them identifying them as part of the Press but when Curly shows his button it actually has the word PULL ON IT?

@markmarkofkane8167 4 ай бұрын

I would never been able to pick that out. I didn't like Curly when I first started watching the Stooges as a kid. My first exposure to the Stooges besides the 60's kids show, was a 8mm silent reel my parents had of Malice in the Palace, with Shemp and the others dressing up as Santa Clauses. I thought Curley looked not so good because of his shaved head. But, he grew on me, and is my favorite 3rd Stooge. I can even imitate his falsetto voice. A wise guy, hmmm, Soitenly! Etc. The 3 stooges were comic geniuses.

@joeyrivful 3 ай бұрын

It's really sad that his health declined and he died at a young age.

@jeffreyriley8742 4 ай бұрын

That Curly began to have strokes during this time is proven. I've never read anything that says he had a stroke during the making of this short.

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

There’s always a time to learn something new

@jeffreyriley8742 4 ай бұрын

@@ricknineg Where did you get your information that he had a stroke while filming this short?

@roberttelarket4934 3 ай бұрын

Rick Nineg you are an official Stooge!

@cadeevans4623 3 ай бұрын

Wasn't aware of his stroke Rick thanks for sharing this information

@Victor-gi3dy 4 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on Johnny Kascier he was in a bunch of stooges shorts & was Moe's Stunt Double he also Stunt Doubled for Lou Costello, Charlie Chaplin, Peter Lorre 😊😊😊😊❤👍👍

@55azguy 4 ай бұрын

Hi Rick, I know you do videos where the stars are buried but have you ever showed where the Stooges are ?

@pitbull60 3 ай бұрын

I grew up watching the stooges . I have every short they ever made .

@roberttelarket4934 3 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the wonderful Symona Boniface is in this one also.

@FrancescaA00 4 ай бұрын

He also looked more frail in this short too. So sad.

@michaelklein5242 3 ай бұрын

Curly sounded almost like Shelley Winters after his stroke.

@Coowallsky 2 ай бұрын

"What episode did Curly have a stroke in? Half-Wits Holiday was filmed on May 2-6, 1946; it marked the final appearance of Curly Howard as an official member of the slapstick comedy team. During the final day of filming (May 6), Curly suffered a debilitating stroke on the set and was rushed to a nearby hospital, effectively ending his career.

@Verge63 2 ай бұрын

You can hear people saying get a doctor.

@Harry-fe9ec 3 ай бұрын

This is not the episode curly had a stroke in. He may show signs but the short “half wits holiday” he actually doesn’t finish the episode. Right before the episode ends there’s a pie throwing. Right before this scene which curly isn’t in, he had to be rushed to the hospital. Moe and Larry came back to finish the episode without him. Always my favorite episode and i didn’t always know curly had his stroke then.

@JERRYWILSON-m2c 3 ай бұрын

I love the three stooges

@kevink973 3 ай бұрын

When I watched the Stooges as a child, I knew even then that at some point Curly wasn't well in his last several shorts; he was too thin and his voice was weak. Their earliest Columbia shorts, when they were young & healthy (and had bigger budgets to work with) are my favorite.

@gl3605 3 ай бұрын

Curly was great but his older brother Shemp who was actually there first was the funniest person to ever live imo.

@daleglassmeyer5696 4 ай бұрын

I have always enjoyed this short, but here is a fun fact: Did you know that this Stooges short is a remake--or at least a very similar plot--of an earlier Columbia short titled "New News" from 1937 starring Monte Collins and Tom Kennedy featuring Bud Jamison. It is on YT and just type in the title.

@thewatchfuleyez123 3 ай бұрын

There is one short I can't find and it is the one at the end where the boys have their heads taken off by 3 missals, one for each. would you happen to know the name of the one I am talking about.

@steveperry1344 3 ай бұрын

i remember even as a kid in the 60's that we noticed a marked change in curly in some of his later films. I watched a lot of stooges over the years but not as much now but I watch them when I can. my wife never got it but the stooges are more a guy thing I think.

@mickw.4912 4 ай бұрын

Love this Stooge

@davidelliot9884 3 ай бұрын

My mom worked overnight as a nurse so my dad took care of me. We would watch Three Stooges together and I still watch them. I have the entire DVD box set and I watch them all, except for the Joe Besser episodes cause he sucks.

@SteveKnightVO 3 ай бұрын

Symona Boniface could also qualify as an “un official stooge”

@DarkLady13 3 ай бұрын

Who didn't love Curly? ❤

@ronprince7571 3 ай бұрын

Question. Was the stroke caused by constantly being slapped and hit on the head and face by his brother Moe?

@ricknineg 3 ай бұрын

That contributed but he also had many accidental injuries on the show from the stunts. When they hit each other it was often like modern WWE wrestling. The blows were never had and most never made Contact. It was the accidental injuries and I’ve been cataloging many recently

@brucewayneissupermanquinn601 7 күн бұрын

Was it ever proven ,medically, if the strokes at such a young age were due to genetics/family history or was it due to lifestyle?

@liveinthepresent219 4 ай бұрын

This is news to me. I’ve ALWAYS read his first mini stroke was between Idiots Deluxe and If A Body Meets A Body. I don’t know where you’re getting this information from, Rick.

@ricknineg 4 ай бұрын

There’s always time to learn something new

@liveinthepresent219 4 ай бұрын

@@ricknineg Rick, if it is verified by the Howard family or books I’d believe it.

@cowboy6591 3 ай бұрын

Why couldn't you show or link to the episode?

@frankcivitak8248 3 ай бұрын

Great comedy

@matthewfarmer2520 3 ай бұрын

That's not a hat... it's a Darby 😊

@mamas.8259 4 ай бұрын

😢😢😢😢😢

@raulzavala9061 3 ай бұрын

Thanks to all the shorts being available on DVD so you can watch them in order of release date sadly you can see Curly's progression getting worse. My preferred way of watching them was when aired in syndication in random order.

@josefmazzeo6628 3 ай бұрын

The face he is making at 3:43 I would think was deliberate and not the result of a stroke, or is it? One thing about comic actors is that sometimes they are really serious and not joking (such as Red Foxx when he really had a heart attack - everyone around him thought he was doing one of his "Elizabeth I'm coming to join you" acts.)

@Nick-ty9us 2 ай бұрын

@@josefmazzeo6628 sadly curly does look like he had that stroke

@kevincruz4045 3 ай бұрын

I think Curly's best years were 1938 and 9. Too bad he didn't take care of himself. He should have retired in 44 while he still had health.

@SuperChicken666 4 ай бұрын

Bud Jamison refused treatment for kidney cancer. But I suspect that 80 years ago, the medical treatment probably wouldn't have cured him or given him a better quality of life. Still sad.😢

@DarrylRuiz-s1w 3 ай бұрын

Half Wits Holiday was his last short

@arthurkottman528 4 ай бұрын

How about Vernon Dent?

@Eltamir 3 ай бұрын

The best stooges were Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp. It wasn’t the same after Curly and Shemp died.

@paulstecker5693 3 ай бұрын

They should have it in any actor's contract. If you don't feel well and get sick you should be able to allow to have time off. It's too bad curly then get this. He probably would have lived a lot longer. When I heard the 7-minute video I didn't know Bud Jameson died. As such a young age gee, you should have got treatment. He would have lived a lot longer too. Sometimes I think those being an actor and a musician ain't worth it. It takes a lot of toll on someone but I love some of the music they've come out with. I listen to rock music and it's very very relaxing. I wake up to it when I listen to it. Thank you.

@thomasferranti6736 3 ай бұрын

What's impordant to me is to know what spords team you suppord. Nyuk nyuk.

@eeddieedwards3890 3 ай бұрын

No truth to the rumor that when Bud Jamison, who was a Christian Scientist, became ill, Curly wondered if they should get him a "Get Well" card. Sad to note that not only Bud Jamison died prematurely, but so did Curly, Symona Boniface and Dick Curtis, all of whom would be dead by the early 1950s.

@y11851 4 ай бұрын

Love the videos he was my fav have a good day

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw 3 ай бұрын

Brad Server is his Grandchild.

@arneldobumatay3702 4 ай бұрын

There are many side characters in the Stooge shorts. But . . . who is the older brunette in many shorts playing a strong, but a hapless woman of an upper class position?

@kjpphotography4764 3 ай бұрын

I really wish that Curly wouldn't have had those strokes and made it into the 70's. I am not a huge Shemp fan and I certainly don't like Joe Besser. Curly Joe is no Curly.

@petegregory517 4 ай бұрын

Born in '52 but never liked this show, never watched an episode all the way thru. My mom told me if she ever caught me imitating them, I'd not be able to sit 😳😰 till looooong after I graduated.