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"We're gonna be paupers... paupers!" "Are you kiddin? We're not even married." - Moe & Shemp (SING A SONG OF SIX PANTS, 1947)
HALF-WITS HOLIDAY
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly  
Released:  January 09, 1947
Columbia Short Subject
Length: 17.67 min.
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Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen, played, of course, by the Stooges. A several-thousand-dollar bet is made, and Prof. Quackenbush sets to training his three Lizas. Several months pass, and the newborn gentlemen attend a dinner party. They behave themselves for about two minutes.

A reworking of HOI POLLOI (1935); often labelled as a remake, it is not. The plots are the same, but the films' scenes are different. HOLIDAY was indeed remade as PIES AND GUYS (1958), with Joe Besser.
 
This short is marred by being Curly's last; he suffered a crippling stroke and was forced to retire. Shemp replaced him two months later in FRIGHT NIGHT.

The script for the original, unfilmed version of the pie fight, with Curly, is transcribed in The Three Stooges Journal # 105 (Spring 2003).


Production Notes
Working Title(s): No Gents - No Cents
Prod. No.: 4056
Shooting Days: 4 days   From: 1946-05-02   To: 1946-05-06

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