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Released July 02, 1938
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
17.9 min. (Short Subject)

Moe, Larry and Curly are gas station attendents who blow up an automobile with three foreign professors going to all-girls Mildew College. On the run, the Stooges change into the professors' clothes and are mistaken for the instructors by the Dean of the school. In class, the Stooges teach the girls how to "Swing the Alphabet," and follow up by teaching Dean Catsby how to play basketball, Stooges-style!

Swingin' the Alphabet's composer was Septimus Winner (1827 - 1902), and it was originally published in 1875 as The Spelling Bee. The Charley Chase's family maid knew the song, and taught it to the children... and Charley brought it to the Three Stooges' VIOLENT IS THE WORD FOR CURLY. This discovery was published with detailed background in The Three Stooges Journal # 116 (Winter 2005).

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Gladys Gale
Mrs. Sufferin Catsby

Vesey O'Davoren
Professor Hicks

Marjorie Deanne
Mrs. Catsby's daughter

Bud Jamison
Gas station owner

Alex Novinsky
Professor Von Stupor

Al Thompson
Professor Frankfurter

Sam Adams
Professor Feinstein

Pat Gleason
Ice cream truck driver

Beatrice Blinn
Student with astronomy question


Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay

Al Giebler
Story and Screenplay

Lucien Ballard
Photography

Arthur Seid
Film Editor



















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