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Released September 22, 1944
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
19 min. (Short Subject)

The Stooges play actors hoping to make it big with their "Niagara Falls" routine, but always slip up when they get to the "inch by inch" line. They soon meet three dancers Flo, Mary and Shirley and land a job performing at a shipyard. The Stooges' act is a success and, after another routine, the boys marry the girls. The film ends with the couples going on a honeymoon in (where else?) Niagara Falls.

GENTS WITHOUT CENTS' costars Lindsay, LaVerne & Betty were special guests of the 2003 Three Stooges Fan Club Meeting. An interview with them during that event celebration was published in The Three Stooges Journal # 107 (Fall 2003).

"Niagara Falls" was actually filmed one year earlier on April 16, 1943 on Stage 6 for the Columbia feature film GOOD LUCK, MR. YATES (1943). Cut from the final release version of that film, Jules White retained the footage and produced GENTS WITHOUT CENTS around it, as discussed in The Three Stooges Journal # 99 (Fall 2001). Interestingly, White's final GENTS shooting script does not include "Niagara Falls"... in its place is an "Army induction" skit that was dropped from GENTS and later filmed for 1946's RHYTHM AND WEEP.

GENTS premieres a swing rendition of "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges' theme music. Like the two versions heard from 1938 - 1944, this arrangement is by Leigh Harline and Ben Oakland; see The Three Stooges Journal # 91 (Fall 1999).

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John Tyrrell
Manny Weeks

Judy Malcolm
Weeks' secretary

Lynton Brent
Lieutenant

Eddie Borden
Man in audience

Bobby Burns
Man in audience

Victor Travers
Man in audience

Lew Davis
Man in audience


Jules White
Producer

Jules White
Director

Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay

Benjamin Kline
Director of Photography

Charles Hochberg
Film Editor

Charles Clague
Art Director



















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