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SLAPHAPPY SLEUTHS (1950)

Film Pick of the Day
Monday, March 24, 2025

The Stooges are hired as detectives to investigate repeated robberies at Onion Oil Company gas stations. The Stooges impersonate attendants - and they make some pretty strange gas station attendants, even putting popcorn into a car's radiator! They eventually catch the crooks after some following a trail of oil leaking from the gangters getaway car - right into the crooks' apartment.

Details

Average Rating:

[ 8.75/10 ]   28 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Shemp
Release Date Thursday, November 9, 1950
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 16.1 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - March 24th


Births

Charlotte Mineau
(Actress)

b. 1886

Michigan

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
(Actor)

b. 1887

Smith Center, KS

Stephen Goosson
(Art Director)

b. 1889

Grand Rapids, MI

Pat McKee
(Actor)

b. 1895

Annona, TX

Syd Saylor
(Actor)

b. 1895

Chicago, IL

Charles L. Kimball
(Story)

b. 1897

Cleveland, OH

George Sorel
(Actor)

b. 1901

Odessa, Russia

William Goetz
(Actor)

b. 1903

Philadelphia, PA

Martin Kosleck
(Actor)

b. 1904

Barkotzen, Germany

Robert Adler
(Actor)

b. 1906

Hoboken, NJ

John K. Butler
(Screenplay)

b. 1908

San Francisco, CA

Pat McClary
(Actor)

b. 1908

Roseburg, OR

Gene Nelson
(Director)

b. 1920

Seattle, WA

Lois Andrews
(Actress)

b. 1924

Huntington Park, CA

Norman Fell
(Actor)

b. 1924

Philadelphia, PA

Eddie Grill
(Actor)

b. 1936

Roseau, MN



Deaths

Bobby Dunn
(Actor)

d. 1937   (49)

Los Angeles, CA

Otis Garrett
(Original Story)

d. 1941   (35)

Glendale, CA

Dick Botiller
(Actor)

d. 1953   (56)

Ridgecrest, CA

Herbert Fields
(Screenplay)

d. 1958   (60)

New York, NY

Sam Adams
(Actor)

d. 1958   (87)

Sun Valley, CA

Nicholas Vehr
(Actor)

d. 1965   (71)

Los Angeles, CA

Betty Roadman
(Actress)

d. 1975   (85)

Anaheim, CA

Muriel Hutchinson
(Actress)

d. 1975   (60)

New York, NY

Dick Kinney
(Story, animation)

d. 1985   (68)

Glendale, CA

Michele Montau
(Actress)

d. 1989   (64)

Los Angeles, CA

Philip Yordan
(Screenplay)

d. 2003   (88)

La Jolla, CA



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1938-03-21 to 1938-03-24

G. I. WANNA HOME in production

1946-03-22 to 1946-03-26

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1948-03-23 to 1948-03-26

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