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NUTTY BUT NICE (1940)

Film Pick of the Day
Monday, September 7, 2026

The Stooges are singing waiters whose silly antics inspire two doctors worried about little Betty Williams, whose father has been kidnapped. Dressed as three little girls, complete with balloons and giant lollipops, the Stooges visit the depressed girl in the hospital, but even they can't bring her around. The boys volunteer to find Mr. Williams... he's 5 ft. 10 inches tall in his stocking feet, has a tattoo on his shoulder, and yodels like this: Yodel-aydee-aydee-odalay-eeoo!

The yodelling song in this film is titled "I'm a Cowboy From the Western Plains," an original composition by Jules White; see The Three Stooges Journal # 91 (Fall 1999). It can also be heard in FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 8.29/10 ]   41 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Release Date Friday, June 14, 1940
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 17.9 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - September 7th


Births

Albert Basserman
(Actor)
b. 1867

Mannheim, Germany

Roscoe Karns
(Actor)
b. 1891

San Bernardino, CA

F. Richard Jones
(Director)
b. 1893

St. Louis, MO

William LeVanway
(Film Editor)
b. 1896

Portland, OR

Joe Gordon
(Actor)
b. 1897

Butler, OH

Roy Barcroft
(Actor)
b. 1902

Crab Orchard, NE

James Grant
(Assistant Cameraman)
b. 1905

Pennsylvania

Pauline High
(Actress)
b. 1907

Gail, TX

Don Reid
(Lyrics)
b. 1910

California

Lucille La Marr
(Actress)
b. 1916

United States

Eddie Ness
(Actor)
b. 1922

Minnesota

Peggy Satterlee
(Actress)
b. 1926

Dallas, TX

Norman Ollestad
(Actor)
b. 1935

Los Angeles, CA


Deaths

William H. White
(Actor)
d. 1939   (69)

New York, NY

Bernard H. Hyman
(Producer)
d. 1942   (45)

Los Angeles, CA

Maria Montez
(Actress)
d. 1951   (39)

Paris, France

Betsy Stoddard
(Actress)
d. 1959   (75)

Los Angeles, CA

Rex Stewart
(Actor)
d. 1967   (60)

Los Angeles, CA

Thomas E. Jackson
(Actor)
d. 1967   (81)

Los Angeles, CA

Jamie Forster
(Actor)
d. 1970   (78)

Thomasville, AL

Milton Carruth
(Film Editor)
d. 1972   (73)

Los Angeles, CA

L. B. Merman
(Executive Production Manager)
d. 1979   (79)

Los Angeles, CA

Dennis Morgan
(Actor)
d. 1994   (85)

Fresno, CA

Joseph F. Biroc
(2nd Unit Photography)
d. 1996   (93)

Woodland Hills, CA

Larry Bachman
(Original Story)
d. 2004   (92)

Woodland Hills, CA

Joe Kirkwood Jr.
(Actor)
d. 2006   (86)

Hesperia, CA

Frank Coghlan Jr.
(Actor)
d. 2009   (93)

Saugus, CA

Fred Katz
(Orchestrator)
d. 2013   (94)

Santa Monica, CA

Stephanie Epper
(Actress)
d. 2013   (69)

Sperry, OK


Events

HOLLYWOOD ROUND-UP (Shemp Howard) in production

1937-09-01 to 1937-09-16

THE BANK DICK (Shemp Howard) in production

1940-09-02 to 1940-10-12

Moe, Larry & Curly performed on Pittsburgh WWSW-AM's KEEP 'EM SMILING

1942-09-07

HIGH SCHOOL HERO (Joe DeRita) was released

1946-09-07

THREE HAMS ON RYE was released

1950-09-07

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