Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Joe
16.4 min. (Short Subject)
A depressed Joe is sulking about a lost love, Fifi, who he planned to marry years ago. The Stooges discover that Fifi has moved into the apartment across the hall and has locked herself out of her apartment. She also has a jealous husband who is a first class heel. Typical Stooge antics result in ruining Fifi's dress, and dressing her in a pair of pajamas is an invitation for her husband to enter the scene. Hiding her from disaster, Fifi overhears her hubbie's plans to divorce her, and slapstick mayhem ensues.
A reworking of Laurel & Hardy's UNACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE (1929), and the Stooges' LOVE AT FIRST BITE (1949).
The flashback scenes with Moe and Larry are stock footage from LOVE AT FIRST BITE. The clips with the dog in the restaurant are also FIRST BITE stock footage... those are Shemp's legs.
Longtime supporting actor Heinie Conklin's last appearance in a Three Stooges comedy.
Larry Fine
Larry
Joe Besser
Joe
Moe Howard
Moe
Vanda Dupre
Fifi
Marie Monteil
Maria
Al Thompson
Napping diner
Christine McIntyre
Katrina
Harriette Tarler
Parisian waitress
Heinie Conklin
Bartender
Joe Palma
Military Policeman
Phil Van Zandt
Mort
Unidentified FIFI BLOWS HER TOP
Cafe patrons
Jules White
Producer
Jules White
Director
Felix Adler
Story and Screenplay
Henry Freulich
Director of Photography
Rex Wimpy
Photography, stock footage
Saul A. Goodkind
Film Editor
Edwin Bryant
Film Editor, stock footage
Cary Odell
Art Director
Charles Clague
Art Director, stock footage
Tom Oliphant
Set Decoration
Sam Nelson
Assistant Director
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