Why "Soitenly," You're the Best DAD
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Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
16.2 min. (Short Subject)
The Stooges are singing waiters who find out their girlfriends' father will be jailed if their debts are not paid off. This makes the boys become prospectors. What they find is buried money stolen by their boss. Their boss discovers his stolen loot and the chase is on.
Costar Suzanne Kaaren was a guest of the 1991 Three Stooges Convention, and costar Lola Jensen was greeted at the 1992 Convention, both events in Philadelphia. See The Three Stooges Journal # 63 (Fall 1992) & # 59 (Fall 1991).
It's often said that Curly ad libbed the closing dialogue gag, "Yes, we have no bonanza." That is not true, completely. That specific line indeed appears in the final draft continuity script dated Nov. 10, 1938 (filming occurred Nov. 28 - Dec. 1). The film's working title from the beginning was YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZAS (plural), changed to BONANZA (singular) for the final title, and essentially "announcing" that final verbal gag provided by screenwriters Searle Kramer and Elwood Ullman. What apparently was ad libbed was Curly's 2nd declaration of "Bonanza!"
Jerry Howard
Curly
Moe Howard
Moe
Larry Fine
Larry
Suzanne Kaaren
Saloon singer
Jean Carmen
Saloon singer
Lola Jensen
Saloon singer
Victor Travers
Man sitting outside saloon
Stanley Mack
Saloon patron
Chuck Callahan
Saloon patron
Dick Curtis
Jack Maxey
Lynton Brent
Pete
Vernon Dent
Sheriff
Unidentified YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA 1
2nd man outside saloon
Unidentified YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA 2
Piano player
Unidentified YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA 3
Saloon patrons
Jules White
Producer
Del Lord
Director
Elwood Ullman
Story and Screenplay
Searle Kramer
Story and Screenplay
Lucien Ballard
Photography
Charles Nelson
Film Editor
Victor Schertzinger
Music
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