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Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances
45 min. (TV Special)
Martin Short hosts this ABC-TV tribute to the film legacy of The Three Stooges, featuring brief clips taken from more than half of the comedy team's Columbia short subjects and several of their feature films. Filmed at Glendale CA's Alex Theatre. Special guests include Barry Williams who performs The Stooges Bunch, a musical history of the Stooges sung to the tune of THE BRADY BUNCH theme, and Little Richard performing The Curly Shuffle.
The special also highlights Howard family home movies, with clips of Moe, Shemp, Jerry, Larry Fine, Helen Howard, Babe Howard, Elaine Ackerman Howard, Sol & Jennie Horwitz, Joan Howard and Mort Howard.
Little Richard performs The Curly Shuffle on a "Shemp & Sons" grand piano... actually, a Steinway with a "Shemp & Sons" prop plaque.
Martin Short
Host
Ted Healy
Himself / archive footage
Moe Howard
Himself / archive footage
Larry Fine
Himself / archive footage
Shemp Howard
Himself / archive footage
Jerry Howard
Himself / archive footage
Joe Besser
archive footage
Joe DeRita
archive footage
Solomon Horwitz
Himself
Jennie Horwitz
Herself
Elaine Howard Diamond
Herself
Helen Howard
Herself
Joan Howard Maurer
Herself
Gertrude Howard
Herself
Mort Howard
Himself
Mabel Fine
Herself
Little Richard
Himself
Barry Williams
Himself
John Cervenka
Stagehand
Vince Donvito
Stagehand
Gildart Jackson
Stagehand
Noon Orsatti
Dancer
Tiffany Graneth
Dancer
Caroline Jackson
Dancer
Nancy Young
Dancer
Nancy O'Meara
Dancer
Kenneth MacDonald
archive footage
Christine McIntyre
archive footage
Vernon Dent
archive footage
Julie Gibson
archive footage
Julie Duncan
archive footage
Ruth Skinner
archive footage
Symona Boniface
archive footage
Emil Sitka
archive footage
Bess Flowers
archive footage
Wilson Benge
archive footage
Bud Jamison
archive footage
Lane Chandler
archive footage
Robert Graves
archive footage
Joyce Gardner
archive footage
Harrison Greene
archive footage
Tony Chavez
archive footage
Elaine Waters
archive footage
Isabelle LaMal
archive footage
Lei Aloha
archive footage
Harry Wilson
archive footage
Barbara Hines
archive footage
Dorothy Moore
archive footage
Cy Schindell
archive footage
Lynton Brent
archive footage
Emory Parnell
archive footage
Phil Van Zandt
archive footage
Evelyn Young
archive footage
Chester Conklin
archive footage
Gino Corrado
archive footage
Harold Brauer
archive footage
Fred Kelsey
archive footage
Eddie Laughton
archive footage
Bruce Bennett
archive footage
Harry Holman
archive footage
June Gittelson
archive footage
James C. Morton
archive footage
Dick Curtis
archive footage
Robert Williams
archive footage
Robin Raymond
archive footage
Ethelreda Leopold
archive footage
Kenneth Harlan
archive footage
Mildred Harris
archive footage
Harry Semels
archive footage
Hilda Title
archive footage
Antrim Short
archive footage
William J. Irving
archive footage
Lew Davis
archive footage
Ruth Hiatt
archive footage
Charles King
archive footage
Hank Mann
archive footage
Dell Henderson
archive footage
Arthur Rankin
archive footage
Arthur 'Pat' West
archive footage
Charles Dorety
archive footage
Robert Stevens
archive footage
Duke York
archive footage
Dorothy Vernon
archive footage
Ray Corrigan
archive footage
Ben Turpin
archive footage
Beatrice Blinn
archive footage
Beatrice Curtis
archive footage
Barbara Slater
archive footage
Geneva Mitchell
archive footage
Kit Guard
archive footage
Bert Young
archive footage
Phyllis Barry
archive footage
Blanca Vischer
archive footage
Dorothy DeHaven
archive footage
Adele Mara
archive footage
Althea Henley
archive footage
Sally Cairns
archive footage
Lois Lindsey
archive footage
Suzanne Kaaren
archive footage
Connie Cezan
archive footage
Harry Burns
archive footage
Dee Green
archive footage
Doris Houck
archive footage
Alyn Lockwood
archive footage
Virginia Hunter
archive footage
Nancy Saunders
archive footage
Robert McKenzie
archive footage
Ann Doran
archive footage
Lorna Gray
archive footage
Ted Lorch
archive footage
Kathryn 'Kitty' McHugh
archive footage
Marjorie Deanne
archive footage
Eddie Fetherston
archive footage
Vesey O'Davoren
archive footage
Gladys Gale
archive footage
Alex Novinsky
archive footage
Sam Adams
archive footage
Al Thompson
archive footage
Jean Carmen
archive footage
Mary Forbes
archive footage
Victor Travers
archive footage
Earlene Heath
archive footage
Lucille Lund
archive footage
Pauline High
archive footage
Nat Carr
archive footage
Richard Fiske
archive footage
Don Beddoe
archive footage
Judy Malcolm
archive footage
Johnny Kascier
archive footage
Lucille Ball
archive footage
Gertie Green
archive footage
Phyllis Crane
archive footage
Chuck Callahan
archive footage
Delos Jewkes
archive footage
John Tyrrell
archive footage
Dutch Hendrian
archive footage
Samson Burke
archive footage
Curtis Iaukea
archive footage
Robert Kino
archive footage
Al Hill
archive footage
Frances McCoy
archive footage
Monte Collins
archive footage
Ned Glass
archive footage
Dick Wessel
archive footage
Tommy Kingston
archive footage
Jay Sheffield
archive footage
Dorothy Appleby
archive footage
Mary Ainslee
archive footage
Paul Reiser
archive footage
Helen Hunt
archive footage
Daniel Helfgott
Director
James Tumminia
Producer
Bela Lugosi Jr.
Executive Producer
Earl M. Benjamin
Executive Producer
Robert N. Benjamin
Executive Producer
George Paige
Executive Producer
Timothy Gaydos
Associate Producer
Jeff Copeland
Segment Producer
Steve Marmalstein
Segment Producer
Daniel Helfgott
Writer
Hilyard J. Brown
Director of Photography
Ted Ashton
Camera
Michael Sachs
Film Editor
Andy Peterson
Assistant Editor
Scott Storey
Production Designer
Mick Fowler
Audio
Tim Philbin
Re-recording Mixer
Chris Anderson
Music
Carl Schurtz
Music
Dorain Grusman
Choreographer
Neal San Teguns
Costume Designer
Christa Reusch
Makeup & Hair
Gail Hagopian
Makeup & Hair
Saundra Jordan
Makeup & Hair
Anthony B. Adler
Assistant Director
Mike Rogers
Lighting Director
Tom Ward
Production Coordinator
Nila Neukum
Script Supervisor
Maura McKeown
Stage Manager
Ken Russell
Property Master
Eric M. Bauer
Graphics
Scott Milne
Title Designer
Cynthia Mann
Assistant to Producer
Jan Pfeiffer
Assistant to Director
Tasha Goldstone
Production Assistant
Simeon Weinraub
Production Assistant
Rob Isaacson
Production Assistant
Kelly Cross
Production Assistant
Nick Carpol
Production Assistant
Mark Kurzweil
Production Assistant
Liz Chambers
Clip Clearance Coordinator
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