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Released January 09, 1947
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Columbia
17.67 min. (Short Subject)

Two professors take a page from George Bernard Shaw and settle a behaviorism dispute on heredity vs. environment by trying to reform three slovenly, crass handymen, played, of course, by the Stooges. A several-thousand-dollar bet is made, and Prof. Quackenbush sets to training his three Lizas. Several months pass, and the newborn gentlemen attend a dinner party. They behave themselves for about two minutes.

A reworking of HOI POLLOI (1935); often labelled as a remake, it is not. The plots are the same, but the films' scenes are different. HOLIDAY was indeed remade as PIES AND GUYS (1958), with Joe Besser.

This short is marred by being Curly's last; he suffered a crippling stroke and was forced to retire. Shemp replaced him one month later in FRIGHT NIGHT.

The script for the original, unfilmed version of the pie fight, with Curly, is transcribed in The Three Stooges Journal # 105 (Spring 2003).

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Vernon Dent
Prof. Quackenbush

Ted Lorch
Prof. Sedletz

Emil Sitka
Sappington

Barbara Slater
Lulu Quackenbush

Helen Dickson
Mrs. Gotrocks

Mary Forbes
Countess Shpritzvasser

Symona Boniface
Mrs. Smythe-Smythe

Johnny Kascier
Councilman

Al Thompson
Mr. Toms

Judy Malcolm
Party guest

Victor Travers
Sleeping party guest


Jules White
Producer

Jules White
Director

Zion Myers
Story and Screenplay

George F. Kelley
Director of Photography

Edwin Bryant
Film Editor

Charles Clague
Art Director

Ray Hunt
Props / Pie thrower



















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