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Moe & Larry's haircuts in the Besser shorts

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Dog Hambone:
Forgive me please if this has been asked already, but I have a question after recently watching the later shorts with Joe Besser. I searched for something on this but couldn't find anything. In some of them, Moe & Shemp have short slicked back hair, like they wore when they were off camera. They have the old haircuts in a lot of them, particularly when continuity was needed with reused footage, but what prompted Moe to go without the bangs & Larry to go without the porcupine hair? Were they just trying something different on film? Did they feel like they were getting too old for the comedic looking haircuts? Is there an official explanation?

Shemp_Diesel:
The story I've always heard is that it was Joe Besser's idea for Moe & Larry to go without their traditional stooge hairstyles. The idea being that the stooges should look more like gentlemen, if you can believe that & it was a sign to some fans that Moe & Larry didn't care anymore since they never would've done it during the Curly or Shemp eras.

shemps#1:
Yeah, I think Moe said it was Besser's idea during one of his Mike Douglas appearances if I'm not mistaken. I think the reasoning also had something to do with their advancing ages.

TXShemp:
This may be an un-Stoogefanish comment, but lets face it. Joe Besser was not the best choice. These were 16 of the worst shorts. I liked Joe DeRita, and it would have been him in these shorts instead of Besser had he been available.

xraffle:

--- Quote from: Shemp_Diesel on November 16, 2010, 03:33:14 PM ---The story I've always heard is that it was Joe Besser's idea for Moe & Larry to go without their traditional stooge hairstyles. The idea being that the stooges should look more like gentlemen, if you can believe that & it was a sign to some fans that Moe & Larry didn't care anymore since they never would've done it during the Curly or Shemp eras.

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Gentlemen? Who came in? (looks behind)

Seriously, what was Besser thinking? The whole point of the stooges having these hairstyles is to make them look silly. It's part of their comedy. If it wasn't, Curly wouldn't have been required to shave his head.

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