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BeAStooge:

--- Quote from: Tony Bensley on December 20, 2017, 11:09:00 PM ---I do also wonder how the difference in workload at Universal might have impacted on Curly's health, as Feature Length comedies then rather tended towards padding of some scenes that often involved different players.  Would a longer lifespan for Jerome "Curly" Howard have resulted?

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1934 - 1950, they worked only 5 - 6 weeks per year at Columbia doing the shorts.  That studio's demands had no impact on Curly's health, and ongoing tales to the contrary (i.e., the Fleming book) are myths.

Any workload that contributed to his self-destructive lifestyle/habits were the team's own personal appearance bookings, which took up an average of 20 weeks per year during their mid-'30s to mid-'40s height, with 1939 and 1940 the most at 6 and 7 months respectively.

7stooges:
Well, how do you liiiiiike that?

This always feels like one of those questions we may never know the answer to. We're just left watching, and wondering what we're looking at, and why we're looking at it. The answer is usually that we have to see everything the Stooges did, good or bad.

Incidentally, I'm just noticing that Roast-Beef director Sam Baerwitz would go on to write some of the later Our Gangs for MGM. And directed one - a morale boosting musical for the servicemen titled "Calling All Kids."

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