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Injuries on the set of Three Stooges shorts
metaldams:
--- Quote from: GreenCanaries on September 25, 2020, 11:12:02 PM ---I do remember hearing about Moe having a problem with goop in his eyes on that short (and a similar incident later on with soot in THE THREE TROUBLEDOERS), but note that in this anecdote, Moe specifically mentions Curly being on top of him and thus pressing him into the goop, as he is in that final shot of the tent scene in LINKS. Unless I'm forgetting something, I don't recall such a moment in OILY?
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If you go to Wikipedia, the quote Mark the Shark mentions above starts the same but ends different. Now we all know Wikipedia can be inaccurate and my copy of Moe’s bio is in a box somewhere, so I would need to dig the book out and check the accuracy of the quote. Anyway....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oily_to_Bed,_Oily_to_Rise
Mark The Shark:
Thanks for the responses. The Wikipedia citation combines the beginning of the quote I shared from Moe's autobiography with another story which immediately follows it. It says:
"Oily To Bed, Oily To Rise," another 1939 goodie, was -- what else -- an oil well picture. The plot had us in one scene, trying to repair a water pump. After many attempts, I took a screwdriver, knelt down, peered into the mouth of the pump, and jiggled the screwdriver inside of it. Gazing up the opening, I jiggled again and then looked up a third time. Suddenly a blob of assorted gunk got me right in the eye again. And again it took hours to clean me up for the next scene.
This starts on page 95 and continues to page 101 in the original 1977 edition (interrupted by several pages of photos).
So it seems like he's referring to two separate incidents. It would make sense if it's from "Three Missing Links" for me to not be as familiar with the scene, as that short was on a list of films that weren't shown on TV in Chicago for a number of years, and my Ultimate Collection DVD set is currently MIA.
metaldams:
--- Quote from: Mark The Shark on September 26, 2020, 06:38:26 AM ---Thanks for the responses. The Wikipedia citation combines the beginning of the quote I shared from Moe's autobiography with another story which immediately follows it. It says:
"Oily To Bed, Oily To Rise," another 1939 goodie, was -- what else -- an oil well picture. The plot had us in one scene, trying to repair a water pump. After many attempts, I took a screwdriver, knelt down, peered into the mouth of the pump, and jiggled the screwdriver inside of it. Gazing up the opening, I jiggled again and then looked up a third time. Suddenly a blob of assorted gunk got me right in the eye again. And again it took hours to clean me up for the next scene.
This starts on page 95 and continues to page 101 in the original 1977 edition (interrupted by several pages of photos).
So it seems like he's referring to two separate incidents. It would make sense if it's from "Three Missing Links" for me to not be as familiar with the scene, as that short was on a list of films that weren't shown on TV in Chicago for a number of years, and my Ultimate Collection DVD set is currently MIA.
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Thanks for the clarification. Funny how Wikipedia combines two quotes, very misleading. In that case, yeah, I agree with Green Canaries, probably THREE MISSING LINKS.
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