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CURLYFAN:
How many shorts/episodes have a stooge stand-in ??

Hot Stuff has a Shemp stand-in, in the scene when the Stooges are wearing the false beard and mustaches and when the stand in said the word "Right" it was not Shemps voice.

There was another short (can't recall the name right now) where the Stooges are in a box car and they started running and knocked over a baby in a baby carrage,and I am sure that  all three are stooge stand ins.

Can anyone think of anymore  ???

Dunrobin:

--- Quote from: CURLYFAN on July 04, 2005, 09:31:40 AM ---How many shorts/episodes have a stooge stand-in ??

Hot Stuff has a Shemp stand-in, in the scene when the Stooges are wearing the false beard and mustaches and when the stand in said the word "Right" it was not Shemps voice.

There was another short (can't recall the name right now) where the Stooges are in a box car and they started running and knocked over a baby in a baby carrage,and I am sure that  all three are stooge stand ins.

Can anyone think of anymore  ???

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That's an interesting question.  I did a search in the database for all the episodes where we have a cast member credited as a "Stand-In" or "Double" and came up with these 17 episodes:


* HORSES' COLLARS
* PARDON MY SCOTCH
* THREE LOAN WOLVES
* SHIVERING SHERLOCKS
* FIDDLER'S THREE
* HUGS AND MUGS
* DON'T THROW THAT KNIFE
* TOOTH WILL OUT, THE
* PEST MAN WINS, THE
* LISTEN, JUDGE
* HE COOKED HIS GOOSE
* TRICKY DICKS
* SPOOKS
* HUSBANDS BEWARE
* RUMPUS IN THE HAREM
* SCHEMING SCHEMERS
* COMMOTION ON THE OCEAN
* STUDIO STOOPS
The list is undoubtedly incomplete,as we don't have all of the credits in yet, and the stand-ins weren't necessarily always given credit.  For example, the episode you're thinking of, Grips, Grunts and Groans, isn't in the list.  Gary, Brent - is there more info on this in the Three Stooges Journal?

Robbie883:
I know of two off the top of my head. The first one is in Disorder in the Court when Curly sits down on the stand and the chair falls backward. I had to see the short in color first before I realized it was a double. It was quite obvous the guy that was falling wasnt falling when I paused to look. Also, in Three Little Beers when they are running after the barrels of beer down the inclined street, you can obvously tell that those are not the stooges.

Pilsner Panther:

--- Quote from: Robbie883 on July 05, 2005, 01:30:15 AM ---I know of two off the top of my head. The first one is in Disorder in the Court when Curly sits down on the stand and the chair falls backward. I had to see the short in color first before I realized it was a double. It was quite obvous the guy that was falling wasnt falling when I paused to look. Also, in Three Little Beers when they are running after the barrels of beer down the inclined street, you can obvously tell that those are not the stooges.

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The "Disorder In The Court" stand-in is on the Stooge Goofs list here, and I've always wondered why a stand-in was used for Curly in that particular scene, when Curly did some much more dangerous stunts in other shorts. For example, the scene in "An Ache In Every Stake" where Moe swings an axe at Curly's head and Curly ducks just in time to miss it always makes my hair stand on end; watch what the axe does to the wagon— it's no rubber prop. Of course, Moe had an incredible sense of timing, so I guess it wasn't really that dangerous for Curly. Still, I wouldn't have volunteered for Curly's part there!

 ::)

Falling backwards out of a chair seems much safer!

Dog Hambone:
I understand there were 4 shorts made using a Shemp stand-in after Shemp had his heart attack. Joe Palma was the stand-in according to "The Three Stooges Scrapbook". He looked a little like Shemp from the rear, I suppose, with the way they combed his hair, but he was clearly too tall. You can see him stooping to look shorter. And he generally didn't talk; the few times that he did, he didn't sound anything like Shemp. I recall Palma saying, "Whoa, Yike!" in Rumpus in a Harem and "eep eep eep eep" (or however you spell it) in another one (was it the remake of the one where Professor Snead invents the super rocket fuel? I don't recall the title).

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