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Shorts Containing Stooge Stand- Ins
Danl57:
Hello Stooge Fans,
I think that the most obvious stunt double was in "If a Body Meets a Body". The Stooges were running downstairs and fall. You can tell the Curly stunt double is a man who is much lighter wearing a skin head wig. Also in "Muscle Up a Litte Closer" You can tell that it is not Tiny Ray who is throwing Elmo Drake around. It is man who is wearing similar clothes but is much lighter than Tiny.
Moe: "This is man's job"
Larry: "Where will we find one?"
BOP!!!!!!!!!!!
Take Care God Bless and Keep Watching
Danl57
Dunrobin:
Another truly obvious stunt double is in Hoi Polloi. When the "Stooges" jump out through the windows at the end of the dancing sequence, watch for the 6 ft. Larry! ;D
Giff me dat fill-em!:
Yet another obvious stand-in occurs in the film Swing Parade of 1946 where Moe, Larry and Curly are sleeping on top of the grand piano, and they all roll over at once, sending Curly crashing off the top of the piano down over the keyboard and onto the piano bench. It looks like the very SAME fake-looking "Curly-bald" headwig that was worn by the stunt double who performs the "falling backwards off the witness stand" in Disorder in the Court. If so, the wig is now ten years old and still in obvious service to the Stooge prop department.
Wilson7777:
Actually, as I was watching a bunch of episodes I noticed that Moe and Larry especially, did a lot of their own stunts. Like in Pardon My Scotch when Moe slips off the table after Curly cuts it. He actually broke a few ribs doing that.
Another time in Three Little Pigskins, when Curly jumps in the dumbwaiter and rides it down really fast, he broke his leg.
So, they didn't use doubles all the time.
Desmond Of The Outer Sanctorum:
Let's not forget all the stand-ins (two per Stooge, for a total of six) in A MERRY MIX UP. If you look closely when they start leaving the tavern, you can see the faces of a couple of them.
You can also see the face of Moe's double in HOOFS AND GOOFS in a couple of places (particularly at the end when the real Moe is in drag).
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