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The inaugural cartoon, "That Little Old Bomb Maker", featured a distinctive live-action wraparound that remained exclusive to that particular cartoon. A number of the cartoons featured recurring characters, such as Badman, a juvenile antagonist sporting a Batman-esque attire, who paradoxically is a benevolent 5-year-old boy.
Norman Albert Maurer (May 13, 1926 – November 23, 1986) was a comic book artist and writer, and a director and producer of films and television shows. He is best known for his longtime professional and personal association with The Three Stooges comedy team from the late 1940s onwards.
Look! and Laugh! is a 1960 feature-length Three Stooges compilation film featuring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard in scenes from 11 movie short subjects of 1937–1947. Additional footage, filmed especially for this production, features ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, and animal act The ...
In a nod to television's key role in the resurgence of the Three Stooges' popularity, the outlaw characters were played by local television hosts from across the U.S. whose shows featured the old Three Stooges Columbia shorts. Adam West spoke about his involvement with the film and with the Three Stooges: [4] [5] The Outlaws Is Coming. What a ...
There are conflicting reports regarding Jamison's cause of death. [2] He died on September 30, 1944, at age 50, one day after completing work on the film Nob Hill. [2] Some sources indicate that Jamison developed a blood infection or kidney cancer and because he was a devout Christian Scientist, refused blood transfusions that resulted in his death. [2]
The New Three Stooges became the only regularly scheduled television show for the Stooges. [4] Unlike other films shorts that aired on television, like the Looney Tunes , Tom and Jerry , and Popeye , the film shorts of the Stooges never had a regularly scheduled national television program in which to air.
O n Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, plus another 11 died when the wreckage fell over ...
Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz; March 11, 1895 [1] – November 22, 1955) was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the third Stooge in The Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began in the early 1920s (1923–1932), while it was still associated with Ted Healy and known as "Ted Healy and his Stooges"; and again from 1946 until his death in 1955.