News today from ShopKnuckleheads- The Three Stooges often used Shakespearian references and the short Three Hams On Rye, released today in 1950, has such references. First, the title itself. ‘Ham’ as referring to actors actually has a history...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- Oil’s Well That Ends Well finished shooting today in 1957. This was one of only two of the 190 shorts The Three Stooges made for Columbia that had only The Three Stooges in the cast. The...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- An interesting trend started for The Three Stooges in the early 1950's. Similar to the final release of 1950 'A Snitch in Time', the first release in 1951 unfolds in a two-part plot and casts the...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads-Today we have another Birthday Celebration! Supporting cast member Stanley Brown was born in Calgary (Canada) on August 18th in 1914. All but one of Stanley’s 120 career credits were all between 1937 and 1945, including his...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- The title of this episode is a play on the children's song 'A-Hunting We Will Go'. In the later years of filming, Stooge sets were pretty modest. Footage from other episodes also started getting used more...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- Back to our regularly scheduled programming! In this episode we have 3 beloved Stooge elements in play; a mad doctor trying to transplant a human brain into his gorilla, a mad doctor wanting to perform brain...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- In honor of National Lazy Day, we figured 'The Sitter Downers' was a perfect Stooge film to dissect! Although throughout the episode the Stooges are not always lazy, they do spend a great deal of time...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads- This episode was filmed during a peculiar time in Hollywood. 1939 had been an amazing year for the industry, drawing in an 85 million people audience a week! The next few years however were difficult to...
News today from ShopKnuckleheads: Today marks the anniversary of Curly’s first marriage to Julia Rosenthal in 1930. This marriage was annulled in January 1931. Curly married three more times, to Elaine Ackerman, Marion Buxbaum and Valerie Newman, with whom he...
