Three Stooges pie fights?

[GQKamen]

Im new here...just signed up last night...hi everyone. So im gonna give it a try with a topic.....what do u all think about the pie fight scenes in the three stooges episodes.......they really get me excited. Just seeing a well dressed woman at a fancy party get it....what do u all think...thanks.

[Richard]

Welcome to the Forum, GQKamen, mind you don't slip on all the gunge .

My specialist subject in this genre is Laurel & Hardy as I haven't seen many of the 3 Stooges films. I did like one called (I think) "In the Sweet Pie & Pie" where they were being groomed for polite society by three women and it finished with a massive piefight.

No doubt Bill will weigh in on this subject as he probably remembers all the films from their first cinema run

[klownn]

hello sotonude what was the h&l film where they had a car with gundge co
ming out of the radiator on a car it was great and i always think of it ??? cheers klown

[BillShipton]

Hello

Actually I am relatively new to the Stooges but agree that there are some classic pie scenes. And some nice wet ones. The Stooges were definitely at the slightly cruel end of slapstick with the women certainly looking pissed off when they got hit, but usually in a theatrical way. Also I love the outfits from that era.

A complete list of Stooges films offering pie and/or water scenes would be good.

I remember the L&H scene that Klown is talking about (rice in the radiator) but can't remember the title. There is also a great lard scene (and a woman squirted with oil, recreated in the next GSH movie) as well as classics like Battle of the Century which tend to get forgotten.

Hay loves the Stooges (more than L&H) so all advice welcomed.

[Richard]

The film with the rice in the radiator was "The Hoose-Gow" of 1929. The two ladies who got covered in rice were Ellinor Vanderveer and Retta Palmer.
Most of the early two reel talkies are now available on DVD but are frequently shown on TV. My particular favourite is "Men O' War", also 1929 where they all finish up in the lake.

It's a great pity that only the great piefight remains of "Battle of the Century".

Richard

[DecadentDoll]

Im actually still in the midst of working on a female three stooges stage act, I'll let everyone know as it progresses, but its so much fun working it out

[Richard]

Im actually still in the midst of working on a female three stooges stage act, I'll let everyone know as it progresses, but its so much fun working it out

Which one will you be DD; Curly, Larry or Mo? Or even perhaps Shem. I will be anxious to find out .

Did anyone watch the semi-documentary film on British television a few months ago? It would appear that they were really screwed by the Hollywood studio system .

Richard.

[DecadentDoll]

With wild frizzy hair like mine I'd say Larry, although i've got a place in my heart for Shemp i have to say

My friends kitten and penny are up for the act, it'll be rude and pie filled with lots of bitchiness , in the fun way!

I'll get some pics when i get some taken!

DD x x x

[GQKamen]

you should be a woman that gets hit in the face with a pie...like in their episodes....

[Richard]

With wild frizzy hair like mine I'd say Larry, although i've got a place in my heart for Shemp i have to say DD x x x

Thank you for the correction DD, I did miss off the p

Richard

[boxster]

Ironically, Bill L&H were always more popular in England than the States, even during their glory years from 1925 or so to about 1938.

I doubt today, outside of one station in Nashville, L&H movies are seen. The pace is too slow, the features had music underneath the sequences, and the humor, in a fundamental way, too gentle.

The Stooges are on TV nearly everywhere in the States.. one station in Chicago shows the shorts during Saturday evening. My only theory is that Boomers grew up on the shows when Columbia dumped them onto TV in the late '50s... as much nostalgia as anything else. Sadly, there was some talent there, but Moe Howard was a bad businessman, and like Keaton and Harry Langdon, that is where so many folks wound up: Columbia's short subject department.

Don