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The Three Stooges filmography

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Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Moe Howard in 1937

This is a complete list of short subjects and feature films that featured The Three Stooges released between 1930 and 1970.

Moe, Larry and Curly left Healy in 1934 and moved to Columbia Pictures to begin their successful series of 190 shorts, with their contract extended each year until the final one expired on December 31, 1957. The final 8 of the 16 shorts with Joe Besser were released afterwards over the next 1⅓ years. The Stooges would continue afterwards with Moe, Larry, and Joe DeRita (as "Curly Joe"), and make several full-length feature films between 1959 and 1970.

Key

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AAN = nominated for an Academy Award
Blue ribbon = utilized footage from previous Stooge films
† = currently in public domain
^ = filmed after Curly Howard's initial stroke
^^ = filmed after Shemp Howard's death (see "Fake Shemp")
§ = denotes a cameo appearance or supporting role
~ = television pilot
т = television series
□ - television appearance
⚐ = short released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer



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1970

Ted Healy and His Stooges

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Moe, Larry and Shemp

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Moe, Larry and Curly

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The Three Stooges: Moe, Larry and Curly (1934–1947)

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The Three Stooges: Moe, Larry and Shemp (1947–1955)

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The Three Stooges: Moe, Larry and Joe Besser (1956–1959)

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All 190 Columbia short films were released in the DVD series The Three Stooges Collection. The series includes seven 2-disc volumes and one 3-disc volume. Volume Seven features 3D glasses for the shorts Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire.

The Three Stooges: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe (1958–1970)

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Larry, Moe and Curly Joe in 1962

Feature films

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Film Year Moe Larry Curly Shemp Joe Curly Joe
Soup to Nuts 1930 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Turn Back the Clock (cameos) 1933 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Meet the Baron 1933 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Dancing Lady 1933 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Myrt and Marge 1933 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Fugitive Lovers 1934 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Hollywood Party (cameos) 1934 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
The Captain Hates the Sea (cameos) 1934 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Start Cheering (cameos) 1938 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Time Out for Rhythm 1941 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
My Sister Eileen (cameos) 1942 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Rockin' in the Rockies 1945 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Swing Parade of 1946 1946 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Gold Raiders 1951 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Have Rocket, Will Travel 1959 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Stop! Look! and Laugh (compilation) 1960 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Snow White and the Three Stooges 1961 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1962 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
The Three Stooges in Orbit 1962 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze 1963 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (cameos) 1963 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
4 for Texas (cameos) 1963 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
The Outlaws Is Coming 1965 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY
Kook's Tour (TV pilot) 1970 Green tickY Green tickY Green tickY

Joe Besser never appeared with the Stooges in a feature film.

Three feature-length Columbia releases were actually packages of older Columbia shorts. Columbia Laff Hour (introduced in 1956) was a random assortment that included the Stooges among other Columbia comedians like Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert, and Vera Vague; the content and length varied from one theater to the next. Three Stooges Fun-o-Rama (introduced in 1959) was an all-Stooges show capitalizing on their TV fame, again with shorts chosen at random for individual theaters. The Three Stooges Follies (1974) was similar to Laff Hour, with a trio of Stooge comedies augmented by actor, comedian and filmmaker Buster Keaton and Vera Vague shorts, a Batman serial chapter, and a Kate Smith musical.

Solo work

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Moe

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Shemp

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Curly

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References

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  1. ^ Webb, Graham (2020). Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926–1959. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-8118-4.
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