Superman cartoons from the early forties.
From 1950 comes the Camel Comedy Caravan with special guests, The Three Stooges (Larry, Moe, and Shemp). I could have cut it down to just the Stooges appearances, but for the sake of continuity, have included the entire show. The host of this show was Ed Wynn, probably most notable as Uncle Albert in Disney's Mary Poppins. He loved to laugh, and now you can laugh right along with him. The show was hosted by Camel cigarettes and you will see plenty of advertising for them in this show. Nostalgic, historic, and entertaining.
A Classic 3 Stooges short.
From 1941 comes this hilarious Stooge short. The stooges are icemen who, while delivering ice to a house on the top of a high hill, destroy several cakes that a wealthy man is trying to bring home. When their antics cause the servants at their customer's house to quit, the boys are hired to take their place and prepare a dinner party. What they don't know is that the party is for the man whose cakes they wrecked. When Moe's gas filled cake explodes and the man realizes who they are, they must leave in a hurry
By 1947, when this film was released, Shemp Howard had replaced Curley, who, as you probably know, had passed away from a stroke. This is one of the better films that he appeared in. I always felt that Shemp was always underated as a Stooge.
Based on the classic fairy tale, Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe (the Three Stooges) substitute for the Seven Dwarfs while the princess Snow White (Olympic figure skating champion Carol Heiss) is forced to flee from her jealous stepmother, the queen (Patricia Medina), who takes drastic steps to insure that Snow White never gains the throne. The only The Three Stooges film shot in widescreen. The first The Three Stooges film shot in color. The classic slapstick "Stooge" routines are kept to a minimum in this film, in part because by 1961 when this film was released, The Three Stooges' Columbia shorts were being shown on television, and Moe Howard was said to be very sensitive to parental complaints about the violence in the shorts
This Stooge short is from 1936. The stooges are discharged from the army after WW I, and promptly administer some revenge to their mean sergeant. Years later they wind up in the army again, and of course the same sergeant is their superior. The sergeant plays various tricks on them, and when the stooges go crazy with a cannon, blowing up a house, a bridge, and a smoke stack, he blows them up.
Released in 1934 and starring Moe, Larry, and Curley, the Stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
Another great Stooges short.
From 1938, here is another great Stooge comedy featuring Larry, Moe, and Curly.
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