The Three Stooges: Three Stooges Blooper.

I believe this to be a Stooge blooper in which Moe hurts himself. After all, how or why would you stage a twisting of your ankle? As the three of them skip towards the door, keep your eyes on Moe's right ankle. While skipping he twists his ankle and then goes threw the door on one good foot/ankle. He tosses the purse so he could use both his hands to break his fall onto the bed. He then rolls off out of camera view. I'm convinced this was not part of the skit. The skit probably only called for Shemp and Larry to hit the wall while Moe goes onward unharmed. Watch this video using the full screen option and you'll see it better.

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[arhuxtable]

Moe Howard will be remembered for his occasional dual roles in the Stooges films. Like Shemp's Uncle Mortimer in HEAVENLY DAZE and BEDLAM IN PARADISE,and the Stooges' alive and well sister Birdie in HOOFS AND GOOFS. In H&G,Joe Besser(his first as a Stooge) dreams that Birdie was dead and reincarnated as a horse. The Stooges obviously thought Birdie was really dead.

[thegoosebrain]

@arhuxtable Moe was also used extensively for voices. When there was a voice on the radio, he did the voices many, many times. He also did the voices of the dying radio tubes that were still alive and moving after the radios were smashed in a couple shorts. There are several more, but I can't recall them at his time. The reason why More did the voices was probably becasue Columbia was so cheap they didn't want to pay another actor to do it, so they had Moe do the voices.

[thegoosebrain]

@HerbWalker

They sure would! I hope one day there will be a story on the news that goes soemthing like this:

Relatives of a guy that recently died find a treasure trove of three stooges out takes in attic. It seems the man once worked at the film studio as a janitor where the stooges made their movies. the man collected all the out takes that were tossed in the garbage outside the editing rooms and placed them on reels. The reels comprise about 20 hours of stooge outtakes spanning 25 years.

[67nairb]

@hugatag When Joe Besser signed his contract with the Stooges in 1956 a clause stated that he didn't wanted to be hit with anything or or anybody. But there were a few scenes from some episodes in which Moe did hit Joe. Infact, in their last episode with Joe, SAPPY BULLFIGHTERS, there was one scene in which Moe picked Joe in the eyes...not literally of course.

[67nairb]

@hugatag I thought so.

[hugatag]

@67nairb Was referring to Curly "Joe" 

[hugatag]

@67nairb Yup that is the truth I read that in Moe's book.Unlike Curly who was Curly wannabe (and a pretty poor one) Joe Joe Besser was very original,he came with is own act and in my opinion was very funny at times. Besser would have gone on to the movies with Moe and Larry but he was under contract with Columbia Pictures. Moe stated in his book that when Columbia cancelled the Stooges he went to clean out his locker and he was thrown out of the facilities. Pretty sad huh? 

[67nairb]

@hugatag But Joe Besser was the least abused of the Stooges... on camera that is. Of course by the time Joe joined the 3 Stooges in the late 1950s, Moe and Larry toned their vilolent slapstick comedy quite a bit.

[arhuxtable]

The year SWEET AND HOT was filmed. Either in '56 and '57.

[hugatag]

@67nairb Wow a reply after 2 years! I am referring to Moe,although he was the tough guy he was the one that got hurt the most on the set (in real life he got hurt in many scenes) Many of the funniest Stooge episodes were based on Moe getting the worst of it from the other 2 stooges hence Moe always loosing his temper and beating them up in hilarious ways. The liquid rubber episode was the best example of what I say here.

Regards :)

[67nairb]

@hugatag Moe didn't abuse Joe very much. Infact, Joe was the only Stooge the least afraid of Moe. Are you referring to Joe Besser or Curly-Joe De Rita?

[67nairb]

@arhuxtable I KNOW.

[67nairb]

@arhuxtable What is this in response too?