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Originally Posted by JDaniel
I've been working on a 3 Stooges project today, transferring a bunch of VHS tapes to DVD. On the latest one, there were some trivia questions. I've been a life-long fan, but didn't realize they were brothers (Moe, Curly, & Shemp at least). Last name was Horowitz. I never knew they were brothers.
JD
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More Stooges trivia:
The original 3 were Shemp, Moe, and Larry. Before the Columbia shorts, they appeared on film together with Ted Healy. At that time, Moe was not the leader at all. Shemp left to pursue his career on his own, but he never got roles worthy of him.* When Shemp left, Curly replaced him. Moe, being the older brother to Curly, was naturally more like the leader, which is probably why he seemed to dominate the Stooges. When Shemp returned to replace Curly when Curly became too ill to continue, the pecking order was set, even though Shemp was the oldest of the three brothers.
Rather than continue typing, here is a link for plenty of info about them, with a slightly different take on it all than I have presented above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_stooges
For anyone who has not already purchased Three Stooges films, I highly recommend the latest remastered versions, which look better than ever for home video. Here is a link to the first set in the series:
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Stooges-...dp/B000SSQ7JW/
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*Wikipedia has a very different take on this, but I can only say, that almost no one watches Shemp films that were made without the Stooges (excluding films with him in bit parts, which, of course, would not be normally called "Shemp films".)