The Three Stooges facts for kids

Moe, Shemp, and Larry

The Three Stooges was a comedy act that made short movies from 1934 to 1970. The Three Stooges used physical comedy to entertain. This form of comedy is called slapstick comedy. The actors were Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jerome Curly Howard, and Shemp Howard.

Images for kids

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  Healy and Joan Crawford with the Three Stooges in MGM's Dancing Lady (1933)

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  A thinner Curly (with a full head of hair and false handlebar mustache) as the cook in Malice in the Palace (1949) with Larry, Moe and Shemp. Curly's scene was deleted from the final release.

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  The Stooges with Curly Joe DeRita (left) in 1959

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  Larry, Moe and Curly Joe in a 1962 TV ad promoting their earlier short subjects, though DeRita never appeared in any

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  Larry and Curly Joe put Moe through his paces on the cover of The Three Stooges (Dell Comics, May 1961).

See also

In Spanish: Los Tres Chiflados para niños