Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site aluxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxz!gdo From: gdo@aluxz.UUCP (ODONNELL) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Three Stooges Message-ID: <228@aluxz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 17:32:05 EST Article-I.D.: aluxz.228 Posted: Wed Mar 6 17:32:05 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 02:49:14 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 23 How about some talk about my favorite tv show of all time: The Three Stooges How about this one? What are the real-life names of all of the stooges? Curly Howard was really Jerome Horowitz (known as "Babe" to his brothers Moe and Shemp because he was the baby of the family) Moe Howard was really Harry Horowitz Larry Fine was really Larry Fineberg (really an accomplished violinist) Shemp Howard was really James Horowitz (I think ... darn!!! now it evades me) Joe Besser is his real name as well. (Note his voice in some cartoons now) Curly Joe is really Joe DeRita ** Shemp was really the first person to play the role of the third stooge in the trio as most people know it. They began as a vaudeville act by the name "Ted Healey and his Stooges". Ted Healey was the head man of the team and the stooges were his patsies. They did a few MGM short films in the early 30's and after the first, Shemp had a disagreement with Healey and Shemp quit. Curly, then with a full head of hair, shaved and became the new stooge. Truly the best comedy team in history. Glenn O'Donnell @ AT&T Bell Laboratories in Allentown, PA