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“Brideless Groom” (1947) – Moe, Larry, Shemp
BRIDELESS GROOM is regarded by many fans as one of the best of all Stooge films. It has quite a few very funny, even classic, scenes running throughout, such as 'Miss Hopkins' singing lesson, Shemp learning his uncle died, Moe and Shemp stuck in the phone booth, Moe kissing Larry as the bellhop passes by, 'Miss Hopkins' knocking Shemp through the door, the wedding ring lost in the piano,. Larry Fine, Actor: Disorder in the Court. Larry began performing as a violinist at a young age. During his teenage years, he earned his living as a singer and boxer. At 18, Larry began working vaudeville with 'The Haney Sisters and Fine' and in 1925, he joined Ted Healy and Moe Howard in the act that would eventually become The Three Stooges. Fine made more than 200 films before a stroke. In the Three Stooges short Brideless Groom (1947), Shemp Howard must be married before 6:00 p.m. In order to inherit $500,000. After striking out, Shemp finally finds a girl willing to marry him, and they rush off to a justice of the peace (Sitka). Brideless Groom is the 101st short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959. 1 Plot 2 Notes 3 Shemp's injury 4 References Shemp plays a voice instructor and the object of affection to tone-deaf vocal student Miss Dinkelmeyer (Dee Green), with Larry is his musical accompanist.
Synopsis of Brideless Groom
To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o’clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man. “Hold hands, you lovebirds.”
Review of Brideless Groom
In short, Brideless Groom is one of the funniest of the Shemp era Three Stooges short films — and the short that made Emil Sita famous for the line, “Hold hands, you lovebirds.” Brideless Groom begins with Shemp working as a voice teacher, and Larry as his assistant playing piano, teaching Miss Dinkelmeyer (Dee Green) – a woman as homely as she is tone deaf.
After her session finally ends, Moe enters to let Shemp know that his uncle Caleb has died, and left him $500,000 dollars — a vast fortune in 1947. There is, however, one catch — Shemp must be married within 48 hours of the will’s reading, or he will collect nothing. The homely Shemp begins calling all of the numbers in his little black book (a funny phone booth scene here) and proposing to various women — with no luck.
Shemp even tries proposing to a total stranger (Christine McIntyre) — resulting in a very funny scene where she bounces him about, finally knocking him through a door. Shemp unintentionally proposes to Miss Dinkelmeyer, who gleefully accepts. and the “happy” couple head to the Justice of the Peace, with Moe and Larry as witnesses. However …
A newspaper has gotten hold of the story, and the various women that Shemp has proposed to are trying to chase him down before he can marry anyone else. In the meantime, Moe, Larry, Shemp and Miss Dinkelmeyer have arrived at the Justice of the Peace (Emil Sitka) — where Shemp promptly loses the ring in the Justice’s piano, and destroys the piano while trying to retrieve it. Finally, they’re ready to proceed, when … the other girls arrive!
The short film promptly turns into a slapstick fight, with the women assaulting each other, Moe, Larry, Emil Sitka, and anyone else in sight — but Miss Dinkelmeyer manages (after several attempts) to finally have Emil Sitka perform the wedding ceremony — with Shemp aghast as the prospect!
Brideless Groom is a personal favorite, and highly recommend it. I rate it 4 clowns out of 5.
Funny Quotes from Brideless Groom (1947)
Shemp: That’s enough for today, you might hurt your voice. Ya know, bend it or crack it or break it or something.
Shemp: [Giving instructions to Miss Dinklemeyer] Gargle with old razor blades.
Miss Dinkelmeyer, voice student: All right, professor. I know you wouldn’t want anything to happen to my throat. [exits]
Shemp: [to Larry] Except to have somebody cut it.
Larry: How’d you like to be married to a dame like that?
Shemp: Don’t even say that!
Shemp: [Moe enters and opens the door in Shemps face]
Shemp: [to Moe] I oughta…
Moe: [to Shemp] You oughta what?
Shemp: I oughta be a little more careful.
Moe: Shut up and listen. Do you remember your Uncle Caleb?
Shemp: Do I? Why, that old tightwad! He’d steal flies from a flying spider!
Moe: But, Shemp, he’s…
Shemp: He’s a louse and a weasel!
Moe: Yeah? Well, he just died and left you $500,000 bucks.
Shemp: Just like that old skin flint! [gasps] Shemp: $500,000? [begins to cry] Poor old Uncle Caleb! Like I was sayin’, he was a swell guy, giving me the shirt off his back and throwing the buttons too.
Shemp: [on the phone in phone booth] Hello, is this Ginger Grey? It is? This is your little snookums. Listen, I’m about to do ya a big favor, will ya marry me? [click]
Larry: [to a woman in the hallway] Say, Miss, would you like to get married?
Woman in Hallway: [surprised] What?
Larry: Get married?
Woman in Hallway: Well, I don’t know, but you are kid of cute at that.
Larry: [blushing] Oh, it’s not me, it’s him.
[points to Shemp, whose face is pressed up to the window of the phone booth. He makes an ugly face and has the phone cord in his mouth. The woman screams, then slaps Larry across the face, and walks off]
Miss Hopkins (Christine McIntyre): [to Shemp] How dare you pretend to be my cousin Basil? I’ll teach you a thing or two. You Wolf! Don’t you dare strike me. Taking advantage of a poor defenseless woman.
Justice of the Peace (Emil Sitka): My new piano!
Larry: [shoving the Justice of the Peace out of the way] Shut up!
Justice of the Peace (Emil Sitka): Join hands, you lovebirds!
Larry: [after the phone booth’s walls fall and Moe and Shemp fall out of it]
[to Moe]
Larry: What happened?
Moe: That’s what I want to know.
Moe: Wait a minute. You wouldn’t hit a lady with that.
[grabs an object and hands it to Larry]
Moe: Use this. It’s bigger.
| Disorder in the Court | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Preston Black |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Felix Adler |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bud Jamison Harry Semels Suzanne Kaaren James C. Morton Edward LeSaint Solomon Horwitz Al Thompson Eddie Laughton |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Edited by | William A. Lyon |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| 16:37 | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Disorder in the Court is a 1936 short subject directed by Preston Black starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 15th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
Plot[edit]
The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend and colleague, Gail Tempest (Suzanne Kaaren), is a dancer at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians. She is accused of killing Kirk Robin (a play on 'Who Killed Cock Robin?').
When the Stooges are called to the witness stand, they are nowhere to be found. The defense attorney (Bud Jamison) goes out into the hall only to find the Stooges playing jacks and tic-tac-toe simultaneously on the floor. After considerable mutual frustration, the court finally swears in Curly, who begins to describe the events that took place on the night of the murder. He offers to show the court exactly what happened. The Stooges and Tempest are part of a musical act; and the Stooges break into their musical routine to prove this, with Larry on violin, Moe on harmonica, and Curly on both spoons and upright bass.
The act is interrupted when Larry unknowingly mistakes a man's toupée for a tarantula and Moe subsequently takes the guard's gun and starts shooting the toupée, causing pandemonium in the court. Moe and then Curly re-enact the actual murder (with Curly on the receiving end). Moe then looks at the parrot, who was at the murder scene, and sees a note tied to the parrot's foot. He opens the parrot cage, and the parrot flies out after it scratches Moe's finger. The Stooges eventually capture the bird by shooting water at it through a fire hose. Moe then reads the letter out loud and reveals that it is a confession from the real murderer, Buck Wing, which finally proves Tempest's innocence. The note also said that Buck Wing will disappear.
The Stooges and Gail Tempest were going to get their picture taken; however, the fire hose, which Curly tied up earlier, explodes and sprays water everywhere.
Cast[edit]
Credited[edit]
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Curly Howard as Curly
Uncredited[edit]
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- Bud Jamison as Defense Attorney
- Harry Semels as District Attorney
- Suzanne Kaaren as Gail Tempest
- James C. Morton as Court clerk
- Edward LeSaint as Judge
- Al Thompson as Bailiff
- Eddie Laughton as Co-Counsel
- Johnny Kascier as Court recorder
- Alice Belcher as Flirting juror
- Solomon Horwitz as Gallery spectator
- Harold Kening as Gallery spectator
- Bobby Barber as Gallery spectator
- Bobby Burns as Gallery spectator
- Sam Lufkin as Gallery spectator
- Arthur Thalasso as Tall man in Hallway
Production notes[edit]
Disorder in the Court was filmed over six days on April 1–6, 1936.[1] The film title is a play on the stereotypical judge's cry, 'Order in the court!'[2]
A colorized version of this film was released in 2006 as part of the DVD collection 'Stooges on the Run.'
Sol Horwitz, the father of Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, makes an uncredited appearance as a member of the public audience.[2]
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This is the first Stooge short in which Curly is spelled 'C-U-R-L-Y' in the opening titles instead of the previous 'C-U-R-L-E-Y.' The title card also has the Stooges inverted reading from left to right, Curly-Larry-Moe, as opposed to Moe-Larry-Curly in previous shorts, effectively giving Curly 'top billing.' This change in the title card coincides with the refined and more familiar Columbia Pictures image of a torch-bearing woman, with a shimmering light instead of the primitive animation of light rays in the previous version. In addition, the 'Columbia' theme now uses a more upbeat theme, featuring a brass introduction.[2]
Copyright status[edit]
Disorder in the Court is one of four Columbia Stooge shorts that fell into the public domain after the copyright lapsed in the 1960s, the other three being Malice in the Palace (1949), Sing a Song of Six Pants and Brideless Groom (both 1947). As such, these four shorts frequently appear on budget VHS and DVD compilations.[2]
In popular culture[edit]
The presumed perpetrator is a dancer named Buck Wing, a reference to the buck-and-wing dance common in vaudeville and minstrel shows.[2]
The classic 'swearing in' ('Take off your hat!,' 'Raise your right hand,' 'Judgy Wudgy') routine was borrowed nearly verbatim from Buster Keaton's 1931 film Sidewalks of New York, directed by Stooge veteran and producer Jules White.[2]
A shot of the trio performing in court was used by Hershey's in a 1980s ad campaign.
This short appears in the Horror Movie, 3 from Hell.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Disorder in the Court at threestooges.net
- ^ abcdefSolomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. p. 96. ISBN0-9711868-0-4.
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External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disorder in the Court. |
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- Disorder in the Court at IMDb
- Disorder in the Court at AllMovie
- Disorder in the Court is available for free download at the Internet Archive