Link to original video: https://youtu.be/a-gzIYMTKhY

Ol' Moe is still pretty spry at 76. Nice find thanks for the post.

Enjoyed that. My favorite was always Shemp. My wife went to high school in Newport News, VA. Curly's daughter was one of her classmates.

HUGE Stooge fan here for so many reasons, they should be on top of some sort of mountain. They surely didn't get what they deserve unless you consider some sort of cinematic immortality. It'll do.

All else considered, the characters and the actors seemed like such good-hearted people. The didn't mock, insult or hurt others except for heinous bad guys or those unfortunate to get caught in a Stooge crossfire.

So happy Moe could milk it to the end.

He's much more petite than I had imagined.

I was watching the 3 Stooges on Sunday and it was cracking me up just as much as it did when I was 8 years old!

Thanks. I enjoyed that.

That was very good.
I remember back in the early-mid 80s there was an ad in the back of Rolling Stone magazine where his family was selling his cancelled checks. Something like $10 each. I wish I’d have bought some. Seems he was in not very good finances when he passed.
From what I remember reading, the Stooges were taken advantage of by Ted Healy right from the start, and then it continued after that by the Studios. And since he states it was before TV, there was no residuals.

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Originally posted by Sigfest:

From what I remember reading, the Stooges were taken advantage of by Ted Healy right from the start, and then it continued after that by the Studios. And since he states it was before TV, there was no residuals.

That's my understanding, too. I think Moe and Larry lived long enough to see how popular the Stooges were and they knew their efforts hadn't gone unnoticed. They got paid a different way and passed "rich".

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Originally posted by Sigfest:
From what I remember reading, the Stooges were taken advantage of by Ted Healy right from the start, and then it continued after that by the Studios. And since he states it was before TV, there was no residuals.

Ted Healy or Harry Cohn? I’ve always read Cohn was the scumbag hence his nefarious portrayal in The Godfather. Coppola even left film on the cutting room floor because it was too much for 1972 audiences. (Missing scenes are easily accessible on YouTube)

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They made a good income performing live when not filming. Moe also sold real estate with his mom in the early days.

Here's the earliest film of Moe & Shemp in 1929:




Link to original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY24_vqH00Y

There was a TV movie maybe a dozen years back about Moe. How he was approached by a young promoter in the late 60's maybe...To do a live appearance. He was apprehensive, feeling they couldn't fill the house. But when they went on the stage to a full house the kids went crazy. It was one of those heart warming endings.

Got some Stooge DVDs here, to include the later movies with Joe DeRita. May binge watch them tomorrow while it rains outside. Growing up in the '60s, their 15 minute or so short films were in syndication during the weekdays about the time we got home for school. They didn't get a dime in residuals, but that helped another generation of fans to come along.