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"Now when the music plays The Gates of Hell Are Open, that's where you walk in." - Moe (PLANE NUTS, 1933)
THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly  
Released:  December 08, 1934
Columbia Short Subject
Length: 18.5 min.
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Moe, Larry and Curly are three out-of-work tramps who are hired to promote a university football team. They're soon mistaken for the school's famous star athletes, "The Three Horsemen." As the star athletes, the Stooges get hired by a gangster to secretly play on his professional team, but of course the boys know nothing about football and wind up bungling the game.  Costarring Lucille Ball.



The football scenes were shot at Los Angeles' Gilmore Stadium, the current site of CBS Television City, with the Loyola University football team. Gilmore location details with then-and-now photos are reported in The Three Stooges Journal # 108 (Winter 2003). The opening street sequences with the Stooges were filmed on Yucca and Vine Streets in downtown Hollywood. The details with then-and-now photos are published in The Three Stooges Journal # 103 (Fall 2002).

Larry said that there were numerous injuries while this short was made, including him losing a tooth when he was socked by Joseph Young (actor Robert Young's brother), and Curly broke his leg after riding down the dumbwaiter. In the scene with the photographers during the football game, Larry insisted the studio use stunt doubles, one of whom was badly injured.

The original ending had the Stooges retelling the story to their children, but only photo stills remain of that footage (see Moe Howard & the 3 Stooges pp. 6-7, 68-69, 79 and 81). The complete, original scripted version with the Stooges' sons, was published in The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, by Joan Howard Maurer, from Citadel Press in 1987.

Opening title music is "Eastmoor College March," by Louis Silvers; see The Three Stooges Journal # 87 (Fall 1998).


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Production Notes
Title Origin: Three Little Pigs (1933 Disney cartoon)
Prod. No.: 156
Shooting Days: 4 days   From: 1934-10-25   To: 1934-10-30

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