The Filmography : Film and TV Tributes to the Stooges

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Show/Film	Station/Studio	Air Date/Released	Host/Star
MILLER'S DAUGHTER, THE	Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies	1934-10-13
Boy and girl knick-knack statues, a shepherd and miller's daughter, are moved to a woman's attic after the girl is broken. The statues come to life and the shepherd fixes the girl with glue, at which time all the attic's objects come to life and sing the title song The Miller's Daughter. The Three Stooges appear as a "See No Evil / Speak No Evil / Hear No Evil" monkey statue, and join in on the musical number. The second-to-last Merrie Melodie cartoon produced in B&W. Friz Freleng (Director), Chuck Jones, Rollin Hamilton (Animators), Norm Spencer (Music)
BUDDY'S LOST WORLD	Warner Bros. Looney Tunes	1935-05-18	Buddy
Buddy and his dog Bozo embark on an ocean voyage in search of the "lost world," landing on a prehistoric island. A man-eating plant swallows Buddy, who travels thru its roots to an underground city populated by unfriendly cavemen. The Three Stooges are cannibals who try to cook Buddy in boiling water, before he is rescued by a friendly brontosaurus. Featuring Warner's 2nd Looney Tunes star, the bland Buddy... who would disappear later in the year to make way for breakout star Porky Pig. Jack King (Director), Rollin Hamilton, Sandy Walker (Animators), Norm Spencer (Music)
BON BON PARADE	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1935-10-09
A street waif accidentally breaks the window of a sweet shop while admiring all the candy inside. Dazed, he imagines a candied cupid come to life, who offers to take him to Candytown aboard a miniature candy train. Once in the fantasy town, the candied citizens celebrate the boy's arrival with a musical parade, and among the citizens are a cupcake Santa, and The Three Stooges as Valentine candy cherubs. Ben Harrison (Director), Charles Mintz (Producer), Manny Gould (Animator), Ben Harrison (Writer), Joe De Nat (Music)
NOVELTY SHOP, THE	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1936-08-15
The elderly owner of a novelty store closes up for the night, and the store's stock comes to life, parading to a Sousa march and then dancing to a Latin rhumba. The Three Stooges appear as beaded necklaces come to life, Laurel & Hardy are two greeting card characters, and three dancing Indian squaw dolls carry Groucho, Harpo and Chico in their papooses. Charles Mintz (Producer, Director), Ben Harrison (Story), Art Davis (Animation), Joe De Nat (Music)
MERRY MUTINEERS, THE	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1936-10-02	Scrappy
Scrappy and a friend take their toy pirate ships to the lily pond, and watch the toy pirates come to life and wage war on each other, amidst music and dance. The pirates are caricatures of Hollywood celebrities: The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Charles Laughton, Wallace Beery, Joe E. Brown, Charles Butterworth, Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, Al Jolson and Fred Astaire. Charles Mintz (Producer, Director), Ben Harrison (Story), Manny Gould (Animator), Joe De Nat (Music)
PORKY'S HERO AGENCY	Warner Bros. Looney Tunes	1937-12-04	Porky Pig
After reading a book of Greek legends, Porky dreams he is Porkyakarkus, a hero for hire in ancient Greece. The emperor hires him to stop a Gorgon witch from turning the population into stone statues, and to steal the life-restoring serum. The Three Stooges are three Greeks who enter the Gorgon's studio and are transformed into a "See no evil / hear no evil / speak no evil" statue by her photographic evil eye. Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Bernice Hansen (Voices) Bob Clampett (Director), Chuck Jones (Animator), Carl Stalling (Music)
HOLLYWOOD PICNIC	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1937-12-29
The stars head to the Hollywood Picnic Grounds for a picnic and a game of baseball. Among them are W. C. Fields, Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Cantor, Stepin Fetchit, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Hugh Herbert, Boris Karloff, Edward G. Robinson, Martha Raye, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Mae West, Edward Arnold, Jimmy Durante, Charles Butterworth, Edna May Oliver, Ned Sparks and Shirley Temple. The Three Stooges appear as unintended catchers at the game. Charles Mintz (Director, Producer), Art Davis (Animator), Sid Marcus (Writer), Joe De Nat (Music)
WHOLLY SMOKE	Warner Bros. Looney Tunes	1938-08-27	Porky Pig
On his way to church, little Porky is teased by a bully into buying a 5 cent cigar, instead of using it for the collection plate. Sickened by the cigar, the hallucinating pig wanders into a smoke shop and imagines all the tobacco products and pipes coming to life, and singing an anti-smoking song to the tune of Mysterious Mose. Celebrity likenesses are used for the living cigars and cigarettes: Cab Calloway, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, and the Three Stooges as "Pittsburg Stooges," i.e., stogies. Mel Blanc (Voices) Frank Tashlin (Director), George Manuell (Story), Robert Bentley (Animator), Carl Stalling (Music)
PORKY IN WACKYLAND	Warner Bros. Looney Tunes	1938-09-24	Porky Pig
Adventurer Porky Pig embarks in his plane to Wackyland, in search of the last remaining Do-Do Bird and its reward. Surreal surroundings and characters inspired by Lewis J. Carroll and Salvador Dali greet Porky, before he finds the Do-Do and begins the chase thru logic-defying Wackyland. The Three Stooges cameo as a three-headed goon, whose "mama was scared by a pawn broker's sign." Remade in color in 1949, as DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO, with extensive stock footage. Mel Blanc (Voices) Bob Clampett (Director), Norman McCabe and I. Ellis (Animators), Carl Stalling (Music)
HAPPY TOTS	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1939-03-31	The Happy Tots
The King of Happytot Land commands his subjects, the Happy Tot elves, to break into song and dance. The characters perform in a swing jitterbug number, followed by a lullaby. The King's jesters are based on The Three Stooges. Although not explicitly drawn as the Stooges, their behavior includes stooge-style slaps, clunks and eyepokes. The Screen Gems television version of this cartoon is retitled HOT AND HAPPY. Ben Harrison (Director), Charles Mintz (Producer), Manny Gould (Animation), Joe De Nat (Music)
HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT	Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies	1941-05-24
Gag-riddled spoof of Hollywood celebrities enjoying a night at Ciro's nightclub. Among the caricatured stars are Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson, Johnny Weismuller, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, Harpo Marx, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Clark Gable, Sonia Heinie, Tyrone Power, Oliver Hardy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Sally Rand, Kay Kyser, William Powell, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, Wallace Beery, Peter Lorre, Henry Fonda, J. Edgar Hoover, Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton, Mischa Auer, Ned Sparks, Jerry Colonna and Groucho Marx. The Three Stooges engage in a poke and slap routine, in tune to the orchestra's conga music. Sara Berner, Kent Rogers, Mel Blanc (Voices) Tex Avery (Director), Melvin Millar (Story), Rod Scribner, Bob McKimson, Virgil Ross (Animators), Carl Stalling (Music)
HOLLYWOOD DETOUR, A	Columbia Color Rhapsody	1942-01-23
A sight-gag tourist tour of the Hollywood sites: Hollywood Boulevard, the Brown Derby, Santa Anita, Columbia Studios, the stars' homes, Grauman's Chinese Theatre and Malibu. Star cameos by W. C. Fields, Bing Crosby, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, William Powell, Joe E. Brown, Laurel & Hardy, Clark Gable, Edna May Oliver, and George Raft. Also a running gag with John Barrymore mobbed by autograph hounds who leave him with barely the shirt on his back. The Three Stooges cameo as targets of Joe E. Brown's errant baseball pitch. The Stooges and Brown clip is reused footage from HOLLYWOOD PICNIC (1937); the Katharine Hepburn animation is also from PICNIC, but was overlaid over new backgrounds to create a different scene. Frank Tashlin (Director), Emery Hawkins (Animator), Paul Worth (Music)
HOLLYWOOD CANINE CANTEEN	Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies	1946-04-20
Sight gags abound when the stars' dogs decide to join the USO effort and open their own Hollywood Canteen. Celebrity caricatures (as dogs, with appropriately punny names) include Bing Crosby, Carmen Miranda, Abbott & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Jerry Colonna, Penny Singleton & Arthur Lake, Edward G. Robinson, Ed Wynn, Frank Sinatra, Kay Kyser & Ish Kabibble, Dorothy Lamour, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman and Jimmy Durante. A canine version of Joe Besser is highlighted, as a tempermental tuba player in Leopold Stokowski's orchestra who disrupts the music with his antics. Mel Blanc, Richard Bickenbach (Voices) Bob McKimson (Director), Warren Foster (Story), Cal Dalton, Don Williams, Richard Bickenbach (Animators), Richard Thomas (Backgrounds), Carl Stalling (Music)
HOLLYWOOD DAFFY	Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies	1946-06-22	Daffy Duck
Tourist Daffy Duck arrives in Hollywood and sets out to meet the stars by crashing the gate of "Warmer" Bros. Studios. The obstacle is a Keystone Kop-type studio guard, and the two engage in a series of comic blackouts as the guard attempts to keep Daffy out of the studio. Celebrity caricatures include Bette Davis, Johnny Weismuller, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante and Jack Benny. Although the studio guard resembles a Keystone Kop, he is not silent... Mel Blanc gave him a voice resembling Joe Besser. Mel Blanc (Voices) Friz Freleng (Director), Michael Maltese (Story), Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Perez (Animators), Hawley Pratt, Paul Julian (Layouts and Backgrounds), Carl Stalling (Music)
DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO	Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies	1949-09-02	Porky Pig
Adventurer Porky Pig embarks in his plane to Wackyland, in search of the last remaining Do-Do Bird, and the bounty reward. Surreal surroundings and characters inspired by Lewis J. Carroll and Salvador Dali greet Porky, before he finds the Do-Do and begins the chase thru logic-defying Wackyland. The Three Stooges cameo as a three-headed goon, whose "mama was scared by a pawn broker's sign." A remake of the b&w PORKY IN WACKYLAND (1938), with extensive stock footage. The film's color artists must have been from Wackyland... Moe has blonde hair. Mel Blanc (Voices) Friz Freleng (Director, new footage), Bob Clampett (Director, archive footage), Norman McCabe and I. Ellis (Animators, archive footage), Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Manuel Pierce, Ken Chapin (Animators, new footage), Carl Stalling (Music)
ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING	Warner Brothers	1949-11-26
Rising comic Kip Cooper (Milton Berle) becomes ruthless in his quest for stardom, not thinking twice about stepping on coworkers and friends, and stealing material from other comedians to achieve his goal. When legendary clown Eddie Eagan (Bert Lahr) becomes seriously ill, will his advice to Kip be ignored or taken to heart? When Kip visits Eddie in the hospital, Eddie reminisces about all the comedy greats that have passed on, including W. C. Fields, Ted Healy and Willie Howard. In real life, Milton Berle considered Ted Healy his idol. One of the country's most popular TV stars as this film was being made, Berle had a say in its production, hence the reference to Healy. Milton Berle (Kipling 'Kip' Cooper), Bert Lahr (Eddie Eagen), Virginia Mayo (Nancy Eagen), Ruth Roman (Fay Washburn), Alan Hale (Sam Washburn), Grace Hayes (Mrs. Gracie Kennedy Washburn), Jerome Cowan (Elliott Montgomery), Lloyd Gough (Monte Wilson), Ransom M. Sherman (Henry 'Hank' Richards), Iris Adrian (Julie Adams), Wally Vernon (Wally Vernon), Iphigenie Castiglioni (Madame Rosee), Marian Colby (Ethel), Bill McLean (Phil), Sid Melton (Harry, Clurman's janitor), Charles Meredith (Dr. Finley), Milton Parsons (Tony, dishwasher), Harry Tyler (Oswald, dishwasher), Danny Rogers (Joe), Julius Tannen (Mr. H. Clurman), Cecil Stewart & His Royal Rogues, O'Donnell & Blair, The Moroccans (Specialty acts), Arabella (Strippers), Mary Castle, Lorraine Crawford, Lynn Davis, Flo Farmer, Nita Talbot, Alice Wallace (Showgirls), Carmen Clifford, Lonnie Pierce, Camille Williams, Phyllis Young (Chorines), Jeanne Determann (Elsa in show), Duke Johnson (Juggler), Howard Negley (Police Captain in show), Eddie Parks (Irish tenor), William Reeves (Gregario in show), Raymond Roe (Young comic), Max Showalter (Comet Pen Salesman), Murray Alper, Leo Sulky (New Haven electricians), George Bruggeman (Electrician), Edward Biby (Smoker), Leonard Bremen, Michael Ross (Tough guys), Karl 'Killer' Davis, Ben Jade, Sammy Menacker (Bouncers), Kit Guard, Sid Kane, Robert R. Stephenson (Canal Street Boys Club hecklers), Creighton Hale (Hotel Clerk), Edwin Max (Newark Stage Manager), Al Hill (Newark Assistant Stage Manager), Mike Lally (New Haven Stage Manager), Stuart Holmes (Subject of Kip's bald jokes), Charles Kisco (Piano player), Al Lackey (Passenger), Frank Marlowe (Photographer), Sam McDaniel, Emmett Smith (Porters), Francis McDonald (Wounded messenger in Newark musical), Art Miles (Owner), George Offerman Jr., Rod Rogers (Elevator boys), Paul Panzer, Lottie Williams (Newark audience extras), Joe Ploski (Clurman waiter), Larry Rio (Waiter), Ralph Sanford (Entertainment chairman), Frank J. Scannell (Photographer), Bert Stevens, Nick Stuart (Men in audience), Mark Strong (Station agent), Garrett Craig, Richard Avonde, Eileen Howe, Robert H. Purcell, Claudette Thornton Roy Del Ruth (Director), Jerry Wald (Producer), Max Shulman, Richard Mealand (Story), Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose (Screenplay), Arnold Horwitt, Sylvia Rosales (Sketches), Ernest Haller (Director of Photography), Clarence Kolster (Film Editor)
RABBIT FIRE	Warner Bros. Looney Tunes	1951-05-19	Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck & Elmer Fudd
It's hunting season, and Elmer Fudd is on the prowl for a wascally wabbit. Bugs turns the tables by telling Fudd it's weally duck season. A battle of wits between Bugs and Daffy ensues, as each tries to confuse the seasons at the other's expense. When Bugs and Daffy suggest that Elmer has an elephant gun, and should hunt elephants... a Joe Besser voiced elephant appears to declare "If you do, I'll give you such a pinch!" The first installment in what is referred to as the "Duck, Rabbit, Duck Trilogy," followed by RABBIT SEASONING (1952) and DUCK! RABBIT! DUCK! (1953). Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elephant), Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) Chuck Jones (Director), Michael Maltese (Story), Lloyd Vaughn, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam (Animators), Robert Gribbroek (Layouts), Phil LeGuard (Backgrounds), Carl Stalling (Music)
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SHOW, THE - Pony Boy Huck	Syndicated/Hanna-Barbera Prods	1959-10-24	Huckleberry Hound
Cartoon adventures of the blue-furred Huckleberry Hound, Hanna-Barbera's Emmy-winning animation series. Syndicated by Screen Gems, each episode featured three cartoons starring Huckleberry Hound, Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks, and Yogi Bear. After two seasons, Yogi spunoff into his own series, and was replaced by Hokey Wolf. Pony Express rider Huckleberry Hound must get the mail thru, despite the efforts of Chief Crazy Coyote to stop him. Huck's horse has the voice and behavior of Joe Besser. Daws Butler (Huckleberry Hound), Don Messick (Horse, Chief Crazy Coyote) William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (Directors, Producers), LaVerne Harding, Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci, Lew Marshall, Michael Lah, Don Patterson, Ed Love, George Nicholas, Dick Lundy, Gerard Baldwin, Hicks Lokey, Allen Wilzbach, Don Williams (Animators), Warren Foster, Alex Lovy (Writers)
MONKEY DOODLES	Paramount Famous Studios	1960-04-01
The baby delivery service is falling behind schedule, so a stork is asked to make two dropoffs on the same trip, but gets them mixed up... a gorilla to a human family, and a human baby to gorillas. The voice artist gave the delivery stork a Joe Besser voice. Seymour Kneitel (Director), Irving Dressler (Story), Morey Reden, Nick Tafuri (Animators), Robert Owen (Background), Winston Sharples (Music)
BULLWINKLE SHOW, THE - Aesop and Son: The Fox and the Minks	NBC / Jay Ward Productions	1962-07-09	Rocky & Bullwinkle
The off-the-wall, satirical, pun-filled, animated adventures of Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, foiling the evil schemes of foreign spies Boris Badenov and Natasha. The series had several title and network incarnations, beginning in 1959 on ABC Tuesday and Thursday afternoons as ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS. It moved to NBC's Sunday primetime schedule in 1961 as THE BULLWINKLE SHOW, and then back to ABC on Sunday afternoons for its final (1964-1965) season. Each episode featured two serialized installments of Rocky and Bullwinkle's latest storyline, and two cartoons from the recurring features "Aesop and Son," "Fractured Fairy Tales," "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties" and "Mr. Peabody's Improbable History." Between the toons were interstatial gags starring Bullwinkle and Rocky in "Mr. Know-It-All," "Bullwinkle's Corner" and others. In the "Aesop and Son" fable "The Fox and the Minks," Aesop teaches his son about teamwork in the tale of three minks who outwit a fox hunting them for their pelts. The three minks are loosely based on The Three Stooges, engaging in slaps and bonks, and a derby-wearing mink who laughs with a "n'yuk, n'yuk." This "Aesop" toon was again featured in the BULLWINKLE episode that aired on 2/22/1965 on ABC. Charlie Ruggles (Aesop), Daws Butler (Aesop Junior, Mink #1, Mink #3), Bill Scott (Mush-head Mink, Shakespearian Fox) Jay Ward, Bill Scott, Ponsonby Britt (Producers), Gerard Baldwin, Frank Braxton, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, Paul , Jim Hiltz, Bill Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, Gerry Ray, Dun Roman, Bob Schleh, George Singer, Ernie Terrazas, John Walker, Rudy Zamora (Directors), George Atkins, Al Burns, Jim Critchfield, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, Jim MacGeorge, John Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Jack Mendelsohn, Bill Scott, Larry Tucker, Lloyd Turner (Writers), Sheldon Allman (Music)