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FROM NURSE TO WORSE (1940)

Film Pick of the Day
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

The Stooges' friend Jerry informs them of a great money-making scam: buy insurance, go to the insurance doctor and claim insanity, and be paid $500 a month for the rest of their lives. Eager for easy money, they take a policy out on Curly, and then proceed to bring him into the insurance doctor, Dr. D. Lerious's office with Curly masquerading as a dog. Curly's performance is so convincing that the alarmed doctor demands that Curly be prepared for "cerebrum decapitation." And, the chase begins.

The western song in this film is titled "I'm a Cowboy From the Western Plains," an original composition by Jules White; see The Three Stooges Journal # 91 (Fall 1999). It can also be heard in NUTTY BUT NICE (1940).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 9.12/10 ]   41 votes
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly
Release Date Friday, August 23, 1940
Studio Columbia
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 16.8 min.

On This Date in Stooge History - August 11th


Births

Hobart Bosworth
(Actor)

b. 1867

Marietta, OH

Joe Weber
(Actor)

b. 1867

New York, NY

Monroe Owsley
(Actor)

b. 1900

Atlanta, GA

Lloyd Nolan
(Actor)

b. 1902

San Francisco, CA

William C. Thomas
(Executive Producer)

b. 1903

Los Angeles, CA

Tony Regan
(Actor)

b. 1908

Sparks, NV

Edwin Gillette
(Camera)

b. 1909

Chicago, IL

Henry Kulky
(Actor)

b. 1911

Hastings-On-Hudson, NY

Jean Parker
(Actress)

b. 1915

Butte, MT

Mike Douglas
(Actor)

b. 1925

Chicago, IL

Lita Baron
(Actress)

b. 1929

Almeria, Spain



Deaths

Sam Hellman
(Screenplay)

d. 1950   (65)

Beverly Hills, CA

Murray Kinnell
(Actor)

d. 1954   (74)

Santa Barbara, CA

Andrew Sterling
(Lyrics)

d. 1955   (80)

Stamford, CT

Edwin Wetzel
(Sound Mixer)

d. 1961   (56)

Los Angeles, CA

Clem Bevans
(Actor)

d. 1963   (83)

Woodland Hills, CA

Peggie Castle
(Actress)

d. 1973   (45)

Los Angeles, CA

Folmar Blangsted
(Film Editor)

d. 1982   (77)

Woodland Hills, CA

Reid Kilpatrick
(Actor)

d. 1983   (75)

Los Angeles, CA

Patricia Wilder
(Actress)

d. 1995   (81)

New York, NY

Henry Slate
(Actor)

d. 1996   (86)

Los Angeles, CA

Mike Douglas
(Actor)

d. 2006   (81)

Palm Beach Gardens, FL



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