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The Three Stooges Collector Cards

Publisher Year(s) Issued Set Type
Breygent 2005 Base Set

  • 72 card set.
  • Colorized images come from selected titles in the career filmography of The Three Stooges, short subjects and feature films, with Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita.
  • The backs of the cards present plot and background information for the films pictured on the front.  In some cases the information is incorrect, and comments addressing these errors are provided.


Card No. 1 1930 "Soup to Nuts"

Card No. 2 1934 "Woman Haters"

Marjorie died August 21, 1935.

Card No. 3 1934 "Men in Black"

Card No. 4 1935 "Horses' Collars"

Card No. 5 1935 "Uncivil Warriors"

The "Charlie walks like this" routine does not appear in HOLD THAT LION! (1947).

Card No. 6 1936 "Ants in the Pantry"

Card No. 7 1937 "Goofs & Saddles"

Card No. 8 1937 "The Sitter Downers"

Card No. 9 1938 "Termites of 1938"

Card No. 10 1938 "Three Missing Links"

Crash Corrigan played the gorilla 'Naba' in this short.  The sale to Steve Calvert did not occur until 1948.

Card No. 11 1936 "Disorder in the Court"

Card No. 12 1939 "Yes, We Have No Bonanza"

Card No. 13 1939 "Three Sappy People"

Card No. 14 1940 "A Plumbing We Will Go"

Card No. 15 1940 "No Census, No Feeling"

Card No. 16 1941 "So Long, Mr. Chumps"

Card No. 17 1941 "In the Sweet Pie and Pie"

Card No. 18 1941 "I'll Never Heil Again"

Card No. 19 1942 "Loco Boy Makes Good"

Card No. 20 1942 "Sock-A-Bye Baby"

The baby taken in by the Stooges is not the kidnapped Collins baby the boys read about in the newspaper.  That is the boys' mistaken assumption, which sets up the film's chase scene with the police.  Little Jimmy's last name (as well as his parents') is never revealed.

Card No. 21 1943 "Phony Express"

Card No. 22 1943 "A Gem of a Jam"

Card No. 23 1944 "Idle Roomers"

Card No. 24 1944 "Gents Without Cents"

Card No. 25 1945 "Booby Dupes"

Card No. 26 1945 "If a Body Meets a Body"

Card No. 27 1946 "Three Loan Wolves"

Card No. 28 1946 "G.I. Wanna Home"

Card No. 29 1946 "Rhythm and Weep"

Card No. 30 1946 "Rhythm and Weep"

Card No. 31 1946 "Three Little Pirates"

Card No. 32 1947 "Half-Wit's Holiday"

  • All of the pie footage is original to HALF-WIT'S HOLIDAY; none is from HOI POLLOI, which does not have a pie fight.
  • HALF-WIT'S HOLIDAY is a reworking of HOI POLLOI, not a remake.

Card No. 33 1947 "Fright Night"

Card No. 34 1947 "Out West"

Card No. 35 1947 "Brideless Groom"

The name of Christine McIntyre's character is 'Miss Hopkins.'  Dee Green played 'Fanny Dinkelmeyer.'

Card No. 36 1947 "All Gummed Up'

Card No. 37 1948 "Fiddlers Three"

Card No. 38 1949 "Who Done It?"

Card No. 39 1949 "Malice in the Palace"

Card No. 40 1949 "Dunked in the Deep"

The correct spelling of the spy's name is 'Borscht,' a joke-name referring to Russian beet soup.

Card No. 41 1950 "Studio Stoops"

Card No. 42 1950 "A Snitch in Time"

Card No. 43 1951 "Don't Throw That Knife"

Card No. 44 1951 "Scrambled Brains"

Card No. 45 1951 "Pest Man Wins"

Card No. 46 1952 "Three Dark Horses"

Card No. 47 1952 "Cuckoo on a Choo Choo"

  • 'Lenore' was played by Patricia Wright and 'Roberta' was played by Victoria Horne.
  • Dvorak is the correct spelling of Reggie's last name.

Card No. 48 1953 "Spooks"

Card No. 49 1954 "Income Tax Sappy"

  • Margie Liszt's character is Moe's sister, not his wife.
  • The undercover IRS agent is played by Benny Rubin.  Vernon Dent plays one of the federal agents.

Card No. 50 1954 "Shot in the Frontier"

Card No. 51 1955 "Of Cash and Hash"

Card No. 52 1955 "Bedlam in Paradise"

Card No. 53 1955 "Stone Age Romeos"

Card No. 54 1956 "Husbands Beware"

Card No. 55 1956 "Creeps"

Card No. 56 1957 "For Crimin' Out Loud

  • This is a 1956 release, not 1957.
  • While it is the last short released with new footage of Shemp, the last footage filmed of him was scenes for the short FLAGPOLE JITTERS (1956).

Card No. 57 1956 "Commotion on the Ocean"

The correct spelling of the villain's name is 'Borscht,' a joke referring to Russian beet soup.

Card No. 58 1957 "Hoofs and Goofs"

  • The correct spelling of the sister's name is 'Birdie.'
  • The voice of 'Birdie' is Ruth Godfrey White.

Card No. 59 1957 "Muscle Up a Little Closer"

Card No. 60 1957 "A Merry Mix-Up"

Card No. 61 1957 "Rusty Romeos"

Card No. 62 1958 "Fifi Blows Her Top"

Card No. 63 1958 "Pies and Guys"

Card No. 64 1958 "Oil's Well That Ends Well"

In a cost-saving measure, the cow milking scene was filmed under HORSING AROUND's budget, but the scene was not taken from that film.  Thanks to production #'s on still photos, there are evidenced cases of Jules White charging a few of the final shorts' production costs off to other shorts to stay on budget.

Card No. 65 1958 "Sappy Bullfighters"

  • The correct spelling of title is SAPPY BULL FIGHTERS.
  • The short was the last of the 190 to be released, but not the last one produced.

Card No. 66 1960 "The Three Stooges Scrapbook"

Card No. 67 1965 "The New Three Stooges"

  • The front image is from "The Spain Mutiny" cartoon in THE THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK (1960).
  • The correct spelling of the title is THE NEW 3 STOOGES, with a numerical 3.
  • Harold Brauer also worked with all four "third" Stooges.

Card No. 68 1961 "Snow White and The Three Stooges"

Card No. 69 1962 "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules"

Card No. 70 1962 "The Three Stooges in Orbit"

Card No. 71 1963 "The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze"

Card No. 72 Checklist

The front image is from KOOK'S TOUR (1970).

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