MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

THE THREE STOOGES

1925. Those lovable knuckleheads began their careers in vaudeville. Long time performer Ted Healy hired Moe Howard (1897-1975) as a stooge for a 1922 show. Moe's brother Shemp Howard (1895-1955) joined as Healy's second stooge, and later, Larry Fine (1902-1975) filled out the zany trio. Moe, Larry, and Shemp appeared in the Broadway revue A Night in Venice (1929), directed and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. After breaking into films, Shemp left the trio, and his and Moe's other brother Jerome, renamed Curly (1903-1952), became the third stooge. The Three Stooges, in whatever combination (there were six of them), had an amazing forty-five year career of idiotic mayhem on stage, in movies, TV, comic books, music, etc.

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