Production Information
Title: From Nurse To Worse
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 49
Release Date: August 23, 1940
Running Time: 16:43
“This is my favorite dollar. I raised it from a cent!”
Short Take
The Three Stooges are painters who run into their old friend Jerry, an insurance salesman (Lynton Brent). He promises them that if they take out a policy on Curly proving that he has gone insane, they can collect $500 a month. Moe and Larry bring Curly on a leash to the office of Dr. D. Lerious (Vernon Dent). Curly’s pretending to be a hound is so over the top that the doctor declares that he must operate. The Stooges flee, and hide out in the back of a dog catcher’s truck, where they are soon infested with fleas. Dr. D. Lerious eventually catches up with The Stooges, and Curly is sent straight for the operating room. Eventually, the trio get away on a gurney, encounter Jerry again, and then give him the works.
From Nurse To Worse Cast & Crew
| Directed by | Jules White |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Clyde Bruckman Charles L. Kimball |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Lynton Brent Vernon Dent Dudley Dickerson Dorothy Appleby Ned Glass Cy Schindell John Tyrrell Al Thompson |
| Cinematography | Benjamin H. Kline |
| Edited by | Mel Thorsen |
From Nurse To Worse Trivia
- This was the first Stooges short to utilize old footage – it features the traffic sequence from Dizzy Doctors
- As noted, Jules White produced and directed this short. The song heard in the short – ‘I’m A Cowboy From The Western Plains’– was an original music composition by Jules White
- This was one of the largest casts to appear in any short. Again, the only credited cast was Larry, Moe & Curly while the uncredited cast included many of the staples among the supporting players
Production Notes
Filming took place from May 15-18, 1940