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Filmography Holiday Classics November Shorts

Mummy’s Dummies

Production Information
Studio: Columbia
Short Number: 111
Release Date: November 4, 1948
Running Time: 15.49

“I’m Honest Moe, that’s Honest Shemp and that’s……well that’s Larry.”
(Moe)

Short Take

The Stooges are “used chariot” salesmen in ancient Egypt, and try to gyp a customer who turns out to be the captain of the Pharaoh’s guard. He drags them to the palace to demand their execution, but the boys become royal chamberlains instead when Shemp cures the Pharaoh’s toothache. Enjoying their new duties, the Stooges overhear a conversation between the Captain and a corrupt tax collector, and discover a plot to steal the Pharaoh’s gold!

Cast & Crew

Credited Production Crew
Produced by Hugh McCollum
Directed by Edwards Bernds
Story & Screenplay by Elwood Ullman
Director of Photography Charles Clague
Film Editor Henry DeMond

Credited Cast
Shemp Howard
Larry Fine
Moe Howard
Vernon Dent – King Rootentooten
Ralph Dunn – Radames, Chief of the Palace Guard
Phil Van Zandt – Tutamon
Dee Green – Princess

Uncredited Cast
Suzanne Ridgeway – female attendant
Virginia Ellsworth – female attendant
Wanda Perry – princess

Trivia

Every Three Stooges short produced in the 1940s featuring Shemp Howard as the third Stooge was remade in the 1950s except for Mummy’s Dummies.
Mummy’s Dummies takes place during the reign of King Rootentootin, played by the rather tall and rotund Vernon Dent, but in the film, We Want Our Mummy, Rootintootin is said to be a midget

Production Notes

Columbia production number: 4105
Shot over 4 days from August 19, 1947, to August 22, 1947.

Filmography Holiday Classics November Shorts

Three Little Beers

Production Information
Studio: Columbia
Production Number: 11
Release Date: November 28, 1935
Running Time: 16.5

Short Take

When the Stooges learn their Brewery is having a golf tournament, they sneak off to a nearby course to get in some practice. Features famous Brewery “Panther Brewing Co.”

Cast & Crew

The Three Litte Beers story was by Felix Adler and directed by Raymond McCarey who would also direct The Boys next short, Three Little Pigskins again collaborating with writer Felix Adler. As we mentioned, Phyllis Crane (Hoi Polloi) was also in Three Little Pigskins with another up-and-coming actress you may recognize by the name of Lucille Ball.

Trivia

Who says ‘how we gonna shoot golfs without guns’ in Three Little Beers? (A: Curly)
In Three Little Beers Moe says ‘Grab a bag of bats, killer’ to whom? (A: Larry)
He wore the V-neck sweater in Three Little Beers. (A: Larry)

Routines

Press, Press, Pull
The Stooges enter a private place saying that they’re from the press. Each walk by the front desk with a little button saying “Press.” Curly, with his usual brainy self, says, “Pull.” Curly’s button usually has some part of it still attached, as it was ripped off of something in the men’s room

Several things hidden in shirt
Curly has several things hidden inside his shirt. When Moe bops him on the head, however, all the things in his shirt fall out

Production Notes

The outdoor golf scenes were filmed at Rancho Park Golf Course located at 10460 West Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064. Still a functional municipal golf course
The famous ‘barrel chase’ scene was filmed at Scott Avenue and Echo Park Avenue in Los Angeles

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