The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy troupe active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical
The Three Stooges in 1937: (clockwise from left) Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Moe Howard
Lobby card with Healy, Joan Crawford and the Stooges in MGM's Dancing Lady (1933)
A thinner Curly (with a full head of hair and false handlebar mustache) as the cook in Malice in the Palace (1949) with Larry, Moe and Shemp: Curly's scene was deleted from the final release.
Moe and Larry with Shemp (center) from Malice in the Palace (1949)
Shemp Howard was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the third Stooge in The Three Stooges, a role he played when the act began in the early 1920s, while it was still associated with T
The Three Stooges
…the act's run, with only three working at any given time. The two constants were Moe Howard and Larry Fine. The "third stooge" was played in turn by Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Joe Besser, and "Curly Joe" DeRita. The act began in 1922 as part of a vaudeville comedy act consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe…
Shemp with his younger brother Moe Howard and partner Larry Fine in Sing a Song of Six Pants in 1947
Shemp in Brideless Groom in 1947
Shemp's indoor mausoleum crypt at Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California