Shemp Howard — Actor (21)
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Pittsburgh (1942) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Pittsburgh
director: Lewis Seiler actor: Marlene Dietrich / Randolph Scott …
other title: La febbre dell'oro nero / Sangue Negro …
Charles 'Pittsburgh' Markham rides roughshod over his friends, his lovers, and his ideals in his trek toward financial success in the Pittsburgh steel industry, only to find himself deserted and lonely at the top. When his crash comes, he finds that fate has dealt him a second chance.
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All Gummed Up (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
All Gummed Up
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The Stooges run a drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by Amos Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks his wife out for being too old, the Stooges try to help her by inventing a formula that makes old people young. Their concoction turns the wife into a beautiful young woman, and Flint offers the boys the store for free if they'll transform him as well. They agree, but after he swallows the stuff he turns into an infant, and the boys leave on the run.
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Fiddlers Three (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fiddlers Three
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges are musicians at the court of King Cole. When they ask the king's permission to marry their sweethearts, the King agrees, but only after Princess Alicia has married Prince Valiant. This news upsets Mergatroyd, an evil magician who plans to marry the Princess himself and rule the Kingdom. Mergatroyd abducts the Princess, and it's up to the stooges to foil his plans and expose his evil doings.
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Crazy House (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crazy House
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Ole Olsen / Chic Johnson …
other title: Fantasmas rumberos / Symphonie loufoque
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
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Absorbing Junior (1936) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Absorbing Junior
director: Lloyd French actor: Shemp Howard / John Berkes …
Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.
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Who Done It? (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Who Done It?
director: Edward Bernds actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
The stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man.
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The Knife of the Party (1934) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Knife of the Party
director: Leigh Jason actor: Lillian Miles / Jack Goode …
A Theatrical Company is facing bankruptcy while being stuck in a hostile town, miles from home, in a hotel where they are already well in arrears in payment of their bills. The whole plot revolves around the troupe having to work in order to compensate the Hotel owner.
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Africa Screams (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Africa Screams
director: Charles Barton actor: Bud Abbott / Lou Costello …
other title: Africa strilla / Abbott und Costello Verrücktes Afrika …
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.
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Corny Casanovas (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Corny Casanovas
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Moe Howard …
The stooges don't know it, but they are all engaged to the same girl, a gold-digger who plans to get an engagement ring from each of them and then abandon them. When all three show up at her house at the same time, a wild fight ensues, as each stooge accuses the others of making time with "his" girl. The stooges knock each other senseless and the girl escapes with their rings.
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Malice in the Palace (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Malice in the Palace
director: Jules White actor: Shemp Howard / Larry Fine …
other title: Arglist im Palast
Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contraband jewel. They journey to the stronghold of Shmo where they disguise as Santa Clauses and scare the ruler into giving them the diamond.