The Three Stooges Scrapbook
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Genre | Sitcom Television pilot |
Based on | The Three Stooges |
Written by | Elwood Ullman |
Directed by | Sidney Miller |
Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Emil Sitka Marjorie Eaton Edward Innes Albert Grazier |
Narrated by | Don Lamond |
Theme music composer | George Duning Stanley Styne |
Opening theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
Ending theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
Composer | Paul Dunlap |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 1 |
Production | |
Producer | Norman Maurer |
Editor | Chuck Gladden |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production companies | Normany Productions, Inc. |
Release | |
Picture format | 4:3 |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | Unaired |
Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The pilot featured the slapstick trio getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment, looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor (played by Emil Sitka), and presenting an animated short called The Spain Mutiny that imagines the funnymen as part of Christopher Columbus’ crew.[1]
Three Stooges Scrapbook was filmed in color and produced by Norman Maurer (Moe Howard’s son-in-law), who hoped to establish a weekly program for children’s television.[2] When no network wanted to pursue the project as a series, Maurer divided the pilot into two short films that were released to theaters in 1963. Maurer also reprinted the live action scenes in black-and-white and incorporated them into the 1962 feature film The Three Stooges in Orbit.[1]
To date, the original pilot has never been released on home media.
Book[]
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book written by Stooge experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer (Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).[3]
Cast[]
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Joe DeRita as Curly-Joe
- Emil Sitka as Prof. Dolottle
- Marjorie Eaton as Mrs. McGinnis
- Don Lamond as Announcer/Stage Manager
- Edward Innes as Landlord
- Albert Grazier as Butler
Credits[]
- Director: Sidney Miller
- Writer: Elwood Ullman
- Producer: Norman Maurer
- Starring: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita
- Featuring: Emil Sitka, Marjorie Eaton, Don Lamond, Edward Innes, Albert Grazier
- Music Composer and Conductor: Paul Dunlap
- Title Song: George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
- Vocals: The Eligibles
- Director of Photography: Hal McAlpin
- Film Editor: Chuck Gladden
- Assistant Director: Harry Slott
- Chief Electrician: Robert Petzoldt
- Sound Recorder: Leon Leon
- Property Master: Chick Chicetti
- Set Decorator: Frank Lombardo
- Script Supervisor: Joe Franklin
- Makeup: Ted Coodley
- Costumer: Jack Angel
- Grip: Tex Hayes
- Laboratory: Consolidated Film Industries
- Sound: Glen Glenn
- Costume Designer: Sascha Brastoff
See also[]
- Kook's Tour - another unbroadcast Three Stooges pilot from 1970 that was released initially through the home movie market and later on VHS and DVD.
References[]
- ^ a b "The Three Stooges Scrapbook". The Three Stooges Online Filmography. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- ^ Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg (1994). The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8065-0946-5.
- ^ Nathan Cobb (September 26, 1986). "The 3 Stooges: More Than You Wanted to Know About Larry, Moe, Shemp and the Curlys". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
External links[]
- The Three Stooges
- Unaired television pilots
- Television pilots not picked up as a series