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Columbia Shorts 1941

58. IN THE SWEET PIE AND PIE

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Rl. Oct. 16 / Prod. No. 482 / 17 m / p d Jules White / st Ewart Adamson / scr Clyde Bruckman / ph George Meehan / e Jerome Thoms / C: Dorothy Appleby (Tiska), Mary Ainslee (Taska), Etheldra Leopold (Baska), John Tyrell (Radio Announcer), Symona Boniface (Mrs. Gotrocks), Vernon Dent (Party Guest), Eddie Laughton (Williams, the Butler) and Bert Young (Guard)

SYN: Tiska, Taska, and Baska three beautiful sisters must be married by midnight to collect a ten -million-dollar legacy. At the advice of their attorney, the girls marry Larry, Moe, and Curly, three convicts facing a public hanging for the Mushroom Murders (which they are falsely accused). The ladies plan to collect their dough, and of course, the Stooges are supposed to be ousted from the picture the next day when they slip on a rope for a necktie. During the execution, the ropes break as the weight of all three Stooges is too much to handle. Meanwhile, Micky Finn and his gang (the real murderers) have confessed to the Mushroom Murders and the governor pardons our boys. They eventually track down their aristocratic wives to find that they are not too pleased at their arrival. The Stooges quickly catch on to their scheme and decide that in order to stay married they must become society gentlemen by taking dancing lessons. Then, at the first social dig of the year, the Stooges' wives (and of course their money-hungry attorney) concoct a plan to get themselves off the hook. Knowing the Stooges are bound to embarrass them in front of all of their society friends, they would have proof and witnesses as well as grounds for divorce. But when the plan fails miserably, the ladies conclude that their attorney is the cause of all their grief and decide to stay married.

Quick Hits:

- Larry Fine recalled the most grueling scenes in this film involved Pies:

"Sometimes we would run out of pies, so the prop man would sweep up the pie goop off the floor, complete with nails, splinters, and tacks. Another problem was pretending you didn't know a pie was coming your way. To solve this, Jules would tell me 'Now Larry, Moe is going to smack you with a pie on the count of three.' Then Jules would tell Moe, 'Hit Larry on the count of two!' So when it came time to counting, I never got to three, because Moe crowned me with a pie!"

WT: Well, I'll Be Hanged / FN: Footage reused in Beer Barrel Polecats (1/10/46). Dance-lesson sequence was from Hoi Polloi (8/29/35). Gag of Larry shaving while society matron is applying her makeup is adapted from Hoi Polloi as well.