Rl.
Mar. 28 / Prod. No. 4252 / 16
m / p d Jules White
/ st scr Felix
Adler / ph Irving
Lippman / e Harold White / a
Paul Palmentola / sd Dave
Montrose / ad Irving Moore / C:
Nanette Bordeaux (May), Jeanne Carmen (Mary), Ruth Godfrey White (Leona),
Suzanne Ridgeway (Jane), Harriette Tarler (Letty), Diana Darrin (Jill)
and Frank Sully (Waiter)
SYN:
This is a story of nine brothers,
three sets of identical triplets born 1 year apart, who have lost
track of each other since shoving off to war. Moe, Larry and Joe are
but one set of triplets trying to make sense of love and women. Unbeknownst
to them, their long-lost brothers are living in the same city...and
everyone seems to arrive where someone else's women are waiting for
them. The mix-up starts when Moe, Larry and Joe meet up with the wives
of their brothers Louis, Max and Jack, in a nightclub, much to the
consternation of a very confused waiter. There are so many cases of
mistaken identity and havoc unfolding that anyone sitting through
A Merry Mix-up will soon be seeing triple.
Quick
Hits:
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Did you know that the second to last
shot in A Merry Mix-Up was carefully exposed three different times
to achieve the effect of Moe, Larry and Joe as the three sets of
triplets standing side by side? For each section of film exposed,
each Stooge had his own marker on the floor to stand behind. A real
merry mix-up developed when Jules White believed Larry was standing
behind the wrong marker as compared to the previous exposure. Larry
insisted that Jules was wrong and that he was standing in the right
spot. Fortunately, Jules listened to Larry, who proved to be right.
If Jules hadn't listened, the studio would have had to spend thousands
of dollars for a retake.
WT:
A Merry Marriage Mix-Up / SD:
3 (dates not listed) / FN: A reworking
of Our Relations (1936) with Laurel and Hardy. For the ending,
screenwriter Felix Adler suggested that the waiter hit himself over
the head with a champagne bottle instead of a meat cleaver (probably
a very good suggestion).
