Fourth Stooge
Saxon Sitka
live-action Stooge cartoon wrap-arounds. He was also featured in two Three
Stooges television pilots (1949 and 1960). And he almost became a Stooge two
times in the early 1970's. He worked with all four sets of Three Stooges,
including Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe Besser, and Curly-Joe DeRita. He
even worked with each of the replacement Stooges in their solo films before
they became Stooges.
There is an Emil Sitka Fan Club, and its quarterly newsletter is called The
Fourth Stooge. While it is about Emil Sitka, it has a lot of information
about The Three Stooges. It is a print-only newsletter and is not available
(yet) on-line. If you'd like a complimentary copy of a recent issue of The
Fourth Stooge mailed to you, send your address to emilsitk...@mail.com.
For more information, please visit www.emilsitka.com.
Saxon Emil Sitka, President
Emil Sitka Fan Club
James L. Neibaur
>There is an Emil Sitka Fan Club, and its quarterly newsletter is called
>The
>Fourth Stooge. While it is about Emil Sitka, it has a lot of information
>about The Three Stooges.
Your father was my friend. I think it is great that you are helping to keep
his name alive. Of course his work has already proven itself as timeless.
JN
Please visit the most poorly designed web pages online:
my Favorite Movies web page:
http://hometown.aol.com/jimneibr/myhomepage/movies.html
and my Favorite Performers web page:
http://hometown.aol.com/jimneibr/myhomepage/rant.html
Saxon Sitka
for your movie knowledge too. He gave me a copy of your book, "Movie
Comedians The Complete Guide" and inside it he wrote, "To my dear son
Saxon - It is such an honor to be included in this fine book, that I wish
for you to share in some of my "career" that was squeezed in between my
regular hard jobs and bringing up my family. Since it was started before you
were born may you sort of catch up... Dad, Merry Christmas 1986."
As you say, my father's work has proven itself timeless, just as the work
and humor of The Three Stooges lives on. The newsletters I now produce can't
possibly make more of or improve upon the on-screen legacy my father has
left. With the help of my father's diary entries, his personal memoirs, and
his vast collection of mementos, the newsletters do illuminate the
behind-the-scenes and off-screen aspects of his work in Hollywood movies.
For individuals that enjoy knowing more about films than that which comes
across from the final product, my newsletters provide some truly unique
insight. I would love to send you some recent issues if you are interested.
Send me your mailing address.
Saxon Emil Sitka, President
Emil Sitka Fan Club
"James L. Neibaur" <jimn...@aol.comomomomo> wrote in message
news:20021214092704...@mb-cd.aol.com...
James L. Neibaur
>Jim, my father enjoyed your friendship very much, and he had a high regard
>for your movie knowledge too.
That is great to know, but it makes me miss him all the more. No matter what
project I was working on, he was always there and always helped. I did a
reference book on the RKO films before the internet and imdb made researching
those things easy. Your dad worked at the studio often and helped a great deal
in areas that I could never have known otherwise. I know he helped Ted Okuda
and Ed Watz with their book on the Columbia shorts, and also assisted Ted with
his book on Monogram studios (Emil often worked at Monogram with The Bowery
Boys, as well as a few westerns).
I would phone him so my friends could talk to him about the Stooges and he
would delight in telling his various stories. He sent me a card when I was
married, a card and a baby's toy when my son was born, and a moving letter of
condolence when my wife died of Leukemia.
Not a Christmas went by from the time I met him in 1976 to the very end where
he didn't send a card. I kept his last Christmas card to me from 1997 (he died
soon after) and I still put it up among my current cards every year. He was
that good of a friend. Any of us who worked with him in any capacity still miss
him.
I certainly urge any stooge fan to join the Emil fan club.
Ltb3105
Glad to see you posting here again! I've surely missed you. Ahem, I need to
renew my subscription to "The Fourth Stooge", by the by....hehe.
Gary, I need to renew the Stooge Journal too.
"I'm a victim of soycumstance"
Laura
E P
any questions, but I did ask his address as to how I could write a
letter with the questions. He told me the address which was something
"Victory Lane". I was so nervous I asked him to spell it. He responded
by saying (in that gruff character voice of his)
"V-I-K......T...R...Y".....nice to feel the comic nuance 3000 miles
away. I never sent a letter. His response to me on the phone was
enough. The Steve Allen video at the time answered my questions anyway
regarding Emil (Old Man Goodrich) Sitka.
Elmer Pintar
Saxon Sitka
Leisure Village, Camarillo, from 1979 until his death in 1998.
Perhaps he was "in character" as Amos Flint at the time and was putting you
on.
What were the questions you had for him that were answered by the Steve
Allen film?
"E P" <Pin...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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E P
and I won't forget it. And as far as the video, the only question I
really had was "what was it like being with the Stooges?" which he
answered through fried chicken and a Miller Lite.
Elmer Pintar
Saxon Sitka
It is a curious little story and it's easy to see why it was memorable.
"Victory Lane" doesn't sound familiar, but Emil often repeated many of his
Stooge-film lines for fans that called him. Besides the famous "lovebirds"
line, other fan favorites included the "short circuit", " I'm giving you the
air," "Make me young again!," and "singing commercials" lines, which he
would say with the original odd voices of the appropriate characters.
"What was it like being with the Stooges?" was of course one of the most
common questions Emil received. Catch him at dinnertime and you'd get your
answers between bites. If you found Emil's stories on the Steve Allen film
interesting, you may also find the Emil Sitka Fan Club newsletter
interesting. It frequently contains stories from Emil's memoirs and
interviews, and where possible there are diary entries from the days Emil
worked with the Stooges (and other stars). These provide the freshest and
most intimate and immediate impressions of Emil's experiences on the set at
Columbia Pictures' Short Subjects department. The newsletter also presents
lots of studio stills as well as some rare out-of-character photos taken
while the actors were waiting for the "take" to be set up.
E P
Sitka"...I was so damn excited when I saw it...much in the way i saw
"Joe Besser"..whom I called during the same time frame...anyhow, when I
phoned Emil, it could only have been Emil Sitka....that perfect
character actor resonance...and you are right about the "put on"
part..still, maybe Victory Lane was a temporary address for fan mail...
Elmer Pintar