3 stooges in drag?
do...@pdq.net
the Andrews Sisters. Any ideas about where to look. I want to do the
skit for a church function.
Hal Erickson
The Stooges performed in drag in NUTTY BUT NICE (1940), RHYTHM AND
WEEP (1946) and SELF-MADE MAIDS (1951), to name a few, but I don't
believe that they ever consciously imitated the Andrews Sisters. (They
did, however, pose as the Gabor sisters on a late-1950s episode of
TV's MASQUERADE PARTY).
Your wife might be thinking of The Ritz Brothers, who posed as the
Andrews girls in ARGENTINE NIGHTS (1941). There was also a brief
sketch in the 1944 all-serviceman film WINGED VICTORY, in which the
sisters were impersonated by Red Buttons and the Slate Brothers.
Don't let this discourage you, however, from performing the skit you
have in mind. Just the thought of Curly, Larry and Moe miming to a
record of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" or "Beer Barrel Polka" is
uproarious.
--Hal E
do...@pdq.net
thanks for the suggestions. I will try to get copies so we can
rehearse. On Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:34:07 GMT, hl...@execpc.com (Hal
Collins Crapo
do...@pdq.net wrote:
> My wife insists that she has seen the three stooges doing a takeoff on
> the Andrews Sisters. Any ideas about where to look. I want to do the
> skit for a church function.
I don't know about them posing as the Andrewses, but they did dress in drag in
one scene in "Pop Goes The Easel"; according to the back-cover caption for that
videotape, Curly does a Mae West impression during that scene:
"Hiya, tall & handsome. Glad you've come up to see me."
Another drag scene, in "Oily To Bed, Oily To Rise": they dress in women's
clothes to get out of their oil-soaked regular clothes. As they drive the car &
confront the oil swindlers, the swindlers mistake them for women.
SWINDLER: Give me back that deed or I'll punch you in the nose, dame or no
dame!
CURLY: Oh, hit a woman, would you?
--
Collins Crapo
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Dave Bushong
> I don't know about them posing as the Andrewses, but they did dress in drag in
> one scene in "Pop Goes The Easel"; [...]
According to Volk, in "The Films of the Stooges":
"I am Woman." The Stooges weren't transsexuals or transvestites but female
impersonators. Like a lot of men they enjoyed dressing up in women's clothing from
time to time.
The gender bending Stooges cross-dressed in the following films:
Moe: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily To Bed,
Oily to Rise, Nutty but Nice, From Nurse to Worse, Rhythm and Weep
Larry: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily To Bed,
Oily to Rise, Nutty but Nice, From Nurse to Worse, All the World's a Stooge, Higher
than a Kite, Rhythm and Weep
Curly: hree Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Uncivil Warriors, Movie Maniacs,
Whoops I'm an Indian, Wee Wee Monsieur, Mutts to You, Oily To Bed, Oily to Rise,
Nutty but Nice, Matri-Phony, Three Little Twirps, Micro-Phonies, Uncivil WarBirds,
Rhythm and Weep.
(end of quote)
Daniel Volk is a purist and only lists episodes with Curly in them in his book.
Dave
Charles Ring
>
> Collins Crapo wrote:
>
> > I don't know about them posing as the Andrewses, but they did dress in drag in
> > one scene in "Pop Goes The Easel"; [...]
>
> According to Volk, in "The Films of the Stooges":
>
> "I am Woman." The Stooges weren't transsexuals or transvestites but female
> impersonators. Like a lot of men they enjoyed dressing up in women's clothing from
> time to time.
>
> The gender bending Stooges cross-dressed in the following films:
>
> Moe: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily To Bed,
> Oily to Rise, Nutty but Nice, From Nurse to Worse, Rhythm and Weep
>
> Larry: Three Little Pigskins, Pop Goes the Easel, Wee Wee Monsieur, Oily To Bed,
> Oily to Rise, Nutty but Nice, From Nurse to Worse, All the World's a Stooge, Higher
> than a Kite, Rhythm and Weep
>
Which one was it where all three Stooges are dressed as little girls and
Larry is called "Little Mabel", which happens to be his real wife's
name?
J3L2404
>Which one was it where all three Stooges are dressed as little girls and
>Larry is called "Little Mabel", which happens to be his real wife's
>name?
>
>
I believe you're thinking of "All The World's A Stooge."
Now perhaps someone could help me out with the name of the short where Larry
appears as the poor man's Carmen Miranda - except he calls himself "Moronica".
My mind's a blank. :)
-- Catherine
Hal Erickson
>Now perhaps someone could help me out with the name of the short where Larry
>appears as the poor man's Carmen Miranda - except he calls himself "Moronica".
>My mind's a blank. :)
>-- Catherine
That was HIGHER THAN A KITE (1943), and I think that Larry was
spoofing Veronica Lake, complete with "peekaboo bang". It was a ploy
to throw Nazi chieftan Vernon Dent off the scent.
--Hal E
J3L2404
>spoofing Veronica Lake, complete with "peekaboo bang".
I think you're right; I completely forgot about the "peekaboo bang". What
threw me was that I remembered him wearing a turban or something on his head -
but Carmen Miranda wore fruit, not a turban...oh, phooey...
I always got a kick out of the name "Moronica", though. And the name Larry
goes by in "Pop Goes The Easel", when he's introduced as Curly's "sister" -
"Crummette".
-- Catherine
THarri3779
>goes by in "Pop Goes The Easel", when he's introduced as Curly's "sister" -
>"Crummette".
>
>-- Catherine
>
is my mother." The look the Moe shoots him is priceless.
JManley
tharr...@aol.com (THarri3779) wrote:
Is this the scene where Larry (I think) says "Oh Mother, I'm gonna tell
Father on you, woo woo woo woo." That cracks me up.