The Three Stooges Scrapbook
1960 unsold American television miniseries starring the Three Stooges
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The Three Stooges Scrapbook is an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade advertisements, the show's title is spelled without "The", including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The episode's plot finds the men evicted from a rooming house and finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor (played by Emil Sitka). Later, the trio dashes off to a television studio to host their new series ("Three Stooges Scrapbook"). Part of the show within a show is an animated short called It's Mutiny that imagines them as part of Christopher Columbus' crew.[1]
| The Three Stooges Scrapbook | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Sitcom Comedy |
| 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 Mel Blanc (uncredited) |
| 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 | Normandy Productions, Inc. |
The 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 wished 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]
The complete pilot was released as a bonus feature on Sony's The Three Stooges 20-Disc Blu-Ray Collection.[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
- Mel Blanc as the voice of Christopher Columbus, Manuel, and the Chief (uncredited)
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
- Associate Producer: Pat Somerset
- 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
Book
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book written by Three Stooges experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer (Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).[4]
See also
- Kook's Tour – another unaired Three Stooges pilot from 1970 that was initially released through the home-movie market and later on VHS and DVD.