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  Curly
Curly was born on October 22, 1903 to Jennie and Solomon Horwitz, the youngest and fifth of the Horwitz brothers.
Curly was married for the first at age 17 to a woman whose identity is still unknown.
Curly Howard, considered to be the funniest Stooge, was an inspiration to comedians decades later.
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 Jerome "Curly" Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Curly's grave is about 50 feet west of the road, and about 225 feet from the fence at the southern edge of the cemetery.
Curly was the rotund, bald Stooge who was usually on the receiving end of most of the physical abuse from his fellow Stooge and older brother, Moe Howard, whether being hit on the head by a sledge hammer, poked in the eyes, or grabbed by the nose with a pair of pliers.
Curly was adept at both physical and verbal comedy, and many of today's top comedians and actors credit him as their inspiration.
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 Jerome (Curly) Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Being that Curly was the big social butterfly and, like his brothers Moe and Shemp, had a serious love of acting, it is believed that he did not finish high school.
Curly got his big break in 1932, when his brother Shemp left the stooges act because he was fed up with Ted Healy, the original leader of the stooges.
It is called "Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge." It was written in 1985 by Moe's daughter and Curly's niece, Joan Howard Maurer.
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 Curly Howard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Curly was born in Bath Beach, a summer resort in a section of Brooklyn, New York.
Curly, accompanied by Moe, was rushed to the hospital, while Jules White quietly scrambled to shoot the final scene around Curly's absence.
Curly's movements were said to have inspired Disney animators for some of the choreography in the mushroom dance in Fantasia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Curly_Howard   (1665 words)

  
 The Three Stooges Official Website
Curly at the time was known as "Babe." When Babe showed up to talk to Healy to join the act he had long wavy brown hair and a mustache.
Later, in 1934, Curly along with Larry and Moe performed in many of the shorts that were produced for Columbia Pictures.
Finally, in 1949, Curly's health took a severe turn for the worse when he suffered his second in a series of strokes and was rushed to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood.
www.threestooges.com /bios/bios.asp?intStoogeID=3   (399 words)

  
 The Three Stooges - Curly Howard
Curly Howard, the one with the shaven head which Moe referred to as "looking like a dirty tennis ball," was the most popular member of the Three Stooges and the most inventive of the three.
Curly was confined to a wheelchair and doctors put him on a diet of boiled rice and apples.
Curly Howard is gone and one can only wonder what it would have been like if he had lived and worked with the Stooges through the 1960's.
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Curly Howard was born Jerome Horwitz, October 22, 1903 in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, New York.
Curly is also buried in Home of Peace Memorial Park in Los Angeles, CA, in a marked grave in the furthest back corner of the cemetery.
John Howard was taken prisoner (18?) June 1776 in NY and tried on his general character, a consequence for his allegiance to the King.
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 The Three Stooges trivia
Jerome "Curly" Howard, the rotund, bald Stooge with the high voice was the most popular member of the Three Stooges.
Curly also filmed a scene for the Three Stooges short Malice in the Palace (1949) as a chef, but was left on the cutting room floor.
When Shemp finally had to replace Curly, it was Larry who insisted that each member give $50 of their weekly salary to support Curly who could not work on account of his strokes.
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 Curly Howard bio, biography, curly howard information, three stooges bio, info
Curly- Jerome, to complicate matters, was nicknamed "Babe" by his brother Moe.
Larry Fine once remarked that Curly wore a hat in public to confirm an image of masculinity, since he felt like a little kid with his hair shaved off Curly was also unable to save a cent.
One house Curly purchased was on Cahuenga Boulevard and Sarah Street in North Hollywood and was purchased from child star Sabu.
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 Amazon.ca: Three Stooges #27:Pirates: Video: Edward Bernds,Curly Howard,Larry Fine,Moe Howard,Christine McIntyre,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The last memorable performance by Curly redeems some of the shortcomings of this tape, unless the sight of white comediens in fl face is something you consider to be beyond the pale.
One of the best stooge shorts even though Curly was ill during the time but he gives his last great performance and the Majah routine is a routine, but the stooges next short is when Curly suffers a major stroke, the best short on this tape.
Curly was in his prime in this short, and the music-box scene is a scream.
www.amazon.ca /Three-Stooges-27-Larry-Fine/dp/6301574621   (1113 words)

  
 Curly Howard Bio
Curly instantly fell in love with her and they were married in New York on October 17, 1945.
Curly was fat but he was always immaculate.
In December; the hospital supervisor advised the family that Curly was becoming a problem to the nursing staff due to mental deterioration and that they could no longer care for him.
www.stoogeworld.com /_Biographies/Curly.htm   (2939 words)

  
 Three Stooges Celebriducks for the Connoisseur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Curly, the funniest and most famous of The Three Stooges, was born Jerome Lester Horwitz.
We told him that our stage name was Howard and Howard, which sounded better than Horwitz and Horwitz, and we were hired for thirty dollars for three days—for the two of us.
"Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge." Written in 1985 by Moe's daughter and Curly's niece, Joan Howard Maurer.
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 Biography for Curly Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Curly joined the Three Stooges in 1932, replacing his brother Shemp Howard.
Curly was the youngest of the three Howard brothers--the others being Moe and Shemp--and his mother always called him "My Baby." His brothers shortened it to "Babe" and used it to constantly tease him.
In 1984, 'Curly' was immortalized with "The Curly Shuffle," a tribute and homage to Jerome 'Curly' Horowitz (Howard) written by the comedy group "Jump in the Saddle;" and accompanied by a music video containing the best of the best from the "Three Stooges" clips featuring the late comedian.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0397219/bio   (883 words)

  
 Three Stooges - Free net encyclopedia
According to Moe Howard in his autobiography, Moe Howard and the Three Stooges, the Stooges split with Ted Healy in 1934 once and for all because of his alcoholism and abrasiveness.
Curly suffered a stroke on May 6, 1946, during the filming of Half-wits' Holiday, curtailing his output at 97 shorts.
Shemp Howard was hesitant to rejoin the Stooges, as he had a successful solo career going at the time of Curly's untimely illness.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Three_Stooges   (4282 words)

  
 AMCTV.com - The Three Stooges biography
Moe Howard was the cranky boss, always barking orders and taking responsibility for situations that are inevitably bound for doom.
Jerry "Curly" Howard was the naove whipping boy of the troop, though no one has ever matched Curly's ability to perform the frustrated scapegoat so innocently and unironically.
Playing the irreverent "Curly," the bald man without a plan took the role by storm, vaulting the Three Stooges to heretofore unseen comedic heights.
www.amctv.com /article?CID=1241-1--0-11-EST   (580 words)

  
 Three Stooges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Curly's cameo appearance was recycled in the 1953 remake Booty and the Beast) According to The Three Stooges Journal, a scene was written for 1949's 'Malice in the Palace' in which Curly appears as a chef.
Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack (or stroke, or cerebral hemorrhage, depending on the publication) at age 60 on November 22, 1955.
In 1999's The Mummy, Rick O'Connell uses Moe's eyegouging gag on one of the revenant mummy swordsmen in the the chambers underneath the statue of Anubis in Hamunaptra.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Stooges   (6138 words)

  
 Visiting Curly Howard's Grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Curly, along with brother shemp, is interred in a Jewish Cemetery on Whittier Blvd, in an interesting section of East Los Angeles.
On curly's grave, you can see fans have spelled out 'Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk' in pennies on his grave.
One of his customers lives up 5 flights of stairs and by the time Curly arrives at the top of the stairs with the ice block he finds his ice tongs now hold
www.rickyjohn.com /year2002/curly.htm   (138 words)

  
 b-independent articles
A Howard in-law also said some thing to the effect that, Babe wasn't particuilarly gregarious, when he wasn't with his brothers, Moe and Shemp...
But it seems impossible to imagine that someone with Curly's verbal, and other performing abilities, didn't have some type of innate smarts (particularly when one considers that many of his ad-libs, particularly the Yiddish expressions that Curly would throw in-- were almost ALWAYS aprapos--AND funny!).
The most remarkable aspect of Curly's "story," to me, at least, is how his comic genius was just, apparently, lying there unexplored for years...
www.b-independent.com /articles/curly.htm   (698 words)

  
 Curly Howard Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bald-headed long before Kojak made it acceptable for film performers, the portly Curly Howard (born Jerome Lester Horwitz) is possible the most popular of The Three Stooges, performing in 97 of the two-reel shorts the trio made at Columbia.
His persona was of a child-like bumbler whose faux tough-guy stance quickly faded by the appearance of his own shadow and whose ineptitude often triggered the knockabout slapstick of the group.
Unable to perform after that, Curly made an appearance (with hair) as a snoozing passenger on a train in the 1947 short "Hold That Lion," then went into a further decline in health until his death in 1952 at age 48.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/188539   (382 words)

  
 YouTube - Rare Curly - Curly Howard - 3 Stooges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The lines are surprisingly risqué for what we consider a film from the 1930's, but this was made before the Hayes Office clamped the censorship lid down.
Curly's gags are almost all lascivious in their manner, but still manage to be charmingly silly.
Check out the clip, a couple of the gags are okay, but the last one falls perfectly flat.
youtube.com /watch?v=AwCVIy5AxIk   (220 words)

  
 Moe Howard
) when Curly accidentally sets off a bomb while re-enacting their capture of some spies; they are shown as angels sitting on clouds with harps afterwards.
) when Curly detonates an explosive cueball that Mary Ainslee had planted on Moe's pool table.
Their heads are shown mounted as trophies on the wall afterwards.
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 DVD Pacific
These rare glimpses of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe DeRita in color were shot in 1965 as live-action scenes for The New Three Stooges cartoon show, representing the team at the peak of its popularity.
While cleaning a musty mansion, they discover a suit of armor that appears to be inhabited, and Moe matches wits with a checker-playing chimp (we wont' tell you who wins) as the boys play zany zookeepers.
They wreak havoc on a golf course, the open road, a fishing boat, a camping trip, an airport scale, and the beach, and as perplexed paperhangers, foolish photographers, short-tempered chefs, and dim-bulb doctors.
www.dvdpacific.com /item.asp?ID=3424   (373 words)

  
 Moe Howard and The Three Stooges
It was handwritten and from the head Stooge himself, Moe Howard.
It was fascinating to learn more about people who had been so familiar to me. There was not a kid in America who did not feel a special kinship to the Three Stooges...and here I was visiting with Moe in his home.
He also said that Curly was a very gentle and loving man. Unfortunately, Curly suffered a series of strokes in his early forties and was forced to leave the act in 1946.
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 The Three Stooges: Cops and Robbers (2002): Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard - PopMatters Film Review
Not only have the Howard brothers (Moe, Curly, Shemp, with Larry Fine) passed on their brand of entertainment to the Farrellys (in films like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary); their stamp can also be found, coincidentally, on the work of another successful team of siblings: the Zucker brothers, whose Airplane!
After bungling their way through the investigation (poking and punching one another along the way), they glue fl mattress stuffing onto a stray dog to pass it off as the stolen poodle: mayhem ensues.
In Disorder in the Court (1936), Larry, Curly, and Moe are called to testify at a murder trial.
www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/t/three-stooges-cops-and-robbers.shtml   (1050 words)

  
 Moe, Larry And Curly
Moe was Harry Moses Howard but he had formerly been named Horwitz.
Shemp was replaced by his brother Curly Howard.
Things were going pretty well for them until 1945 when Curly suffered a stroke.
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 ThreeStooges.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Larry takes his bride with him on a sales trip/honeymoon and tries to hide his marriage from Moe and Curly, who happen to be on the train.
At Los Arms Hospital, three brainless interns - Doctors Howard, Fine and Howard - promise Dr. Graves, the hospital superintendent, that they will devote the rest of their lives to "duty and humanity!" They are instructed to rush to any room whenever "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" is heard over the loudspeaker.
Moe, Larry and Curly are three out-of-work tramps who are hired to promote a university football team.
threestooges.net /filmography.php?team=COL   (1642 words)

  
 Curly Howard Posters: "Three Stooges" poster and 1 more.
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 Curly Howard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 newsobserver.com | Headbutt: A Norman Mailer, Curly Howard thing
And former pro basketball and MTV star Dennis Rodman was suspended six games for headbutting an NBA referee in 1996.
But the headbutting bar was set highest by Curly Howard of the Three Stooges when he knocked a bull out with his head in one episode.
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