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 | | Healy preferred his stooges short, stupid-looking and adorned with bizarre hairstyles -- Moe, Shemp and Larry fit the first two qualifications naturally, meeting the third requirement by having Moe wear a Beatles-style trim, Shemp an unkempt mop of hair split down the middle, and Larry a frizzy Einstein-like hairdo. |
 | | Ted Healy and his Stooges hit Broadway in the late 1920s in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and when Healy made his first film, Soup to Nuts (1930), the Stooges appeared (with a fourth member, Fred Sanborn), as "the Racketeers." Shemp disliked Healy and dropped out of the act to become a solo. |
 | | As always, the Stooge humor was a matter of taste, but even nonfans enjoyed such nonsensical outings as The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1963) and The Outlaws is Coming (1965). |
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