true. the mean, bossy, aggressive character that Moe played was just that-a fictional character played by a great actor. by all accounts, the real-life Moe was one of the nicest, kindest persons ever!
I first heard this interview 30 years ago, I was given a CD by another fan, which I still have somewhere. This is the BEST Moe Howard interview ever recorded. He tells the story so plainly and so gentleman and humbly. This was Moe Howard. Harry Cohn mistreated them for 24 years. Hollywood did not make Moe Howard rich. He was a businessman. And never a negative thing to say about anyone. I looked up to this man as a child and as an adult.
Moe Howard, what a fantastic human being. So grateful for him and the rest of the boys for sharing their gift of comedy to the world. During one of Moe's last interviews there was a comment that I'll never forget..."with a little luck, I think the 3 Stooges will live on forever" Rest in peace Moe Larry Curly Shemp Joe Curly Joe Ted Healy and Emil Sitka 💙
How incredible! I am sure that Paul was overjoyed to hear this. I will never forget the "Stooge Shorts" that played in the Chicago area as I was growing up in the 1970's. I remember when Moe died in 1975. I cried my eyes out, and still have the newspaper clipping.
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Moe was far from the Stooge that appeared onscreen. This interview is typical of his down-to-earth look at his life and career, and you can tell how seriously he took the business of making us laugh, and for which I will always be grateful. Rest well, Moe -- you earned every bit of it!
His memory is either failing in this interview, or he is being untruthful. Ken Lakey was a stooge for Healy before Moe and Shemp joined, as was a three person dance act, Syncopated Toes. Healy wasn't even in big-time vaudeville in 1922. In 1923 Healy married his first wife, Betty Braun, and formed the act Ted and Betty Healy. They were playing the Keith Circuit in New York in autumn 1923 when Moe and Shemp joined. The pear incident wasn't spontaneous; it was part of the act. Moe and Shemp each married in early 1925. They left Healy's act in spring 1925 because they didn't want to go on an Orpheum Circuit tour that would take them away from the east coast and their new brides. Moe then stayed out of show business until 1929. Shemp rejoined Ted and Betty Healy in 1926 and became his most important of several stooges. Shemp left Healy in 1928 to try his own act in small-time vaudeville, and Larry was hired to replace him. Shemp returned before the year ended. By this time, Betty had retired due to strained marital relations after Ted had a high profile affair with a socialite. The first time Shemp, Larry and Moe appeared together as Healy's stooges was in Cleveland in 1929. They starred in A Night in Venice on Broadway in 1929 as Ted Healy and his Racketeers. During the run of that revue Fred Sanborn became the fourth Racketeer. Howard, Fine and Howard left Healy in 1931 to try their luck as a vaudeville act. They performed Healy's material in a new west coast vaudeville circuit that was primarily movie houses with a few live acts. Healy had to sue over the material, but the court ruled in Howard, Fine and Howard's favor because the Shuberts, not Healy, owed the material that Ted wrote for their revues. Meanwhile, Healy was back on Broadway with other stooges for other producers. Howard, Fine and Howard returned to Healy's act in 1932. They opened in out of town tryouts for The Passing Show of 1932 when the producers, the Shubert brothers again, violated Healy's contract. Healy walked out. Shemp stayed with the show, and Larry and Moe went with Healy. After a brief return of Fred Sanborn, Curly joined the act.
I used to watch him during school lunch hour. My grade school, during the fifties didn't have a lunch program. We had an hour to go home to eat. As we ate, we had a program called Captain Penny. Ron Penfound, a local newscaster hosted the show dressed as a railroad engineer. He would have interesting guests and show old cartoons and comedy shorts. Among those shorts were lots of three stooges' films. That was where I first saw Larry and Moe as live persons. As soon as they learned that their films were being shown on children's shows, they made a tour of those shows telling all the children, "Don't do those things you see us doing on the screen. We're trained professional stunt men and we know how to do those tricks without hurting each other." Those appearances left me with some respect for those guys. They didn't have to do that. They did it out of a sense of personal responsibility.
@@emmitstewart1921 Did the same thing myself between 70-73 in L.A. on Channel 52 after school. We watched the Stooges, The Little Rascals, Speed Racer, Kimba, etc.
I remember going home for lunch from school 🏫 too one hour only - Speed Racer The Monkees and the Stooges on Saturday night. A dreamy life for a 12 year old kid in 1978.
I too met Moe in 1975 at a Radio Station, he gave me his home Encino phone number so I could play an Audio recording for him, even putting his wife on the phone. I wish I would have kept in contact but he died shortly after. Thanks for posting this
sfel10 wow that to me would have been such a privilege but I was only around 2 or 3 years old then LOL. I would have liked to met any of them. that's awesome that you did meet him.
I met Larry at the Motion Picture Country Home where he graciously allowed me to interview him. Sweet and gentle man. I wish I could be met Moe. He was the stooge I had a crush on when I was a little girl!
What a true gentleman. He was nothing like his on screen persona. I grew up watching the Stooges and still watch them today. Great comedy. Actually saw them live on stage at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Baltimore in 1959. My father had me on his shoulders so I could see the stage. They even took questions from the audience. I remember a woman in the crowd asked about all the slapping and eye poking and Moe took the time to demonstrate how it was safely done but enhanced with sound affects in the Columbia shorts. Before Moe passed he did a few appearances on the Mike Doulas Show which are well worth watching. He even demonstrated his pie throwing technique.
Moe passed away when I was a senior in high school. I wasn't into The Three Stooges much until 2020 when I bought the complete DVD collection of short features. Prior to that, I only had a VHS tape or two. Since buying the DVD collection, I've watched them all, in chronological order, straight through, *three* times. Now, I'll put one DVD on, watch nothing but that all evening, often watching each feature multiple times, knowing the lines by heart. It's amazing how much funny stuff they crammed into about 16 minutes. Their timing, expressions (e.g. Larry knocked out at the phone booth in Brideless Groom. 😂🤣😂!), the sound effects, I just enjoy and appreciate every second of their short features. They also had a GREAT group of recurring character actors, Emil Sitka (who I'll never forget after first seeing him as Sappington get that pie in the face and carrying on as if nothing had happened.😂), Dudley Dickerson (whether as a cook putting up with the Stooges destruction of the house, a watchman or a porter.😂), Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald (Give me the anesthetic. Well give it to me!! 🔨"🔔"), Stanley Blystone (I think of him whenever somebody says short ribs or creamed chip beef on toast. Poor Larry!😂), Gene Roth (Give me that filim!), Cy Schindell (steamed & pressed, or knocked out with two bricks, as a cop, or getting an Rx.), Tiny Brauer, and Symona Boniface ("Sword of Damocles" and getting ⬇️pied⬇️).😂🤣😂 I'm due for a fourth rewatch. 😉😁
He possess such a sharp memory at an advanced age . Same was true when he appeared on the Mike Douglas Show. I was enthralled back when he went on the Douglas show . Thanks for posting this .
When I was a teenager, every saturday afternoon i went to my parents bedroom to watch in their TV The 3 Stooges. I remember i laughed so hard ! And, my mother, while washing, said: "God bless this laughing,wish you never loose it". God Bless my beloved mother and 3 Stooges for this memories ! Love Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp !
He sure was interesting and candid, and his memory was exemplary. Wish I could have met him back in the early 70s ... I understand that he always welcomed seeing and speaking with his fans.
RIP God Rest Your Soul Moe Larry Shemp & Curly U Guy's R Definitely Missed But Lucky For Us Stooges Fan's We Got Laughter For Watching Y'alls Episodes On RU-vid OR On DVD
moe howard sir. when i die someday, i am gonna take all my happy memories into my grave. i am very much thankful to three stooges for giving me such happy memories of my childhood. i used to watch the show when i was a child and still watch it at the age of 34 . this show never gets old. my son will watch it as he grows up. thankyou uploader for another wonderful memory. i love moe curly and larry.
Moe, thank you for making me laugh all of these years. Those were some dark times for me but you three made life so much better. God bless you and yours. Much love and respect.
Can you imagine what Three Stooges outtakes look like? Of course back in those days when everything was on film they didn't want to waste too much and did as few takes as possible.
I am amazed at this man's memory-sharp as a tack in his senior years, recalling names, dates, personalities, writers, directors, timelines, long defunct studio names and locations and details on movies, productions, contributors as if they had all had just recently happened to Moe, and not the 40-60+ years ago as he recounted here. Meanwhile there are those in my own life not half that time ago, the kind of persons that at the time it's so easy to think 'I could never forget this person, no way, not ever' only to do exactly that...what was his/her/their names again, when was that anyway, must have been around..." But Moe? He had a mind like a steel trap. Moe: Born: Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Died: May 4, 1975, Los Angeles, California, U.S. 10:55 "Broncho Billy" Anderson was the stage name of Gilbert Maxwell Aronson, America's first cowboy movie star. Anderson pioneered the genre that eventually produced stars such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, and Tom Mix. Anderson also worked behind the camera as a director and producer and developed production techniques still in use today. (Passed: January 20, 1971, South Pasadena, California 1971)
Used to go by his home by boat as a kid with my dad, on Grapevine Lake in Texas. He would be sitting outside on his deck, in the sun. I was very young, but my dad told me who he was and introduced me to the Three Stooges. Still love them to this day and think about those days on the lake cruising by. He always waved back.
l was so happy for the boys when l watched a documentary and found out there was a HUGE outpouring of love and excitement among the grown up fans who brought *their* kids along when their career revived and they did live personal stage appearances. very heartwarming to know that.
He reminds me of conversations I had with my grandfather ..always interesting and very personal, peppered with hundreds of lovely memories of events and friends and family
I've read and frequently reread Mr. Lamparski's "Whatever Became Of..." books. Even as a twelve-year-old I had an insatiable appetite for old-timey entertainers whether they be silent film stars, vaudeville legends or, well, the Three Stooges. I confess I had never heard Mr. Lamparski's voice before and it's quite wonderful.
The Three Stooges are remembered for their slapstick, but they also did excellent parodies of popular movies of the day. Their short, "Disorder In The Court", was a direct parody of a now unknown movie called "The Drag-Net". "Men in Black" parodied medical drama, "Men in White." And the short "Punch Drunks" (featuring Curly as K O Stradavarius) was a take-off on the Warner Brothers classic, "Kid Galahad."
Yes absolutely. And interviews with Shemp and Curly do not exist, that I know of.. I've never seen Shemp out of character; although they say he wasn't a lot different. Always joking and laughing. Curly was very shy and quiet, and probably would not have interviewed if Moe wasn't alongside him.
@@miketapley6445 Shemp was laughing and joking the night he died. He was laughing after having told a joke when he suddenly slumped over into his friend Al Winston's lap, burning him with the cigar he had just lit. Shemp was gone at the age of 60.
I grew up as a kid in the eighties and loved these guys from day one! For the life of me I could never understand why most women disliked them so much? I think they were misunderstood by many people. They brought me a lot of joy in my childhood
@@Jondsmusic cool :) i USED to have a TON of 3 stooges stuff but most of it got lost when i moved or went down south carolina for the summer only things i have now are some vhs dvds n the 3 stooges dolls from spunko
Listening to Moe in this and other interviews from later in his life, one would never imagine that this was a guy who dropped out of high school after just two months. He was not uneducated. Far from it. He just educated himself. It's well-known that he was fond of Horatio Alger books as a kid. He was so intelligent that he was likely just plain bored at school and didn't feel like he needed it, and his career and his life proved him right. One of the indicators of his brilliance is the fact that he could play a dim-witted stooge - a personality completely opposite of his own - and make it believable and entertaining, and he did so for decades.
Moe Howard knew a whole lotta stuff from way back then before he started doing his film's ain't to many people knew stuff from way back In the day's like ol Moe Howard
One would never know by looking at the Three Stooges films but all of them were actually quite good looking in their younger days in regular clothes. I love this!
48yrs old... Watched my entire life. Curly of course was always fav. But now... Moe was an amazing comedic presence. Moe was genius and his one liners.... What a once in a life time combination of comedic talent. To this day.... Unmatched "WAKE UP AND GO TO SLEEP" 😂
I know this is late 1970s because Moe mentions he is going to the Philippines, which is where they were planning on filming a WWII-themed movie, with Emil Sitka in Larry's role after his stroke. It's a shame they never made the film!
Correct. For some reason I thought your posting said 1974. I must have been tired. A previous posting read "This wouldn't have been conducted in the late 70's as Moe died in 1975." They simply read my description incorrect.
No, this interview is not from the late 1970s; it's from late 1970. See how the 's' makes the difference? And no, it's not a shame they never made the film; it's a blessing. DeRita (age 60) and Moe (over 70) were both too old to be believable as soldiers in a P.O.W. camp. Larry's stroke in 1970 marked an appropriate end to the act. Moe mentions in this interview that audiences didn't like to see old people get hit with pies. That's true, and by this point, Moe and Curly-Joe were just too old to engage in the physical mayhem for which the Stooges were famous.
What strikes me with this interview is how alert and smart this dude is in his later years…he is dropping names and details of events from 40 and 50 years ago like it was last week….a testament to staying busy and active in your 0ld age…. A true legend Who gave so much to the world of comedy and laughter to the masses.
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"Interview done in Moe Howard's California home in late 1970." Well Moe says they had just done Kook's Tour (1970) and Moe's death of (1975) I'd say early 70's. I can almost remember when he died. It seemed it was just mentioned in passing, but I felt a sad loss.
Marvelous that Moe was very generous with his time and did many interviews. Even though I have his autobiography and every Stooge book, I still hear something I never knew in these interviews.
I don't know who made all the fuss about the so called "violence" in the 3 Stooges shorts. No kid in their right mind would have done what they did. They were truly funny and I loved watching them.
When you think about it the Stooges were most violent? From the Guns to the Knives to the Hammer, Saw, Eye Poke including the Pick Two & 69 C which I'm still not sure what it is. And the Pie throwing...
Thuis is a very important piece of Stooge history and clearly shows that Moe and the rest of the stogges had a method to their madness, real show biz professionals through and through. I still maintain that 500 years from now they will still be remembered and reruns of their shows will still be playing in Holodecks around the world.
I wish These Guys Lived Forever we need there Comedy Today more then ever the Comedians we have today are worthless and not funny and couldn't act to save there own lives
I agree. And that's not all. Music these days as well. Rappers, dope, money, dice, I mean COME ON!! What has happened to society? We need Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp.
I totally agree with you the days of the stooges and groucho marx where we had clean simple humor is long gone. Moe what a humble great guy ! The only modern funny guy that even comes remotely close to these guys was john ritter when he was playing jack tripper on three's company.
Would have loved to meet him. My ma had a few of Lamparski's books and i read them cover to cover as a kid. Between her and my Yiayia, i have a deep appreciation for the classic movies and the actors and actresses from those years. Hope to pass it on to our granddaughter.
I can't understand y In the world people choose to dislike this classic video 19 time's In the first place at all cause clearly the people don't like The Three Stooges for some strange reason SMH on this situation who else agree's with me on this
Theres no greater comedians and comedy than the 3 Stooges. The work and talent these brothers and Larry put into this is phenomenal. They were destined to be together and Larry became their brother too in a way. Im 40 yrs old and my whole life because of my dad and family we grew up watching them every Saturday. I was in awe and never laughed hard. True geniuses and icons for ever and ever
