| The Three Stooges Scrapbook | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Sitcom Television pilot |
| 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 |
| 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 | Normany Productions, Inc. |
| Original release | |
| Release | Unaired |
Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The pilot featured the slapstick trio getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment, looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor (played by Emil Sitka), and presenting an animated short called The Spain Mutiny that imagines the funnymen as part of Christopher Columbus’ crew.[1]
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 wanted 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]
To date, the original pilot has never been released on home media.
Book[]
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book written by Stooge experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer (Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).[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
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
- 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
See also[]
- Kook's Tour - another unbroadcast Three Stooges pilot from 1970 that was released initially through the home movie market and later on VHS and DVD.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Three Stooges Scrapbook". The Three Stooges Online Filmography. http://www.threestooges.net/episode.php?id=236.
- ↑ Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg (1994). The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8065-0946-5.
- ↑ Nathan Cobb (September 26, 1986). "The 3 Stooges: More Than You Wanted to Know About Larry, Moe, Shemp and the Curlys". Boston Globe. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADEDA787284BAC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM.
External links[]
| The Three Stooges | ||
|---|---|---|
| Members | Moe Howard • Larry Fine • Curly Howard • Shemp Howard • Joe Besser • Joe DeRita | |
| Works | The Three Stooges filmography • The Three Stooges Collection • Jerks of All Trades • The New Three Stooges (episodes) • The Three Stooges Scrapbook • Kook's Tour • Moe Howard and the Three Stooges | |
| Related topics | List of supporting actors in Three Stooges films • The Three Stooges in popular culture • Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No • The Robonic Stooges • Stoogemania • "Swinging the Alphabet" • "The Curly Shuffle" • 1984 arcade game • 1987 video game • 2000 TV movie • 2012 feature film | |
| Associated people | Edward Bernds • Tiny Brauer • Charley Chase • Paul Garner • Ted Healy • Rich Koz • Del Lord • Hugh McCollum • Frank Mitchell • Joe Palma/Fake Shemp • Fred Sanborn • Emil Sitka • Elwood Ullman • Jack White • Jules White | |