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“Brideless Groom is a good example with the narrative from Seven Chances (the 1925 silent classic directed by and starring Buster Keaton),” he said.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Paul “Mousie” Garner, a first-rate talent, was often referred to as the “grand old man of vaudeville”. As the last surviving Healy stooge, he died at the ripe of old age of 95 August 8, 2004 after a movie career that began in 1929. His last on-screen appearance in 2008 was yet another testament to his talent and longevity in the business.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Some film buffs then and even now may consider Soup to Nuts, released September 28, 1930 little more than a cinematic curiosity but such an assessment couldn’t be further from the truth, particularly with respect to Ted Healy’s popularity, the continuing transformation of his supporting players Shemp, Moe (then billed as Harry) and Larry, the intrigue of Rube Goldberg’s projects and debut of the five-year-old Billy Barty as Junior.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Universal Pictures’ rousing 1942 dramatic fantasy Arabian Nights,”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“White, the producer, director and narrator of Shemp’s 1946 solo short Jiggers, My Wife, and at the helm of more than”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“After he died, it was next to properly replace him.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“MY MUMMY’S ARMS Shemp Howard, Harry Gribbon 1934-07-28 Vitaphone Short 19.4 min.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“They were filmed inside the sound stages at the main lot at Sunset and Gower, as well as the outdoor sets at the Columbia Ranch, located in Burbank on Hollywood Way.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Stander had only one uncredited role to his credit”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“A suitably strange scene from Cuckoo on a Choo Choo from 1952, considered as one of the most surreal Three Stooges shorts and reportedly the one Larry Fine enjoyed the most. Courtesy of the Stephen Cox Collection.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Shemp is currently entombed in a crypt at the Home of Peace Memorial Park and Mortuary in East Los Angeles. Harry Einstein, aka Parkyakarkus, is entombed just above him, for all eternity.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Jersey City”
― Geoff Dale, The Fine Art of Boxing: No Stooge in the Ring

“penned a self-published fiction on the boxing and musical skills of Larry Fine entitled No Stooge in the Ring.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“singer, dancer, and comedic actress Martha Raye, who appeared with Shemp in Olsen and Johnson’s almost surrealistic stage production-turned-film in 1941 Hellzapoppin’.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Shemp’s portrait graces the cover of Drew Friedman’s first book Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental. Illustration courtesy of Drew Friedman©.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“The oddball shorts like Cuckoo on a Choo Choo and Sweet and Hot provided Larry with the greatest possible chances for departing from his routine ‘second Stooge’ role, over a slightly sustained duration,” he added.”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard

“Shemp moved to Los Angeles sometime after January 1937, when he filmed his last Joe Palooka short with Vitaphone. He was relocated by September of that year when he filmed the Hollywood Roundup at Columbia. Even intense research work by”
― Geoff Dale, Much More Than A Stooge: Shemp Howard