Leo Keil asked Vanda Krefft:

Wasn't 1930's Soup to Nuts the only feature Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine made for FOX? I don't think they were in A Devil with Women, as you say in your book.

Vanda Krefft Hi Leo--This looks like a duplicate question. Here's the answer I posted yesterday: Thanks for writing and I am very glad to hear that you are enjoying the book. I think this is the sentence (on p. 658) in question: "Other future legendary names who passed through Fox Film during this time with scant appreciation included Humphrey Bogart, who made his film debut in A Devil with Women (1930), inexplicably teamed with Victor McLaglen as a comedy act; Spencer Tracy; Jeanette MacDonald; Joel McCrea; and three former vaudeville comedians then called the “Racketeers”—brothers Moe and Shemp Howard along with Larry Fine, who would soon achieve success elsewhere as the Three Stooges." I could have written that sentence more clearly. What I meant was that Bogart and McLaglen appeared in "A Devil with Women," and that the others stars subsequently mentioned starred in other Fox movies at the time. Sorry for the confusion!

So, I didn't mean that the Stooges were in "A Devil with Women," but that they appeared in another Fox movie in this time frame.

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