Movie Maniacs

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Movie Maniacs
Directed by	Del Lord
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Felix Adler
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Mildred Harris Kenneth Harlan Bud Jamison Harry Semels Heinie Conklin
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	1936
Running time	18 minutes
Language	English
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Movie Maniacs (1936) is the 13th of Columbia Pictures' 190 short subjects starring the comedy team of the Three Stooges.

[edit] Plot

The Stooges stow away on a boxcar headed for Hollywood. They want to make it in the movie business and become stars. The Stooges sneak into a movie studio where they are mistaken for three new executives who were due to arrive. They take over the production of a movie set in hopes of shooting a blockbuster movie.

[edit] Notes

This short has several references to movie stars of the era. In particular, early in the short, Curly often admires a picture of John Barrymore and tries to imitate his profile. They also mention Clark Gable and The Face on the Bar Room Floor, a 1914 Charlie Chaplin movie.

This is the first short in which the Stooges sneak by a guard by asking him to pose for a picture. The Stooges ask the guard to look in the other direction, shade his eyes, and stick his leg in the air, then they take off running. This would be a recurring joke in the Stooge shorts.

In this short, one of the Stooges is cooking and a container full of a powder or liquid falls into their mixing bowl. The Stooge doesn't notice and tries to continue cooking anyway, with disastrous results. This would be a recurring joke in later Stooge shorts.

[edit] Quotes

• • Curly (while posing): "Will I be a sensation in pictures!"
  • Moe: "Come on...get breakfast ready, Gable!"
  • [Moe hits Curly on the back of the head.]
  • Curly: "You wouldn't hit me like that if I was Gable, would ya?"
  • Moe: "No...like this."
  • [Moe hits Curly on the forehead.]

• • Larry (as a stowaway on a boxcar): "Gee, I sure will miss this old car. I wonder who loaned us that furniture without knowing it?"
  • Moe: "The cops get us you'll find out."

• • Curly: "How we gonna get in pictures? We know nothin' about movies!"
  • Moe: "There's a couple thousand people in pictures now know nothin' about it. Three more won't make any difference."

• • Curly (posing in front of a picture of John Barrymore): "Hey fellas! Ain't I gettin' to look more and more like Barrymore?"
  • Larry: "Kiss me, my Caliban!"

• • Larry: "Don't worry. A bad beginning is a good ending."
  • Curly (eating a grapefruit): "Soitenly! If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed."

• • Curly (to Moe): "Pinch me...I think I'm dreamin'!"
  • Moe: "Shut up! Act important!"
  • [Curly takes a notepad and pencil out of his pocket and begins to write.]
  • Curly (to himself): "Dear...Santa Claus..."

• • Moe: "It was no good from the first kiss."
  • Director: "Kiss? What do you know about kisses?"
  • Moe (to Curly): "Tell him what we know about kisses."
  • [Curly starts to speak.]
  • Moe (to Curly): "That's enough."

• • Larry (to Moe, about Curly): "Say, he's passing out!"
  • Moe (to Curly): "He is! Tell me your name, kid, so I can tell your mother!"
  • Curly: "My mother knows my name."

• • Director: "I quit!"
  • Larry: "You can't quit!"
  • Director: "And why not?"
  • Moe: "'Cause you're fired!"
  • Curly: "You can't fire him!"
  • Moe: "Why not?"
  • Curly: "He quit!"

• • Moe (to Larry and Curly, as the guards are coming after them): "I think our genius ain't appreciated here. Let's scram!"