In the Sweet Pie and Pie

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In the Sweet Pie and Pie
Directed by Jules White
Produced by Jules White
Written by Ewart Adamson
Clyde Bruckman
Starring Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Dorothy Appleby
Mary Ainslee
Ethelreda Leopold
Richard Fiske
Vernon Dent
Symona Boniface
Eddie Laughton
John Tyrrell
Geneva Mitchell
Cinematography George Meehan
Editing by Jerome Thoms
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States October 16, 1941
Running time 17' 25"
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Preceded by An Ache in Every Stake
Followed by Some More of Samoa
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In the Sweet Pie and Pie is the 58th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

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[edit] Plot

Tiska (Dorothy Appleby), Taska (Mary Ainslee) and Baska (Ethelreda Leopold) Jones, three snippy society girls, are willed an inheritance so long as they are married. Their shrewd lawyer Diggin (Richard Fiske) suggests they marry three death row inmates (the Stooges) to retain the dough. When the boys are pardoned by the governor, the devious debutantes think up any excuse to divorce their new beaus. After enrolling the Stooges in an ill-fated dance lesson, Diggin suugests the girls throw a formal party, hoping the Stooges will make a shambles of the evening. They do, of course, and the evening ends with the Stooges first genuine pie fight.

[edit] Pie fights

Larry Fine recalled that the most grueling scenes in this film involved pies:

Sometimes we would run out of pies, so the prop man would sweep up the pie goop off the floor, complete with nails, splinters, and tacks. Another problem was pretending you didn't know a pie was coming your way. To solve this, Jules would tell me 'Now Larry, Moe is going to smack you with a pie on the count of three.' Then Jules would tell Moe, 'Hit Larry on the count of two!' So when it came time to count, I never got to three, because Moe crowned me with a pie![citation needed]

[edit] Notes

Curly gets a hair cut in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.
Curly gets a hair cut in In the Sweet Pie and Pie.

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

  • Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
  • The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
  • The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
  • One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).