Busy Buddies (film)

Busy Buddies

Directed by	Del Lord
Produced by	Hugh McCollum Jules White
Written by	Elwood Ullman Del Lord
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Vernon Dent Fred Kelsey Eddie Laughton John Tyrrell Stanley Blystone
Cinematography	George Meehan
Edited by	Henry Batista
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 18, 1944 (1944-03-18) (U.S.)
Running time	16:42
Country	United States
Language	English

Busy Buddies is the 78th short film released by Columbia Pictures in 1944 starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The comedians released 190 short films for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges operate the Jive Cafe and are enduring significant debt. They reluctantly take a second job hanging posters (à la Three Little Twirps), earning a penny for each poster hung. Moe takes notice of one particular poster advertising a cow milking contest that pays $100 to the winner. Without hesitation, Moe and Larry nominate Curly for the contest, and go about looking for a cow to practice milking on. They coincidentally find a "cow" (a bull) behind the fence. Curly is no match for the wild animal, and he is quickly booted over a fence twice, then up onto a telephone pole.

When the contest day arrives, Curly (nicknamed 'K. O. Bossy') cannot squeeze an ounce of milk from the cow's udder. While fresh cows are being brought in for the second round, Moe and Larry jump into a cow costume with a jug of milk. The scheme works until Curly yanks the mock udder off the jug, and the milk comes gushing out which caused Curly to be disqualified. After the contest's champion throws all of the stooges off the stage, they are left helping each other leaving while being booed at by the audience because they were cheating.

Production notes

Busy Buddies was filmed on November 1-5, 1943.^[1] The film title is a play on the term "busybodies."^[2]

Curly Howard fades

By late 1943, the team had been making endless public appearances in support of the war effort. The demanding schedule began to take its toll on Curly in particular, whose childlike facial features began to show the strain. Curly had just turned 40 years of age on October 22, 1943.^[2]

References

↑ Busy Buddies at threestooges.net
1 2 Solomon, Jon. (2002) The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; Comedy III Productions, Inc., ISBN 0-9711868-0-4

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Associated people	Edward Bernds Tiny Brauer Charley Chase Paul Garner Ted Healy Rich Koz Del Lord Hugh McCollum Christine McIntyre Frank Mitchell Joe Palma/Fake Shemp Fred Sanborn Emil Sitka Greta Thyssen Elwood Ullman Jack White Jules White
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