The Three Stooges Scrapbook
Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The pilot featured the slapstick trio getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment, looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor (played by Emil Sitka), and presenting an animated short called The Spain Mutiny that imagines the funnymen as part of Christopher Columbus’ crew.[1]
| The Three Stooges Scrapbook | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Sitcom Television pilot |
| Based on | The Three Stooges |
| Written by | Elwood Ullman |
| Directed by | Sidney Miller |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Emil Sitka Marjorie Eaton Edward Innes Albert Grazier |
| Narrated by | Don Lamond |
| Theme music composer | George Duning Stanley Styne |
| Opening theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Ending theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Composer(s) | Paul Dunlap |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Norman Maurer |
| Editor(s) | Chuck Gladden |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Normany Productions, Inc. |
| Release | |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | Unaired |
Three Stooges Scrapbook was filmed in color and produced by Norman Maurer (Moe Howard’s son-in-law), who hoped to establish a weekly program for children’s television.[2] When no network wanted to pursue the project as a series, Maurer divided the pilot into two short films that were released to theaters in 1963. Maurer also reprinted the live action scenes in black-and-white and incorporated them into the 1962 feature film The Three Stooges in Orbit.[1]
To date, the original pilot has never been released on home media.
Book
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book written by Stooge experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer (Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).[3]
Cast
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Joe DeRita as Curly-Joe
- Emil Sitka as Prof. Dolottle
- Marjorie Eaton as Mrs. McGinnis
- Don Lamond as Announcer/Stage Manager
- Edward Innes as Landlord
- Albert Grazier as Butler
Credits
- Director: Sidney Miller
- Writer: Elwood Ullman
- Producer: Norman Maurer
- Starring: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita
- Featuring: Emil Sitka, Marjorie Eaton, Don Lamond, Edward Innes, Albert Grazier
- Music Composer and Conductor: Paul Dunlap
- Title Song: George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
- Vocals: The Eligibles
- Director of Photography: Hal McAlpin
- Film Editor: Chuck Gladden
- Assistant Director: Harry Slott
- Chief Electrician: Robert Petzoldt
- Sound Recorder: Leon Leon
- Property Master: Chick Chicetti
- Set Decorator: Frank Lombardo
- Script Supervisor: Joe Franklin
- Makeup: Ted Coodley
- Costumer: Jack Angel
- Grip: Tex Hayes
- Laboratory: Consolidated Film Industries
- Sound: Glen Glenn
- Costume Designer: Sascha Brastoff
See also
- Kook's Tour - another unbroadcast Three Stooges pilot from the late 1960s that was released initially through the home movie market and later on VHS and DVD.
References
- "The Three Stooges Scrapbook". The Three Stooges Online Filmography. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
- Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg (1994). The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8065-0946-5.
- Nathan Cobb (September 26, 1986). "The 3 Stooges: More Than You Wanted to Know About Larry, Moe, Shemp and the Curlys". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
