Larry Fine(3 Stooges), interview from 1973. Way cool!

[maveric]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccbWcJBVmC8
He talks about how the studios operated way back when and about the injuries they incurred while filming the hundreds of Stooge films from 1934-1962.

If you are a Stooge fan, you'll love this youtube video.
Enjoy!

[mockmonkey]

1. Wonderful

I've never seen Larry interviewed before. He's my favorite stooge. I remember as a kid I saw Moe on "The Mike Douglas Show". The audience didn't quite recognize him until he combed his hair forward then that bowl cut was all anyone needed to know who he was.

Heh, I found that footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHpwDZ7NkQw

[maveric]

2. Larry was a very interesting stooge.

He was the guy in the background that used a lot of body language and facial expressions to make us laugh. His rude laugh was legendary.
His real name was Lawrence Feinberg, of Phildelphia. He was an accomplished musical prodigy as a kid. His parents scraped up some money in 1914 to send him to school in Vienna to play violin. But when WWl hit he had to change his plans and went into vaudville.

[americanstranger]

3. I remember a TV ad he was in before he died.

I grew up in Philly, and Larry was in a home for aging performers there. He did a TV spot to advertise it on local TV. He was really going downhill - slurred speech, shaking, wheelchair-ridden.

Sad, because I watched them every day when I was a kid (on a show with the host Sally Starr, long, long ago...).

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[maveric]

4. Big Stooge fan from Boston here.

Boston was actually the test market for Stooge syndications. It went well there and they went national on TV.
When I was growing up in the late 50's-early 60's The Stooges were aired at least 4 times a day.
During winter they would put us school kids in the cafeteria before the bell, with a TV on a metal stand, showing The Stooges. They were aired at 6:30 AM before school, 4:00PM after school and at 7:00PM after the News.
I wonder why we were an unruly bunch?

[NYCGirl]

5. Cool! Thank you! NT

[Joe Fields]

6. Thanks for the link. Really enjoyed the interview.

Watched all 3 parts. I was weaned on the 3 Stooges.

[Bombero1956]

7. Larry and his wife

were compulsive gamblers always playing the horses and sometimes not having enought to pay the bills, Moe gave them money. He was a terrible businessman and spent his money as soon as he earned it. He would either gamble it away at the track or at high-stakes gin rummy games. He and his wife hated housekeeping and lived in hotels. Nice to see the video but you can see the effects of the strokes he suffered. Shemp also has a tragic end dying in the back seat of a car after seeing a prize fight. It is said he was lighting a cigar and telling a joke when he slumped over dead. Then there's Curley who had multiple strokes and died at the age of 48. It's so sad that they gave so much joy and laughter and had such tragic lives.

[Joe Fields]

9. I also understand that Curly made some bad business deals, and

was also a very soft touch, like Moe, giving away huge sums of money. I agree, the twilight of their lives were tragic.

[RetroLounge]

8. 1960 interview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1eizT-Gqug&mode=related&search=

:hi:

RL