The Three Stooges Scrapbook

rdf:langString The Three Stooges Scrapbook

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rdf:langString Normandy Productions, Inc.

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rdf:langString Chuck Gladden

rdf:langString "I Want to Be a Stooge"

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rdf:langString Don Lamond

rdf:langString "I Want to Be a Stooge"

rdf:langString Albert Grazier

rdf:langString Stanley Styne

rdf:langString Three Stooges Scrapbook is 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. 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. 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. To date, the original pilot has never been released on home media.