Busy Buddies (film)

Busy Buddies is a 1944 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 78th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Busy Buddies
Directed byDel Lord
Written byElwood Ullman
Del Lord
Produced byHugh McCollum
Jules White
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Vernon Dent
Fred Kelsey
Eddie Laughton
John Tyrrell
CinematographyGeorge Meehan
Edited byHenry Batista
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 18, 1944 (1944-03-18) (U.S.)
Running time
16:46
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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 until the jug hits the bucket, which causes Curly to be disqualified. After the contest's champion throws all of the stooges off the stage, they are left helping each other leave 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] The first half of the film's plot device was reused for Shivering Sherlocks (1948).

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 his birthday October 22, 1943.[2]

See also

References
  1. Busy Buddies at threestooges.net
  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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