Not to be outdone by his brothers. Shemp Howard had left Ted Healy and His Stooges and went into acting on his own rights. While Moe, Larry and Curly were coming to fame, Shemp in this film has excessive help from Daphne Pollard. This is from the short feature Smoked Hams (1934). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McYson7gmvU P.S. Note the technique!
1934... Poor guy could have used the latest, and one of Gillette's finest, inventions.. the TTO razor... 1934 Aristocrat. I do love me some Three Stooges.. all of them... except Joe. Never did like him. He just came across as out of place and not funny. Excellent find. Thanks for sharing!
Shemp was always my favorite third Stooge, followed closely by younger brother Curly. I never cared for Joe Besser or Curly Joe DeRita, and only watched their episodes in hopes that an earlier episode would follow.
Thanks for sharing that video of a lone Stooge. I never liked the Stooges when I was a kid, but came to appreciate them as an adult. Strange, you'd expect it to be the other way round. Because there's nothing like over-analyzing slapstick comedy, I can't help thinking of what this little clip shows us about the times. Would straight razor shaving still have been pretty common in 1934, thirty-one years after the first Gillette DE? Probably, it looks like the humor is supposed from the clowning with the shave, not from the type of razor used. I wonder if straights were still common as a poor man's razor during the Depression. If you already had one, and knew how to care for it, you'd be happy to save the pennies that disposable blades cost.
Man am I glad to have a video to refer to when I decide to hang up my DE, and switch to straights. Never would have though the technique would have been so much different.
Great video, Thanks for sharing it. So would that be a more of an aggressive technique that he uses? :happy102
I love how she uses the razor in a inappropriate manner and then acts as if she's done nothing wrong. Typical woman!
