Husbands Beware

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Husbands Beware
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Directed by Jules White
Edward Bernds (stock footage)
Screenplay by Felix Adler
Story by Clyde Bruckman
Produced byJules White
Starring Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Lou Leonard
Maxine Gates
Christine McIntyre
Dee Green
Emil Sitka
Doris Houck
Nancy Saunders
Cinematography Henry Freulich
Edited by Anthony DiMarco
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • January 5, 1956 (1956-01-05)(U.S.)
Running time
15:53
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Husbands Beware is a 1956 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 167th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

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Plot

Moe and Larry, precipitated by familial ties, find themselves wedded to Shemp's corpulent sisters, only to realize post-nuptials the unenviable nature of their matrimonial alliances. Tasked with the onerous responsibility of orchestrating a wedding feast, their culinary endeavors culminate in culinary calamities, including indigestible muffins, tainted coffee, and a turkey imbued with flammable turpentine. Their dismal matrimonial predicaments precipitate their expulsion from the familial abode, instigating a vow of retribution against Shemp, the unwitting matchmaker.

Meanwhile, Shemp, a music instructor, finds himself entangled in an opportunity, wherein matrimony within a tight temporal constraint promises a substantial inheritance from his ostensibly deceased uncle Calib's estate. The ensuing scramble for a suitable spouse ensnares Shemp in a labyrinthine web of chaos, as erstwhile paramours and opportunists converge upon the matrimonial prospect.

Ultimately, Shemp's precipitous union with Fanny Dinkelmeyer, orchestrated within the stipulated time frame, unravels the machinations of his purported inheritance. Discovering the ruse orchestrated by Moe and Larry as retribution for their matrimonial misadventures, Shemp's ire culminates in a vengeful act of violence against his erstwhile compatriots.

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Production notes

The second half of Husbands Beware is stock footage from 1947's Brideless Groom . [1] In the new footage of the wedding sequence, a double stands in for Dee Green (Fanny Dinkelmeyer). New scenes were filmed on May 17, 1955. [1]

Husbands Beware was the first posthumous Stooge release featuring Shemp Howard, who died on November 22, 1955.

This was the last film written by Clyde Bruckman before his suicide last year in 1955, borrowing silent film comedian Buster Keaton's gun to kill himself with inside a Hollywood restaurant bathroom.

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References

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