Three Sappy People is a 1939 short subject directed by Jules White
starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard,
Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 43rd entry in the series
released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190
shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.The Stooges are phone
repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they
are working, Drs. Z. Ziller (Curly), X. Zeller (Larry), and Y. Zoller
(Moe). Wealthy J. Rumsford Rumford (Don Beddoe), upon the
recommendation of a doctor friend of his, hires them to treat his
impetuous, free-spirited young wife, Sherry Rumford (Lorna Gray). The
Stooges ruin their clients' dinner party in their usual style, leading
into a food fight, but because their antics so amuse his wife, her
husband believes that she is cured and the Stooges are paid handsomely
for their efforts. However, when the husband presents a birthday cake
to his wife, he purposely drops the cake on the top of her head,
ending her joyous frenzy.Three Sappy People was filmed on April
6â€"10, 1939. The film's title is a parody of the song title "Two
Sleepy People." The short is also the sixth of sixteen Stooge shorts
with the word "three" in the title.During the pastry fight,
22-year-old Lorna Gray was treated on the set after a cream puff
became lodged in her throat. However, in an interview later in her
life, Gray stated that she actually was not in any danger and that it
was instead director Jules White who was so concerned that he nearly
ruined the take.
starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard,
Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 43rd entry in the series
released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190
shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.The Stooges are phone
repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they
are working, Drs. Z. Ziller (Curly), X. Zeller (Larry), and Y. Zoller
(Moe). Wealthy J. Rumsford Rumford (Don Beddoe), upon the
recommendation of a doctor friend of his, hires them to treat his
impetuous, free-spirited young wife, Sherry Rumford (Lorna Gray). The
Stooges ruin their clients' dinner party in their usual style, leading
into a food fight, but because their antics so amuse his wife, her
husband believes that she is cured and the Stooges are paid handsomely
for their efforts. However, when the husband presents a birthday cake
to his wife, he purposely drops the cake on the top of her head,
ending her joyous frenzy.Three Sappy People was filmed on April
6â€"10, 1939. The film's title is a parody of the song title "Two
Sleepy People." The short is also the sixth of sixteen Stooge shorts
with the word "three" in the title.During the pastry fight,
22-year-old Lorna Gray was treated on the set after a cream puff
became lodged in her throat. However, in an interview later in her
life, Gray stated that she actually was not in any danger and that it
was instead director Jules White who was so concerned that he nearly
ruined the take.
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