Slippery Silks (1936)

Director:

Jack White

Writers:

Ewart Adamson (screenplay)
Ewart Adamson (story)

Release Date:

27 December 1936 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

The stooges are carpenters who inherit a fancy dress boutique. They put on a fashion show with dresses they've designed based on furniture...

Plot Keywords:

Dress | Beautiful Woman | The Three Stooges | Slapstick | Model

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)

Runtime:

18 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor High Fidelity Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Was the first Three Stooges short to feature a pie in the face gag.

Quotes:

Larry: [once told they inherited their uncle's gown shop] Water... give me water.
[a car drives by and splashes all three of them]
Moe: Water you had to have, eh?
[slaps Larry]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Muppet Babies: A Punch Line to the Tummy (#7.7)" (1990)

SLIPPERY SILKS (Jack White, 1936) **1/2

The last entry in the Columbia 2-Disc Set of Three Stooges shorts is a standard affair, watchable but not exactly a classic (to be honest, very few of these, if any, were!). The boys cause havoc at a shop selling rare items, then discover they've inherited an atelier; the funniest bit is the climax, with the exhibition of their surreal models – dressed in clothes resembling furniture (complete with drawers wherein to keep their cosmetics)!

These shorts are essentially pleasant and certainly harmless – but they're not in any way on the same plane as their contemporaries Laurel & Hardy; one film of theirs I'd love to rewatch, however, is WE WANT OUR MUMMY (1939) – which I used to watch as a kid (my father owned a copy on Super 8!)...