All the World's a Stooge (1941)

Director:

Del Lord

Writers:

John Grey (screenplay)
John Grey (story)

Release Date:

16 May 1941 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

Three bumbling window washers are mistaken for dentists and run amok at an affair in the home of a rich socialite.

Plot Keywords:

Window Washer | Dentist | Refugee | Turkey The Bird | Hit On The Head

Cast

Curly Howard	...	Curly (as Curly)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe (as Moe)
Lelah Tyler	...	Lotta Bullion
Emory Parnell	...	Ajax Bullion (as Emery Parnell)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Symona Boniface	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Stanley Brown	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Richard Fiske	...	Dr. I. Yankum (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten	...	Botters - Butler (uncredited)
Bud Jamison	...	Policeman (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
Gwen Seager	...	Party Guest (uncredited)
John Tyrrell	...	Building Manager (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde	...	Party Guest (uncredited)

Directed by
Del Lord

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
John Grey		screenplay
John Grey		story

Produced by
Del Lord	....	producer
Hugh McCollum	....	producer

Cinematography by
Benjamin H. Kline		(as Benjamin Kline)

Film Editing by
Art Seid		(as Arthur Seid)

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures Corporation

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures (1941) (USA) (theatrical)
• Screen Gems Television (1958) (USA) (TV)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (1995) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
• Columbia TriStar (2000) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2001) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Image Entertainment (????) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Quotes:

Moe:Make everything spink and spank.

Movie Connections:

References The Strong Man (1926)

Orphans Create The Storm

Somebody at Columbia Pictures must have remembered Spencer Tracy admonishing Katharine Hepburn when she tried to adopt a war orphan in Woman Of The Year. Because in this Three Stooges short All The World's A Stooge the main part of the story involves the Stooges being adopted as war orphans.

Lelah Tyler playing a Spring Byrington type society matron thinks it would be just perfectly grand to adopt a war orphan because it's just the latest fad. That's all her put upon husband Emory Parnell needs and he decides to teach her a lesson. So he hires three very recently out of work window washers who've been practicing dentistry without a license and on him to play war orphans.

Just the sight gags of Moe and Curly in Little Lord Fauntleroy suits and Larry in drag is enough. But the three of them manage to create enough mayhem in the Parnell/Tyler household on the screen that they might have discouraged many a family from actually adopting an orphan kid. It all ends at a party where as you know inevitably pastries are served and we all know where they wind up.

Moe, Larry, and Curly at their best.