Brideless Groom (1947)

Director:

Edward Bernds

Writer:

Clyde Bruckman (story)

Release Date:

11 September 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal...

Plot Keywords:

Will | Inheritance | Wedding Ceremony | Beautiful Woman | Phone Booth

Cast

Shemp Howard	...	Prof. Shemp Howard (as Shemp)
Larry Fine	...	Larry (as Larry)
Moe Howard	...	Moe Howard (as Moe)
Dee Green	...	Miss Dinkelmeyer
Christine McIntyre	...	Miss Hopkins
Doris Houck	...	Aggressive Girlfriend (as Doris Colleen)

Also Known As:

Love and Learn (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

17 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

In one scene, Christine McIntyre discovers that Shemp is not the "Cousin Basil" she thought he was, and slaps him around, then punches him and knocks him through the door. McIntyre, who was not a professional stuntwoman, leaned too far in when she "punched" Shemp, and actually did hit him, breaking his nose. The sequence was left in the picture.

Goofs:

Continuity: When the phone booth's walls fall and Moe and Shemp fall out of it, the phone cord, which they were tangled up in, disappears.

Quotes:

Larry: [to a woman in the hallway] Say, Miss, would you like to get married?
Woman in Hallway: [taken aback] What?
Larry: Get married?
Woman in Hallway: Well, I don't know, but you are kid of cute at that.
Larry: [blushing] Oh, it's not me, it's him.
[points to Shemp, whose face is pressed up to the window of the phone booth. He makes an ugly face and has the phone cord in his mouth. The woman screams, then slaps Larry across the face, and walks off]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Brideless Groom

The Stooges are back and funnier than ever. "Brideless Groom" in my opinion was probably the best Shemp flick.

Shemp has the opportunity to inherit $500,000(which was probably more than a million dollars compared to today) from his dead uncle. BUT! There is a catch. He has to marry someone that day by 6 o'clock. Shemp is a bachelor with not too many admirers, except for one high pitched aggressive annoying singing student of his. But he doesn't want her, he wants someone a little more on the Victoria's Secret model type of women. But obviously he has no choice since he's no Collin Ferrel himself. But when it is printed in the papers that he is to inherit all that money if married, his ex girlfriends are on the "I want my man back" attack!

What a great stooge flick! This is up there with thewinners of all stooge flicks!

9/10