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Brideless Groom (1947)To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of... See full summary » Director:Edward Bernds |
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Prof. Shemp Howard
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| Larry Fine | ... |
Larry
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| Moe Howard | ... |
Moe Howard
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Dee Green | ... |
Miss Dinkelmeyer
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Christine McIntyre | ... |
Miss Hopkins
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Doris Houck | ... |
Aggressive Girlfriend
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To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries before the deadline, but wishes he was still a free man. Written by Mitch Shapiro <mshapiro@a.crl.com>
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inheritance | will | nickel the coin | hit on the head with a rifle | marriage proposal |Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 September 1947 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Love and Learn See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Color:
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1.33 : 1
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Shemp: Do I? Why, that old tightwad! He'd steal flies from a blind spider!
Moe: But, Shemp, he's...
Shemp: He's a louse and a weasel!
Moe: Yeah? Well, he just died and left you $500,000 bucks.
Shemp: Just like that old skin flint!
[gasps]
Shemp: $500,000?
[begins to cry]
Shemp: Poor old Uncle Caleb! Like I was sayin', he was a swell guy, giving me the shirt off his back and throwing the buttons too.
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(uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauß
Performed by Dee Green and Larry Fine
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In one scene, Christine McIntyre discovers that Shemp Howard 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, was timid and had to be coaxed by Shemp into performing the scene believably. She leaned too far in when she "punched" Shemp, and actually did hit him, breaking his nose. The sequence was left in the picture. When it is watched in slow motion, Shemp can be seen falling down and opening his mouth like he was yelling in pain after the punch. See more »Goofs
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. See more »Quotes
Moe: Shut up and listen. Do you remember your Uncle Caleb?Shemp: Do I? Why, that old tightwad! He'd steal flies from a blind spider!
Moe: But, Shemp, he's...
Shemp: He's a louse and a weasel!
Moe: Yeah? Well, he just died and left you $500,000 bucks.
Shemp: Just like that old skin flint!
[gasps]
Shemp: $500,000?
[begins to cry]
Shemp: Poor old Uncle Caleb! Like I was sayin', he was a swell guy, giving me the shirt off his back and throwing the buttons too.
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Soundtracks
"Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410"(uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauß
Performed by Dee Green and Larry Fine
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OK, the other reviewers have pretty much covered the main points of this great little gem, i.e. the story started out in life as material for Buster Keaton's silent classic "7 Chances". Comedy, or acting in any genre for that much, is merely interpreting a scene and lines that someone else has written and performed before, if it's not a totally original creation. Here we have The Stooges essentially doing material that was written and performed by someone else and yet for a low budget, short time span of a film, they're handling things just fine. Regardless of what the credits say on their films, real "stooge-philes" know that they had a lot of input on lines and direction. They took their work as seriously as a surgeon does a vital operation. Words spoken by Emil Sitka himself during a documentary about the boys. Here, what appears to be their usual anarchy over something so simple as getting married, is actually organized chaos. Every line is perfectly timed with a related physical action. How many comedians are around today that can claim such mastery? Most obviously the Seinfeld crew but none others that I've seen in the last 35 years of watching TV. The critics will always "pooh pooh" The Stooges or Laurel & Hardy and others but then again...who ever remembers the critic's names or what they said? Simply watch, laugh and enjoy!