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| Shemp Howard | ... | Prof. Shemp Howard (as Shemp) | |
| Larry Fine | ... | Larry (as Larry) | |
| Moe Howard | ... | Moe Howard (as Moe) | |
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Dee Green | ... | Miss Fanny Dinkelmeyer |
| Christine McIntyre | ... | Miss Lulu Hopkins | |
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Doris Houck | ... | Aggressive Girlfriend (as Doris Colleen) |
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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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11 September 1947 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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J.M. Benton, Justice of the Peace: My new piano!Larry: [shoving J.M. Benton out of the way] Shut up!
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Scene for scene, this episode hardly lets up: from Professor Shemp Howard's voice lessons with the glass-shattering Dee Green, to his futile attempts to win a dame's hand in marriage (this is your little snookums... will you marry me *click*) to the uproarious finish, it never fails to keep me in stitches.
I would be remiss not mention that immortal scene with Miss Hopkins (the always lovely Christine McIntyre). Btw, isn't she rather under-dressed and over amorous in greeting the man she thinks is her 'Cousin' Basil? Who knows, maybe the actual Basil was a "very" distant cousin, which makes it legal in some states (as far as I know). >:-]