Bride and Gloom

Shemp wants to be married to Jean Willes, but Christine McIntyre keeps popping up and wrecking the moment, along with her husband, Dick Curtis in this, the last solo Shemp Howard short comedy before he returned full-time to the Three Stooges series.

It's based in part on Charley Chase's silent LIMOUSINE LOVE and his partial remake. THE AWFUL GOOF. It's considerably less racy than the first version, in which Charley finds a nude Viola Richards in his car, much to the amusement of all the men; later versions are much more disapproving in the way that the Code would call for.

Several of Shemp's Columbia shorts are based on shorts that Chase did for Columbia. MR. NOISY, for example, was based on Chase's THE HECKLER. His over-the-top, tic-filled reactions, certainly offer a different form of comedy!