The Three Stooges - Stooge-O-Rama: The Men Behind The Mayhem And Even More Mayhem!
11 hours and 20 minutes of material, including unreleased outtakes, color home movies, rare television appearances and commercials, theatrical trailers, unseen archival interview footage, forgotten audio recordings from live stooge appearances, family photo galleries, and much more new-to-home-video fun!
Release date July 11, 2023
Disc 1
WELCOME – Introduction from Bradley “Curly G” Server, Curly Howard’s youngest grandson!
STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM (2023) – Updated version of the award-winning documentary program which originally aired in 1994 as part of A&E’s groundbreaking BIOGRAPHY television series.
BONUS FEATURES
EXTENDED INTERVIEWS:
LYLA FINE BUDNICK – Larry Fine’s sister
NATE BUDNICK –Stooges stage show sound man
BILLY WEST – Voice actor (REN & STIMPY, DOUG, FUTURAMA, DISENCHANTMENT)
LOLA JENSEN – Actress (FLAT FOOT STOOGES & YES, WE HAVE NO BONANZA)
UNAIRED COMMERCIAL BUMPS (1992) – Never before seen unused commercial bumps for the first TV airing of STOOGES: THE MEN BEHIND THE MAYHEM
PHOTO GALLERIES:
LYLA FINE PERSONAL SCRAPBOOK – Gallery of rare family photographs
STOOGE MEMORABILIA – Gallery of rare Three Stooges collectibles and memorabilia
Disc 2
STOOGES LOST AND FOUND
Fox Movietone News – Sound newsreel outtakes featuring Moe & Shemp Howard (Aug 6, 1929)
Stooge Home Movies – Ultra rare B&W / color snippets of the Stooges at work and play (1920s – 1960s)
Everybody Likes Music (March 9, 1934) Long unavailable Shemp Howard Van Beuren short
Surprise, Surprise (October 31, 1937) Lost theatrical featurette, with Moe, Larry & Curly, promoting their Pillsbury Projector toy giveaway.
Ed Wynn Camel Comedy Caravan – Complete TV Kinescope (March 11, 1950)
Andy Wade’s California Home Movies (July 1956) Extraordinary home movie reel featuring color footage of Moe, Larry, Joe Besser & Emil Sitka clowning at Columbia Pictures, the last known footage Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, and more!
On The Go (April 15, 1960) The complete TV interview with Moe, Larry & Curly Joe DeRita
Strictly For Laffs (July 1, 1962) – Complete TV Pilot featuring Moe Howard.
Star Spangled Salesman (Feb 9, 1968) Government PSA for Savings Bonds
Kook’s Tour Outtakes (Dec 7, 1969) Unseen color outtakes from their final film!
Joe DeRita Interview (1976) Sound home movie footage with historian Randy Skretvedt
The Funniest Guys in The World – Documentary Outtake Reel (1983) Director Mark Gilman’s interview outtakes and workprint featuring Ted Healy’s replacement stooges Paul “Mousie” Garner, Jack Wolf & Dick Hakins, Stooges co-star Emil Sitka, director Jules White, director Edward Bernds, writer Elwood Ullman, actors Paul Winchell, Frank Mitchell, Jock Mahoney, Julie Gibson and more!
Mousie Garner - Mousie performs his stage act live at the Three Stooges Convention in Trevose, PA (1994)
Disc 3
Commercial Stooges:
Instant Simonize (March 15, 1960)
Don Lamond spot – KTTV TV-11 Los Angeles (1961)
Mr. Poplolly – Cartoonerville Trolley promo – WJZ TV-13 Baltimore (circa 1961)
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 60 second spot
Dickie’s Work Clothes (March 31, 1969) 30 second spot
Stroke of Luck Book (Nov 1, 1973) 60 second commercial featuring Larry Fine
Three Stooges Tee-Shirt (June 1, 1974) surviving fragment – featuring Larry Fine
Movie Trailers and Coming Attractions
Turn Back the Clock (Aug 25, 1933)
Dancing Lady (Nov 24, 1933)
Hollywood Party (May 24, 1934)
Time Out for Rhythm (June 5, 1941)
Gold Raiders (Sept 14, 1951)
The Three Stooges Laff-A-Rama (1950s)
Have Rocket, Will Travel (Aug 1, 1959)
Three Stooges Fun-O-Rama (Sep 1, 1959)
Stop! Look! And Laugh! (July 27, 1960)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 1 – B&W (June 12, 1961)
Snow White and The Three Stooges 2 – Color (June 12, 1961)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 1 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges Meet Hercules 2 (Jan 26, 1962)
The Three Stooges in Orbit (July 4, 1962)
The Three Stooges Go Around the World in A Daze (August 21, 1963)
4 for Texas (Dec 25, 1963) – Color, Widescreen
The Outlaws Is Coming (Jan 14, 1965)
The Outlaws Is Coming radio trailer (Jan 14, 1965)
Archival Audio:
Fiddler’s Three – Ultra rare recording of Moe, Larry & Shemp’s song rehearsal, from Moe Howard’s personal 78RPM (1948)
WBAL-AM Baltimore – Brent Gunts interviews Moe, Larry, and Shemp (April 6, 1950)
WERS-FM Boston, Audio 66 – Ron Barry, aka Ron Klugman, interviews Moe Howard (Nov 30, 1964)
HEADSHOP – KBSC-TV 52, Los Angeles, Moe Howard with Elliot Mintz – audio excerpts of lost video interview (Jan 27, 1972)
WOHO-AM Toledo – Ken R. Deutsch with Moe Howard (November 1972)
WVSC Radio – Moe Howard at Salem College in Salem, West Virginia (March 2, 1973)
Larry Fine interview at Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois (circa 1973-74)
Larry Fine Q&A with Jeff and Greg Lenburg at Loara High School. Anaheim, CA (March 2, 1974)
Moe Howard at State University of New York, Buffalo (September 24, 1974)
WFAA-AM Dallas – Ed Busch with Moe Howard & Larry Fine (May 1975 replay of Sept 27, 1974 broadcast)
Rich Gallo calls Stooge’s director Ed Bernds (circa 1985)
Rich Gallo calls Joe Besser (1987)
Rich Gallo Visits Actor Emil Sitka (April 1987 – August 1988) Rare audio and video footage
Chris Seguin interviews Moe’s daughter Joan Howard Maurer (May 26, 2009) – Surviving excerpts
BONUS FEATURES:
No Census, No Feeling – Modern short subject featuring comedians Shwartzy and Pagana, and Curly G
Curly G Meets Shemp’s great granddaughter Chandler Isaac
*Much of the material here is new to home video. Any content which may be available in other home video releases is included here in either upgraded / or more complete versions.