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| + | '''''Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb''''' is the 31st short subject starring American slapstick comedy team [[The Three Stooges]]. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959. |
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| − | Curly wins a radio contest for $50,000.00 and the stooges move into a hotel called Costa Plente Hotel. They wreck havoc by destroying a very valuable bed and a $5000.00 vase. After the stooges receive their letter from the coffin nail cigarette company, they discover that because of all of the taxes they really only had won $4.85. |
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| + | Its title is parody a of Benjamin Franklin's proverb "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." The short was reworked as 1952's ''[[A Missed Fortune]]'', using the same general plot and minimal stock footage from the original. |
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| + | Curly wins $50,000 from writing a catchy jingle for a radio contest. The boys quickly spend their loot, and check in at the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically destroy. In the process, three gold diggers connive their way into the boys' room, under the guise that they are three rich widows looking to remarry. This works perfectly, as Curly quickly discovers that all the tax deductions reduce his winnings to a minuscule $4.85. The boys hastily agree to marry the ladies, who soon find out the Stooges are broke and give them what for. |
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Revision as of 01:19, 27 July 2012
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb is the 31st short subject starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
Its title is parody a of Benjamin Franklin's proverb "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." The short was reworked as 1952's A Missed Fortune, using the same general plot and minimal stock footage from the original.
Plot
Curly wins $50,000 from writing a catchy jingle for a radio contest. The boys quickly spend their loot, and check in at the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically destroy. In the process, three gold diggers connive their way into the boys' room, under the guise that they are three rich widows looking to remarry. This works perfectly, as Curly quickly discovers that all the tax deductions reduce his winnings to a minuscule $4.85. The boys hastily agree to marry the ladies, who soon find out the Stooges are broke and give them what for.