The Three Stooges – Woman Haters (1913)

Directed by: Archie Gottler
Produced by: Jules White
Written by: Jerome S. Gottler, Starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard.

Woman Haters is the first short subject starring American comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

The Stooges, employees and vendors, women join Haters Club. They swear never to get romantically involved with a woman. That did not last long. Larry is a woman, Mary (Marjorie White), falls, and proposed marriage. Misogynists Moe and Curly will talk about it, but Mary’s father Larry and makes threatening to marry his daughter very attractive. Later, in a train, it intensifies the confrontation between the Stooges and Mary.

Mary uses her feminine charm to attract both Curly and Moe, in an attempt to Larry jealous. She sings a song (“for you, for you my life my love my everything”) with each of the puppets turn when she flirts with them. Each one is attracted by her charms as it demonstrates the oath he swore as Women Haters was fraudulent. Finally, Mary Moe and Curly tells the truth, she and Larry were married, and makes its way into bed with the trio, Moe and Curly played by the train window in the process. The film ends as the Stooges, old men now, finally reunite (in the clubhouse of the Woman Haters empty) sharing his hatred of women and aging. What happened to Mary is not revealed.

Production background

• This was the sixth entry in the “new musical” Columbia series and the whole movie is done in rhyme. Jazz-Age style plays throughout the short, rhyming spoken in the rhythm of music. The Three Stooges had different names in this short, curly: Jackie, Moe, Tom, Larry, Jim.

• This is one of the few nuts short that features Larry as the main character. Other loans include three lions and cooked his goose.

• Being the sixth in a “New Music” series short film, the film recorded musical score of the first five films. The unforgettable song “My Life, My Love, My All”, appears in this short was originally “At Last!” Film Um-Pa.
  Co-stars Marjorie White (playing the wife of Larry) died a year after this short in a car accident.

• Bud Jamison character delivers the first “eye peeks” to the Stooges, as part of initiation into the Women Haters Club. He peers through Larry’s eyes first, followed by curly. Finally, it provides a boost eye to Moe, who mistakenly blames curly quickly, slaps him, sparking the first real crazy bout the shorts.

• This short includes a young Walter Brennan playing the train conductor that began in the Women’s Club Enemies Moe and Curly.

• Curly gives his first “woo-woo-woo-woo!”And” Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk “in this short, although the latter is eventually delivered to the” classic “style.