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(46,354 posts) Mon Jan 4, 2021, 08:56 PM Jan 2021

I was reading articles about Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges...

Admiring all the movies they put out in their lifetimes.

They really just cranked 'em out, working hard.

The Three Stooges got screwed big time by the studios, Moe ended up a tour guide, after his cohorts died off.

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I was reading articles about Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2021 OP

That made me think of... Mike Nelson Jan 2021 #1

That's sad. They made a lot of films. The Marx Brothers were smart though. brush Jan 2021 #2

Reagan had a hand Cartoonist Jan 2021 #3

Mike Nelson

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1. That made me think of...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:01 PM

Jan 2021

... a great unmade film: Abbott and Costello Meet the Three Stooges. Probably worked for different studios, alas...

brush

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2. That's sad. They made a lot of films. The Marx Brothers were smart though.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:09 PM

Jan 2021

I think all of them made out ok.

I take that back. The studios screwed them too with "creative" accounting. They sued and decades later got 36k.

But they worked in vaudeville and Groucho in TV so it wasn't all bad.

Cartoonist

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3. Reagan had a hand

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Jan 4, 2021, 09:15 PM

Jan 2021

When he was president of the film union, or whatever they called it, he sold out everyone when television came along and gave up residuals.

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