The way I understood it, they were setting up for the big pie fight to end the short, everyone was called to the set, Curly didn't answer, Moe went looking for him and found him sitting in Jules White's chair with his head slumped over and he was in tears. Moe quietly informed Jules, Curly was taken to the hospital and they re-worked the last scene on the fly.
Yeah, between takes prior to a scene that required him. And the stroke wasn't exactly dramatic where he convulsed on the spot, flailing about. It was more a silent, yet strong, one that strikes so sudden. Causing him to hunch over with his head to his chest, whimpering and crying from the pain.
That's how Moe himself described it in his autobiography (finished after his death by his daughter Joan). It's so heartbreaking to read about that moment.
@@robdraperacs-S35 This movie did take a little dramatic license in this scene but it's otherwise accurate. Not sure about it being from repeated head shots, however. Moe wrote in his autobiography "Moe Howard and the Three Stooges" that when Curly was called to do the scene, he was found sitting with his head drooped and unable to speak. This was this big one that effectively ended his career. Curly's health had been in decline prior to the Half Wits Holiday shoot. It had been evident in earlier shorts through his increasingly slowed speech and physicality. He probably had suffered several smaller strokes over the years leading up to this. He had severe high blood pressure. Very sad. I remember noticing the change as a kid when I watched these having no idea why he was different. Michael Chiklis playing Curly here...he was in the Seinfeld episode The Stranded. Thanks for posting this. Cheers.
@@robdraperacs-S35 But this was not accurately how Curly suffered his career-ending stroke during production of “Half-Wits Holiday”. He suffered from it after walking off the stage from a shot that takes place where Moe caught Curly trying to eat a pie and was ordering to sit by a chair in this shot in which he does. Then, as Curly was called to be in the pie-fight sequence for the end of the short, he didn’t respond, and Moe later found him in Jules White’s Director’s chair, with his head slumped on his shoulder and he teared up, which was where he suffered that very debilitated stroke, and thus not featuring him in the pie-fight sequence.
It is from The Three Stooges TV movie starring Michael Chiklis, Evan Handler and Paul Ben Victor and Joel Edgerton. Directed by Jim Frawley. Exec Prod Mel Gibson. I was DP.
That’s not how it happened here, curly suffered a debilitating stroke while sitting in Jules White’s chair
The way I understood it, they were setting up for the big pie fight to end the short, everyone was called to the set, Curly didn't answer, Moe went looking for him and found him sitting in Jules White's chair with his head slumped over and he was in tears. Moe quietly informed Jules, Curly was taken to the hospital and they re-worked the last scene on the fly.
Yeah, between takes prior to a scene that required him. And the stroke wasn't exactly dramatic where he convulsed on the spot, flailing about. It was more a silent, yet strong, one that strikes so sudden. Causing him to hunch over with his head to his chest, whimpering and crying from the pain.
That's how Moe himself described it in his autobiography (finished after his death by his daughter Joan). It's so heartbreaking to read about that moment.
It is of course a retelling, but Curly did suffer a stroke while filming Half-Wits Holiday
Correct and many consider it to have been caused, to a large degree, by the constant hits to the head during the filming.
@@robdraperacs-S35 This movie did take a little dramatic license in this scene but it's otherwise accurate. Not sure about it being from repeated head shots, however. Moe wrote in his autobiography "Moe Howard and the Three Stooges" that when Curly was called to do the scene, he was found sitting with his head drooped and unable to speak. This was this big one that effectively ended his career. Curly's health had been in decline prior to the Half Wits Holiday shoot. It had been evident in earlier shorts through his increasingly slowed speech and physicality. He probably had suffered several smaller strokes over the years leading up to this. He had severe high blood pressure. Very sad. I remember noticing the change as a kid when I watched these having no idea why he was different. Michael Chiklis playing Curly here...he was in the Seinfeld episode The Stranded. Thanks for posting this. Cheers.
It looked like he suffered a seizure.
@@robdraperacs-S35 But this was not accurately how Curly suffered his career-ending stroke during production of “Half-Wits Holiday”. He suffered from it after walking off the stage from a shot that takes place where Moe caught Curly trying to eat a pie and was ordering to sit by a chair in this shot in which he does. Then, as Curly was called to be in the pie-fight sequence for the end of the short, he didn’t respond, and Moe later found him in Jules White’s Director’s chair, with his head slumped on his shoulder and he teared up, which was where he suffered that very debilitated stroke, and thus not featuring him in the pie-fight sequence.
Yeah but it's wasn't on the set it's was before the pie fight
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Poor Curly
I felt so sorry Curly he was overworked.😢😢😢😢
It looked like he suffered a seizure.
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What movie is this from
It is from The Three Stooges TV movie starring Michael Chiklis, Evan Handler and Paul Ben Victor and Joel Edgerton. Directed by Jim Frawley. Exec Prod Mel Gibson. I was DP.
@@robdraperacs-S35what is DP?
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It's funny that they can recreate every Three Stooges scenes right but still get most of their facts wrong. Nice try, Hollywood.
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Super bad casting for this movie !
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