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[[Image:Stooge041a gents2.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The trio pose with their female co-stars in ''Gents Without Cents''.]]
[[Image:Stooge041a gents2.jpg|left|thumb|300px|The trio pose with their female co-stars in ''Gents Without Cents''.]]
*''Gents Without Cents'' is the first Stooge film to employ a [[Syncopation|syncopated]], jazzy version of "[[Three Blind Mice]]" as the Stooges' theme song. The new version is in the key of F, while the key of G was previously utilized. This syncopated version would be used regularly (though briefly) after the next film, ''[[No Dough Boys]]''.
*''Gents Without Cents'' is the first Stooge film to employ a [[Syncopation|syncopated]], jazzy version of "[[Three Blind Mice]]" as the Stooges' theme song. The new version is in the key of F, while the key of G was previously utilized. This syncopated version would be used regularly (though briefly) after the next film, ''[[No Dough Boys]]''.
*The title is a play on "without sense."<ref name="Solomon"/>
*The title ''Gents Without Cents'' is a play on "without sense." Other parodies include The "Noazark" ([[Noah's ark]]) Shipbuilding Company and show headliners The "Castor and Earl" ([[castor oil]]) Review.<ref name="Solomon"/>


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Gents Without Cents
File:GentsWithoutCentsTITLE.jpg
Directed byJules White
Written byFelix Adler
Produced byJules White
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Lindsay Bourquin
Laverne Thompson
Betty Phares
Judy Malcolm
John Tyrrell
CinematographyBenjamin H. Kline
Edited byCharles Hochberg
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release dates
United States September 22, 1944
Running time
18' 58"
Country United States
LanguageEnglish

Gents Without Cents is the 81st 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.

Plot

The Stooges are small time song-and-dance performers who are having trouble rehearsing due to loud tapping that is going on one story above them. When they go to give the rowdies a piece of their mind, three lovely ladies named Flo (Lindsay Bourquin), Mary (Laverne Thompson) and Shirley (Betty Phares) come to the door. It turns out the girls are performing their tap dance routine.

The six become friends, with the ladies accompanying the boys when they perform at the Noazark Shipbuilding Company to entertain defense workers. The Stooges slay the audience with their hilarious "Niagara Falls" routine ("slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch..."). When the boys receive word that the headliners (The Castor and Earl Review) have to bail, the Stooges and the girls offer to take their place. The three ladies perform some breathtaking acrobatics, while the Stooges perform "At the Front." The Stooges' agent, Manny Weeks (John Tyrrell), is so enthralled with the boys' performance that he offers to send the trio to Broadway.

The Stooges nearly leave their ladies, but end up getting married first with a honeymoon planned for Niagara Falls.

Notes

  • The Stooges filmed the "Niagara Falls" routine in 1943 for the feature film Good Luck, Mr. Yates, but the scene was cut at the last minute. Instead of wasting the footage, Columbia built Gents Without Cents around it.[1]
File:Stooge041a gents2.jpg
The trio pose with their female co-stars in Gents Without Cents.
  • Gents Without Cents is the first Stooge film to employ a syncopated, jazzy version of "Three Blind Mice" as the Stooges' theme song. The new version is in the key of F, while the key of G was previously utilized. This syncopated version would be used regularly (though briefly) after the next film, No Dough Boys.
  • The title Gents Without Cents is a play on "without sense." Other parodies include The "Noazark" (Noah's ark) Shipbuilding Company and show headliners The "Castor and Earl" (castor oil) Review.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc. pp. 250, 251. ISBN 0971186804. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Further reading

  • Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
  • The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
  • The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
  • One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).
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