The best Curly Howard’s music movies

Curly Howard

Curly Howard

22/10/1903- 18/01/1952
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Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady
6.8/10
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

Plane Nuts

Plane Nuts
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/10/1933
  • Character: Curly
Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1934
  • Character: Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Start Cheering

Start Cheering
6/10
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

Broadway to Hollywood

Broadway to Hollywood
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/1933
  • Character: Fritz the Clown
In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son.

Swing Parade of 1946

Swing Parade of 1946
5.2/10
The Three Stooges help an aspiring singer, Carol Lawrence, and a nightclub owner, Danny Warren, find love. It features dizzy dishwashers Moe, Larry, and Curly, and musical numbers by Connee Boswell and the Louis Jordan and Will Osborne orchestras, including "Stormy Weather" and "Caldonia."

Time Out for Rhythm

Time Out for Rhythm
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 05/06/1941
  • Character: Stooge Curly
A producer and his partner clash over two women in show business.

Beer and Pretzels

Beer and Pretzels
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/08/1933
  • Character: Curly
Ted Healy and The 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos ensues.

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