Sweet and Hot
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| Directed by | Jules White |
| Produced by | Jules White |
| Written by | Archie Gottler Jerome S. Gottler Jack White |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe Besser Muriel Landers |
| Cinematography | Irving Lippman |
| Editing by | Edwin H. Bryant |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 1958 |
| Running time | 16' 17" |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sweet and Hot is the 186th 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.
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[edit] Plot
Small town boy made good, producer Larry returns to his home farm town and asks his friends, Joe and sister Tiny (Muriel Landers), to join his New York nightclub act. But Tiny has a fear of performing in front of a live audience, so Larry and Joe take Tiny to a German psychiatrist (Moe), who uses hypnosis to take Tiny back to the childhood origin of her problem. Once this is discovered, Tiny becomes a professional singer, making her debut onstage with Joe and Larry.
[edit] Notes
- Sweet and Hot features Moe and Larry's more "gentlemanly" haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. These had to be used sparingly, however, as most of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old.[1]
- Over the course of their 24 years at Columbia Pictures, the Stooges would occasionally be cast as separate characters. This course of action always worked against the team; author Jon Solomon concluded "when the writing divides them, they lose their comic dynamic."[2] In addition to this split occurring in Sweet and Hot, the trio also played separate characters in Rockin' in the Rockies, Cuckoo on a Choo Choo, Flying Saucer Daffy, Gypped in the Penthouse, He Cooked His Goose, and its remake Triple Crossed.
- Moe uses a heavy German accent to play the psychiatrist (the same one he used to mock Adolf Hitler in You Nazty Spy! and They Stooge to Conga over a decade earlier).
- The shot of a duck quacking was lifted from I'm a Monkey's Uncle.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). The Three Stooges Scrapbook, p. 264, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465
- ^ a b Solomon, Jon (2002). The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion. Comedy III Productions, Inc.. pp. 316, 376. ISBN 0971186804. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0971186804.
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