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Three Stooges "Fake Shemp" Footage

In 1955, Stooge Shemp Howard (older brother of Moe and the late Jerry or "Curly") died of a heart attack. The Three Stooges still owed Columbia Pictures four shorts by the terms of their contract. Producer Jules White shot new footage of Moe and Larry and edited it together with bits recycled from previous shorts and stock footage (both of which included Shemp). When continuity required that Shemp appear in these new scenes, a body double (Joe Palma) stood in for him, appearing only from behind or with an object obscuring his face. They also dubbed in audio of Shemp's voice, although occasionally its Palma's actual voice. I pulled out all the fake Shemp footage (also a couple of lines referring to Shemp's conspicuous absence) from those four shorts and strung them together. (Sorry, the audio level varies among the shorts, but the audio is not the point anyway.) The re-edited films range from clever to blatantly patchy, and Stooge fans often dismiss them as second-rate. "Rumpus in the Harem" re-uses footage from "Malice in the Palace"; "Hot Stuff" from "Fuelin' Around"; and "Commotion on the Ocean" from "Dunked in the Deep". The best (and most technically accomplished) is "Scheming Schemers", combining new footage with recycled clips from three old Stooge shorts: "A Plumbing We Will Go", "Half-Wits Holiday", and "Vagabond Loafers". Columbia then hired comedian Joe Besser to replace Shemp. After 16 films, Columbia replaced Joe by (in a sense) bringing back Shemp: Columbia kept the series going into the 1960s by reissuing Shemp's Stooge shorts, so that Shemp Howard remained a popular movie star for more than a decade after his death. As an aside, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell (both avowed Stooge fans) coined the term "Fake Shemp" or simply "Shemp" to mean a stand-in or nameless character, or someone who appears in a film under heavy make-up, filmed from the back, or perhaps only showing an arm or a foot.