Bedlam in Paradise

Bedlam in Paradise (1955)

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's plans in an effort to get through the pearly gates.

Date of release
1955-04-14
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Bedlam in Paradise is a 1955 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 162nd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Bedlam in Paradise is a remake of Heavenly Daze, using ample stock footage. The new footage was filmed on July 9, 1954. Coincidentally, as the musical Carousel was a hit in Broadway at the time of the making of Heavenly Daze, the film version of Carousel was in production when Bedlam in Paradise was made.

A sequence in the film's script required a fountain pen to be propelled into the center of Larry's forehead. This was to be achieved by affixing the pen to a wire and aiming it at a small aperture in a tin plate secured to Larry's head. However, an error by the special effects team resulted in the pen's sharp point penetrating Larry's skin, causing a significant laceration and substantial bleeding.

While in the original short Heavenly Daze Shemp ends the episode with the phrase (while writing the letter), "Dear Ma", in Bedlam in Paradise there was a re-dubbing of Shemp's voice and the line is changed to "Dear Uncle Mortimer"

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