Slippery Silks (1936)

Anecdotes

Slippery Silks is a 1936 short subject directed by Preston Black starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 19th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Slippery Silks was filmed from June 10 to June 15, 1936. The film represents the Stooges' iirst genuine pie and pastry altercation. Although it involves predominantly cream puffs, a pie becomes inadvertently launched amidst the chaos when Curly obstructs Moe's trajectory while attempting to retrieve a "lucky penny", resulting in him being struck in the face with a pie.

Moe Howard stated in his autobiography that over 150 pies were thrown. In Moe's June 8, 1973, appearance on The Mike Douglas Show, he revealed to Douglas that, in making the Stooge pie-fight scenes, he was responsible for most of the pie-throwing, remarking: "the studio auditors claimed I had saved them tens of thousands of dollars with my accuracy in the pie throw." The pie fight scenes were used in the Muppet Babies episode, "Good, Clean, Fun".

"Preston Black" was a pseudonym used for a time by Jack White (brother of producer Jules White), who had been in a nasty divorce and was trying to shield income from his ex-wife.

The ending theme of "Listen to the Mockingbird" features different instrumentation.

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