The Sitter Downers

The Sitter Downers (1937)

You'll sit up and roar for more of these eggs!

The stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.

Date of release
1937-11-26
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (18)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Del Lord

Casting

Interesting facts

The Sitter Downers is a 1937 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 27th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

The Stooges' wives are named Florabell (June Gittelson), Corabell (Betty Mack), and Dorabell (Marcia Healy, sister of the Stooges' former boss, Ted Healy). This was the last Stooge film released during Ted Healy's lifetime: he died on December 21, 1937. Filming commenced between May 27 and June 2, 1937.

A colorized version of this film was released as part of the 2004 DVD collection entitled "Goofs on the Loose".

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