Idle Roomers

Idle Roomers (1944)

Hotel workers, Moe, Larry and Curly run afoul of a showmans latest exhibit a wolfman who hates music! Debut of Stooge supporting actress Christine McIntyre.

The stooges are working as bellboys in a large hotel when a side show promoter shows up with 'Lupe', a wild wolfman who promptly escapes. The stooges try to capture the wolfman by playing music to calm him, but music makes the wolfman go berserk and soon the stooges are the ones trying to run away. The boys end up caught in an elevator with the wolfman who shoots them into the sky.

Date of release
1944-07-15
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (8)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Del Lord

Casting

Interesting facts

Idle Roomers is a 1944 short subject directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 80th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Filmed on November 17–20, 1943, the title Idle Roomers is a pun on "idle rumors." The plot device of bellhops pursuing the affections of an attractive female hotel guest would be used in the 1953 Woody Woodpecker cartoon Belle Boys.

Idle Roomers marked the first appearance of regular Stooge co-star Christine McIntyre who would predominantly work with the team for the remainder of the series.

Curly Howard's voice begins to deepen with this film. Since his 1940 divorce from Elaine Ackerman, Curly had lived a wild life, making merry on a regular basis, and drinking until the wee hours of the morning. Columbia cinematographer Henry Freulich stated in a 1984 interview that it was not unusual to see Curly stumbling into work looking like "he had himself a heluva time!" By late 1943, the effects of Curly's lifestyle began to have an effect…

Curly did manage to drop the word "F@#K" in his dialogue, that was somehow missed during the editing process.

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