Heavenly Daze

Heavenly Daze (1948)

The Stooges At Their Howlingest Best!

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 from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.

Date of release
1948-09-02
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (6)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Heavenly Daze is a 1948 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 109th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Heavenly Daze was filmed on June 23–26, 1947; it was remade in 1955 as Bedlam In Paradise, using ample stock footage. The title is a play on "heavenly days," a popular catch-phrase from radio program Fibber McGee and Molly.

In the 1940s, the supernatural fantasy film genre trope of the departed coming back to assist the living was popular one to use in film, such as in Here Comes Mr Jordan, A Matter of Life and Death, Wonder Man, It’s A Wonderful Life, and Columbia's Mr. Jordan sequel Down to Earth. The Tom and Jerry series also reworked parts of Heavenly Daze the following year in Heavenly Puss.

Larry asks why anyone would want a fountain pen that would write under whipped cream. Moe responds that people might be in a desert where they would not be able to write under water. This refers to the first ball point pen being introduced by Milton Reynolds in 1945 that was a bestseller. It was sold for $10 with the slogan "It writes under water."

Among the stops the train to Earth makes is Cucamonga. This is a reference to the famous running gag on The Jack Benny Program in which a train stops at "Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc.....amonga."

A gag in the film's script called for a fountain pen to be thrown into the middle of Larry's forehead. The pen was to be thrown on a wire and into a small hole in a tin plate fastened to Larry's head. However, due to a miscalculation on the part of the special effects department, the sharp pen point punctured Larry's skin, leaving a gash in his forehead.

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