Three Hams on Rye

Three Hams on Rye (1950)

THE STOOGES' SLAP-HAPPIEST LINE-UP OF GAGS AND GALS!

The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it's a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.

Date of release
1950-09-07
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
15m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Three Hams on Rye is a 1950 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 125th 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 plot device of the coughing up feathers due to a misplaced potholder was borrowed from 1935's Uncivil Warriors. Three Hams on Rye is the fourteenth of sixteen Stooge shorts with the word "three" in the title.

Three Hams On Rye was filmed on December 14–16, 1948 but withheld from release until September 7, 1950. The 630 days between filming and releasing the short are the longest for any Shemp film released as a member of the team, Love at First Bite coming in second at 620 days.

Danny Lewis has appeared in one other Three Stooges short and was also the father of actor Jerry Lewis. According to Director Jules White, he swallowed a feather during filming.

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