Husbands Beware

Husbands Beware (1956)

Wildest and wackiest battle of the sexes yet!

To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters.

Date of release
1956-01-05
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (6)
Runtime
16m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Husbands Beware is a 1956 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 167th 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 second half of Husbands Beware is stock footage from 1947's Brideless Groom. In the new footage of the wedding sequence, a double stands in for Dee Green (Fanny Dinkelmeyer). New scenes were filmed on May 17, 1955.

Husbands Beware was the first posthumous Stooge release featuring Shemp Howard, who died on November 22, 1955.

This was the last film written by Clyde Bruckman before his suicide in 1955, borrowing silent film comedian Buster Keaton's gun to kill himself inside a Hollywood restaurant bathroom.

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