Sweet and Hot

Sweet and Hot (1958)

The Stooges try to get Tiny the farm girl to overcome her stage fright.

Nightclub performer Larry wants Joe and his sister Tiny to join the act. The only problem is that Tiny is afraid to sing in front of people. They take her to a psychiatrist (Moe) who cures her, and the act is a success.

Date of release
1958-09-04
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (4)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Jules White

Casting

Interesting facts

Sweet and Hot is a 1958 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 186th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Production notes

Sweet and Hot was filmed over two days on August 22–23, 1957. Closing musical number "The Heat is On" featuring Landers performing alone was stock footage taken from her own solo 1957 Columbia short Tricky Chicks. The shot of a duck quacking was lifted from I'm a Monkey's Uncle.

Sweet and Hot features Moe and Larry's more "gentlemanly" haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. However, these had to be used sparingly, as half of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old.

Over the course of their 23 years at Columbia Pictures, the Stooges would occasionally be cast as separate characters. Sweet and Hot is a throwback to the Stooges' very first Columbia short, Woman Haters (1934), with the same musical-comedy format used by the same screenwriter, Jerome S. Gottler.

Moe uses a heavy German accent to play the psychiatrist, the same one he used to mock Adolf Hitler in You Nazty Spy! and They Stooge to Conga over a decade earlier.

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