{"id":31522,"date":"2023-01-12T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31522"},"modified":"2023-01-12T05:21:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T10:21:21","slug":"hold-that-lion-1947-starring-the-three-stooges-with-a-cameo-by-curly-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31522","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hold That Lion&#8221; (1947) starring The Three Stooges with a Cameo by Curly! \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z011223zview_holdlion.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"739\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hold That Lion <\/strong><\/em>(1947)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Kenneth MacDonald, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson, Heinie Conklin<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Blackie Whiteford<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The boys are after a crooked lawyer who is on the run with their inheritance.\u00a0 Add in a loose lion and what could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hold That Lion<\/em> marks the only time that four Stooges appeared together on screen.\u00a0 It was also the only time that the three Howard brothers appeared on screen together.\u00a0 The scene takes place when the boys come upon a sleeping man in the train.\u00a0 The sleeping man is Curly!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Curly had since retired due to the problems caused by his multiple strokes.\u00a0 Curly came to visit the set.\u00a0 Director, Jules White had no idea Curly was coming.\u00a0 White spotted a man on set reading a newspaper.\u00a0 The man slowly lowered the paper and waved.\u00a0 The man was Curly!\u00a0 White was inspired and asked Curly if he&#8217;d like a cameo.\u00a0 The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For me, the funniest scenes are when Larry, Moe and Shemp individually enter Icabod Slipp&#8217;s office to confront him. Slipp (MacDonald) acts as if he just entered the office and accuses each Stooge of being Slipp!\u00a0 He then attacks them for stealing his money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>Hold That Lion <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z011223zview_holdlion2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hold That Lion (1947) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay:\u00a0 Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Kenneth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31529,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions\/31529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}