{"id":32367,"date":"2023-04-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32367"},"modified":"2023-03-20T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:46:57","slug":"brideless-groom-1947-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32367","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Brideless Groom&#8221; (1947) starring The Three Stooges \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z040323zview_bridlessgroom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"598\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Brideless Groom <\/strong><\/em>(1947)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Bernds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:<strong>\u00a0 Clyde Bruckman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Virginia Hunter <\/strong>and <strong>Emil Sitka<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Gold-diggers mob the Stooges for their money!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shemp learns that he will inherit $500,000 if he is married by 6pm.\u00a0 The trouble is he has no girlfriend and no prospects.\u00a0 Luckily, Shemp is joined by Moe and Larry in an effort to find him a wife before the deadline arrives.\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Emil Sitka, a Stooges regular, gets his best-remembered line &#8220;Hold hands, you lovebirds!&#8221; in this one.\u00a0 Believe it or not, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/576320083538583543\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the line is on Sitka&#8217;s headstone<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christine McIntyre, another Stooges regular, has a scene where she is to repeated hit Shemp.\u00a0 Despite repeated takes, the punches didn&#8217;t look convincing.\u00a0 The story goes that Shemp told Christine to really let him have it, explaining that a lot of repeated half-hearted slaps hurt more than a few good ones.\u00a0 On the next take Christine cut loose with a punch that broke Shemp&#8217;s nose.\u00a0 The take was used.\u00a0 As Christine apologized, Shemp told her, it was okay, he told her to cut loose and she sure did!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clyde Bruckman, the writer of <em>Brideless Groom<\/em>,\u00a0 was the co-writer on the film <em>Buster Keaton&#8217;s Seven Chances<\/em> (1925) which had a similar plot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Brideless Groom <\/strong><\/em>(1947) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.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\/z040323zview_bridlessgroom2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brideless Groom (1947) Director:\u00a0 Edward Bernds Writer:\u00a0 Clyde Bruckman Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Virginia Hunter<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367","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=32367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32368,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions\/32368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}