{"id":34747,"date":"2023-12-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34747"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:39:50","slug":"a-merry-mix-up-1957-starring-the-three-stooges-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34747","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Merry Mix-up&#8221; (1957) 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\/z121623zview_merrymixup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Merry Mix-up <\/strong><\/em>(1957)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jules White<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Felix Adler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Moe Howard<\/strong><strong>, Larry Fine, Joe Besser<\/strong> and <strong>Diana Darrin.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Hilarious?\u00a0 Better Than Ever!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three sets of triplets (played by Larry, Moe and Joe) lose track of each other after the war.\u00a0 Moe, Larry and Joe are single.\u00a0 Morris, Luke and Jeff are engaged and soon to be married.\u00a0 Max, Louie and Jack are all happily married.\u00a0 None of the brothers have told their girls about the brothers that they haven&#8217;t seen in years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As luck would have it, all the brothers and their girls show up at the same nightclub at different times.\u00a0 Unfortunately when the girls arrive they mistake the wrong set of brothers as their guys.\u00a0 All of the girls think their guys are cheating and the guys have no clue what is going on.<\/p>\n<p>Let the hijinks begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The one-sheet poster for<em> A Merry Mix-up<\/em> lists the Stooges as Shemp, Larry and Joe!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of the shots when there is more than one set of twins was accomplished with doubles for each Stooge.\u00a0 The final shot with a 9 brothers in the same scene was accomplished with a matte shot using a triple exposure.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>A Merry Mix-up <\/strong><\/em>(1957) 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\/z121623zview_merrymixup2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Merry Mix-up (1957) Director:\u00a0 Jules White Screenplay: Felix Adler Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser and Diana Darrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/34747","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=34747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34748,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747\/revisions\/34748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}