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Century Theatre 129 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC – 1963 – (Later to become the Swanston Theatre, then Capitol 2)

Glass advertising slide courtesy of Paul Brennan.

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy also a mainstay of the Newsreel Theatrettes around the world..

Six total Stooges appeared over the act’s run (with only three active at any given time); Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) were mainstays throughout the ensemble’s nearly 50-year run, while the “third stooge” was played in turn by Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz), Curly Howard (born Jerome Horwitz), Shemp Howard again, Joe Besser, and “Curly Joe” DeRita (born Joseph Wardell).

Contributed by Greg Lynch -