''I'm a Monkey's Uncle'' is a 1948

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directed by

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starring American

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comedy team

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(

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Larry Fine Louis Feinberg (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975), known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges. Early life Fine was born to a Russian Je ...

and

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). It is the 110th entry in the series released by

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starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are

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living in the

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. They must tend to their daily chores, consisting of mixing milk from a

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, hunting

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, and gathering eggs. Such is life in the

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times. That afternoon, Moe has a date with his girlfriend, Aggie (

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). Shemp and Larry want to join, as Aggie has two sisters for the boys, Maggie (

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) and Baggie ( Dee Green). When rival cavemen allege that the Stooges stole their women, a fight breaks out, with the trio catapulting rocks, mud and eggs at the cavemen. After fending them off, the victorious Stooges are free to woo their sweethearts.

Production notes

''I'm a Monkey's Uncle'' was filmed on July 28–31, 1947;''I'm a Monkey's Uncle'' at threestooges.net
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as ''

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'' in 1955. The film title references the idiom " monkey's uncle". This is one of the few films in which Shemp imitates brother

Curly Howard Jerome Lester Horwitz (; October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of the American comedy team the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder ...

's barking routine. This was done in other films like '' Who Done It?'', due to certain scripts being written for Curly before his untimely illness.

References

External links

* * 1948 films 1948 comedy films 1948 short films The Three Stooges films American black-and-white films Films about cavemen Films directed by Jules White Columbia Pictures short films American comedy short films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{short-comedy-film-stub