Joan Howard Maurer (April 2, 1927 – September 21, 2021) was an American writer and actress, and the daughter of

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. She wrote several books on the Three Stooges and had several roles as a supporting actress during the

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Biography

In the 1980s, Maurer helped to raise funds for a cancer center dedicated to her father at the

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by providing his autographs as incentives for donors to the facility in

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. After she discovered about 4,000 cancelled checks that had been signed by Howard, she offered to give one of the checks to each donor who gave $10 or more to the center. She was married to cartoonist/director

Norman Maurer Norman Albert Maurer (May 13, 1926 – November 23, 1986) was a comic book artist and writer, and a director and producer of films and television shows. Comic books Maurer's lifelong association with the Three Stooges began about the time ...

, who wrote, produced, and directed many Stooges films, for 39 years until his death in 1986. Maurer regularly attended Three Stooges conventions held yearly in

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. Her sons, Michael Maurer and Jeffrey Scott (Maurer), are both animation writers. All of her books were originally published by Citadel Press. Maurer died in

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, on September 21, 2021, at the age of 94.

Books

By Joan Howard Maurer

*
The Three Stooges Book of Scripts
' ; April 1984 *'' Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge'' ; April 1985

Co-authored by Joan Howard Maurer

*''

Moe Howard and the Three Stooges ''Moe Howard and the Three Stooges'' is the autobiography of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges. He spent his final days writing his autobiography, which he tentatively titled ''I Stooged to Conquer''. However, Howard fell ill with lung cancer in ...

''; written by Moe Howard, compiled by Joan Howard Maurer after Moe's death (July 1977) * (not to be confused with ''

The Three Stooges Scrapbook ''Three Stooges Scrapbook'' is an unaired 1960 television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled without "The," including a promot ...

'' unsold 1960 television pilot)
''The Three Stooges Book of Scripts, Volume II
'; with Norman Maurer (April 1987; published after his death in 1986)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maurer, Joan Howard 1927 births 2021 deaths American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent American women writers Jewish American writers People from Brooklyn 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women