This period, in which the lineup consisted of Moe, Curly, and Larry, came to be known as the Curly years, in order to differentiate it from the years in which Curly was replaced with his brother ...

In the 1944 Three Stooges short “Crash Goes the Hash,” Moe, Larry, and Curly offend a snooty butler. “You remind me of the Three Stooges,” he chastises them. Curly takes umbrage.

Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns at birth, friends Moe, Larry, and Curly spend their time eye-poking and slapping one another all day long. When their orphanage suddenly goes ...

A reader recalls a Three Stooges short.