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Joe DeRita

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Joe "Curly Joe" DeRita (July 12, 1909 – July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American actor and comedian who is best known for his stint as a member of the Three Stooges in the persona of "Curly Joe.". [1]

71 relations: Actor, American burlesque, Bing Crosby, Blazing Stewardesses, California, Columbia Pictures, Comedian, Coroner Creek, Crew cut, Curly Howard, Emil Sitka, France, Frank Mitchell (actor), Gregory Peck, Have Rocket, Will Travel, Heart failure, Hollywood Walk of Fame, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Jitter Bughouse, Joe Besser, Judaism, Jules White, Kook's Tour, Larry Fine, Laurel and Hardy, Moe Howard, Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, Myocardial infarction, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, Off to See the Wizard, Parent-Teacher Association, Paul Garner, Pennsylvania, People are Funny, Philadelphia, Pneumonia, Randolph Scott, Ritz Brothers, Shemp Howard, Short film, Simoniz, Slappily Married, Snow White and the Three Stooges, Star Spangled Salesman, Stroke, Ted Healy, Television, Thank Your Lucky Stars (film), The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The Bravados, ..., The Doughgirls, The French Key, The Good Bad Egg, The New Three Stooges, The Outlaws Is Coming, The Sailor Takes a Wife, The Three Stooges, The Three Stooges (2000 film), The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze, The Three Stooges in Orbit, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, The Three Stooges Scrapbook, United Kingdom, United Service Organizations, United States, Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, Vaudeville, Wedlock Deadlock, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, World War II, 4 for Texas. Expand index (21 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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American burlesque

American burlesque is a genre of variety show.

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Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.

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Blazing Stewardesses

Blazing Stewardesses is a 1975 American sex comedy film, directed by Al Adamson.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (commonly known as Columbia Pictures and Columbia, formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation, and stylized as COLUMBIA) is an American film studio, production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Coroner Creek

Coroner Creek is an American 1948 Cinecolor western film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott and Marguerite Chapman.

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Crew cut

A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp (pompadour) at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal.

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Curly Howard

Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian actor and comedian.

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Emil Sitka

Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914January 16, 1998) was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with The Three Stooges.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frank Mitchell (actor)

Frank Mitchell (May 13, 1905January 21, 1991) was an American film actor.

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Have Rocket, Will Travel

Have Rocket, Will Travel is a 1959 American science fiction comedy film starring The Three Stooges.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American epic comedy film, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy with an all-star cast, about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers.

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Jitter Bughouse

Jitter Bughouse was an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on March 20, 1947, starring Joe DeRita, Christine McIntyre and Emil Sitka.

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Joe Besser

Joe Besser (August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was an American actor, voice actor, comedian and musician, known for his impish humor and wimpy characters.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Jules White

Jules White (born Julius Weiss; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian-born American film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.

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Kook's Tour

Kook's Tour is an American comedy film produced in late 1969 and early 1970.

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Larry Fine

Louis Feinberg (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975), known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian, violinist and boxer, who is best known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.

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Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema.

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Moe Howard

Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the de facto leader of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades.

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Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital

The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital is a retirement community, with individual cottages, and a fully licensed, acute-care hospital, located at 23388 Mulholland Drive in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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North Hollywood, Los Angeles

North Hollywood is a neighborhood in the east San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles.

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Off to See the Wizard

Off to See the Wizard is an American television anthology series, partially animated but mostly live action, produced by MGM Animation/Visual Arts and telecast on ABC-TV between 1967 and 1968 that was narrated by Hal Holbrook.

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Parent-Teacher Association

A parent-teacher association/organization (PTA/PTO) or parent-teacher-student association (PTSA) is a formal organization composed of parents, teachers and staff that is intended to facilitate parental participation in a school.

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Paul Garner

Paul Albert "Mousie" Garner (July 31, 1909 – August 8, 2004) was an American actor.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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People are Funny

People Are Funny is an American radio and television game show, created by John Guedel that ran from 1942 to 1960 in which contestants were asked to carry out stunts in order to prove that "People Are Funny." Many of these stunts lasted weeks, months, or even years.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Randolph Scott

George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962.

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Ritz Brothers

The Ritz Brothers were an American comedy team who appeared in films, and as live performers from 1925 to the late 1960s.

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Shemp Howard

Samuel Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Simoniz

Simoniz USA, Inc. is an American manufacturer of automobile and janitorial cleaning products.

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Slappily Married

Slappily Married is an American short subject by Columbia Pictures, released on November 7, 1946.

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Snow White and the Three Stooges

Snow White and the Three Stooges is the second feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity.

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Star Spangled Salesman

Star Spangled Salesman is a 1968 short film produced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to promote the sale of Savings Bonds.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Ted Healy

Ted Healy (born Ernest Lea Nash, October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (film)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) is a musical comedy film made by Warner Brothers as a World War II fundraiser, with a slim plot, involving theater producers.

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, which aired on ABC from October 3, 1952 through April 23, 1966, and starred the real-life Nelson family.

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The Bravados

The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (color by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins.

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The Doughgirls

The Doughgirls is a 1944 American comedy film, revolving around the newlywed Halstead couple and their misadventures trying to find some privacy and living space in the housing shortage of wartime Washington D.C.

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The French Key

The French Key is a 1946 American mystery film directed by Walter Colmes and written by Frank Gruber.

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The Good Bad Egg

The Good Bad Egg was an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on March 20, 1947, starring Joe DeRita, who later joined the Three Stooges and became "Curly Joe" DeRita, and featuring Dorothy Granger, and Norman Ollestead.

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The New Three Stooges

The New Three Stooges is an American animated television series that ran from 1965 to 1966 starring the Three Stooges.

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The Outlaws Is Coming

The Outlaws Is Coming (stylized as The Outlaws IS Coming!) is the sixth and final theatrical feature film starring The Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity.

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The Sailor Takes a Wife

The Sailor Takes a Wife is a 1945 American romantic comedy film directed by Richard Whorf and starring Robert Walker and June Allyson.

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The Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best known for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures that have been regularly airing on television since 1958.

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The Three Stooges (2000 film)

The Three Stooges is an American biographical TV movie about the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges.

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The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze is the fifth feature film made by The Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity.

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The Three Stooges in Orbit

The Three Stooges In Orbit (1962) is the fourth feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity.

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The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules is the third feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity.

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The Three Stooges Scrapbook

Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960s television pilot starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment, such as comedians and musicians, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.

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Wedlock Deadlock

Wedlock Deadlock was an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on December 18, 1947 and starring Joe DeRita, who later joined the Three Stooges and became "Curly Joe" DeRita.

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Woodland Hills, Los Angeles

Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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4 for Texas

4 for Texas is a 1963 American Western comedy film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Anita Ekberg, and Ursula Andress, and featuring screen thugs Charles Bronson and Mike Mazurki, with a cameo appearance by Arthur Godfrey and the Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Curly Joe DeRita).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_DeRita

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