The legendary slapstick comedy team "The Three Stooges" originally worked under lead comedian Ted Healy and consisted of Shemp Howard, his brother Moe, and Larry Fine. After years of stage work, they filmed one early feature together, Rube Goldberg's SOUP TO NUTS (1930), before Shemp left to work on his own, eventually making his own series of "Shemp Howard" shorts in addition to teaming with Billy Gilbert as "Gilbert & Howard." Shemp was replaced by his younger brother Curly, who proved to be a sensational comedian. The Stooges made various films together (such as 1933's DANCING LADY with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Robert Benchley, and Nelson Eddy) before breaking with Healy and making their own series of shorts, movies, and TV appearances over a span of the next 36 years. Curly worked until 1947, when the continuous onscreen blows to the head and his flamboyant offscreen life caught up with him and he suffered a series of strokes. Shemp reluctantly returned to the team for his brother Moe's benefit and worked until his sudden death in 1956. Shemp was replaced first by Joe Besser for a few shorts, then later by "Curly Joe" DaRita for several movies in the wake of a popular resurgence stemming from television reruns of their early work. This compilation includes three of their best shorts: "Violent Is the Word for Curly," "Punch Drunks," and "A Plumbing We will Go."