Three Sappy People

Three Sappy People is a 1939 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 43rd entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.

Plot

The Stooges are phone repairmen unwittingly mistaken for esteemed psychiatrists, Drs. Z. Ziller, X. Zeller, and Y. Zoller, while occupying their office space. Wealthy patron J. Rumsford Rumford, influenced by a recommendation from a medical acquaintance, engages the services of the Stooges to attend to his spirited wife, Sherry Rumford.

During the course of their appointment, the Stooges inadvertently disrupt a formal dinner gathering, instigating a chaotic food altercation in their characteristic manner. Despite the commotion, the unorthodox behavior of the Stooges inadvertently amuses Mrs. Rumford, leading her husband to conclude erroneously that her ailment has been remedied.

Consequently, the Stooges are generously compensated for their purported therapeutic intervention.

Production notes

Three Sappy People was filmed on April 6–10, 1939. The film's title is a parody of the song title "Two Sleepy People." The short is also the sixth of sixteen Stooge shorts with the word "three" in the title.

During the pastry fight, 22-year-old Lorna Gray was treated on the set after a cream puff became lodged in her throat. However, in an interview later in her life, Gray stated that she actually was not in any danger and that it was instead director Jules White who was so concerned that he nearly ruined the take.

References

External links

• Three Sappy People at IMDb
• Three Sappy People at AllMovie

1. The Three Stooges filmography
2. The Three Stooges
3. Gloria Blondell
4. Curly Howard
5. Three Little Pirates
6. Hearts and Flowers
7. Evelyn Young
8. Three Missing Links
9. Richard Fiske
10. Ann Doran
11. Three Little Pigskins
12. List of supporting actors in Three Stooges films
13. A Pain in the Pullman
14. Eddie Laughton
15. Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)
16. The Three Stooges in Orbit
17. Snow White and the Three Stooges
18. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules
19. The Three Stooges Collection
20. Sappy Bull Fighters