Brideless Groom (1947) on Netflix
Professor Shemp Howard inherits $500,000 from his uncle Caleb, but only if he marries within 48 hours. Forty-one hours are already gone, and no woman he asks will have him.
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Plot summary
Professor Shemp Howard teaches voice, with Larry as his accompanist. Moe interrupts a lesson with news that Shemp's uncle Caleb has died. The estate promises Shemp $500,000, provided he marries within 48 hours of the death. Forty-one of those hours have already gone by, leaving him seven. He telephones the women in his address book and proposes to each of them, and each one refuses. His student Miss Dinkelmeyer, who has a hard time with the music, is fond of him.
Cast
- Dee Greenas Miss Fanny Dinkelmeyer
- Johnny Kascieras Bellboy(uncredited)
- Alyn Lockwoodas Former Girlfriend(uncredited)
- Judy Malcolmas Former Girlfriend(uncredited)
- Bertha Priestleyas Fat girl in hallway(uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Brideless Groom (1947)
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- While filming a scene in which Christine McIntyre's Miss Hopkins slaps Shemp Howard, she leaned too far into her punch and broke his nose for real. Director Edward Bernds kept the take in the film, and in slow motion Shemp can be seen falling and crying out in pain.
- Emil Sitka's line as the justice of the peace, "Hold hands, you lovebirds!", is engraved on his headstone, and the shot of Sitka having a birdcage smashed on his head turns up in Pulp Fiction (1994), where Eric Stoltz watches it on television.
- Brideless Groom is one of four Three Stooges shorts whose copyright expired in 1964 and which fell into the public domain, along with Disorder in the Court, Sing a Song of Six Pants and Malice in the Palace. The four frequently appear on budget VHS and DVD compilations.
- The recording of "Voices of Spring" used in Shemp and Miss Dinkelmeyer's singing lesson was sung by Christine McIntyre, who plays Miss Hopkins in the short. That same recording, and McIntyre, had previously been used in the Stooges' Micro-Phonies (1945).
