''Jitter Bughouse'' is an American comedy short released by

Columbia Pictures Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Columbia Pictures, is an American film Production company, production and Film distributor, distribution company that is the flagship unit of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group ...

on April 29, 1948, starring

Joe DeRita Joseph Wardell (July 12, 1909 – July 3, 1993), known professionally as Joe DeRita, 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 DeRita. Early life DeRita ...

Christine McIntyre Christine Cecilia McIntyre (April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984) was an American actress and singer who appeared in various films in the 1930s and 1940s. She is mainly remembered as the beautiful blonde actress who appeared in many of The Three St ...

and

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

Plot

Joe and his band practice for their big break in musical commercials. Joe also has a theory that music can cure the mentally imbalanced, and when he learns that his girlfriend Myrtle (Christine McIntyre) is a nurse for the rich, eccentric Mr. Lark (Emil Sitka), the boys head off to the Lark mansion to give a concert.

Cast

as Joe *

as Myrtle *

as Mr. Lark *

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as Mrs. Schultz *The Nov-Elites: Art Terry, Frankie Carr, Joe Mayer

Production

''Jitter Bughouse'' is a remake of The Radio Rogues short film ''Do Your Stuff'' (1935). This was the fourth and final entry in the Joe DeRita series produced by Columbia from 1946-1948; all entries were

remake A remake is a film, television series, video game, song or similar form of entertainment that is based upon and retells the story of an earlier production in the same medium—e.g., a "new version of an existing film". A remake tells the same s ...

s of other Columbia shorts. Sitka was at the time also a frequent supporting player in Columbia's

Three Stooges The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy. Six total ...

short-film series; DeRita himself would join the Stooges in the late 1950s, becoming "Curly Joe" DeRita.''Jitter Bughouse'' at threestooges.net
/ref> DeRita did not think highly of his output at Columbia Pictures, once commenting, "My comedy in those scripts was limited to getting hit on the head with something, then going over to my screen wife to say, 'Honey, don't leave me!' For this kind of comedy material, you could have gotten a

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to do it and it would have been just as funny."

References

External links

*
''Jitter Bughouse'' at threestooges.net
Columbia Pictures short films Short film remakes 1948 films Films directed by Jules White American comedy short films 1948 comedy films American black-and-white films 1940s American films {{short-comedy-film-stub