''Three Sappy People'' is a 1939

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directed by

Jules White Jules White (born Julius Weiss; 17 September 1900 – 30 April 1985) was an American film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges. Early years White began working in motion pictures in the ...

starring American

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comedy team

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(

Moe Howard Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion ...

Larry Fine Louis Feinberg (October 4, 1902 – January 24, 1975), better known by his stage name Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges and was often called "The Middle St ...

and

Curly Howard Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He was a member of The Three Stooges comedy team, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and ...

). It is the 43rd entry in the series released by

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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 "Two Sleepy People" is a song written on September 10, 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Frank Loesser. Background The song " Thanks for the Memory", written for the February 1938 film ''The Big Broadcast of 1938'' by Leo Robin and Ralph Rai ...

." 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

who was so concerned that he nearly ruined the take.

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* {{Authority control 1939 films The Three Stooges films American black-and-white films 1939 comedy films Films directed by Jules White Columbia Pictures short films American slapstick comedy films 1930s English-language films 1930s American films