Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise be heard laughing when Curly accidentally hits his head on Widow Jenkins' kitchen door while trumpeting and singing "A-Pumping We Will Go." The shot of Curly riding the oil gusher up into the sky would be reused in "Oil's Well That Ends Well". Moe Howard recalled in his autobiography that he received a glob of goo (representing oil) directly under his eyelids during shooting: Moe would have a similar ordeal while filming 1946's "The Three Troubledoers", when chunks of black soot became lodged under his eyelids. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise is the
Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise Laughton, James Craig). They manage to retrieve the deed to the land and are allowed to marry the now wealthy Widow Jenkins' daughters. "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise" was filmed on March 16–20, 1939. The film's title is a parody of Benjamin Franklin's, "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Towards the end of the film, Moe tells Curly to wish for quintuplets and Curly responds that honeymooning in Canada with their new found loves is how to make the wish come true, a reference to the Dionne quintuplets. The studio crew can