By what collective name were the comedy act Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine known?
Curly Howard Curly Howard Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American vaudevillian actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of the American farce comedy team the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp Howard and actor Larry Fine. Curly Howard was generally considered the most popular and recognizable of the Stooges. He was well known for his high-pitched voice and vocal expressions ("nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!", "woob-woob-woob!", "soitenly!" [certainly], and barking like a dog), as well as his physical comedy (e.g., falling on the ground and pivoting
Shemp Howard he was part of the act, usually known as "Ted Healy and His Stooges". His original stooges were the Howard brothers, with Larry Fine joining in March 1928. On stage, Healy sang and told jokes while his three noisy stooges got in his way. Healy retaliated with physical and verbal abuse. Shemp played a bumbling fireman in the Stooges' first film, "Soup to Nuts" (1930), the only film in which he plays one of Healy's gang. After a disagreement with Healy in August 1930, Moe, Larry and Shemp left to launch their own act, "Howard, Fine & Howard," and joined