Slippery Silks

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Slippery Silks
Directed by	Preston Black
Produced by	Jules White
Written by	Ewart Adamson
Starring	Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Symona Boniface Vernon Dent William Irving Eddie Laughton Jack 'Tiny' Lipson June Gittelson
Cinematography	Benjamin H. Kline
Editing by	William A. Lyon
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	December 27, 1936
Running time	17' 15"
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Whoops, I'm an Indian!
Followed by	Grips, Grunts and Groans
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Slippery Silks is the 19th short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.

Contents 1 Plot 2 The first pie fight 3 Quotes 4 Further reading

[edit] Plot

The Stooges are carpenters hired to duplicate a priceless antique Chinese cabinet on loan for a $50,000 bond from a local museum to a Mr. Morgan (Vernon Dent). The Stooges naturally destroy the valuable cabinet, so they go on the run from Morgan. Meanwhile, the Stooges inherit a fancy dress boutique, the "Madame de France", from their recently deceased Uncle Pete. They enter the fashion business, designing women's fashions which resemble the furniture they made as carpenters. They are hired to put on a fashion show by a woman who turns out to be Morgan's wife, Mrs. Morgan Morgan (Symona Boniface).

[edit] The first pie fight

Slippery Silks marks the debut of the Stooges first bona fide pie/pastry fight. While the fight is primarily a cream puff fight, there is one pie launched during the melee. This occurs when Curly accidentally steps in front of Moe's line of fire to grab a "lucky penny", and stands back up just in time to get hit in the face with a pie. The first short that featured a pie-like fight was in Pop Goes the Easel, in which clay is thrown at unsuspecting targets.

[edit] Quotes

• • Moe: "I always wanted to make a cabinet like that. The idea's been in my head since I been ten years old."
  • Curly: "Oh, sorta aged in the wood."

• • Mr. Morgan: "Are you sure this work will be in competent hands?"
  • Curly: "Soiteny! We're all incompetent!"

• • Large woman (to Mrs. Morgan, as both are admiring an outfit): "I think I'd look stunning in that riding habit."
  • Curly (to Moe): "I think there'd be trouble figurin' out which one was the horse."

• • "The crazier they look, the more women will pay for them" Moe, explaining dress-design to Larry.

[edit] Further reading

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [2], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [3](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [4](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [5], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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