Larry Fine
Birth name	Louis Feinberg
Born	October 5, 1902 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	January 24, 1975 (aged 72) Woodland Hills, California
Spouse(s)	Mabel Haney (1926 - 1967)

Larry Fine (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975) was an American comedian and actor, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges. Image File history File links This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Pennsylvania. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_California. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ... is the 278th day of the year (279th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the mid 20th century best known for their numerous short films. ...

Biography

Larry was born Louis Feinberg to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the corner of 3rd and South Streets. His father, Joseph Feinberg, and mother, Fanny Lieberman, owned a watch repair and jewelry shop. The building there is now a restaurant, and it houses a small Stooge museum. When Larry was a child, he burned his arm with some of his father's acid, which was used to test whether or not gold was real, mistaking it for a cool drink (The child had the bottle to his lips when the father noticed. In a panic, the father slapped the bottle from Larry's hand, splashing the child's forearm with acid). He received violin training to help strengthen his damaged muscles. This talent would be observed in many of the Stooges' films; in fact, when all three are seen playing fiddles onscreen, only Larry is actually playing his instrument, while the others are pantomiming. To further strengthen his arm, Larry took up boxing as a teenager. He fought and won one professional bout, but this career was put to an immediate stop by his father, who was opposed to Larry's fighting in public.¹ His experience in boxing, however, no doubt served him well in his later career as a Stooge. Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Standard atomic weight 196. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... A Mime artist on the Ponte SantAngelo A mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. ...

As Larry Fine, he first performed as a violinist in vaudeville at an early age. In 1925, he met Moe Howard and Ted Healy. Howard and his brother Shemp had been working as audience stooges for Healy. Shemp left soon after to attempt a solo career and was in turn replaced by another brother, Curly. Larry's trademark bushy hair came out, according to rumor, from his first meeting with Healy, in which he had just wet his hair in a basin, and as they talked, it dried oddly. Healy told him, according to the story, to keep the zany hairstyle and lose the violin. (He would later play the violin again in a handful of Stooges shorts.) A violinist is an instrumentalist who plays the violin. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moe Howard (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was the leader of the Three Stooges. ... Ted Healy (October 1, 1896 in Texas - December 21, 1937 in California; real name: Clarence Earnest Lee Nash) was an American vaudeville performer and actor. ... Samuel Shemp Howard / (Horwitz) (March 17, 1895 – November 22, 1955) was part of the Three Stooges comedy team. ... Curly Howard (real name Jerome Lester Horwitz) (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ...

Beginning in 1933, The Three Stooges made 190 short films, and several features, with their most prolific period featuring the characters of Larry, Moe and Curly. Their career with Healy was marked by disputes over pay, film contracts, and Healy's drinking and abuse. They left Healy for good in 1934. See also: 1932 in film 1933 1934 in film 1930s in film years in film film // Events British Film Institute founded. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In many of the Stooge shorts, Fine did more reacting than acting, staying in the background and providing the voice of reason between the extreme characterizations of Moe and Curly. (in the short Three Loan Wolves (1946), Larry was pressed into service to replace an ailing Curly, who was unable to perform as the lead stooge.) After Curly left the act, Larry shared screen time equally with his two partners.

But in the earliest Stooge two-reelers (and occasionally the later ones) Larry indulges in utterly nutty behavior. He'd liven up a scene by improvising some random remark or ridiculous action. In the hospital spoof Men in Black, Larry wields a scalpel and chortles, "Let's plug him... and see if he's ripe! Heh-heh-heh!" In Disorder in the Court a tense courtroom scene is interrupted by Larry breaking into a wild Tarzan yell. Of course, after each of his outbursts, Moe would gruffly discipline him. It is said that Larry had developed a callus on one side of his face from being slapped innumerable times by Moe over the years. This article is about calluses and corns of human skin. ...

Larry's on-screen goofiness was an extension of his own relaxed personality. Director Charles Lamont recalled, "Larry was a nut. He was the kind of guy who always said anything. He was a yapper." Writer-director Edward Bernds remembered that Larry's suggestions for the scripts were often "flaky," but would occasionally contain a good comic idea. Charles Lamont was a prolific film director of over 200 titles, and the producer and writer of many others. ... Edward Bernds (July 12, 1905 - May 20, 2000 is an American director born in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Offstage, Larry was a social butterfly. He liked a good time and surrounded himself with friends. Larry and his wife, Mabel, loved having parties and every Christmas threw lavish midnight suppers. Larry was what some friends have called a "yes man," since he was always so agreeable, no matter what the circumstances.

Larry's devil-may-care personality carried over to the world of finance. He was a terrible businessman and spent his money as soon as he earned it. He would either gamble it away at the track or at high-stakes gin rummy games. In an interview, Fine even admitted that he often gave money to actors and friends who needed help and never asked to be reimbursed. Joe Besser and director Edward Bernds remember that because of his free spending, Larry was almost forced into bankruptcy when Columbia terminated the Three Stooges comedies in December 1957. Joe Besser Joe Besser (August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was a comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as part of the Three Stooges. ... Edward Bernds (July 12, 1905 - May 20, 2000 is an American director born in Chicago, Illinois. ...

Because of his prodigal ways and his wife's dislike for housekeeping, Larry and his family lived in hotels - first in the President Hotel in Atlantic City, where his daughter Phyllis was raised, then the Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood. Not until the late 1940s did Larry buy a wonderful Mediterranean home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, California. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...

The Stooges became a big hit in 1959 on television, when Columbia Pictures released a batch of the trio's films. The popularity brought the Stooges to a new audience and revitalized their careers. Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On May 30,1967, Fine's wife, Mabel, died of a sudden heart attack, a blow that abruptly ended 40 years of marriage. Her shocking death had come nearly six years after another family tragedy: the death of their only son, John, in a car accident on November 16, 1961. The couple's daughter, Phyllis, died of cancer at the age of 60 in 1988. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

Returning to work, Fine and the Stooges were working on a new TV series entitled Kook's Tour in January, 1970, when Larry suffered a debilitating stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body. He eventually moved to the Motion Picture House, an industry retirement community in Woodland Hills, where he spent his remaining years. Kooks Tour is the title of an American short comedy film produced in late 1969-early 1970. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Stroke (or cerebrovascular accident or CVA) is the clinical designation for a rapidly developing loss of brain function due to an interruption in the blood supply to all or part of the brain. ... The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital is a motion picture and television industry complex complete with a retirement community, with individual cottages, and a fully licensed, acute-care hospital, located at 23388 Mulholland Drive in Woodland Hills, California. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...

Gravesite of Larry Fine

Fine was confined to a wheelchair during the last five years of his life. Like Curly Howard, Fine suffered several additional strokes before passing away at age 72 on January 24, 1975. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation. [1] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 506 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by me in September 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 506 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo taken by me in September 2005 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Curly Howard (real name Jerome Lester Horwitz) (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and Larry Fine. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gates of Forest Lawn Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. ... Nickname: Location of Glendale within Los Angeles County and the State of California. ...

He is sometimes erroneously listed as the father of sportscaster Warner Wolf, who is in fact the son of Jack Wolf, one of several other "stooges" who played in Ted Healy's vaudeville act at one time or another. He is, however, the father-in-law of actor and Los Angeles television personality Don Lamond, best known for hosting Stooges shorts on KTTV for many years. Warner Wolf on WCBS in 2003 delivering his trademark line, Lets go to the videotape! Warner William Wolf (born November 11, 1937), is an American television and radio sports broadcaster, best known for being a very popular local news sports anchor in Washington, D.C. and New York City. ... Ted Healy (October 1, 1896 in Texas - December 21, 1937 in California; real name: Clarence Earnest Lee Nash) was an American vaudeville performer and actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. ...

Posthumous Fame

The Three Stooges have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

In a 2000 TV movie, Larry Fine was played by Evan Handler. Evan Handler (born January 10, 1961 in New York City) is an American actor who has appeared in a number of films and TV dramas & sitcoms such as Six Feet Under, Law & Order, The West Wing, Sex and the City (as Charlottes love-interest and eventual husband, Harry Goldenblatt...

In a 2004 New Yorker feature on the Farrelly Brothers's attempt to write a script for a new Three Stooges movie, Peter Farrelly offered his theory of Stooge appreciation: “Growing up, first you watched Curly, then Moe, and then your eyes got to Larry. He’s the reactor, the most vulnerable. Five to fourteen, Curly; fourteen to twenty-one, Moe. Anyone out of college, if you’re not looking at Larry, you don’t have a good brain.” New Yorker may refer to: the magazine, The New Yorker a resident of New York City the hotel New Yorker a named passenger train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad between Detroit, MI and New York, NY This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... The Farrelly brothers, Peter (b. ... Peter Farrelly is a screenwriter, producer, director and novelist from Cumberland, Rhode Island. ...

Cultural references

• The voice for Stimpy of Ren & Stimpy fame (voiced by Billy West) is based heavily on Fine's, though aside from the characters' generally sunny demeanor, there are few other similarities between the characters.

• An episode of Pinky and The Brain was written as a Three Stooges homage, with Brain taking on the role of Moe and Pinky taking on the role of Curly. To accommodate the fact that the series only had two characters, a third mouse (named simply "Larry") was introduced without explanation. The character was edited into the beginning sequence whenever not too difficult to do so, and sang along with the beginning theme (adding the phrase "and Larry" after each instance of "Pinky and the Brain")

• On Second City Television, comedian Joe Flaherty impersonated Larry more than once, including a fake TV advertisement for "Give "em Hell, Larry!" a parody of the theatrical one man show, Give 'em Hell, Harry!, about U.S. President Harry Truman. In the sketch, Larry sits alone behind a desk and rattles off his many Stooge catch-phrases ("What's the big idea?" "I'm sorry. Moe, it was an accident!") with no one to respond to him.

• An episode of Garfield and Friends showed three stone age cats, all physically based off each Stooge. In the cartoon, the cat resembling Larry had the infamous Larry style.

• An episode of Mama's Family had Thelma "Mama" Harper as a contestant on the real life game show Jeopardy!. Alex Trebek read the answer, "He was the Stooge with the curliest hair." The other female contestant responded first with, "Who was Curly?" Since she was wrong, the male contestant responded next with, "Who was Moe?" Mama seemed to know the right question to respond with all along. She responded, "Who was Larry?" and got the credit for her response.

• In an episode of Seinfeld, George discovers that a woman Kramer set him up with is bald. When Elaine suggests that the woman is bald by choice, George refuses to believe it, declaring that when someone goes into a beauty parlor, "they don't say, 'Give me the Larry Fine.'"

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Further reading

• [My Brother] Larry, the Stooge in the Middle; by Morris Feinberg (ghostwritten by Bob Davis) [2] (Last Gasp, 2001).
• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [3], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion; by Jon Solomon [4], (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Columbia Comedy Shorts by Ted Okuda with Edward Watz [5], (McFarland, 1986).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [6](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [7](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [8], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

External links

• Larry Fine.com
• Larry Fine at the Internet Movie Database
• Larry Fine at the Internet Broadway Database
• Where Larry was born, now a restaurant
• Larry Fine at findagrave.com