In The Three Stooges' earlier 31st entry, May 1938 "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb," Curly won $50,000 in a radio contest. They decide to splurge in a fancy hotel stay, only to be unsuccessfully fleeced by three pretty gold diggers residing in the next room. The title was a parody on Ben Franklin's advice, "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Actress Lucille Lund, 25, plays one of the ladies cozying up to the Stooges. She's best known for her role as the wife of the Boris Karloff character in 1934's horror classic "The Black Cat."
One interesting aspect of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb" is screenwriter Searle Kramer 'borrowed' Charley Chase's skit seen in the Stooges earlier April 1938's "Tassels in the Air." Here, instead of a pint of paint, Moe accidentally mixes up a can of glue Curly is using on the table thinking it's pancake syrup. His fork becomes glued inside his mouth until Larry comes up with the brilliant idea of using boiling water to melt the glue. Another first in a Stooges film is to show Curly and Moe intentionally drinking alcohol without any qualms. The two are living it up in the swanky hotel by ordering a case of champaign while Larry is taking a bath-buoyed up by balloons. Curly swigs down bottle after bottle of champaign, hearing the liquid swirling around his stomach, as well as swigging the last bottle, causing the champaign to spray out of both his ears.
One interesting aspect of "Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb" is screenwriter Searle Kramer 'borrowed' Charley Chase's skit seen in the Stooges earlier April 1938's "Tassels in the Air." Here, instead of a pint of paint, Moe accidentally mixes up a can of glue Curly is using on the table thinking it's pancake syrup. His fork becomes glued inside his mouth until Larry comes up with the brilliant idea of using boiling water to melt the glue. Another first in a Stooges film is to show Curly and Moe intentionally drinking alcohol without any qualms. The two are living it up in the swanky hotel by ordering a case of champaign while Larry is taking a bath-buoyed up by balloons. Curly swigs down bottle after bottle of champaign, hearing the liquid swirling around his stomach, as well as swigging the last bottle, causing the champaign to spray out of both his ears.