Complex sentence: Curly suffered a stroke on May 6,1946, forcing him to retire; his brother Shemp Howard, the original third Stooge before leaving the act in 1932 for a solo career, only wanted to be a temporary replacement.
Split into simpler sentences: Curly suffered a stroke on May 6,1946, forcing him to retire. His brother Shemp Howard, the original third Stooge before leaving the act in 1932 for a solo career, only wanted to be a temporary replacement.