page_title: Malice in the Palace
section_title: Curly Howard's cameo
hierarchical_section_title: Malice in the Palace / Production notes / Curly Howard's cameo
caption_attribution_description: English: Curly (as cook), Shemp, Larry, and Moe altogether in this very nice scene from the short "Malice in the Palace". This scene features a slim thinner Curly with a head full of hair, and a false handlebar mustache. This scene was deleted from the final release. However, there are publicity photos of this scene.
context_page_description: Malice in the Palace is a 1949 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. It is the 117th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
context_section_description: According to The Three Stooges Journal, a part was written for Curly Howard after his brief cameo in 1947's Hold That Lion!. The lobby card photo noticeably features a slim, mustachioed Curly as an angry chef. However, his illness caused his scenes to be cut (another story is that Moe Howard decided that "The Four Stooges" could not be sustained). A scene closely resembling the lobby card is in the finished film (with Hassan ben Sober in Curly's stead); ultimately Larry assumed the role as the chef.
caption: A thinner Curly (with a full head of hair and false handlebar mustache) as the Chef in Malice in the Palace. His scene was deleted from the final release.
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