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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Del Lord released in USA on 20 may 1938 with Moe Howard
Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)
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Add to a movie listHealthy, Wealthy and Dumb is the 31st 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.
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Curly wins $50,000 from writing a catchy jingle for a radio contest. The boys quickly spend their loot, and check in at the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically destroy. In the process, three gold diggers connive their way into the boys' room, under the guise that they are three rich widows looking to remarry. This works perfectly, as Curly quickly discovers that all the tax deductions reduce his winnings to a minuscule $4.85. The boys hastily agree to marry the ladies, who soon find out the Stooges are broke and give them what for.Actors
Moe Howard
(Moe)
Larry Fine
(Larry)
Curly Howard
(Curly)
James C. Morton
Bud Jamison
(House Detective (uncredited))
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