(From Wikipedia)
Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian best known as the de facto leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. That group originally started out as Ted Healy and His Stooges, an act that toured the vaudeville circuit. Moe's distinctive hairstyle came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of scissors, producing a ragged shape approximating a bowl cut.
Moe started off running unpaid errands at the Vitagraph Studios in Midwood, Brooklyn and was rewarded at first with bit parts in movies in production there, until a 1910 fire destroyed the films done there, and with it, most of Horwitz's work. But already in 1909, he had met a young man named Ernest Lea Nash, who was later to provide a significant boost for his career aspirations. In 1912, they both held a summer job working in Annette Kellerman's aquatic act as diving "girls."
Moe continued his attempts at gaining show business experience by singing in a bar with his older brother Shemp until their father put a stop to it, and in 1914, by joining a performing troupe on a Mississippi River showboat for the next two summers. In 1921, he joined Ernest Lea Nash, now firmly established in show business as Ted Healy, in a vaudeville routine. In 1923, he caught sight of Shemp in the audience and yelled at him from the stage. The two brothers heckled each other, garnering a great response from the audience, and Healy immediately hired Shemp as a permanent part of the act.
On June 7, 1925, Moe Howard married Helen Schonberger, a cousin of magician Harry Houdini. Moe and Helen had two children, Joan Howard (born 1927) and Paul Howard (born 1935). Moe retired in June 1925 after his marriage and went into real estate with his mother Jennie. Meanwhile, Ted's act with frequent stooge Shemp went on to national fame in the Shubert Brothers' A NIGHT IN SPAIN (Jan. 1927 - Nov. 1928), which enjoyed a nice Broadway run as well as a long national tour. It was during SPAIN, and the end of a 4-month run in Chicago, ILL., that Healy recruited vaudeville violinist Larry Fine to join the troupe in March 1928. After SPAIN wrapped in late November, Ted signed for the Shuberts' new revue A NIGHT IN VENICE, recruited Moe out of retirement to rejoin the act in December 1928, and, in early 1929's rehearsals, Moe, Larry, and Shemp came together for the first time as a trio. When VENICE closed in March 1930, Ted and his boys toured for a while as "Ted Healy and His Racketeers" (later changed to Ted Healy and His Stooges).
By 1930, Ted Healy and His Stooges were on the verge of hitting "the big time" and made their first movie, Soup to Nuts—featuring Healy and his four Stooges: Moe (billed as "Harry Howard"), Shemp, Larry, and one-shot Stooge Fred Sanborn— for Fox Films (later 20th Century Fox). Shemp had never seen eye-to-eye with the hard-drinking and sometimes belligerent Healy, however, and he left the group shortly after their first group of films to pursue a solo movie career. After a short search for a replacement, Moe Howard suggested his youngest brother Jerome ("Babe" to Moe and Shemp). Healy originally passed on Jerry (whom he disliked), but Jerry was so eager to join the act that he shaved off his luxuriant auburn mustache and hair and ran on stage during Healy's routine. That finally got Healy to hire Jerry, who took the stage name of "Curly".
Healy departed the team in 1934. With his departure, Moe Howard assumed Healy's prior role as the aggressive, take-charge leader of the Three Stooges: a short-tempered bully, prone to slapstick violence against the other two Stooges. But despite his outwardly rather cruel demeanor towards his pals, Moe was also very loyal and protective of the other Stooges on film, keeping them from harm and, should it befall them, doing whatever it took to save them. He emphasized in his 1977 book, however, that the ill-tempered aspects of his on-screen persona did not reflect his real personality. He also boasted of being a shrewd businessman by wisely investing the money made from his film career. But the Stooges received no subsequent royalties (i.e., residuals) from any of their many shorts; they were paid a flat amount for each one, and Columbia owned the rights (and profits) thereafter. However, according to Larry Fine in the 1970s, Columbia allowed the Stooges to do live tours when they were not filming in exchange for half-salary during those months. Fine indicated that the profits from the tours substantially increased their yearly take.
Beginning in 1934, The Three Stooges began releasing the first of almost 200 short films (the first ten of which you can take a closer look at in the caches that will give you the coordinates for this cache).
Moe Howard died of lung cancer at age 77 on May 4, 1975 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he had been admitted a week earlier in April, just over three months after Larry Fine's death. He was a heavy smoker for much of his adult life.
Here is one of the last pictures take of Moe.
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GC69MMP Woman Haters
GC69NZ3 Punch Drunks
GC69QAW Men In Black
GC69Y9W Three Little Pigskins
GC69YCC Horses' Collars
GC6A1EH Restless Knights
GC6A1FV Pop Goes The Easel
GC6A4GF Uncivil Warriors
GC6A4HA Pardon My Scotch
GC6A4KV Hoi Polloi
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