Slippery Silks

Slippery Silks

Infobox Film
name = Slippery Silks


caption =
director = Preston Black
writer =Ewart Adamson
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Symona Boniface
Vernon Dent
William Irving
Eddie Laughton
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
June Gittelson
cinematography = Benjamin H. Kline |
editing = William A. Lyon
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US December 27, 1936
runtime = 17' 15"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:218961
imdb_id = 0028267
preceded_by = "Whoops, I'm an Indian!"
followed_by = "Grips, Grunts and Groans"

"Slippery Silks" is the 19th 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.

Plot

The Stooges are carpenters hired to duplicate a priceless antique Chinese cabinet on loan for a $50,000 bond from a local museum to a Mr. Morgan (Vernon Dent). The Stooges naturally destroy the valuable cabinet, so they go on the run from Morgan. Meanwhile, the Stooges inherit a fancy dress boutique, the "Madame de France," from their recently deceased Uncle Pete. They enter the fashion business, designing women's fashions which resemble the furniture they made as carpenters. They are hired to put on a fashion show by a woman who turns out to be Morgan's wife, Mrs. Morgan Morgan (Symona Boniface).

The first pie fight

"Slippery Silks" marks the Stooges first "bona fide" pie/pastry fight. While the fight primarily consists of cream puffs, there is one pie launched during the melee when Curly accidentally steps in front of Moe's line of fire to grab a "lucky penny," and stands back up just in time to get hit in the face with a pie. The first short that featured a pie-"like" fight was in "Pop Goes the Easel", in which clay is thrown at unsuspecting targets.

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"; by Jon Solomon [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971186804] , (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).


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