Sweet and Hot

Infobox Film
name = Sweet and Hot


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Archie Gottler
Jerome S. Gottler
Jack White
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Joe Besser
Muriel Landers
cinematography = Irving Lippman|
editing = Edwin H. Bryant
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US September 4, 1958
runtime = 16' 17"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Pies and Guys"
followed_by = "Flying Saucer Daffy"
amg_id = 1:150896
imdb_id = 0052262

"Sweet and Hot" is the 186th 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.

Notes

*"Sweet and Hot" features Moe and Larry's more "gentlemanly" haircuts, first suggested by Joe Besser. These had to be used sparingly, however, as most of the shorts with Besser were remakes of earlier films, and new footage had to be matched with old. [Lenburg, Jeff; Howard Maurer, Joan; Lenburg, Greg; (1982). "The Three Stooges Scrapbook", p. 264, Citadel Press. ISBN 0806509465 ]
*Over the course of their 24 years at Columbia Pictures, the Stooges would occasionally be cast as separate characters. This course of action always worked against the team; author Jon Solomon concluded "when the writing divides them, they lose their comic dynamic."cite book
last = Solomon
first = Jon
authorlink = Jon Solomon
coauthors =
title = "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"
publisher = Comedy III Productions, Inc
date = 2002
location =
pages = 316, 376
url = http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Three-Stooges-Filmography-Companion/dp/0971186804/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201570359&sr=1-1
doi =
id =
isbn = 0971186804] In addition to this split occurring in "Sweet and Hot", the trio also played separate characters in "Rockin' in the Rockies", "Cuckoo on a Choo Choo", "Flying Saucer Daffy", "Gypped in the Penthouse", "He Cooked His Goose", and its remake "Triple Crossed".
*Moe uses a heavy German accent to play the psychiatrist (the same one he used to mock Hitler onscreen over a decade earlier).

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons"; by Michael Fleming [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0767905563] (Broadway Publishing, 2002).
*"One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures"; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1581823630] , (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).