In the Sweet Pie and Pie

Infobox Film
name = In the Sweet Pie and Pie


caption =
director = Jules White
producer = Jules White
writer = Ewart Adamson
Clyde Bruckman
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Dorothy Appleby
Mary Ainslee
Ethelreda Leopold
Richard Fiske
Vernon Dent
Symona Boniface
Eddie Laughton
John Tyrrell
Geneva Mitchell
cinematography = George Meehan |
editing = Jerome Thoms
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US October 16, 1941
runtime = 17' 25"
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:143247
imdb_id = 0033755
preceded_by = "An Ache in Every Stake"
followed_by = "Some More of Samoa"

"In the Sweet Pie and Pie" is the 58th 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

Tiska (Dorothy Appleby), Taska (Mary Ainslee) and Baska (Ethelreda Leopold) Jones, three snippy society girls, are willed an inheritance so long as they are married. Their shrewd lawyer Diggin (Richard Fiske) suggests they marry three death row inmates (the Stooges) to retain the dough. When the boys are pardoned by the governor, the devious debutantes think up any excuse to divorce their new beaus. After enrolling the Stooges in an ill-fated dance lesson, Diggin suugests the girls throw a formal party, hoping the Stooges will make a shambles of the evening. They do, of course, and the evening ends with the Stooges first genuine pie fight.

Pie fights

Larry Fine recalled that the most grueling scenes in this film involved pies:

Notes

* "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" marked the final appearance of supporting actor Richard Fiske. A perfect foil for the Stooges, Fiske's promising career was cut short when he was killed in action during World War II.cite book
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title = "The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion"
publisher = Comedy III Productions, Inc
date = 2002
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pages = 193
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
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* The title "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" is a play on the old song, "In the Sweet By and By."
* The dancing lesson sequence was lifted from "Hoi Polloi".
* The cell block footage would reappear in "Beer Barrel Polecats".
* Several shots from the pie fight would reappear in "Pest Man Wins".

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"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).