Gypped in the Penthouse

Infobox Film
name = Gypped in the Penthouse


caption =
director = Jules White
writer = Felix Adler
starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Shemp Howard
Jean Willes
Emil Sitka
cinematography = Ray Cory |
editing = Henry Bastista
producer = Jules White
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|US March 10, 1955
runtime = 16' 07"
country = USA
language = English
preceded_by = "Of Cash and Hash"
followed_by = "Bedlam in Paradise"
amg_id = 1:148558
imdb_id = 0048141

"Gypped in the Penthouse" is the 161st 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

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 "Gypped in the Penthouse", the trio also played separate characters in "Rockin' in the Rockies", "Cuckoo on a Choo Choo", "Flying Saucer Daffy", "Sweet and Hot", "He Cooked His Goose", and its remake "Triple Crossed".

References

Further reading

*"Moe Howard and the Three Stooges"; by Moe Howard [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806507233] , (Citadel Press, 1977).
*"The Three Stooges Scrapbook"; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806509465] (Citadel Press, 1994).
*"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).