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''The Three Stooges'' were an American slapstick comedy team that was active from the early to mid-20th century. The trio started making feature films in 1930. In 1934, the trio split, with Ted Healy leaving the group, and made their own shorts. In 1959, the trio discontinued those shorts.
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''The Three Stooges'' were an American slapstick comedy team that was active from the early to mid-20th century. The trio started making feature films in 1930. In 1934, the trio split, with Ted Healy leaving the group, and made their own shorts. In 1959, the trio discontinued those shorts. After these shorts were done with, the final version of the trio (Moe, Larry, and 'Curly Joe' DeRita) made feature films and even their own cartoon series with live pieces done by the Stooges themselves.


''Malice in the Palace'' was the 117th short starring The Three Stooges. The short is now in the public domain.
''Malice in the Palace'' was the 117th short starring The Three Stooges, where they run a restaurant. The short is now in the public domain.


Originally in the short, there was a brief scene of the restaurant that the Stooges were running. Former Stooge Curly Howard was supposed to play a chef in the film. However, due to his stroke 2 years earlier, the scene was ultimately deleted and the chef was instead played by Larry. On the Lobby card of the short, a screenshot of Curly exists. No surviving prints/footage of the scene has been found to this day.
The plot centers around the three goofballs running a restaurant in a Western-movie version of a Middle Eastern market town, possibly somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula or in North Africa while thieves nearly as incompetent as they themselves attempt to wheel, deal and steal a fabulous treasure called the Rootintootin Diamond (the name being a play on 'Tutankhamen') and being betrayed by one of their own. The Stooges end up rousting the now-broke thieves and make their own slapstick play to steal it from the one who stole it from the first set of thieves by invading the palace he has set himself up in.
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Originally in the short, there was '''a brief scene starring former Stooge Curly Howard''' playing a chef. However, due to his stroke 3 years earlier, the scene was ultimately deleted and the chef was instead played by Larry. On the Lobby card of the short, a screenshot of Curly exists. No surviving prints/footage of the scene has been found to this day.
 
As a result of deaths and other cast changes, as well as careful use of old footage to pad out newer shorts, former Stooges and their associated actors often show up well past their time in Stooge pieces.
 
The Stooges were known to be close to their children as well as to the theater owners who they were on much better terms with than the studio they once worked for. If hope exists for this deleted scene to be confirmed and found, it is possible with these entities.
 
The dialogue, as saved from Jules White’s copy of the script and digitized in the Three Stooges scrapbook #106, says the scene was 10 seconds long and would have said;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Curly's Final SECRET Appearance On the Three Stooges THAT You ABSOLUTELY DID NOT See! - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dlnXc5HS6po |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
 
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Larry enters. Curly puts on his fez, removes his apron and Larry says, <br />
“One rabbit, one hotdog!” <br />
Curly; “Fix it yourself! I’m going to lunch!” <br />
Larry: “Lunch?” <br />
Curly; “Soitenly! You don’t think I’d eat in this dump?!” <br />
-Exit.
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Curlymalice.jpg

Still featuring Curly Howard as the chef.

Status: Lost

The Three Stooges were an American slapstick comedy team that was active from the early to mid-20th century. The trio started making feature films in 1930. In 1934, the trio split, with Ted Healy leaving the group, and made their own shorts. In 1959, the trio discontinued those shorts. After these shorts were done with, the final version of the trio (Moe, Larry, and 'Curly Joe' DeRita) made feature films and even their own cartoon series with live pieces done by the Stooges themselves.

Malice in the Palace was the 117th short starring The Three Stooges, where they run a restaurant. The short is now in the public domain.

The plot centers around the three goofballs running a restaurant in a Western-movie version of a Middle Eastern market town, possibly somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula or in North Africa while thieves nearly as incompetent as they themselves attempt to wheel, deal and steal a fabulous treasure called the Rootintootin Diamond (the name being a play on 'Tutankhamen') and being betrayed by one of their own. The Stooges end up rousting the now-broke thieves and make their own slapstick play to steal it from the one who stole it from the first set of thieves by invading the palace he has set himself up in.

Originally in the short, there was a brief scene starring former Stooge Curly Howard playing a chef. However, due to his stroke 3 years earlier, the scene was ultimately deleted and the chef was instead played by Larry. On the Lobby card of the short, a screenshot of Curly exists. No surviving prints/footage of the scene has been found to this day.

As a result of deaths and other cast changes, as well as careful use of old footage to pad out newer shorts, former Stooges and their associated actors often show up well past their time in Stooge pieces.

The Stooges were known to be close to their children as well as to the theater owners who they were on much better terms with than the studio they once worked for. If hope exists for this deleted scene to be confirmed and found, it is possible with these entities.

The dialogue, as saved from Jules White’s copy of the script and digitized in the Three Stooges scrapbook #106, says the scene was 10 seconds long and would have said;[1]

————

Larry enters. Curly puts on his fez, removes his apron and Larry says,
“One rabbit, one hotdog!”
Curly; “Fix it yourself! I’m going to lunch!”
Larry: “Lunch?”
Curly; “Soitenly! You don’t think I’d eat in this dump?!”
-Exit.

Videos

The short.

The short, colorized by Legend Films.