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Columbia Shorts 1937

27. THE SITTER DOWNERS

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Rl. Nov. 26 / Prod. No. 402 / 17 m / ap Jules White / d Del Lord / st scr Ewart Adamson / ph George Meehan / e Charles Nelson / C: Marcia Healy (Dorabell), Betty Mack (Florabell), June Gittelson (Corabell), James C. Morton (Mr. Bell), Robert McKenzie (Sheriff), Jack Long (Justice of the Peace) and Bert Young (Truck Driver)

SYN: Mr. Bell refuses to allow the boys to marry his daughters, Dorabell, Florabell and Corabell, causing the boys to stage a sit-down strike. Their strike quickly gains them national exposure and fame, but most importantly compassion. With their newfound fame and compassion, came several new gifts, the best one being a brand new house on a lot for when father finally cracks and allows the wedding bells to ring. Finally, pops gives in and as a result of their fame allows the Stooges to marry his precious daughters. The Stooges happily take their new brides to see their new home, which turns out to be a prefabricated home that they must assemble. When the boys refuse to build the home, the wives stage their own sit-down strike, "No House, No Honeymoon!" Eventually the Stooges weaken and see it best that they construct the house if they ever have a chance at consummating their new marriages. After several torturous hours of labor, they finish their work (or messterpiece) only to have Corabell wreck the whole house when she removes one wooden post from the middle of the living room.

Quick Hits:

- Did you know that this film features Ted Healy's sister, Marcia Healy, as Dorabell? Comedian Ted Healy, was the man who fronted the Stooges' act in vaudeville in the 1920's.

 

SD: 4 (F 5/28, M 5/31 to W 6/2/37) FN: Premise was reworked from Buster Keaton's One Week (1920). Clyde Bruckman also utilized this same idea in Honeymoon House, the 48th TV episode of The Abbott and Costello Show (1953-4).