Moe Howard, the creator of "The Three Stooges", and a humor eventually become unacceptable

He died 44 years ago Moe Howard: the creator of The three
Stooges. He had just turned 13 when, tired of being ridiculed at school by his mother 's hairstyle, he locked himself in the bathroom of a friend and he's cut the hair "to the cup". There was a lot of laughter, especially from his brothers. But several decades later, with the same look and playing an irritable and violent character, unleashed the laughter of the whole world.

Born June 19, 1897 in Bensonhurst, a small
Jewish community on the outskirts of Brooklyn, Moe began
flirting with the acting profession from an early age, that's why he never finished high school. In 1909 he met Ted Healy, with whom he had a great friendship. And, in 1912, both got their first job in a circus show.

Shortly after, Moe managed to earn a living by working in bars with his brother Shemp Howardwith whom he forms the duo Howard and Howard and visited several cities in the United States. But finally, years later, Healy was reunited with whom they put together an exhibition entitled Ted Healy and his gangsters.

However, in 1925, Moe married Helen Schonberger, his lifelong companion and mother of his children Joan and Paul. And, at her request, she left the show for a few years to devote more time to the family in a "normal and usual" job. But he could not with the vocation that he carried in his DNA. And, in 1929, he joined Healy.

(Video: "The three stooges" in "I can not wait" / TCM / Youtube)

At that time, Ted's show, Ted Healy and his puppets, also included Shemp, Larry Fine and Fred Sanbornwith whom, in 1930, Moe made his first film: Nut soup But then, because of differences with the leader of the group, his brother left to make an individual race and his place was occupied by the youngest of the family, Curly Howardwho to badume this role should have shaved his head and mustaches.

The team led by Ted continued filming with MGM until 1934, when it was finally dissolved. And then, Moe, Larry and Curly went to work with Columbia Pictures, giving rise to The Three Stooges.

The trio, who then also Shemp and Joe Besser In replacement of Curly, he filmed 190 short films until 1958. And Moe, who in his personal life was characterized as a quiet, family man, badumed the lead role that was accused of aggression. In fact, at that time, his humor would surely be censored for inciting violence. But at that time, he became very popular.

"The working clbad likes to think we are part of it, the middle clbad likes our job because it thinks it's better than us." The few upper clbad people who are approaching do so to see what is going on in the other. counter side, that's why we are so popular "Moe said trying to explain his success.

After winning many followers with the landing of his short films on television, in the 60s, The three stooges they continued to conquer the world with several feature films, some of which featured the performance of Joe DeRita in the role that originally belonged to Curly. But Moe never managed to convince Columbia to sell him rights on the shorts. The biggest gain generated by the group was therefore in the hands of the company and not the creator of the trio.

Over the years, the kind of humor they preached, between naive and violent, began to be questioned. And finally, The three stooges they withdrew in the early 1970s. "It would be wonderful to find three young people, to teach them the movements and the pace and let them continue," Moe said in an interview a few years earlier.

As his parents noted, Moses Harry Horwitz died on May 4, 1975 of lung cancer at his home in California, where he had created a "crazy museum" in which he was entertaining his fans. In 2012, brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly decided to recreate the trio in a film starring Will Sbado, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos. The critics were therefore not very positive for the film because they emphasized that it was based on a "humor of the past". But the reality, to this day and despite the questions, the short films of The three stooges They are still seen around the world.

(Video: The last interview of Moe Howard in 1974 / Channel 9 / Youtube)