Trivia

While working for Columbia Pictures, they were never completely aware of how popular or how financially successful they were. Only after the group stopped making shorts did Moe Howard discover how much more money the act could have earned.

They were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street on August 30, 1983. Former stooge Joe Besser and Emil Sitka attended the ceremony. Over 6,000 people showed up, the largest crowd to have ever shown up for that ceremony.

Although the group stopped making shorts in 1957, they had filmed enough footage that Columbia Pictures was able to release shorts for another 18 months.

Members have included Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita.

In the 23 years they worked for Columbia Pictures, they never asked for--nor were they ever given--an increase in salary. However, Moe Howard made sure that their contracts stipulated that they would keep all the money they made from personal appearances, and they wound up making far more money from them than they ever did for the 190+ shorts they made.

Received no royalty payments or residuals when their movies were played on television; their contract with Columbia Pictures made no provision for such payments.

Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard are caricatured as Cupid's Stooges, fighting in a box of Valentine's candy, in the cartoon The Bon Bon Parade (1935).

In an ad for a 1947-48 personal appearance The Three Stooges were promoted as "The craziest funniest guys in their daffiest screwiest best".

They were mentioned in the episode Pressure Points (1982).