Heavenly Daze

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

One of My favorite Stooges shorts with Shemp is none other than Heavenly Daze! All appearing in this short are Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Symona Boniface, Judy Malcolm, Marti Shelton, and Victor Travers. There are so many funny parts here. This is a very hilarious short. There is another similar Three Stooges short like this one called Bedlam in Paradise and I recommend both!

Thanks much to METV and "Shemptember." This one is 100 percent Shemp.

Shemp up and dies! He goes to Heaven... however... before he's let through the gates he must REFORM slick sales guys Moe and Larry. Can it be done?

The con job; Moe and Larry are selling a revolutionary pen that can write under whipped cream??? According to notes, this was a take-off on the famous fountain pens of the day that could write under water. The fact was, some did and some DIDN'T. Sooo Shemp has to return to earth (as a spirit) and sabotage Moe and Larry's sales schtick any which way he can.

Hilarious stuff, well written by comedy writer Zion Myers, a former director. One of his last scripts, passing suddenly the same year. Vernon Dent has the absolute best character name, called I. Fleecem. Symona Boniface returns to bug the Stooges, and look for Sam McDaniel, usually playing cooks and porters.

FYI: Behind the scenes Moe nearly strangled producer and director Jules White for promising nothing would happen to Larry when a pen was thrown at his face. The pen actually hit and gashed his forehead, requiring bandages. Needles to say, Edward Bernds directed their next film.

The password is Cucamonga, as in Rancho Cucamonga.

Believe it or not, this funny episode inspired Alfred Hitchcock's tv writers, who wrote a very similar story for his show in the 50s, featuring British actor John Williams -- wearing white wings!

10 Stars for the one and only Shemp.

Always on remastered Columbia dvd. Box sets via decades; 30s, 40s and 50s episodes.

HEAVENLY DAZE is my favorite Three Stooges short. I am only 12 years old, but I'm a big fan of the Stooges. In the short, Shemp learns he can't get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. Shemp is my favorite stooge. HEAVENLY DAZE is a great short. You won't be disappointed.

My rating: A

The Three Stooges capitalized on the theme so popular during and immediately after World War Two of souls returning to earth for some mission by releasing September 1948's "Heavenly Gaze," scripted by Zion Myers. Directed by Jules White, this spiritual film sees Shemp's soul sent back after he has died to correct his two partners' wayward habits. Moe and Larry claim to have devised a pen that can write under whipped cream, which was a takeoff of the Reynolds Pen Company's advertising its ballpoint pen has the ability to write under water. They try to con an investor couple into buying their new pens, only to see Shemp's angel gum up the works. During their demonstration, Larry gets pierced by one of the pens in the forehead. The studio's special effects department rigged up a thin wire leading the pen to a tin plate hidden underneath a pile of whipped cream on Larry's face. Director White assured the Stooges the stunt would be safe, but when the camera rolled, the pen hit with such force it went through the thin plate, piercing Larry's skin. Stories have it Moe was so upset he chased White around the studio lot. But several witnesses have debunked such an outburst.

Sam McDaniel stars in "Heavenly Gaze" as Mr. Spiffingham, the butler the Stooges hire to create the facade they are rich. McDaniel gives a bravo performance when Shemp's ghost scares the wits out of the startled man. The actor appeared in over 200 film and TV programs, and is the only African-American to be in a 'I Love Lucy' episode. McDaniel was the brother of Academy Awards winner Hattie McDaniel, whose performance in 1939 "Gone With The Wind" was the first acting Oscar earned by an African-American.

If "Heavenly Daze" isn't my favorite short, it's damn close to the top. The ever-underrated Shemp Howard shines in this film. I always bust a gut on the scenes in the stooges "new" digs when Shempie is scaring Moe & Larry's butler to death (played hysterically by Sam McDaniel who nearly steals every scene himself). A definite stooge classic I recommend to anyone with a funny-bone.

10/10