•Lot 13
Original Three Stooges Script for “Low Afternoon” and Vintage Shemp Howard Photograph
The cover of the script reads: “Columbia Prod. No. 4216// Stooge Comedy//This script is the property of Columbia Pictures Corp. When it has served your purpose Return to Short Subjects.//Final Draft Oct. 13, 1953”. There is also handwriting in pencil script: Started Oct 26 1953 // Finished Oct 28 1953”. The title of “Low Afternoon” was a parody title of High Noon, a classic Western movie made in 1952. Eventually the title of the Stooges Movie became “Shot in the Frontier”.
The vintage black and white photograph of Shemp Howard is a studio publicity photograph. It has a stamp in red ink on the back reading “Shirley V. Martin Columbia Studios” and a paper strip attached reading “D-4034-17 – Shemp Howard as he appears in the Columbia comedy #4034.”
Shemp Howard was born in Brooklyn, New York with the name of Samuel Horwitz. He got the name "Shemp" when his mother, with her broad European accent, would call him "Sam," which sounded like "Shemp." He joined all his fellow Stooges in 1930 in their first film, “Soup to Nuts” and the rest, as they say, was history.
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500