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Cookoo Cavaliers

Cookoo Cavaliers

1940Short⏱️ 18m
ShortComedy
7.5
IMDB Rating
562 votes

The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the g...

Director
Jules White
Writers
N/A
Stars
Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Release Date
November 15, 1940
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 9
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Moe Howard
Moe Howard
as Moe Line
Larry Fine
Larry Fine
as Larry Hook
Curly Howard
Curly Howard
as Curly Sinker
Dorothy Appleby
Dorothy Appleby
as Rosita
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Carmen Bailey
as Conchita
Lynton Brent
Lynton Brent
as Pedro Ruiz
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Dorothy DeHaven
as Conchita
Anita Garvin
Anita Garvin
as Weakfish Customer
Marjorie Kane
Marjorie Kane
as Mexican Woman
Bob O'Connor
Bob O'Connor
as Manuel Gonzales

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Color
Black and White
Production
Columbia Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

slapstick comedyhorn the musical instrumentfishsalonbald woman

🎯 Categories

SlapstickComedyShort

⭐ Featured Review

Curly's Sensitivity to Baldness Shows In Beauty Salon Film
by springfieldrental2024-06-20
8/10

"In their 51st film for Columbia Pictures, November 1940's "Cookoo Cavaliers," Curly for the first time on film mentions his second wife Elaine. He stated to a female client in the Stooges' beauty saloon "his last wife" bleached her own hair. Curly had just divorced Elaine during the summer of 1940 after a three-year marriage, producing his first of two daughters, Marilyn. The short is centered around the Stooges struggling to make a go of a Mexican hair saloon they mistakenly bought thinking it was a tavern. It's ironic the four sisters who were their first c..."

💡 Did You Know?

The opening scene of this film was inspired by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Towed in a Hole (1932). The woman who asked for a haddock was played by Anita Garvin, a Laurel and Hardy regular.

📖 Synopsis

The stooges are three fish peddlers who, looking for a new business opportunity, open a beauty salon south of the border. Their first customers are some chorus girls from a local night club. After the stooges completely ruin the g...