There was a sheet of glass put up between them and the lion for the scene's shooting. Even though the lion was old, docile, and tame, Shemp Howard panicked and refused to do the scene. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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Curly's cameo was intended by Moe as a morale booster, but Curly never made another movie. 😥 #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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The lion used in this short is Tanner, the same lion used in the color Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logos from 1934-1956 and in some early 1960s Tom and Jerry cartoons. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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Footage from "Hold That Lion" was used to create three new Shemp shorts in 1953: #BootyAndTheBeast, #LooseLoot, and #TrickyDicks. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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When reading a newspaper article, Shemp mentions a Judge Woodcock R. Strinker. He'd twice before played a character named Woodcock Strinker during his solo career, though both times had different middle initials. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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Debut of Emil Sitka in a Stooges short featuring Shemp. In an interview around 1990, Sitka described the three as absolute professionals, although during rehearsals or between filming scenes they would often get into violent arguments using the "saltiest" language. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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The title is a play on "Hold That Tiger", a popular 1932 jazz song from The Mills Brothers, though the "Tiger Rag" jazz on which it's based is much older. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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This was the 100th short The Three Stooges made with Columbia. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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The only short to feature all three Howard brothers - Moe, Curly, and Shemp - together. However, they did appear in the 1930 Ted Healy Stooge movie, Soup to Nuts. #MeTVThreeStooges #HoldThatLion
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First half of film mostly consists of stock footage from #HoldThatLion (1947). #MeTVThreeStooges #LooseLoot
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The train scenes are mostly stock footage from #HoldThatLion, including Curly's cameo. By the time of this film's 1953 release, Curly had already died the previous year. #MeTVThreeStooges #BootyAndTheBeast
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