Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb

1938 · Not Rated · 16min · Black and White · English

Larry Lets On It's "LOVELY!" (original poster)

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" ...

IMDb rating - 7.8/10 from 505 users

Genres - Comedy · Short

Director - Del Lord

Writer - Searle Kramer(story)

Stars - Moe Howard · Larry Fine · Curly Howard

Story line - Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles. —Mitch Shapiro <mshapiro@a.crl.com>

Release date - May 20, 1938 (United States)

Countries of origin - United States

Also known as - Cuckoo Over Contests

Production company - Columbia Pictures