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From Joe's first starring feature film, Hey, Rookie (1944). |
Most memorable highlights of Joe's long film career include: playing Sheriff Sharkey Dolan opposite Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride (Ma and Pa Kettle) and actor-singer-dancer Donald O'Connor in Feudin', Fussin,' and A-Fightin' (1948), cast with Shemp Howard (who him he later replaced as a the third stooge in The Three Stooges comedy team) in Abbott and Costello's Africa Screams (1949), being teamed with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, in The Desert Hawk (1950), cast in his first dramatic role in Bing Crosby's Say One for Me (1959), and playing another serious role, a joke writer, in Marilyn Monroe's Let's Make Love (1960).
(A complete listing of Joe's movie appearances may be found in his updated and enlarged autobiography, Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge, published by Moonwater Press).