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As the third stooge with Moe and Larry. |
By this time, Besser was already very popular with radio, movie, and television audiences. Besser had already made three starring features and 11 short-subjects for the studio in the 1940-1950s. The Stooges had a two-year contract to film 16 additional short subjects to be released from 1957-1959.
(A complete listing of Joe's Stooges shorts may be found in his updated and enlarged autobiography, Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge, published by Moonwater Press).