Only could find b&w version of this but has 2 lovely scenes of 3 ladies in formalwear getting buckets of water thrown at them & their gorgeous dresses.
The Stooges often re-made the same shorts 2-3 times....often using stock footage from the first film and inserting some of that footage into the remake film.
The other notable thing about A Missed Fortune is that it includes stock footage of Curly borrowed from the 1938 original, who had already died when they made A Missed Fortune.
This takes me back. I grew up with 4 brothers and one 12" black and white TV with rabbit ear antennas and tin foil bows. You could see the Stooges every Saturday morning and my sister and I would have to patiently wait through an hour of this before we got to watch our shows which if I remember right were the Bugaloos and The Adventures of Gulliver.
Already into wetlook but not knowing why, scenes like this were very much a part of my childhood fetish formative years. I knew I could count on the Stooges for a regular dose of well dressed women getting wet, in pie or food fights, falling in mud, and much more. This scene with the woman in the middle wearing a wet black silk dress is priceless!
FYI the actress who did the most wet scenes in 3 Stooges shorts was Christine McIntyre. Her water bucket scene from "Three Pests in a Mess" was my favorite...
She also did wet scenes in "Bride and Gloom" (1947) and "Waiting in the Lurch" (1949).
FYI the reason you got to see a remake of the water buckets scene was largely due to Columbia Pictures Studio Head Harry Cohn, who was too cheap to commission new scripts to be written, and he signed the Stooges to long term contracts in which they were trapped, and Cohn forced them into remaking the same scripts 2-3 times....so of the 250 or shorts they made, there were only around 100 scripts, and the rest were remakes.
You will not find color versions of any more 3 Stooges shorts. The colorization process had nothing to do with the original versions of these films. Colorization was an invention of the 1980's and CNN founder Ted Turner owned the rights to that technology and began to colorize old films because he also bought the MGM Film Library....so he began colorizing many classics like Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. This caused an uproar from notable directors like Martin Scorseee who accused Ted of being like a vandal who decided he wanted to repaint the Mona Lisa and desecrating original films.
Anyway....there are no 3 Stooges shorts made in color. About a half of dozen films have been colorized by digital editing.....but those are all fake colors done by computer.
.The few original color films of The Three Stooges are mostly home movies....like this one shot in 1938 in Atlantic City....and they also did color inserts during the 1960;s Stooges Cartoon series and a cameo in "It's a Mad Mad Mad World" and on their final film together...a fishing trip film in 1970 that was a failed tv pilot for a tv series that never got made.
I saw a lot of those shorts on WGN between, oh, 1958 and 1965.
There were many shots where Christine McIntery was doused (I think she was the wet actress in Columbia short subjects). In a Shemp Howard movie, she was totally soaked when his car hit a hydrant, and she stripped in the back of his car. In a Harry von Zell flick, she was hit with water several times.
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