Curly Howard Net Worth
Curly Howard Net Worth is
$10 Million
Curly Howard Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and vaudevillian actor. He was best known as the most outrageous member of the American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges, which also featured his older brothers Moe Howard and... | Full Name | Curly Howard |
| Net Worth | $10 Million |
| Date Of Birth | October 22, 1903, Bensonhurst, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | January 18, 1952, San Gabriel, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Bensonhurst |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.65 m) |
| Profession | Comedian, Actor |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Spouse | Elaine Ackerman |
| Children | Janie Howard, Marilyn Howard |
| Parents | Sol Horowitz, Jennie Gorovitz |
| Siblings | Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Jack Horowitz, Irving Horowitz |
| Nicknames | Jerome Lester Horwitz , The 3 Stooges , Curley , Curley Howard , Curly , Babe , The Three Stooges , Three Stooges , Howard , Jerry Howard |
| Music Groups | The Three Stooges |
| Movies | Half-Wits Holiday, Disorder in the Court, Hold That Lion!, Punch Drunks, Hoi Polloi, Woman Haters, A Plumbing We Will Go, Men in Black, Idiots Deluxe, Micro-Phonies, Grips, Grunts and Groans, Malice in the Palace, Three Little Pigskins, Three Little Beers, If a Body Meets a Body, Violent Is the Word... |
| TV Shows | The Three Stooges |
| Star Sign | Libra |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bald head and baby voice |
| 2 | Wore suits that were a size too small |
| 3 | Wore a bowler derby hat in a majority of his Stooge shorts, most notably in Disorder in the Court (1936). |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Woman Haters (1934) | $1,000 (split with Moe Howard and Larry Fine) |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Impressively, Curly never had any formal training in acting or comedy. In fact, many of his most famous lines and moments came out of improvisation. Both Moe Howard and Larry Fine admitted that they considered Curly the key to the success of the Stooges, saying that his natural comedic genius took their act to an entirely different level. |
| 2 | Was well known for being irresistible to women. Older brother Moe Howard once said that Curly was always "in demand socially" and had no trouble having any woman he wanted. This proved to be more of a problem than anything else in his life, as it led to many failed marriages and relationships. However, despite the problems, Curly remained a notorious ladies' man all of his life. |
| 3 | Was very athletic as a teenager and a star player on his high school basketball team. |
| 4 | Older brother Moe Howard taught him how to play the ukulele. |
| 5 | Was in an automobile accident at age 21 when the car he was driving collided with a streetcar; the accident left him with a scar on his left cheek. |
| 6 | Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street. |
| 7 | On the Seinfeld (1989) episode Seinfeld: The Heart Attack (1991), Jerry thinks that was couch grass and cramp bark that killed Curly. |
| 8 | His two elder brothers, Shemp Howard and Moe Howard, outlived him. |
| 9 | After his stroke in 1947, he was left half paralyzed and unable to work, with expensive medical bills. Brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and fellow Stooge Larry Fine, set aside percentages of their weekly paychecks to help him. |
| 10 | Once went to the doctor about an ear infection, and the doctor removed a cherry pip from his ear. |
| 11 | Once while in Atlantic City, New Jersey, he was cracked over the head with a cane by a young boy who thought Curly's head was as tough as it appeared to be in The Three Stooges shorts. |
| 12 | During the Long Beach earthquake of 1933, he thought the house shaking was the result of a trick Ted Healy was playing on them, and was found by his brother Moe Howard pounding on Healy's door shouting at him to stop whatever that was he was doing. |
| 13 | Got his first job when he was 25 years old, performing as a burlesque conductor for the Orville Knapp Orchestra. |
| 14 | Ted Healy, who originated the idea of The Three Stooges' brutal style of comedy, was not originally interested in hiring Curly to replace Shemp Howard, the original Stooge, after Shemp left the group. Curly had wavy chestnut-brown hair and a waxed mustache. When he went out and completely shaved his head and (eventually) his mustache, Healy hired him on the spot. |
| 15 | Despite his shy nature, the success and celebrity of The Three Stooges triggered his lifelong indulgences in drinking too much, overeating and womanizing. He was also a compulsive spender. Brother Moe Howard, the business manager of the group, tried to curtail Curly's spending habits but was unable to. Despite several hospitalizations for health problems due to his lifestyle, Curly stubbornly refused to change it. |
| 16 | In 1984, he was immortalized in the song "The Curly Shuffle" by the country group Jump 'N the Saddle, which was accompanied by a music video containing clips from several of The Three Stooges shorts featuring him. |
| 17 | Never made a public or on-camera appearance out of character. |
| 18 | The accident he had as a child, which gave him his limp, was a gun accident. One morning he was playing in the backyard with his pistol, which had a hair trigger. He accidentally shot his foot, and was so frightened of surgery, that he never got it fixed. Brother Moe Howard was the one who found him. To mask it on screen, he developed his famous exaggerated walk. |
| 19 | With a full head of hair, he appeared for the first time with both Moe Howard and Shemp Howard in The Three Stooges short Hold That Lion! (1947); it was also his last Stooge appearance. |
| 20 | Was an avid dog lover and often brought stray dogs home with him from traveling. |
| 21 | Unlike his character, he was very shy and withdrawn when not on camera. |
| 22 | During a visit to the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara in January 1945, he was diagnosed as having extreme hypertension, a retinal hemorrhage and obesity thus explaining his ragged appearance in all of the shorts released in 1946-1947, his last year with the group. |
| 23 | Some of the animators at Disney had seen him as "Curly" in The Three Stooges shorts. His movements inspired some of the choreography in the mushroom dance in Fantasia (1940). |
| 24 | He shaved his head for his "Curly" character but did not like it because he felt it reduced his appeal to ladies. |
| 25 | The original use of "woo-woo-woo" was an ad lib. It was actually written into the later scripts. |
| 26 | Son of Sol Horwitz. |
| 27 | Shared the same nickname, "Babe", as another contemporary rotund slapstick comic, Oliver Hardy, although it was a coincidence. Curly was the youngest of the three Howard brothers--the others being Moe Howard and Shemp Howard--and his mother always called him "My Baby". His brothers shortened it to "Babe" and used it to constantly tease him. The nickname stuck to him all his life. |
| 28 | Had two older brothers: Jack Horwitz and Irving Horwitz. |
| 29 | According to one of his ex-wives, Curly was extremely musical. He could take almost anything lying around and make music with it. She said when they went to nightclubs, he would take two spoons and play along with the club's band, or tear the table cloth to music. Of course, they would find the cost of the table cloth added to the bill. |
| 30 | Following his untimely death, he was interred at Home of Peace Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, in the Western Jewish Institute Section. |
| 31 | He filmed a scene for The Three Stooges short Malice in the Palace (1949) as a chef, but it was left on the cutting room floor (although there are publicity photographs of the scene). |
| 32 | The final pie-fight scene of Half-Wits Holiday (1947) did not include Curly because he had suffered a stroke the day the scene was filmed. |
| 33 | His famous "woo-woo-woo" originated in The Three Stooges short Woman Haters (1934), their first of almost 200 for Columbia Pictures. |
| 34 | He was a member of The Three Stooges from 1930-1946. He took over from, and was eventually replaced by, his brother Shemp Howard. |
| 35 | Fourth member of The Three Stooges team, of which, over time, there were six altogether. |
| 36 | He was known as "Jerry" before joining The Three Stooges. Brother Moe Howard always called him "Babe". |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hold That Lion! | 1947 | Short | Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited) |
| Half-Wits Holiday | 1947 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Little Pirates | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Rhythm and Weep | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| G.I. Wanna Home | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Loan Wolves | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Monkey Businessmen | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| The Three Troubledoers | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Uncivil War Birds | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Swing Parade of 1946 | 1946 | Curly (as Jerome Howard) | |
| A Bird in the Head | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Beer Barrel Polecats | 1946 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Micro-Phonies | 1945 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| If a Body Meets a Body | 1945 | Short | Curly Q. Link (Q for cuff) (as Curly) |
| Idiots Deluxe | 1945 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Rockin' in the Rockies | 1945 | Curly (a Vagrant) (as The Three Stooges) | |
| Booby Dupes | 1945 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Pests in a Mess | 1945 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| No Dough Boys | 1944 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Gents Without Cents | 1944 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| The Yoke's on Me | 1944 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Busy Buddies | 1944 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Crash Goes the Hash | 1944 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| A Gem of a Jam | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Phony Express | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Idle Roomers | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Dizzy Pilots | 1943 | Short | Curly Wrong (as Curly) |
| I Can Hardly Wait | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Higher Than a Kite | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Little Twirps | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Good Luck, Mr. Yates | 1943 | Curly (scenes deleted, as Three Stooges) | |
| Back from the Front | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Spook Louder | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Dizzy Detectives | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| They Stooge to Conga | 1943 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Sock-a-Bye Baby | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| My Sister Eileen | 1942 | Subway Builder (uncredited) | |
| Even as IOU | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Smart Saps | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Matri-Phony | 1942 | Short | Curleycue (as Curly) |
| What's the Matador? | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Cactus Makes Perfect | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Loco Boy Makes Good | 1942 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Some More of Samoa | 1941 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| In the Sweet Pie and Pie | 1941 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| An Ache in Every Stake | 1941 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| I'll Never Heil Again | 1941 | Short | Curly Gallstone (as Curly) |
| Time Out for Rhythm | 1941 | Stooge Curly | |
| All the World's a Stooge | 1941 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Dutiful But Dumb | 1941 | Short | Cluck (as Curly) |
| So Long Mr. Chumps | 1941 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Boobs in Arms | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Cookoo Cavaliers | 1940 | Short | Curly Sinker (as Curly) |
| No Census, No Feeling | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| From Nurse to Worse | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| How High Is Up? | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Nutty But Nice | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| A Plumbing We Will Go | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Rockin' Thru the Rockies | 1940 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| You Nazty Spy! | 1940 | Short | Curly Gallstone (as Curly) |
| Three Sappy People | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Calling All Curs | 1939 | Short | Dr. Curly (as Curly) |
| Saved by the Belle | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Yes, We Have No Bonanza | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| A Ducking They Did Go | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| We Want Our Mummy | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Little Sew and Sews | 1939 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Flat Foot Stooges | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Mutts to You | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Three Missing Links | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Violent Is the Word for Curly | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb | 1938 | Short | Curly Howard (as Curly) |
| Tassels in the Air | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Start Cheering | 1938 | Curly - One of the Three Stooges (uncredited) | |
| Wee Wee Monsieur | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Termites of 1938 | 1938 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| The Sitter Downers | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Playing the Ponies | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Cash and Carry | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Goofs and Saddles | 1937 | Short | Buffalo Bilious (as Curly) |
| Back to the Woods | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| 3 Dumb Clucks | 1937 | Short | Curly Pop Howard (as Curly) |
| Dizzy Doctors | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Grips, Grunts and Groans | 1937 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Slippery Silks | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Whoops, I'm an Indian! | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| False Alarms | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| A Pain in the Pullman | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Disorder in the Court | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curly) |
| Half Shot Shooters | 1936 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Movie Maniacs | 1936 | Short | Curley Howard (as Curley) |
| Ants in the Pantry | 1936 | Short | Curly (as Curley) |
| Three Little Beers | 1935 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Hoi Polloi | 1935 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Pardon My Scotch | 1935 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Uncivil Warriors | 1935 | Short | Operator 15 / Major Hyde (as Curley) |
| Pop Goes the Easel | 1935 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Restless Knights | 1935 | Short | Baron of Graymatter (as Curley) |
| Horses' Collars | 1935 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| Three Little Pigskins | 1934 | Short | Curley (as Curley) |
| The Captain Hates the Sea | 1934 | Orchestra Drummer (as Three Stooges) | |
| Men in Black | 1934 | Short | Dr. Curley Howard (as Curley) |
| Punch Drunks | 1934 | Short | Curley, aka K.O. Stradivarius (as Curley) |
| Operator 13 | 1934 | Confederate Soldier (uncredited) | |
| Hollywood Party | 1934 | Autograph Seeker (uncredited) | |
| The Big Idea | 1934 | Short | Healy's Stooge (as Howard) |
| Woman Haters | 1934 | Short | Jack (as Curley) |
| Hollywood on Parade No. B-9 | 1934 | Short | Curly |
| Jailbirds of Paradise | 1934 | Short | Prisoner (as Jerry Howard) |
| Roast-Beef and Movies | 1934 | Short | Bogus Movie Producer (as Jerry Howard) |
| Fugitive Lovers | 1934 | One of The Three Julians (as Jerry Howard) | |
| Myrt and Marge | 1933 | Mullins' Helper (as Howard) | |
| Dancing Lady | 1933 | Curly - Stagehand (as Jerry Howard) | |
| Meet the Baron | 1933 | A Stooge (as Jerry Howard) | |
| Plane Nuts | 1933 | Short | Curly (as Howard) |
| Hello Pop | 1933 | Short | Son (as Howard Fine and Howard) |
| Broadway to Hollywood | 1933 | Fritz the Clown (uncredited) | |
| Beer and Pretzels | 1933 | Short | Curly (as Howard) |
| Turn Back the Clock | 1933 | Wedding Singer (uncredited) | |
| Nertsery Rhymes | 1933 | Short | Boys (as Howard, Fine and Howard) |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Glass Bottom Boat | 1966 | as Jerome Howard, "Soft As The Starlight" | |
| The Gun Runners | 1958 | lyrics: "Havana Holiday" - as Jerome Howard / music: "Havana Holiday" - as Jerome Howard | |
| Self Made Maids | 1950 | Short lyrics: "Zee Lollipop Song" - uncredited / music: "Zee Lollipop Song" - uncredited | |
| In the Sweet Pie and Pie | 1941 | Short performer: "Home On The Range" | |
| Yes, We Have No Bonanza | 1939 | Short performer: "Red River Valley/She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain" - uncredited | |
| A Ducking They Did Go | 1939 | Short performer: "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are" - uncredited | |
| Wee Wee Monsieur | 1938 | Short lyrics: "Zee Lollipop Song" / music: "Zee Lollipop Song" / performer: "Zee Lollipop Song" | |
| Plane Nuts | 1933 | Short performer: "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited | |
| Turn Back the Clock | 1933 | performer: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" 1909, "You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline" 1903 - uncredited |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Hit with a Miss | 1945 | Short story - as Howard | |
| Punch Drunks | 1934 | Short story - as Jerry Howard |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pest from the West | 1939 | Short voice-over: Martino's fall into cellar - uncredited | |
| A Star Is Shorn | 1939 | Short voice-over: Gateman's fall down stairs - uncredited |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Swashbucklers | 2013 | TV Series short grateful acknowledgment - 1 episode |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 5: Art and Artists | 1940 | Short documentary | Himself (as The Three Stooges) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 | 1939 | Documentary short | Himself, Horse Show Entertainer (as The 3 Stooges) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 7 | 1936 | Documentary short | Himself (as the Three Stooges) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 6 | 1935 | Short documentary | Himself (as The 3 Stooges) |
| Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 | 1934 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots, Series 13, No. 5 | 1934 | Documentary short | Himself |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hey Moe, Hey Dad! | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Curly |
| The Three Stooges | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | 2010 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| The Three Stooges in Color | 2005 | Video | Curly |
| The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Curly |
| Farscape | 2001 | TV Series | Curly |
| ABC 2000: The Millennium | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Leslie Nielsen on the Stooges | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Thr Three Stooges Family Album | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Biography | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Muppet Babies | 1984-1991 | TV Series | Curly |
| The Lost Stooges | 1990 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Three Stooges 60th Anniversary Special | 1990 | TV Movie documentary | |
| Fun with the Stooges | 1988 | Documentary | Curley |
| Moonlighting | 1988 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Three Stooges | 1987 | Video Game | Curly (uncredited) |
| Classic Comedy Teams | 1986 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Stoogemania | 1986 | Curly (uncredited) | |
| Going Hollywood: The '30s | 1984 | Documentary | |
| Stooge Snapshots | 1984 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The MGM Three Stooges Festival | 1983 | Himself | |
| Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter | 1982 | TV Movie documentary | Actor - 'Soup to Nuts' (uncredited) |
| Ken Murray Shooting Stars | 1979 | Documentary | Himself |
| Bob Hope's World of Comedy | 1976 | TV Movie | Tribute Montage |
| The Three Stooges Follies | 1974 | Curly | |
| Hollywood My Home Town | 1965 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Big Parade of Comedy | 1964 | Documentary | One of The Three Stooges (uncredited) |
| Stop! Look! and Laugh! | 1960 | Curly | |
| Columbia Laff Hour | 1956 | Curley | |
| Booty and the Beast | 1953 | Short | Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited) |
| Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 8: Looking Back | 1946 | Short | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Motion Picture |
Known for movies
Disorder in the Court (1936)
as Curly
A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
as Curly
Violent Is the Word for Curly (1938)
as Curly
Micro-Phonies (1945)
as Curly
