We've been talking here about short comedies made by Columbia Pictures in the thirties through the fifties. Here's a Three Stooges short from 1944, Crash Goes the Hash. This one features two of the Most Valuable Supporting Players in the Columbia stock company…Vernon Dent (playing Fuller Bull) and Bud Jamison (as Lord Flint). In fact, it was Jamison's last of many, many appearances in the Stooges' films.
This was the Stooges' 77th film for Columbia. Stooge experts — there are such people — cite this short as one of the first in which you can see Curly Howard's declining health. Two years later while filming Half-Wits Holiday, he had the stroke that ended his performing career. He's still pretty funny in this one even if he was slowing down a little…