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Release Date:
5 May 1934 (USA)
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Tagline:
A Musical Novelty
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Plot:
The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries...
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Additional Details
Runtime:
21 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Fun Stuff
Trivia:
All of the dialogue rhymes.
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Goofs:
Boom mic visible: In the scene near the end of the film that takes place in the Woman Haters Club meeting room, as the camera moves from the chairman down the table to the door, the shadow of the boom mic moving with it can be seen on the far wall of the room.
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Quotes:
Mary's father:
[
talking to match the background music] That reminds me of a story, listen.
[
points to a fat woman]
Mary's father:
That's my other daughter there. When on her wedding day, the fella she was about to marry, tried to run away. Did you ever hear of a nerve like that? Well, I took care of that guy. In a room I locked him, then I socked him right in the eye.
[
points to a cop]
Mary's father:
Then I turned him over to my brother, the cop. He just picked him up. And spinned him round like a top.
[
points to a tall strong guy]
Mary's father:
Then my other brother, who's a fighter, began. Seemed ashamed to tell you what he did to that man.
[
Jim looks frightened]
Jim:
Did he marry your daughter?
Mary's father:
Did he? I should say he did.
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WOMAN HATERS was the first of the Three Stooges shorts made for Columbia Pictures and began America's (if not the cinema comedy-loving world's) love affair with the Stooges. The short is billed as "A Musical Novelty", meaning that the entire film is spoken in rhyming dialogue. In a way, this could be thought of as the first rap music video.
WOMAN HATERS begins with a meeting of the eponymous organization when three new members wait with out. "With out what?" asks the president (Bud Jamison). We then meet the trio: Tom (Moe), Jim (Larry) and Jack (Curly). They all get initiated via eyepoke and vow to say down with any poor sap who sings "My love, my life, my all" to any dame. However, later in the day, Jim makes a "horrible" confession: He is engaged to Mary (Marjorie White). At first, he tries to back out of the marriage, until Mary's father shows Jim what happened to the last man who tried to back out of a marriage to one of his daughters.
All of the Stooges trademarks are present in WOMAN HATERS: The first eyepoke (delivered by Jamison), Curly's first "Woo-woo-woo" (after Moe bites him in the toes), the exaggerated sound effects. There's even an appearance by future Oscar winner Walter Brennan. Everything that made us fall in love with the Stooges started here. Now, watch it and enjoy, ya knuckleheads!