Up in Daisy's Penthouse is the one-hundred-forty-fourth Columbia Pictures short subject starring the Three Stooges.
Plot[]
The Stooges awake one morning to their mother's cry, "Now that I'm old, your father has divorced me!" The newspaper article states that their father (Shemp Howard, pulling double duty as both himself and his father) has just become rich via an oil well, has divorced, and that very day will marry a young, gold-digging blonde named Daisy (Connie Cezon). The Stooges set off to try and stop the wedding. But since Shemp and his father look exactly alike, Daisy ends up marrying the wrong man. In the finale of the short, the Stooges manage to escape the clutches of the criminals trying to kill them for their father's oil money, and rescue their father. In the finale of the short, the Stooges manage to escape the clutches of the criminals trying to kill them for their father's oil money, and rescue their father, by literally "dragging" him home to Ma.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard as Moe
- Shemp Howard as Shemp / Pop Howard
- Larry Fine as Larry
- Jules White as Justice of the Peace
- Connie Cezan as Daisy Flowers
- John Merton as Butch
- Jack Kenney as Chopper
- Blackie Whiteford as Thug guarding stairs
Trivia[]
- Heinie Conklin's lines were dubbed by director Jules White.
- Up in Daisy's Penthouse was filmed from January 21 to 23, 1952. It was the first to be shot after former Stooge Curly Howard's death in January 18, 1952.
- Up in Daisy's Penthouse is a remake of 3 Dumb Clucks, using minimal footage from the original film. This is noticeable when the trio are on the flagpole, as audio of Curly's "woo woo"s can be heard, the first commemoration of former Stooge Curly Howard's death on January 18, 1952.