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Larry Fine
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| Nickname: | Porcupine |
| Known for: | Disorder in the Court, Punch Drunks, Men in Black |
| Birth name: | Louis Feinberg |
| Birthday: | 5 October 1902, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Height: | 5' 4" (1.63 m) |
Trivia
Larry of the Three Stooges
As a child, Larry spilled a bottle of a powerful acid, badly burning his left arm. Doctors recommended that he take violin lessons as therapy to strengthen the damaged muscles. At age 10, he played a solo piece, backed by the Howard Lanin Orchestra. [mb]
When Larry joined the Stooges, Ted Healy offered him a salary of $90 a week and an extra $10 if he threw away the violin. [mb]
During his 40 year film career, Larry only appeared in one film that didn't also feature fellow Stooge Moe Howard. That film is Stage Mother.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation.
Larry's final concert appearance was at Loara High School in Anaheim, California on March 2, 1974.
Father of actress Phyllis Fine.
After Columbia shut down the shorts department, the Stooges took the act on the road. What they didn't know was that they had found a renewed popularity thanks to television. Larry's sister said when the train pulled into some town, there was a mob of people waiting. Larry wondered who the V.I.P. was, they had no idea the crowd of people waiting was for them.
Larry's face was so callused on one side from all of the years of being slapped, it was all but numb!
Father-in-law of Don Lamond, who appeared in several Stooges full length features and also hosted the local Three Stooges Television Show in Los Angeles, California in the late 50s and early 60s (which helped give the Three Stooges' careers a renaissance).
Has a mural painted of him on a building at 3rd and South Streets in South Philadelphia.
Started playing the violin as physical therapy after he got an acid burn when he was a toddler.
When Joe DeRita was brought into The Three Stooges (as "Curly Joe"), Moe wanted to make him simply an employee. It was Larry who insisted that he be made a full equal partner. Larry reportedly threatened to quit unless Joe was treated fairly.
After his stroke, he never performed again.
Published a memoir in 1973 titled "A Stroke Of Luck," now rare.
Is portrayed by Evan Handler in The Three Stooges
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