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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938) was a Comedy - Short Films Film directed by Del Lord and produced by Jules White.

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Curly Howard: [Thinks the canopy bed is a bunk bed, steps up Moe to get to the top. Feels it] I'll be able to sleep up here for a week, this bed is so soft. Give me a call for Wednesday.
[Lays on his back and then the bed collapses]


Moe: [Drinks a whole bottle of champagne. Followed by a faint rumbling noise] This bottle sounds flat.
Moe: Try another.
Curly Howard: [gets a bottle of champagne from the tray] I'll sharpen this one up.
[Shakes it, then opens it with foam squirting out. Curly puts it in his mouth and champagne sprays out of his ears. Then stops after a while]
Curly Howard: Boy, did I sharpen that bottle.


Moe: If you want to cheat, cheat fair.


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There is a rare chance to hear Curly's real voice in the short. Shortly before he turns the radio on, he is talking to Moe and Larry, and his voice is noticeably lower.
The monkey's name is Darwin, named after Charles Darwin. This was very controversial for the time since at the time the short was filmed the "The Monkey Trials" were going on.
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