The story of Mo Howard and The Three Stooges
Howard’s Garage Was Finally Opened…And What They Found Inside Was Shocking
In June of 2019, a Los Angeles auction house put a catalogue online, and Three Stooges fans who opened it stopped scrolling. More than eleven hundred lots. Every one of them had belonged to a single man. And most of it had stayed inside one family since the day he died, forty-four years earlier.The man was Moe Howard. The one with the bowl haircut. The one who slapped, poked and hammered his way through nearly two hundred films, and who half of America grew up believing was the meanest man in comedy.For all that time, almost nobody outside the family knew what was in there. Boxes. Binders. Film cans that had not been run through a projector in decades. Paperwork he had filed away with his own hands and never mentioned in a single interview. Collectors had been whispering about it for years. Historians had asked. The answer was always the same. Not yet. Then the door finally opened, everything came out at once, and the people who thought they knew the Three Stooges realised they had only ever been shown half the story.