Emil Sitka

Emil Sitka was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with The Three Stoogesnearly 40. He is one of only two actors to have worked with all six Stooges on film in the various incarnations of the group . He is remembered mostly for a line of dialogue he repeated several times in the Three Stooges short, Brideless Groom, where he appears as the justice of the peace attempting to marry Shemp and Dee Green Hold hands, you lovebirds

Sitka, whose numerous appearances with the Three Stooges earned him the nickname the Fourth Stooge, was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1914. He was the oldest of five children, born of Hungarian immigrant parents. His father, Emil Sitka, a coal miner, died of black lung disease when Sitka wasyears old, and his mother, Helena Matula Sitka, was hospitalized, unable to take care of the children. His siblings were placed in foster homes, but Sitka went to live in a church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a Catholic priest for the next few years. At this time, he became an altar boy and made plans to enter the priesthood, and had his first acting opportunity in the churchs annual Passion Play. At the age of 16, he and one of his brothers traveled across the U.S.A., riding the rails hobostyle, looking for work. After a year, they returned to Pittsburgh, where Sitka found a job working in a factory. He stayed there until the great St. Patricks Day Pittsburgh Flood of 1936, after which

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