Hot Stuff (1956 film)
Hot Stuff is the 172nd short subject starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges. The trio made a total of 190 shorts for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.
The short is a remake of 1949s Fuelin Around, using ample stock footage. Hot Stuff was one of four shorts filmed in the wake of Shemp Howards death using earlier footage and a standin.As Shemp Howard had already died, for his last four films Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers and Commotion on the Ocean, Columbia utilized supporting actor Joe Palma to be Shemps double. Even though the last four shorts were remakes of earlier Shemp efforts, Palmas services were needed to link what few new scenes were filmed to the older stock footage. ........
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