The Three Stooges Scrapbook - Updated Edition
By Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg
This updated edition of the bestselling authorized and official history covers the lives and careers of the Three Stooges like no other. It's jam packed with personal memories and historical facts, new findings and revelations and archived material from family collections as well as over 400 photographs and illustrations. This meticulously researched and written edition has it all, including the most comprehensive filmography ever compiled as well as nostalgic chapters about Stooges vintage merchandise, vintage comic books, the team's television appearances, their records, Stooges impersonators and fandom. The result is a must-have book for any Three Stooges fan!
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Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge: The Autobiography of Hollywood's Most Prolific Funnyman
Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge is a must-have updated and enlarged autobiography of comic Joe Besser of The Three Stooges. This special edition, published in 2021, is a fresh take on the 1988 release and stands apart from the original 1984 title, Not Just a Stooge. Recrafted by author Jeff Lenburg and Greg Lenburg, who were Besser's close friends for nearly two decades and his former publicists, this 408-page book is packed with over 420 stunning photographs covers every aspect of Besser's 60-year career in show business from vaudeville to Broadway to radio to televsion to motion pictures, including his stint with The Three Stooges. Foreword by Milton Berle.
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The Three Stooges Scrapbook

Left: 1982 edition cover.
Right: 2000 edition cover.

Right: 2000 edition cover.
By Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg
The original, groundbreaking bestselling edition published in 1982 as a companion to Stooge Moe Howard's autobiography originally titled Moe Howard and The Three Stooges (1977), both published by Citadel Press. Cover design by Stooges manager-writer-producer-director Norman Maurer.
In 2000, after Kensington Publishing acquired the assets of Carol Publishing Group, which included its Citadel imprint, the publishing company changed Scrapbook's cover. 2000 Edition: 288 pages. paperback.
Not Just a Stooge/Once a Stooge, Always a Stooge
By Joe Besser, Jeff Lenburg and Greg Lenburg
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1984, 1987 and 1988 editions covers. |