This week for Stooge Sunday, we have their third short, Men in Black, which was released September 28, 1934. It was the only film they ever starred in that was nominated for an Academy Award but it didn't win.
The reason it was called Men in Black was that earlier that year, Clark Gable and Myrna Loy had starred in Men in White, which was also about doctors. The Stooges' romp has a number of things to recommend it, including a nice performance by character actor Billy Gilbert and an establishing shot of the old and hallowed Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, which now houses the Church of Scientology. It was also the debut of the best thing ever to come out of a hospital's P.A. system: The paging of "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard." Stand back. Here they come…
