After Columbia shut down its shorts department, the Stooges took their act on the road. What they didn't know was that they had found a renewed popularity thanks to television. Larry's sister said when the train pulled into some town, there was a mob of people waiting. Larry wondered who the V.I.P. was; they had no idea the crowd of people waiting was for them.
After his stroke, he never performed again.
As a child, Larry spilled a bottle of a powerful acid, badly burning his left arm. Doctors recommended that he take violin lessons as therapy to strengthen the damaged muscles. At age ten, he played a solo piece, backed by the Howard Lanin Orchestra. His parents even considered sending him to Europe to study music, but they decided against this when World War I began.
Due to his wife's dislike of housekeeping the Fines spent years living in hotels until they finally purchased a home in Los Angeles after WWII. One hotel that had been their 'home base' for years was the President Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey which has since been demolished.
During his 40 year film career, Larry only appeared in one film that didn't also feature fellow Stooge Moe Howard. That film is Stage Mother (1933).
Father of actress Phyllis Fine.
Father-in-law of Don Lamond, who appeared in several Stooges full-length features and also hosted the local Three Stooges Television Show in Los Angeles, California, in the late 1950s and early '60s (which helped give The Three Stooges careers a renaissance).
Has a mural painted of him on a building at 3rd and South Streets in South Philadelphia.
His son John died on November 17, 1961 in a car accident. He was 24 years old. His daughter Phyllis died of cancer in 1988. She was 60.
In 1973, Fine appeared in an infomercial promoting a book, "A Stroke Of Luck," presented as his memoir. In fact, Fine later disavowed this book; the later authorized biography, One Fine Stooge (2006), goes into considerable detail of how the book's author/publisher took advantage of Fine in its preface.
Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation.
Is portrayed by Evan Handler in The Three Stooges (2000) (TV)
Larry of The Three Stooges.
Larry's face was so calloused on one side from all of the years of being slapped, it was all but numb!.
Larry's final concert appearance was at Loara High School in Anaheim, California on March 2, 1974.
Lived in the hills of Griffith Park.
When Joe DeRita was brought into The Three Stooges (as "Curly Joe"), Moe wanted to make him simply an employee. It was Larry who insisted that he be made a full equal partner. Larry reportedly threatened to quit unless Joe was treated fairly.
When first approached to work for the Stooges, he was performing at the Rainbow Gardens nightclub, under contract to Fred Mann. A few nights after being approached, the police closed the Rainbow Gardens for violating the Prohibition laws, and Fred Mann committed suicide. Now free of his contract, Larry joined the Stooges.
When Larry joined the Stooges, Ted Healy offered him a salary of $90 a week and an extra $10 if he threw away the violin.