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Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938) was a Comedy - Short Films Film directed by Del Lord and produced by Jules White.

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Moe: [putting a pancake on the center plate] There's that chip, I call. What do ya got?
Larry: [laying down his hand] Just four aces.
Moe: [slams his hand on the table] And me with four kings again.
Larry: [taking the pancakes] Well it must be beginner's luck.
Moe: I can't understand it, everyday you have beginner's luck.
Larry: [getting up to reach for the syrup] Well its just one of those things you know...
Moe: [grabs Larry by the hair and looks on his chair and sees a lot of aces] You want to cheat, cheat fair, anything I hate is a crookin' crook.
[Moe shakes Larry and more aces fall out of his coat]
Moe: [slaps Larry in the head and then sits down to eat the pancakes] My beginner's luck, huh, huh, huh.


Curly Howard: [Thinks the canopy bed is a bunk bed, steps up Moe to get to the top. Feels it] I'll be able to sleep up here for a week, this bed is so soft. Give me a call for Wednesday.
[Lays on his back and then the bed collapses]


Curly Howard: [a bathtub is behind a door that they open] Ohhhh, a rowboat.
Larry: A rowboat, you're crazy. That's a horse troph.
Moe: Rowboat, horse troph. In a hotel? That's a bathtub, you imbeciles. Go take a bath.
Larry: But we can't. It ain't spring yet.
Moe: Oh yes it is. See the pretty grass?
Larry: [looks toward the bathtub] Where?
Moe: [Moe shoves him in and closes the door. Curly giggles] You're next.
Curly Howard: But I had a bath.
Moe: When?
Curly Howard: July 14, 1910. I was too young to fight about it then.
Moe: What are you gonna do now?
Curly Howard: Take a bath.


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There is a rare chance to hear Curly's real voice in the short. Shortly before he turns the radio on, he is talking to Moe and Larry, and his voice is noticeably lower.
The monkey's name is Darwin, named after Charles Darwin. This was very controversial for the time since at the time the short was filmed the "The Monkey Trials" were going on.
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