Emil Sitka ~

The Fourth Stooge

        "The most important actor in most Stooges films, besides the Stooges themselves, was the sharp-nosed, wide-eyed Emil Sitka... His presence was such a mainstay of the operation that many thought of him as an undeclared 'fourth Stooge.'"

                                       -Moe Feinberg, Larry Fine's brother

                                         Larry The Stooge In the Middle


 

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EMIL'S FILM #15:

THE GOOD BAD EGG


Released Mar. 20, 1947

Producer - Jules White
Director - Jules White

CAST
Joe De Rita
Dorothy Granger
Norman Ollstead
Al Thompson
Franks Mills
Robert Burns
Vernon Dent
Charles Phillips
Lew Davis
Symona Boniface
Victor Travers
Emil Sitka


The DVD set below has not only all the Stooges shorts but also the two-reelers of Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita! It's a fantastic set of Stooge material AND it's the first release of Columbia Pictures' non-Stooge shorts since, well, a very long time. AND it include THE GOOD BAD EGG (1947)!
BOOK
A great book that discusses all of Columbia's short subjects and their stars
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THE GOOD BAD EGG
(1947)


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15
Sept. 16, 1946
GOOD BAD EGG
Columbia
$ 50.00
Joe DeRita
Jules White
chummy friend
taunting
4086


Films of Emil Sitka: GOOD BAD EGG (1947)
by Saxon E. Sitka

          THE GOOD BAD EGG was Emil's second Columbia short starring Joe DeRita. Although this role was a little bigger than his last two roles in RENO-VATED and MORON THAN OFF, no stills were taken.
          Emil plays bachelor Joe DeRita's smart-aleck friend, laughing at Joe's misfortunes in the kitchen - until a raw egg fall's on Joe's shoe...
          Emil's diary entry for Monday, September 16, 1946:

          Movie Bit #15
          I feel like a Hollywood veteran actor now. My make-up I put on myself, dress, report on the set & patiently await the assistant director's call.
          Joe DeRita is the star comic, and the scene where I, as his kibitzing friend, come to observe his new invention and peculiar situations wherein he burns his supper & fingers, tries to cook an egg - and finally kicks one right in my face. Kaplook, just like that.
          The entire working company, even from other sets, came en masse to watch me get the egg in my face.
          There I stood all measured and prettied up for the slaughter. The man with a huge right arm had the gooey egg in his hand & was practicing the hefty swing. And like the two seconds before an execution...

          Emil's diary entry once again ends abruptly, as though he was distracted mid-sentence and didn't return to finish. With the suspense building, I really wonder what he was about to write. In any case, watching the film we do indeed see DeRita kick a gooey egg off his foot, and the next scene shows Emil receiving it smack in the middle of his kisser. His smile disappears and is replaced by a look of anger and repulsion. Fade to black, and that's the end of Emil's scene.

The End

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