This is one of four of The Three Stooges shorts that ended up falling into the public domain, the other three being Brideless Groom (1947), Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947), and Disorder in the Court (1936). Because of that, these four shorts frequently appear on very cheaply processed VHS and DVD compilations (with scenes edited out that displayed the TV station logos that the short had been recorded from).
Larry Fine's autobiography contains a photograph of Curly Howard as a chef in a deleted scene from this film (the scene was reportedly deleted due to Curly's speech being deemed unintelligible). Curly had suffered a major stroke a few years earlier and had left the act (after suffering several small ones throughout the previous couple of years). He had clearly lost weight, and his face was disguised with a huge handlebar mustache.
In all seriousness, the Stooges could afford way more than a one-room apartment in Hollywood (other than Larry, who reportedly suffered a gambling problem). In fact, they could easily buy a fancy house with that money, as houses on the high end in Southern California in the late 40s were about $38,000. (FYI; $50,000 in 1949 was the equivalent of over $500,000 in 2017 dollars.)
This short was part of Turner Broadcasting System's 1995 Halloween television special "The Three Stooges Fright Night" along with Spooks! (1953), If a Body Meets a Body (1945), We Want Our Mummy (1939) and The Hot Scots (1948).
Columbia production reel # 4119.
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