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\"LOVE<\/a>It’s an all-too-common occurrence in sports: A talented player or group of players achieves great success, but stays in the game\u00a0a little too long, and instead of ending\u00a0on a high note\u00a0 (like, say, Ted Williams’ homer in his final at-bat in 1960) winds up a faded shadow of better days (like, say, the New\u00a0York Yankees of the late ’80s). It’s sad to say, but something similar happens on a regular basis in Hollywood, where\u00a0popular and acclaimed performers rarely get the screen send-off they deserve (Peter Sellers’ final role coming, not in Being There<\/a>, but a few months later with\u00a0The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu<\/a>, for example). Continuing with\u00a0the sports analogy, let’s\u00a0compare the farewell features of several cinema comedy teams and\u00a0see if any of them managed to go out as champs:<\/p>\n

The Marx Brothers<\/a>, Love Happy – The Marxes intended their last MGM film, 1941’s bargain-basement effort The Big Store<\/a>, to be their\u00a0screen swan song. However, Chico’s love of gambling–and his lack of success at it–brought the siblings back together in 1946 for A Night in Casablanca<\/a> and again three years later for Love Happy, originally conceived as a vehicle for just Harpo and Chico. The producers needed to lure Groucho back to get financing,\u00a0 though,\u00a0which explains why his role as private eye Sam Grunion amounts to a series of extended cameos. \u00a0A story about a vagabond (Harpo)\u00a0who helps out a struggling theatre troupe and\u00a0finds a fortune in stolen diamonds, Love Happy\u00a0barely qualifies as a Marx Brothers movie,\u00a0the trio only appearing together near the end. It’s Harpo’s film all the way, and the silent one acquitted himself well with several good sight gags, including a chase across Times Square’s neon billboards. Chico had little to do as the troupe’s piano player, and Groucho\u00a0tossed off a few one-liners and got to ogle a young Marilyn Monroe<\/a>. Duck Soup it isn’t, but Love Happy is on a par with or better than some of the Marxes’ MGM work. Oh, and the very last film to feature all three brothers, Irwin Allen’s 1957 pseudo-history lesson The Story of Mankind<\/a>, didn’t even\u00a0put them together in any scenes.<\/p>\n

\"Utopia\"<\/p>\n

Laurel and Hardy<\/a>, Utopia<\/a> – Off the screen since leaving\u00a0 20th\u00a0Century-Fox following\u00a01945’s The Bullfighters<\/a>, Stan Laurel and Olvier Hardy’s popularity in Europe convinced them to sign on for this 1951\u00a0French\/Italian co-production, also known as Atoll K, \u00a0in which Laurel inherits a\u00a0South Pacific island. Setting sail with a refugee cook and a stowaway on board, the boys’ plans to\u00a0claim the island are interrupted when they’re shipwrecked on a remote atoll that turns out to be full of uranium.\u00a0Much has been written–including a whole book<\/a>, in fact–about this film’s many travails, from disagreements on\u00a0the script and language barriers to the star duo’s on-set health problems (both Stan and Ollie appear to be in poor shape), but there are flashes of satire and the warm camaraderie than made L & H fan favorites for decades.\u00a0Had they made Utopia in, say, 1938 for their producer\/mentor Hal Roach, it might be\u00a0remembered more fondly.<\/p>\n

Martin and Lewis, Hollywood or Bust – While the first two entries in this article were about aging teams ready to retire, Hollywood or Bust marked the comedic coda for a\u00a0tandem still young and popular, but apparently unable to share the screen\u00a0any more. By the time this film was released in late 1956, Dean Martin<\/a> and\u00a0Jerry Lewis<\/a> had been broken up for about six months, and during shooting the pair\u00a0refused to speak to one another once the cameras stopped rolling. The movie itself is not a bad little tale, with the fellas “co-winning”\u00a0a car\u00a0and Dean agreeing to join Jerry on a cross-country road trip so Lewis can meet his dream girl, Anita Ekberg<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0There are plenty of sight gags (thanks to Lewis and director Frank Tashlin), and some nice shots of\u00a0 ’50s Las Vegas and the Paramount backlot, but the animosity between the duo–due in part to Martin feeling his film characters were always taking a backseat to Lewis’ antics–is almost palpable,\u00a0and it makes watching the movie a surreal experience.<\/p>\n

Abbott and Costello<\/a>, Dance with Me, Henry – After a 20-year career together that included the burlesque stage, radio, motion pictures and TV, Bud and\u00a0Lou’s last performance as a team came\u00a0in this 1956 film in which indebted gambler Abbott tries to use the amusement park Costello owns to launder money for\u00a0mobsters. \u00a0Along the way A & C are helped out by two adorable orphans that Lou looks after, adding a mawkish subplot that doesn’t really work (would YOU trust Lou Costello to care for kids?) to a routine film that has little of the verbal banter that marked their Universal heyday.\u00a0Abbott retired from showbiz for a while after Dance with Me, Henry’s release, and Costello made TV guest shots and one solo effort, The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock<\/a> (although he quipped that he “might try working with Dean Martin”), before his death in 1959.<\/p>\n

Hope and Crosby, The Road to Hong Kong –\u00a0While they weren’t a team in the sense of the others listed here, 1962’s The Road to Hong Kong\u00a0was the seven and last pairing of Bob Hope<\/a> and Bing Crosby <\/a>in the increasingly self-referential “Road” series, and the first for the duo in 10 years.\u00a0\u00a0The Cold War spy spoof, which predated the first James Bond film by several months, saw Bob accidentally memorize the formula for a top-secret rocket fuel and sent him,\u00a0Bing, and enemy agent Joan Collins<\/a>\u00a0on the run from criminal mastermind Robert Morley’s organization. The boys\u00a0get treated by Indian doctor Peter Sellers,\u00a0compete for a too-young-for-either Collins, encounter old pal Dorothy Lamour<\/a>, and even wind up going to the moon, but the film still feels like a glossed-up re-treading of their breezier Paramount efforts.<\/p>\n

\"OUTLAWS<\/a>The Three Stooges, The Outlaws Is Coming!<\/a>\u00a0– Unceremoniously dumped by Columbia\u00a0in 1957 after 23 years and more than 190 short subjects, The Three Stooges were riding a TV-fueled wave of renewed popularity in the early 1960s.\u00a0 Moe Howard, Larry Fine and latest “third stooge” Curly Joe DeRita enjoyed the adoration of fans old and new thanks to small-screen guest shots and\u00a0live appearances across the country, prompting\u00a0Columbia to hire the slapstick trio back for a string of feature-length comedies aimed at the kids’ market.\u00a0 For the most part,\u00a0the films (Have Rocket, Will Travel<\/a>,\u00a0The Three Stooges Meet Hercules<\/a>, The Three Stooges in Orbit<\/a>, and The Three Stooges Go Around\u00a0the World in a Daze<\/a>) lacked the mayhem and energy of the 1930s and ’40s two-reelers. Their last one,\u00a0 the 1965\u00a0Western send-up The Outlaws Is Coming!, turned out to be the best of the lot, with the boys going up against an array of the frontier’s baddest blackhats (all played by\u00a0local TV show hosts–including Philadelphia’s own beloved Sally Starr<\/a>–who broadcast the old Stooges shorts). There’s able support from\u00a0a pre-Batman Adam West as the square-jawed hero and the threesome’s boss and Nancy Kovack as Annie Oakley, and some clever jabs at the cowboy flick genre.\u00a0 Moe, Larry and Curly Joe would continue slapping and poking one another until 1970, when\u00a0a planned \u00a0TV pilot entitled Kook’s Tour had to be halted after Fine suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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