The Three Stooges Moe Howard Autograph Check (Signed Twice) For Sale

THE THREE STOOGES! MOE HOWARD AUTOGRAPH CHECK DOCUMENT SIGNED TWICE!

Document signed - A personal check dated 11/19/1966 in which Moe writes a check to himself (thus 2 signatures) for the amount of $1685.00. With cancellationstamp otherwise good condition and with a candid 8 x 10 photo of an elderly Moe with a fan.

Measures 3\"x 6\"

Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz; June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures, short films, and television for four decades. The group started out as Ted Healy and His Stooges, an act that toured the vaudeville circuit. Moe\'s distinctive hairstyle came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of scissors, producing an irregular shape approximating a bowl cut.

Early life

Howard was born as Moses Harry Horwitz on June 19, 1897, in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bensonhurst, the fourth of five sons of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants Jennie (née Gorovitz) and Solomon Horwitz. He was called Moe as a child and later called himself Harry. His parents and brothers Benjamin (\"Jack\") and Isidore (Irving) were not involved in show business. However he, his older brother Samuel (\"Shemp\"), and his younger brother Jerome (\"Curly\") eventually became known professionally as The Three Stooges.

He loved to read, as his older brother Jack recalled: \"I had many Horatio Alger books, and it was Moe\'s greatest pleasure to read them. They started his imaginative mind working and gave him ideas by the dozen. I think they were instrumental in putting thoughts into his head to become a person of good character and successful.\"[citation needed] This helped him in his acting career; he could memorize his lines quickly and easily.

Howard\'s \"bowl cut\" hairstyle became his trademark, despite his mother initially refusing to cut his hair in childhood, letting it grow to shoulder length. He secretly cut his hair in his backyard shed after being frequently teased in school.[citation needed] During one appearance on The Mike Douglas Show in the 1970s, he stated, \"I used to fight my way to school, in school, and back home from school.\"

Howard developed an interest in acting, which caused his grades to worsen and prompted him to became a truant: \"I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there \'til someone came along and ask them to buy my ticket. An adult needed to accompany a juvenile into the theater. When I succeeded, I\'d give him my ten cents—that\'s all it cost—and I\'d go up to the top of the balcony where I\'d put my chin on the rail and watch, spellbound, from the first act to the last. I would usually select the actor I liked the most and follow his performance throughout the play.\"

Despite his waning attendance, Howard graduated from P.S. 163 in Brooklyn, but he dropped out of Erasmus Hall High School after two months, ending his formal education. He took an electric shop course to please his parents but quit after a few months to pursue a career in show business.

Howard started off running unpaid errands at the Vitagraph Studios in Midwood, Brooklyn and was rewarded with bit parts in movies in production there, until a 1910 fire destroyed the films done there, and with it, most of Howard\'s work. Already in 1909, he had met a young man named Ernest Lea Nash (later known as Ted Healy), who was later to provide a significant boost for his career aspirations. In 1912, they both held a summer job working in Annette Kellermann\'s aquatic act as diving \"girls\".

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