Larry Fine

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One of the movies earliest exemplars of Larryness wasn’t a real Larry at all. He wasn’t even a Laurence. He was a Louis.
Louis Feinberg was a Philly Jew making his living as a violin virtuoso and lightweight boxer when approached by the pre-film incarnation of The Three Stooges including Moe and Shemp Howard and founder Ted Healy. As a Stooge, Fine’s public persona contributed to the perception of Larrys as that other guy, the middleman, the sycophant. Larry was ego to Moe’s superego and Curly’s irascible id.
In his private life he further perpetuated the myth of the lovable loser as a social butterfly with a large circle of friends, many of the sort his mother had warned him about. Fine was quick to buy into any scheme to come down the pike and was always left holding the bag.
Fine died of a stroke in 1975. He may have been a pretender to the name, but in his life and over 200 films he was a true Larry to the end.

Essential and Non-essential Links:
Stoogeworld Biography
IMDB Filmography
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