Yep, she's out of my league.
Posted on 05/28/2025 7:47:38 PM PDT by lowbridge
Marilyn Howard Ellman, the youngest daughter of The Three Stooges star Curly Howard, died May 6 in Simi Valley of heart failure, her son Bradley Server told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 86.
With her parents divorced and her father often on the road at the height of his career in the early 1940s, Ellman only got to visit him maybe two weekends a month, her son noted. Later, she would spend time with him in the hospital after he had suffered a series of strokes, one of which forced him to leave The Three Stooges in 1946.
“My mom vividly remembers how much he loved animals,” Server said in a 2020 interview. “She would always play with a dog he had. And he absolutely adored this dog that stood by him until the end. You know, despite my grandfather’s big personality onscreen, I learned he was actually a shy, quiet man in private.”
Ellman was just 13 when her dad died at age 48 on Jan. 18, 1952, in San Gabriel, California. Curly had been replaced in the act by brother Shemp Howard, who joined another brother, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine.
Marilyn Howard was born in Los Angeles on Dec. 18, 1938. Her dad — birth name Jerome Lester Horwitz — and mom, Elaine Julia Ackerman, were married for three years before they divorced in 1940. (Curly would have a second daughter named Janie with his fourth wife.)
After Curly’s death, she was adopted by her mother’s second husband, Moe Diamond, when she was 14.
Ellman graduated from North Hollywood High School and attended USC for two years before she worked as a procurement buyer in the electronics business. She would marry twice, and her survivors include her older son, Darren; daughter Andrea; granddaughter Elizabeth; and half-brother Michael.
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“I loved The Stooges. And the Little Rascals.”
Same here - and Shirley Temple movies...
That’s nothing. Maryland has a Congressman names Shemp.
Jamie “Shemp” Raskin
Have fun.
Fond memories!
Yes. I’m almost 75 and they are fond memories. And not to mention all the other good shows on TV in those days.
Sorry, but I am in love with Miss Crabtree.
She’s out of your league. And she is engaged. Or is that her brother?
Yep, she's out of my league.
Don’t call me Norman. Call me Chubsy-Ubsy.
holey moley - Curly has been dead for 73 years!!
Chubby:”Oh Miss Crabtree there is something heavy on my heart!’’
Jackie Coogan: “There’s gonna be something heavy on yer nose!’’
What schoolboy didn’t have a crush on Miss Crabtree?
Oh thanks for that memory!
That was a long time ago. I still remember the theme song.
I know right? I remember when Miss Crabtree's brother came for a visit, and all the gang thought it was her fiance, and they were scared to death that Miss Crabtree was going to get married! Oh the horror! Stealing our Miss Crabtree!
You’re welcome.
Curly might just have been one of the funniest people ever!
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