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Here is the very first of nearly two hundred Columbia two-reel Three Stooges short subjects which Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curley Howard made on their own, without their unfunny old straight man, Ted Healy. The results are pretty good but mixed, depending on how you approach it. For those who are not prepared, you may be taken aback by the style here: it is a musical comedy, where occasionally we'll get a Stooge or two break out into song, and every line of dialogue is spoken in rhyme. The plot line is that Moe, Larry and Curley join a misogynistic organization called "The Woman Haters", and vow not to have anything to do with females. Trouble begins to arise, however, when a woman takes after Larry and then starts to set her sights on the other Stooges as well. Not for everyone, and it's not indicative of their latter films, but taken with an open mind it's not a bad piece of work for a debut line of shorts. **1/2 out of ****

Woman Haters is far from the best of the Three Stooges, but it is a nice start to the Columbia shorts and does offer a unique and interesting thing or two. The plot sees the boys joining the Woman Haters Club - a club that prohibits its members from carrying on with women. But no sooner than they become members, Larry (they actually have character names, but they don't really matter) finds himself at the altar. He does his best to keep Moe and Curly from finding out he's secretly gotten married and he does his best to keep his new wife from finding out about the Woman Haters club. As expected, a great deal of eye poking and head knocking ensues.

The two best things Woman Haters has going for it (beyond its curiosity value) is the rhyming scheme of the dialogue and Marjorie White as Larry's wife. While I've seen some complaints about the rhyming dialogue, it worked for me. I thought it was very clever. Now, it might not have worked for a full feature, but for a two-reeler, it's okay. As for Marjorie White, she more than capable of holding her own with Moe, Larry, and Curly - more so than most women I can think of off the top of my head who appeared in other Three Stooges shorts. It's too bad she didn't live long enough to see where her career might have taken her.

While I've known this one for many years, only today I watched an MGM Busby Berkeley musical from '33 titled "FOOTLIGHT PARADE" staring among others James Cagney, Dick Powell, and a bevy of others. What captured my attention was the big main production number: The rhythm and melody, and even the lyrics could well be the source of the rhyming sing-song of WOMAN HATERS! Just listen to Dick Powell & Joan Blondell crooning "You-hoo-hoo-hoo" to each other, and you'll see where Larry Fine & Marjorie White got theirs from! While maybe not EXACTLY a duplicate, but so close, it's almost scary! While watching and listening, WOMAN HATERS was the first thing that came to mind! But altogether, WH is the better of the two by leaps and bounds!

The Three Stooges were on their way. They now had a contract at Columbia Pictures and were ready to make their mark on, not only comedy, but entertainment in general. With that Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Jerome Howard, also known as Curly, set out with director Arthur Gottlieb to make the first of over 190 short films the Stooges would make at Columbia.

This short is unlike any other Stooge short film. There are plenty of hits, slaps, pokes, and bonks. This short is different in that it is a musical novelty starring up and comer Marjorie White who, unfortunately, died in a road accident in 1935, less than a year after filming this short.

Moe, Larry, and Curly play Tom, Jim, and Jackie respectively who vow to swear off women after they join a club known as the Woman Haters. Bud Jamison, who will appear in many of the Stooge films, is the chairman, if you will, of this organization. The Stooges are initiated into the club and are off to fulfil their commitment.

After only one week, Jim tells the other two that he would have to quit that silly club. He met a girl and fell head over heels in love. The other two try and convince him that he is making a big mistake. Jim finally takes their advice and goes to break it off, but ends up marrying the girl after her father gives him so "words of encouragement".

Tom, Jim, and Jackie all meet up at the train station later that day and chaos breaks loose when each man falls for the girl in their own way.

There is a definite pattern and rhyme scheme involved in this short that makes it memorable. I have noticed that there is a lot more violence in this short then the others. But nevertheless this is one of the best from the Stooges.

Let me tell ya - With a blatantly misogynistic title hanging over its head like "Woman Haters", I thought that this "Stooges" comedy-short certainly played it pretty cute'n'coy when it came right down to this whole matter of emphasizing "woman hating".

Yeah. It sure did tone things down in that area (which is understandable) considering that this novelty-short was initially meant to introduce Curly, Larry, and Moe to the movie-going public (of both men and women) and put them in a friendly and favorable light, all around, with everyone.

Anyway - (IMO) - "Woman Haters" (where the insults, face slaps, and eye-pokes were soon to become a standard routine among the Three Stooges) was a fairly entertaining little vintage film (for the most part).

This is one is really unique episode and not to forget this is the very first stooges episode. This stooges episode is mostly about rhyming and being a musical.

You know how none of the stooges are really the main character, well this one actually has a main stooge and it's surprisingly Larry. Usually Larry is in the background while Curly and Moe have most lines and jokes.

The story is about The stooges joining a woman hating club but Larry is about to get married to a woman named Mary but Larry is having problems with breaking up with her.

Down right saying saying it's an okay stooges episode but it's very unique and eccentric episode.

We see a woman haters club and three men want to join. The men are of course Moe (who plays Tom), Larry (who plays Jim) and Curly (who plays Jack). Right after they have become members Larry wants to quit because he promised a beautiful girl, Mary (Marjorie White), to marry her. After an argument with Moe and Curly they decide he has to tell that he can't marry her. After Mary's father tells a story about a guy who tried to run away from his other daughter Larry is not so sure anymore. He does marry the girl and the trouble with Moe and Curly can begin. But can they all resist the beauty and charm of Mary?

This is one of the nicest Three Stooges short. Not because it is so funny, there are good moments though, but because the whole short sounds like poetry. The dialogue is put on rhyme and it is really good. Marjorie White also adds something to the whole thing. A great little movie.

Men meet in secret and talk in rhythm for the Woman Haters Club. Tom (Moe Howard), Jim (Larry Fine), and Jackie (Jerry Howard aka Curly) arrive to join. Jim meets Mary and wants to quit the club. The other two convince him to stop his pending wedding and stay in the club. Mary is not going down without a fight.

It's an unusual Stooges short in that it's in rhythm and there is background music throughout. It is early Stooges. It is so early that Curly is Jerry and their character names are different. They haven't fixed on a concept yet but it has some of their classic elements. Their slapstick is already front and center although their musical aspect would fade. It's an intriguing early short to see the Stooges journey for their fans.

Having just reviewed The Three Stooges' previous shorts they made at M-G-M with Ted Healy, I'm now commenting on their very first short they made at their new studio of Columbia. Moe, Larry, and Curley's (as the latter's name was spelled during this time) first film without Healy was unique in that there's an underscoring throughout and they and the entire cast nearly talk entirely in rhyme during the whole thing. They enter at what becomes a Women Hater's club with Bud Jamison (the first of what would become their stock company at the studio) doing the initiation. Then Larry reveals a week later that he's fallen in love with Marjorie White and that's when all hell breaks loose! I'll stop there and just say that I really enjoyed this unusual short early in their careers especially when Curley does his unique characteristics and those sound effects when they punch and poke each other. And Ms. White is quite good in participating in the slapstick with them. So much so that one wonders how further she would have gone had she not tragically died in an accident soon after filming finished. Also, eventual winner-of-more-than-one-Oscar Walter Brennan appears here as a train conductor so that should provide more than enough interest here. So on that note, Women Haters comes highly recommended.

Before the Three Stooges entered into their super-successful careers with Columbia Studios, the trio were signed by MGM. However, MGM had no idea what to do with them or their front man (they were originally billed as Ted Healy and His Stooges). Often the trio appeared with Healy but the chemistry never really gelled. They also appeared all separately (such as in "Dancing Lady") as well as in a few shorts. However, the Three Stooges that we are familiar with today never really showed up in any of their MGM work--which could be why they spent so little time with this studio.

Here with their first film for Columbia, "Women Haters", it's obvious that the Stooge formula STILL wasn't established. Instead of the usual antics, this is an all-singing/rhyming short (they did at least one other like this) and they didn't go by their usual names! They are Tom, Jim and Jack!!

The plot is a bizarre thing and begins with the trio joining a club of guys who hate women. However, soon Jim (Larry) announces he's met a great lady and he's planning on getting married. Naturally, this wouldn't sit well with the club nor his friends--and to try to get past them, he asks his new bride to keep their marriage a secret! Later, he tells Tom and Jack that she ISN'T his wife--just some lady who fainted and he was helping her! What's next? Give it a try to find out what's next for the boys.

For those who hate the Stooges (and there are MANY out there in this group), the film might be a welcome change of pace. While there is some slapping and the usual violence, it's a bit more restrained and the film is a genuine oddity! I think it's mostly of value for its novelty more than anything else. Far from brilliant, it IS memorable. Occasionally over-acted (even by Stooge standards) and perhaps it might have worked better with a few songs instead of having them sing everything.

WOMAN HATERS, where it all began for The Three Stooges at Columbia, is more of an anomaly in The Three Stooges series. Officially, it is part of The Musical Novelties series, a series in which all the dialogue is spoken in rhyme and accompanied by music. Well, "novelty" is a good way to describe this short because that is exactly how I view it.

I'm glad this short exists because it gives us a different look at The Three Stooges in a musical role, and Larry in particular does a fine job (no pun intended). That said, would I be a Three Stooges fan if all 190 shorts were like this? Not exactly. Musicals aren't really my thing, and this one holds my interest simply because of three certain actors who are in it.

The rhyming dialogue gets old after a while and the Stooges really have to conform to the rhythm of the music as opposed to the rhythm they would naturally develop in later shorts, so it sounds a bit forced. I don't have much else to say with this one except I find it to be a fascinating one off.

The Three Stooges has always been some of the many actors that I have loved. I love just about every one of the shorts that they have made. I love all six of the Stooges (Curly, Shemp, Moe, Larry, Joe, and Curly Joe)! All of the shorts are hilarious and also star many other great actors and actresses which a lot of them was in many of the shorts! In My opinion The Three Stooges is some of the greatest actors ever and is the all time funniest comedy team!

This is a very good Three Stooges short and this was the very first one from Columbia Pictures! The beautiful Marjorie White is in this one! Also Monte Collins, the very talented bug man Bud Jamison, Jack Norton, Don Roberts, Tiny Sandford, Dorothy Vernon, Leslie Goodwins, Charles Richman, Gilbert Emery, George Gray, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Walter Brennan, June Gittelson, and A.R. Haysel are in this very special Three Stooges short! The acting and the singing by the Stooges is excellent! There is another Three Stooges similar like this one with Shemp called Gypped in the Penthouse which is very funny. I recommend that you see Woman Haters!

I’m virtually a beginner when it comes to The Three Stooges: I’d seen a few of their films – and episodes from the animated series – as a kid (this short being one of them, incidentally) but not enough to rank them judiciously in the pantheon of classic comedy.

Anyway, this has been advertised as “a musical novelty” – influenced by the work of Ernst Lubitsch, no doubt – with all dialogue written in verse! In essence, it lies somewhere between Laurel & Hardy (with the train setting recalling BERTH MARKS [1929] in particular) and The Marx Bros. – but emerging, in the long run, as less sympathetic than either. The gang joins the titular club but Larry, practically blackmailed into marriage, attempts to keep his status from pals Moe and Curley – but can’t, because his spouse turns out to be a flirt who has her eyes on them as well! Walter Brennan appears briefly as the train conductor.

I have to say that the slap-happy antics of the comic trio gets tiresome after a while. To be honest, I wonder how I’ll be able to stick the relentless display of such childish behavior through 19 Stooges shorts I’ve got scheduled (given that I’ve just acquired a copy of the official Columbia 2-Disc collection)...

WOMAN HATERS was the first of the Three Stooges shorts made for Columbia Pictures and began America's (if not the cinema comedy-loving world's) love affair with the Stooges. The short is billed as "A Musical Novelty", meaning that the entire film is spoken in rhyming dialogue. In a way, this could be thought of as the first rap music video.

WOMAN HATERS begins with a meeting of the eponymous organization when three new members wait with out. "With out what?" asks the president (Bud Jamison). We then meet the trio: Tom (Moe), Jim (Larry) and Jack (Curly). They all get initiated via eyepoke and vow to say down with any poor sap who sings "My love, my life, my all" to any dame. However, later in the day, Jim makes a "horrible" confession: He is engaged to Mary (Marjorie White). At first, he tries to back out of the marriage, until Mary's father shows Jim what happened to the last man who tried to back out of a marriage to one of his daughters.

All of the Stooges trademarks are present in WOMAN HATERS: The first eyepoke (delivered by Jamison), Curly's first "Woo-woo-woo" (after Moe bites him in the toes), the exaggerated sound effects. There's even an appearance by future Oscar winner Walter Brennan. Everything that made us fall in love with the Stooges started here. Now, watch it and enjoy, ya knuckleheads!

The Three Stooges made their Columbia Pictures debut with this short involving the boys joining a Woman Haters club. Where apparently it's some kind of a rule to constantly sing in rhyme. Without apparently any reason.

I'm not sure how Moe, Larry, and Curly would feel, but the short bears resemblance to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha in that it's a poetical telling of a story. I doubt though the gag writers at Columbia would credit that with their inspiration.

They've got mutiny in the ranks of the Woman Haters, Larry wants to get married to Marjorie White. It's a disgraceful situation that threatens to leave Curly totally at the mercy of Moe without Larry as a buffer.

If you can orient yourself to the musical rhyme which could be taken as a harbinger of rap, the Stooges solve the problem in their normal manner. This salute to misogyny called Woman Haters is not a bad debut for the boys.

Ok so i am not going to lie, i am not god at writing reviews. I will try my best. I started watching these guys when i was a kid and instantly feel in love. How could you not. Then i saw Woman Haters and i despised it. It was not their tried and true style, they were speaking in rhyme and they weren't even playing themselves as they always did. Now being an adult and recently renewing the obsession with them i research everything. This was the first short after they broke with Healy and it was basically Columbia testing the waters not only with them but with these musical rhyming shorts that the studio wanted to make. Knowing that i decided to give this short a fair shot. It has grown on me. I actually kinda adore it. It does showcase more of their talents then what we are use to seeing. Its interesting to see the bit of dynamic change in them. Plus i have grown to love when they showcase their musical talents. Which they do NOT get enough credit for. Marjorie White holds her own with the boys very well and its a shamed she passed so young. Would love to have seen her come back and take part in more antics. I wont go much into the actual plot as you should enjoy it from a clean slate and fair chance.

This is one of the early ones from the boys and it is excellent. Along with the typical slapstick there is a little something else added, it's a musical. The Stooges join a club called Woman Haters, and all is well until Larry meets "a beautiful girl and fell head over heels in love." After that, it is total chaos in typical stooge fashion. The Stooges do a fine job in their parts as always. A true gem.

The contract between the Three Stooges and Columbia Pictures, begins here. Woman Haters (1934), is pretty good, when it comes to the jokes. The film actually starts out great. The Stooges get involved in a rumble with longtime, Three Stooges foil, Bud Jamison. Jamison did a bunch of shorts with the Stooges, until his untimely death in 1944. He went on, from here, to do 38 shorts with the boys. This film is a first for many things Stooges and we do get to see a great preview of things to come. However, Woman Haters (1934), gets bogged down, by the need to tell the story, in a melody of rhymes. This device is interesting for the first five minutes of the film, but gets old quick. Not only is Woman Haters (1934), the Three Stooges first film, with Columbia Pictures, that would launch a great 25 year career for them, it also was the first film they did, after their spilt from Ted Healy. Those shorts before this, have their own kind of charm, but involved a lot of music, singing and dancing, which probably carried over to Woman Haters (1934). It's an understandable transition.

I also noticed, Larry got more screen-time in this film too, compared to Moe and Curly. That aspect also looked like it was a carry-over from the Healy years too. Curly actually did more solo film work than both Moe & Larry combined, during these years. I guess, in those early, Healy years, the filmmakers probably felt Curly was a rookie and they wanted to keep the two brothers together, so Larry seemed to get his own separate sub-plot or they took him in a slightly different direction with his character, than Moe and Curly. That transition period would be over here and the musical-rhyming would end here too, because we will see the more popular form of the Stooges emerge in their next film, Punch Drunks (1934). However, the historical, significance of Woman Haters (1934), the fact, that Columbia actually produced a nicely polished film technically, created an interesting start for the Three Stooges. The problem with Woman Haters (1934), is the singing-dialogue gets old quick, the film itself gets old midway through and it ends up being a weak start for Moe, Larry and Curly. I call it the Healy hang-over.

6.4 (D+ MyGrade) = 6 IMDB.

"Woman Haters" is probably the best of The Three Stooges' work. It was the first official Three Stooges film (they were Ted Healy and His Stooges before this film). This was their first film for Columbia Pictures. It was the only Three Stooges film in which all of the lines rhymed, making the lines more memorable. "Woman Haters" had a catchy musical score to make the dialogue flow nicely. Marjorie White was an adorable leading lady in her role as Jim's(Larry)wife. Tiny Sanford made a small cameo appearance as a cop. "Woman Haters" was the only Three Stooges film that had Larry in a leading role. "Woman Haters" is definitely a good film for Stooge fans to see the Stooges do something completely different. It was an excellent film to start off The Three Stooges series.

This is not a particular good Stooges short or a great debut for The Three at Columbia at all. It wasn't even meant to be one to begin with (it was part of a musical series Columbia did and it shows), seeing The Stooges rhyme was very bizarre, although the plot of Larry Moe and Curly joining a Woman's Haters Club was interesting, most of the laughs were lost because of the attempts at making everything a rhyme. Occasionally there would be a funny moment, like when The Stooges are interacting with Mary near the end, but it was only mildly amusing. Overall I'd say the short was kind of a waste of time, and I'm a big Three Stooges fan, heck probably the biggest fan of my generation, so the short was very disappointment for me.

Thankfully things would only get better from here.

The first Three Stooges short for Columbia is not a typical one. Their character names are Tom, Jim, and Jack, there's a musical score, and all the dialogue is in rhyme. Even so, there's plenty of hard-knock slapstick, and plenty of cast members -- in the depths of the Depression, a dollar of production money went a lot farther than it did with their last short in 1959. So this short about how the Stooges join the Woman Haters' Club, which causes a problem when Larry falls for Thelma White in her last role has a lot of familiar faces.

I should note that the IMDb trivial claims this is Bud Jamison's debut. It may have been for his appearance in Three Stooges shorts, but his more than 500 movie appearances go all the way back to 1915, when he was appearing in Chaplin shorts.

We begin with a meeting of the Women Haters Club, dedicated to the idea that "romance is a crime!"

What's unusual about this short movie is that all the dialog is done in rhyme. I thought it would be kind of stupid but, to be honest, a lot of it is very clever - for about five minutes. Whoever wrote this did a pretty good job. The music is nice, too, but five minutes was enough. It's cool at first but wears thin in a hurry.

The emphasis on poetry and song drastically diminished the slapstick humor, the normal wisecracks and the atmosphere that made The Three Stooges what they were. I can see why this early experiment was just that: an experiment, and thankfully a one-time experience.

Just give me back the Stooges as they are - crude, violent, stupid and funny - with Curly and his squeaky voice, not singing poets, for cryin' out loud. This turned out to be one of the longest 20 minutes I've ever endured.

After the 3 Stooges rid themselves of the highly annoying and abusive Ted Healy,(who was killed in a drunken brawl several years later), they were signed by Harry Cohn of Columbia for a few short films. We know 192 shorts and 23 years later they were rediscovered and revered as cult heros. Their characters were much more evolved in this first entry than any of the MGM films they did, where they yielded the spotlight to Ted Healy most of the time. Once their individual characters really materialized, by 1935, they did some of their best work. The surreal quality of Woman Haters, the lively music score and memorable song: "....for you...my life, my love, my all....." makes this an interesting first entry. A very good print is on the DVD release: "Curly Classics"

Thanks much to METV for running the Three Stooges comedies all over again, the insane stuff we grew up on back in the day. A treat to see their very FIRST short movie (usually running about 20 minutes), often cut from the rest of the series on tv because it's more of a musical, and the dialogue spoken in rhyme. Yes, rhyme.

It was director Jules White, who was working at MGM at the time, who brought Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard over to Columbia Pictures to begin a series of wacky comedies. The rest is screen history. This comedy was part of the studio's "Musical Novelty" series, and the only one, hence the many songs and the rhyming dialogue. Also a strange re-working of the cast where Larry is the boss instead of Moe. Perhaps the reason this episode was often not shown in tv reruns.

Additionally, the Stooges have different names. Larry is Jim, Moe is Tom and Curly is Jackie. The guys are staunch members of the "Woman Haters Club," refusing to even smile at a woman -- that is until Larry is lured by beautiful blonde Mary (played by Marjorie White). Comes weddings bells, and on a long train ride, devious Mary attempts to charm Tom and Jackie, and White is pretty darn effective.

If you can take the 30s jazz music and rhyme, you'll love it, although Moe not being the boss is strange.

The first appearance of sour-puss Bud Jamison, playing the club chairman, who would appear as a foil in many of the Stooge's films, also June Gitteson (as Mary's sister), who generally turned up in their films as the plump girl with a crush on one of the guys. Oscar winner Walter Brennan plays the train conductor. Big and tall Tiny Sandford appears as a cop, often seen in Laurel and Hardy's comedies.

On a sad note, this was the final film appearance of Marjorie White, killed in an auto accident the following year. She would have made a terrific addition to the series.

Directed by Archie Gottler, also a composer at Columbia Pictures and written by his son, Jerome, who later wrote for the BOWERY BOYS.

Forever on remastered dvd and released in individual box sets by the years, 30s, 40s and 50s episodes. 190 in all.