As Larry Fine, he first performed as a violinist in vaudeville at an early age. In 1925, he met Moe Howard and Ted Healy. Howard and his brother Shemp had been working as audience stooges for Healy.

As a little girl, Kris Cutler saw her grandfather Larry Fine every Friday. “He’d pick me up from school, we’d go shopping at Hughes Market, and he’d make me a hamburger,” Kris, a proud ...

The short story of the Stooges By Ed Symkus Globe Correspondent,April 8, 2012, 12:00 a.m. Moe, Larry, and Curly in “Violent Is the Word for Curly.” photos by C3 Entertainment, Inc.