"Woman Haters" is a 19-minute black-and-white sound short film from 1934, so this one is already way over 80 years old and to put in in perspective, Hitler was fresh in the office in Germany when this came out. It is a Stooges short film and many consider it the very first officially. If you have seen other works from the trio, you will see that many aspects are still different. One example would be the rhyming that quickly disappeared from Stooges works and lots of the comedy in here is based on verbal jokes and the physical jokes are not that common yet. However, when they appear, they pretty much look exactly like they do later on in the works. Also unusual is that Larry is the protagonist pretty much and that Curly (known as Curley here) is the Stooge with probably the least impact and least significant material, something that changed quickly too. And of course, the Stooges here play characters with other than their real names, which is also a rare occurrence. But the music in here is one aspect that they returned to many times in the future. A great quantity of Stooges short films have music parts in them. Larry was for example a gifted violinist. But enough of the general stuff and lets take a look at the story here. Feminists may probably call it misogynist that there is a woman haters club in here, but honestly, they really made up for it by showing respect for women on several occasions. With "they", I am referring to Archie and Jerome S. Gottler (father and son) who are almost entirely forgotten today and also not known for their work with the Stooges anymore. The female main character is played by the ill-fated Marjorie White in her final career performance and also in the cast is Walter Brennan a couple years before becoming Hollywood's most successful supporting actor ever if we go by Academy Award wins. About this film itself here, the Stooges were not yet at their best and while I can see that this film is pretty famous because of being the first, it's not necessarily deserving of the attention. i give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.

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.

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.

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"