For the ultimate Three Stooges autograph collection I consider the following to be required: Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, Curly Joe DeRita, Emil Sitka, (possibly Jules White the director of most of the shorts)and last but not least Ted Healy.  It is sometimes difficult to get the "Stooges" autographs with their last names they often merely wrote "Larry" "Moe" and "Curly" etc.  The most difficult (in my view) is Curly Howard (he almost never signed his last name) and died so young.  Shemp also died fairly young and is also somewhat hard to find.  Probably because he acted in so many movies without the Stooges he is often found with his last name.  Sitka, Besser and Curly Joe are the easiest since they lived the longest although they are not as common as they were a few years ago.   Joe Besser used to sign 3x5 photo cards that he presumably had made of the Stooges as sailors.  He would hand write their names on the white hats.  Now to Ted Healy.  To anyone who says who was Ted Healy? a double eye poke and nose twist.  Healy was the creator of the Three Stooges and their somewhat difficult boss in the early years.  The first movie appearances by them are as Healy's "stooges."  Healy was actually a gifted actor and a man with a troubled life.  He is portrayed by Marton Csokas in the Mel Gibson produced biography of the Three Stooges released in 2000 (and now finally available on dvd). Outside the movies he was in with the Stooges his biggest hit was probably San Francisco that starred Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy.  He was one of Warner Brothers rising comic stars in the 1930s.  Healy is a tough autograph to get since he died (partly as a result of being beaten and left unconscious) in 1937 at the age of 41.