Moe Howard’s Family Archive Was Finally Opened, and What They Found Inside Was Shocking

Fifty-one years after Moe Howard locked his garage and never opened it again, a court order finally let police and a restorer inside, where a sealed trunk held a secret he kept from Larry, from Columbia Pictures, and from his own wife. Inside was a handwritten notebook of over thirteen hundred entries logging every blow Curly took on camera, twenty-three torn pages ripped from Moe's memoirs, a sealed envelope addressed to his wife, and a home movie reel from 1951 that only two people had ever seen. The video traces the Howard brothers from a crowded Brooklyn apartment to Columbia's soundstages, through Curly's stroke, Moe's quiet decision to stop pulling slaps, and a confession Moe carried for twenty-nine years and could never let go of. It follows what a hospital corridor doctor told Moe in 1946, what Curly said to him on a lawn full of roses, and what was finally found written on that envelope this week. This is the real story behind the garage, the notebook, and the brother Moe Howard never stopped grieving. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:41 Brooklyn Beginnings 6:54 Joining Ted Healy 11:42 Curly Joins The Act 15:06 The Hidden Notebook 18:04 Curly's Decline 43:19 The Final Confession