Brideless Groom is a 1947 short subject directed by Edward Bernds starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Shemp Howard). It is the 101st entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. Plot Shemp is a voice instructor and the object of affection to his unattractive and tone-deaf vocal student Miss Dinkelmeyer, with Larry as his musical accompanist. After an excruciating session, Moe enters his classroom to tell Shemp that his uncle Caleb had died and left him an inheritance of $500,000 (about $6.4 million today). However, Shemp cannot collect the money unless he is married within 48 hours after the reading of the will, leaving him only a few hours to find a bride. Shemp uses his address book to call and propose to any and all women he has ever known in the phone booth, but he is unsuccessful. With time running out, Moe and Larry lead Shemp through a series of disastrous situations including the destruction of a phone booth and Shemp being beaten silly by a woman named Miss Hopkins, who had just moved into the building and mistook Shemp for her cousin Basil. As he gathers his thoughts, Shemp unintentionally proposes to Miss Dinkelmeyer. She happily accepts and the two of them, with Moe and Larry in tow, head over to the Justice of Peace to get married. Shemp pulls out the wedding ring but accidentally loses it in the piano. Moe forces him to look, and Shemp wrecks the piano before finding the ring. Then, Shemp's landlord calls Moe to tell him that news of Shemp's inheritance was printed in the newspaper and all of Shemp's ex-girlfriends that he called earlier found out about it and are out looking for him. They all arrive at the Justice of Peace's office looking to marry Shemp to get his money, whereupon chaos ensues. The women start fighting, taking out their aggressions not only on each other but also upon Moe and Larry, who are repeatedly kicked in the shins while standing among the crowd of battling women, trying to break them up. Moe also sets a bear trap in a chair awaiting any of the women who are continually pushing one another into it, but the plan backfires as he tries to antagonize a combatant who