Editing Larry Fine (section)

==Final acting years and death==
[[File:larryfinegrave.jpg|thumb|Fine's [[gravesite]] at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Glendale, California]]]]
In 1965, Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DeRita started a new TV comedy show, ''[[The New 3 Stooges]]'', a mixture of live and animated segments. The show produced good ratings, but the men were too old to do [[slapstick]] comedy well. Fine began showing signs of mental impairment, such as trouble delivering his lines.

A few years later, the men started working on ''[[Kook's Tour]]'', a new TV series. On January 9, 1970, Fine suffered a debilitating [[stroke]] that paralyzed the left side of his body, which marked the end of his performing career.<ref name=StrokeOfLuck/> Producer [[Norman Maurer]] subsequently re-edited the footage into a feature-length film, with new footage of Moe Howard introducing the premise.

Fine eventually moved to the [[Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital|Motion Picture Country House]], an industry retirement community in [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California|Woodland Hills]], where he spent his remaining years, and used a [[wheelchair]] during the last five.<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |last=Calta |first=Louis  |date=January 25, 1975 |title=Larry Fine of Three Stooges, Frizzy-Haired Comic, Is Dead |work=[[New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/25/archives/larry-fine-of-three-stooges-frizzyhaired-comic-is-dead.html |access-date=December 4, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Scrapbookrev/><ref name=StrokeOfLuck/> Even in his paralyzed state, Fine did what he could to entertain the other patients, and completed his "as told to" autobiography ''Stroke of Luck''.<ref name=StrokeOfLuck>Larry Fine, as told to James Carone - ''Stroke of Luck'', Siena Publishing, Hollywood, 1973.</ref> He also received visits from Moe Howard.<ref>{{cite news |first=Pat |last=Brady |title=Recovering From Stroke: It's Easy Life for the Stooge |work=Los Angeles Times, Valley Edition, Part XI |page=6 |date=October 28, 1973}}</ref> Fine remained accessible to Stooge fans, regularly hosting them despite his disability. When asked if spending his life as a Stooge was enjoyable, he answered, "it wasn't fun: it was work—but it paid off good, so I enjoyed it."<ref>{{cite book| last = Davis| first = Lon & Debra| title = Stooges Among Us | publisher = BearManor Media| year = 2008 | location = Albany, Georgia | pages = 117 | url = http://www.bearmanormedia.com/stooges-among-us-hardcover-edition-edited-by-lon-and-debra-davis?search=hardcover | isbn = 978-1-59393-300-5}}</ref>

Like Curly Howard, Fine suffered several additional strokes before his death on January 24, 1975, at the nursing home in Woodland Hills, aged 72.<ref>{{cite news |first=Dorothy |last=Townsend |title=Larry Fine of 3 Stooges Dies After Stroke at 73 |work=Los Angeles Times, Part I |page=3 |date=January 24, 1975}}</ref> He was interred with his wife and son in a crypt at [[Glendale, California|Glendale's]] [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in the Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Liberation. Moe died three months later.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RVV6seGmgmkC&dq=larry+fine+forest+lawn&pg=PA145 Forever L.A.: A Field Guide To Los Angeles Area Cemeteries & Their Residents] Douglas Keister, 2010, pub. Gibbs Smith, via ''books.google.ca'']</ref>