Foreword / by Joan Howard Maurer -- Childhood and the Early Years -- Show biz via Vitagraph and the melodrama -- The showboat sunflower -- Breaking into vaudeville with Shemp -- Helen -- Joining forces with Ted Healy -- My daughter is born, and a brief leave from show business -- Back with Ted Healy -- Getting into movies, and along comes Curly -- The final break with Ted Healy -- Off the movie set for a while and on to Broadway -- Into the '40s -- Domestic wartime interlude -- Changes among the Stooges -- The comeback: Larry, Moe, and Curly-Joe -- A single in the '70s and my seventies -- Afterword.