Ted Healy played the part of the unfunny jerk rather well. Oh well, at least the Stooges went on to be successful and loved by millions and Healy never acclaimed real fame. Sad to say, but he shouldn't have treated them like dirt.
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CLASSIC STOOGES MOE LARRY CURLY OH AND WHO COULD FORGET SHEMP FUCK THE 2012 STOOGES IT SHOULD BE CALLED THE 3 DICK HEADS AND TAKE JERSEY SHORE OUT I BET THATS WHY TEENS WANNA SEE IT TO SEE SNOOKIE AND ALL THOSE CUNTS
It wasn't the makeup artists, it was the cameras and film of the time. The contrast of early movie cameras and film was horrible so you had to accentuate the eyes and other facial features with makeup or else they would look washed out.
It wasn't the makeup artists, it was the cameras and film of the time. The contrast of early movie cameras and film was horrible so you had to accentuate the eyes and other facial features with makeup or else they would look washed out.
can you imagine what it must of been like in those days with a dad that was one of those stooges and two uncles that were uncles, their kids must of had one hell of a funny childhood growing up in that family.
wouln't it be a shock if after all these yr's that it was found out that the stooges had Healy killed because of the way he mistreated them. Hum, makes you wonder huh?
Despite his kind gestures to needy kids..it still doesn't excuse the fact that Ted Healy was a drunk and abusive bully and a man..who didn't budgeted the monies between "The Three Stooges"and himself..so that everyone got a fair share of the profits.
Now I know why the Stooges dumped Healy. He was about as funny as David Letterman on an off-night. BTW---Healy wasn't murdered. He had a heart attack following a bar fight that he started.
Two color technicolor is an odd sight. Scorcese replicates it by period in "The Aviator," so when your DVD gives you literal blue grass in the 2-color period, it's not your TV. What a brilliant film, Scorcese's real masterpiece. I predict that in 50 years, his other movies will merely be a footnote to it by comparison.
According to Moe. Healy got drunk, got in a fight, and was beaten so badly; that he never awakened. He died shortly there after. Healy appeared with Peter Lorrie in the MGM horror film: Mad Love.
@JerryAdams100 You Have to know how many things work; or others will take you for a fool. I learned about the Stooges' lives in a library! I saw shows about movie history. I was your age, when I did this! Just don't get dulled by too many video games, or other TV distractions. You can surprise your teachers and friends; by what you learn on your own!
Been watching the Stooges for probably 50 years....member of the Three Stooges Fan Club AND the Emil Stika "Hold Hands your Love Birds" fan club and I have NEVER seen this!!
@VIVALASC0TTY - He was an alcoholic, and that made him very unreliable and unpredictable. Furthermore, Ted & his Stooges got paid as one act, and they divided the money amongst themselves---or, rather, Ted divided the money, and took most of it. Then the Stooges divided their meagre share amongst themselves. Eventually, the Stooges got tired of doing most of the work, covering for their boss, and getting paid so little to do it.
This was made in 1933 at MGM with "Ted Healy and His Stooges". With Healy no longer a part of it they became "The Three Stooges" at Columbia from 1934. This is filmed in two-colour Technicolor -- red and green, but no blue. Three-colour Technicolor, reproducing the entire colour spectrum, was introduced in 1934. (It is not sepia, nor hand tinted.)
They ditched Healey because Moe thought he could be a better manager. Healey was only paying them a small salary and keeping most of the money they made for himself.
Wallace Beery, Cubby Brocccoli, and gangster Pat DiCicco allegedly beat Healy to death in the parking lot of the Trocadero, according to a book about Howard Strickling and MGM's fixers. The studio immediately sent Beery, one of their hottest properties, to Europe until everything cooled down. It's a crying shame that Curly, the younger brother of Moe and Shemp, couldn't have had as long a performing career as Moe and Larry.
@Onlymusical I beleave that Healy was celibrating the birth of his first son.Moe learned of his death in a cold way from a stupid reporter, and it was not good news to him. dispite everything written about the man, Healy was I beleave, a very valued childhood friend to Moe Howard, and that left its mark on him, that such an old friend would meet such a death so young.
@jmen4ever Oddly, a superb onset pencil drawing of Beery drawn by Healy survives! I didn't realize Healy & Moe Howard went all the way back to childhood. I do know that Healy used his aptly named Stooges shamelessly and Cohn at Columbia later did the same thing. The Stiooges, despite runaway popularity, never got a feature or even a raise at Columbia! Like most bullies, Moe was afraid of bigger bully Cohn.. Curly stroked out from cumulative head blows & Shemp was talked into returning to them.
@jmen4ever And you're right about Healy celebrating the birth of his son. Read the fascinating book "The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine" by E. J. Fleming for a full account of how the world's highest paid actor (Wallace Beery), Pat DiCicco (the gangster widely believed to have murdered movie comedienne Thelma Todd), and DiCicco's young nephew Cubby Broccoli (later James Bond movie producer) allegedly beat Healy to death and the studio concealed it.
@jmen4ever Fixers Eddie Mannix, later head of the studio, and Howard Strickling allegedly concocted a story about three college students killing Healy and disappearing. This went unquestioned for decades and I grew up believing it myself. The trio cited in this book, fantastically great actor Wallace Beery (my own personal onscreen favorite), gangster Pat DiCicco, and young future James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli were as far from college students as you can get. Google Mannix and Beery.
@jmen4ever Healy appears in quite a few movies, perhaps the best being "Dancing Lady" with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley, Sterling Holloway, Nelson Eddy, and a very early Curly, billed as "Jerry." Shemp, of course, was the original 3rd stooge, then left for a successful solo career (there are a lot of "Shemp Howard" shorts!) until Curly suffered strokes from the cumulative head blows & Shemp returned. Shemp, Moe, & Curly were brothers.
@jmen4ever The ineffably sad thing is that there is no film, aside from a post-stroke quick appearance, depicting brothers Shemp and Curly together. What would they have been like working together?? We'll never know. Moe and Larry were really straight men and Curly and Shemp were the funny ones. After Shemp died, the Stooges wound up as three straight men (Joe Besser and Joe DaRita were not particularly funny, I don't think; maybe Besser was to some degree). DaRita got the post-TV movies.
@Onlymusical I think IF they would have brought shemp in from the beginning, and just called it the four stooges, fans would have accepted him more, then just a replacement, when he was there when the act was formed back in 1925.He had every right to be a stooge.
@jmen4ever Shemp was the 3rd Stooge in Rube Goldberg's 1930 "Soup to Nuts," the 1st Stooges appearance. He wanted to go solo and was very successful, cast in many movies and with his own series of "Shemp Howard" shorts. He did not want to return to the Stooges after Curly's stroke because he was doing great as a single but was talked into it for the sake of the family. His kid brother Curly only replaced him around 1931 or so only because Shemp wanted to be a single.
@jmen4ever You're right, though, Shemp certainly had every right to be a Stooge and it would have been wild to see Shemp and Curly work together. Shemp, by the way, was legendarily phobic about all kinds of things. Have you seen "Soup to Nuts?" The interesting thing is how handsome Larry Fine was back then. Moe always kept him in the background but he was actually a fine actor (much better than Moe) and a superb violinist, which he was idiotically forbidden by Moe to use..
Healy fired the Stooges, then known as Howard, Fine and Howard, because he thought they were holding him back. Not exactly the smartest move ever made!
@Lampshade51: You have to remember that this was only 1933 when this experimental 2-strip Technicolor technology was still being experimented with, and also the quality of the short may seem to differ slightly overall due to the fact that this stars Ted Healy and His Stooges and not The Three Stoges (Moe, Curly and Larry) that everyone is more familiar with.
This short was shot in early, two-color technicolor. Until full technicolor in 1934-35,
this two-color system could not reproduce certain colors properly, but it was not bad. This print is not so good. I have seen better. Check "The Lost Stooges" documentary for the complete version and a better print. Yes, tons of makeup to make the skin tones "pop" better in this crude process.
@BeyondLame Healy wasn't the first stooge. Moe Howard was the first stooge.
Healy who had known Moe Howard since childhood needed to add performers to his stage show, so he cast his old friend as a stooge (someone who impersonated a member of the audience who is called on stage).
Shemp Howard joined the act soon after as a heckler, followed by Larry Fine and the Three Stooges were born.
The sound effects made the stooges. If you watch one of the shorts, its "Boink" "Slap" ,, hitting, knocking sounds all the time. The Stooges tried a tv show but the sound effects weren't there, so the eye poke, crackign over the head jokes didnt' work without the sound effects.
@NeilThe83 , Apparently that's the story and MGM being MGM they got Beery off according to my informant who dislikes Beery. Tells me all sorts of things he did to Margaret O'Brien on later MGM film sets. This all has fact but then.... is it a Furphy???
@NeilThe83 Healy was out celebrating the birth of his son in a Hollywood bar and (rumor has it) got into a brawl w/not only Beery but Albert "Cubby" Broccoli (the man who brought James Bond to the screen). MGM sent Beery off on a cruise to Europe for awhile until things calmed down. But, if that incident hadn't happened, we may not have had all those Stooges shorts. Crazy, ain't it? Get more about Ted Healy at Wikipedia.
@NeilThe83 I live in Hollywood, and a friend of mine produced a documentary about the Stooges (and did lots of thorough research). I've also been a big Stooge fan since childhood. Most of this info is available on the web if you look for it.
@howellfilm Moe in his book he wrote just before his passing, wrote about the misserble way a reporter broke the news of Healys death to him, and how much it hurt him to lose a childhood friend as he was.I think that given another 10 years or so, Healy would have become a more well known star.It was not just a tragidy what happened to him but a great miscarage of justice
@NeilThe83 No he wasn't it was Ted Healy & the Three Stooges and they left him and went to Columbia & he stayed at MGM. Was in San Francisco with Clark Gable and was knocked off a bar stool in a bar by Wallace Beery who got away with it.
@67nairb That's right and it was on laserdisc. Never made to DVD yet. There was one lost short(MGM) and in that documentary Maltin does hold a manilla envelope that I assume should have held the negative or a positive and was labelled with the missing short's name. It may have been found in the interim.
@Moviespast Everybody thought that Curly was the first third stooge. Not true. His and Moe's older brother Shemp came before him when the Stooges got together with Ted Healy in 1925.
@67nairb That's right and it was on laserdisc. Never made to DVD yet. There was one lost short(MGM) and in that documentary Maltin does hold a manilla envelope that I assume should have held the negative or a positive and was labelled with the missing short's name. It may have been found in the interim.
never care for ted the heal much but loved the boys,,,curley and shemp were the best and moe and larry were next ,,,loved them boys and wish they were here to make us laugh in the really messed up times. Thank god for reruns,,,lol
TV was invented in the 20's and shown to the world on the steps of the Franklin Institute in Phila. The world wasnt ready for it till the 30's. The inventor had a rough life. The 3 stooges were not seen on TV back then
Healy also, it should be noted, loved kids and threw big Christmas parties for underprivledged children, spending hundreds of dollars on toys for them. He may have been a heel to the Stooges, but he was a giving man to the needy. Without him, we wouldn't have them, and a lot of kids would've had sad holidays. Remember the positive about him as well, folks.
There's only two colors in this palette. I think this was an after effect done years later, like when Ted Turner tried to colorize The Maltese Falcon. Actually it looks more like sepia tone. Interesting though. Anybody know the exact story behind this?
This was shot at MGM in 1933 in early two-strip Technicolor while the Stooges were still part of Ted Healy's nightclub act (he's the one in the top hat and then the act's star). This particular print is badly faded. I have seen better; complete prints are available. Unhappy with Ted, the boys left him and MGM after a few films and went out on their own to Columbia -- where all of their starring shorts were made (in black and white).
of course they had makeup. this is maybe a color film, but the most of them are black and white and you had to make up people in black and white movies, to have better effects. Lipstick had to be black to get the viewers impression she is wearing red one afaik
It's true about Ted Healy, but let's face it--entertainment was and is a cutthroat business. We do have him to thank for the Stooges that we grew to know and love.
Today it seems no one is funny without being lewd or cussing at every other word. The Three Stooges show that good comedy is priceless and doesn't have to stoop into the gutter to get laughs.
We all agree...Ted Healy was a nut job, but had he not been, there may not ever have been the Three Stooges as we knew them....that's the only good thing about old Ted...
Ya, good comparison! I guess Ted Healy is a Stooge fan's 'guy you love-to-hate'. He's taken most of the heat and loathing off Joe Besser, the fake Shemps, and even the animated Stooges!
He's to Stooge culture what Bruce Ismay is to the Titanic tragedy!
Apparently, while the realistic slaps, pokes and other Stooge violence was done safely and expertly by the trio, Healy actually inflicted the hits on 'his' Stooges many of the times, causing much of the tension. Apparently, that was one of the reasons why Shemp left the first time. Healy actually believed that HE was the star of the show.
He had a rather interesting demise if you trust the account on wikipedia. Regardless, their parting of ways was almost as fortunate for us as the Beatles deciding to dump Peter Best.
According to what little I've read, Ted Healy would pull in big bucks from their vaudeville acts (Ted Healy and His Stooges) and pay the stooges only 10% or so to be split 3 ways. He was an abusive drunk and treated them like crap. Columbia wanted the stooges only, not Healy, so the stooges left w/out Healy which started years of court battles. Healy felt that the stooges were stealing his material in their short films. When Healy died, Moe Howard felt immense relief.
I'm WAY too young to know much about the backstage antics of the stooges in their personal lives, but I do recall their relationship with Ted wasn't that good. Am I correct? Anyone know why?
Healy was an abusive drunk. When sober, he could be a nice guy, but the drunkenness (and chronic lapses in paying the Stooges their salaries) strained the business relationship, and they went their separate ways.
And I think the Stooges realized that Healy was a third wheel. They just didn't need him.
I first saw this on "Nite Flite",a syndicated block of all night programming in the early 80's. The best way to view the cream of the Stooges MGM stuff is to get "The Lost Stooges",a well paced compilation hosted by Leonard Maltin. Ted Healy was a heel,an arrogant drunk who paid the Stooges a pittance,but he has his place in Stooge history. When Healy was killed in a bar fight,they had to take up a collection for money to bury him,as he made big bucks but lived well beyond his means...
Healy had talent but ultimately he could only hold back the three comedy geniuses.
Talking about "lost" Stooges, maybe Sony will issue the Curly version of "Malice in the Palace" this year? Still amazed that apparently no one is interested in finding that footage!
I ain't gonna hang here, but I wanna say that I ain't never heard of this putz Healy before, but this is funny. Also, I heard that Mel Gibson bought the rights to all the Three Stooges. Is that so?
"I'll gouge your eyes out!" LOL!
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Ted Healy played the part of the unfunny jerk rather well. Oh well, at least the Stooges went on to be successful and loved by millions and Healy never acclaimed real fame. Sad to say, but he shouldn't have treated them like dirt.
mysteryofmysteries 1 month ago
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cathytreks 1 month ago
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ToniHunterOne 3 weeks ago
I don't understand why Curly is there if they're still with Ted Healy in this skit, wasn't Shemp part of the trio at the time?
EinsteinEMP826 1 month ago
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Shemp got tired of Healy and left the Stooges in 1932..then came back after Curley's stroke in 1946..
bobandrayfan1 1 month ago
@EinsteinEMP826 There's a fairly good write-up about them in Wiki. It explains quite alot of why Shemp left and why he came back and stayed.
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MrBizzarobrian 1 month ago
It's interesting to hear Curly's real voice, without all that "Why SOITENLY! - Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!" accent and tone! Very rare!
tmc102464 3 months ago
CLASSIC STOOGES MOE LARRY CURLY OH AND WHO COULD FORGET SHEMP FUCK THE 2012 STOOGES IT SHOULD BE CALLED THE 3 DICK HEADS AND TAKE JERSEY SHORE OUT I BET THATS WHY TEENS WANNA SEE IT TO SEE SNOOKIE AND ALL THOSE CUNTS
EpicF4iLx23 4 months ago 2
Curly with a normal voice. Weird.
shortyblackwelll 4 months ago
Wow, the make up is something else. Were make up artists blind back then?
chuckbyf1 5 months ago
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It wasn't the makeup artists, it was the cameras and film of the time. The contrast of early movie cameras and film was horrible so you had to accentuate the eyes and other facial features with makeup or else they would look washed out.
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@chuckbyf1
It wasn't the makeup artists, it was the cameras and film of the time. The contrast of early movie cameras and film was horrible so you had to accentuate the eyes and other facial features with makeup or else they would look washed out.
gamewizard 4 months ago
can you imagine what it must of been like in those days with a dad that was one of those stooges and two uncles that were uncles, their kids must of had one hell of a funny childhood growing up in that family.
34D2234 6 months ago
curly looks good in this, and about 20
34D2234 6 months ago
wouln't it be a shock if after all these yr's that it was found out that the stooges had Healy killed because of the way he mistreated them. Hum, makes you wonder huh?
asianthor 7 months ago
Wow! They are so young!!! They were such attractive talented actors...they are truly missed.
ummwtf24 7 months ago 2
Ted Healy milked the 3 stooges making up to $5,000 a week!!! thats why Shemp left and Curly took over
MrFrank1968 7 months ago
Despite his kind gestures to needy kids..it still doesn't excuse the fact that Ted Healy was a drunk and abusive bully and a man..who didn't budgeted the monies between "The Three Stooges"and himself..so that everyone got a fair share of the profits.
TheStanbabe 8 months ago 5
Now I know why the Stooges dumped Healy. He was about as funny as David Letterman on an off-night. BTW---Healy wasn't murdered. He had a heart attack following a bar fight that he started.
sneezepal 9 months ago 2
Shemp and Curly did work together but only once.In Hold That Lion 1947.Curly makes an appearance as the guy snoring on the train.
TheChamp440 9 months ago
healy was the weakest link.
WintersWar 10 months ago
Check out the make-up
chuckbyf1 10 months ago
wow, they all look so young! i love the three stooges, so thank you so much for this!
belladonna4577 10 months ago
Two color technicolor is an odd sight. Scorcese replicates it by period in "The Aviator," so when your DVD gives you literal blue grass in the 2-color period, it's not your TV. What a brilliant film, Scorcese's real masterpiece. I predict that in 50 years, his other movies will merely be a footnote to it by comparison.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
According to Moe. Healy got drunk, got in a fight, and was beaten so badly; that he never awakened. He died shortly there after. Healy appeared with Peter Lorrie in the MGM horror film: Mad Love.
Phantanos 11 months ago
i think it looks better without color.just my opinon
JerryAdams100 11 months ago
@JerryAdams100 Thease Shorts were filmed in color! this is not Colorization! Does the term two strip Technicolor sound familiar?
Phantanos 11 months ago
@Phantanos no.lol i'm only 11 and a half.i don't need to know those things yet
JerryAdams100 11 months ago
@JerryAdams100 You Have to know how many things work; or others will take you for a fool. I learned about the Stooges' lives in a library! I saw shows about movie history. I was your age, when I did this! Just don't get dulled by too many video games, or other TV distractions. You can surprise your teachers and friends; by what you learn on your own!
Phantanos 11 months ago
Been watching the Stooges for probably 50 years....member of the Three Stooges Fan Club AND the Emil Stika "Hold Hands your Love Birds" fan club and I have NEVER seen this!!
retmarine1302 11 months ago
"Lost Short"? Hardly, if it is lost why are we watching on YouTube? Please re-title this.
delmer221 1 year ago
I heard Ted Healy was a complete douchebag.
VIVALASC0TTY 1 year ago
@VIVALASC0TTY - He was an alcoholic, and that made him very unreliable and unpredictable. Furthermore, Ted & his Stooges got paid as one act, and they divided the money amongst themselves---or, rather, Ted divided the money, and took most of it. Then the Stooges divided their meagre share amongst themselves. Eventually, the Stooges got tired of doing most of the work, covering for their boss, and getting paid so little to do it.
OofusTwillip 11 months ago
This was made in 1933 at MGM with "Ted Healy and His Stooges". With Healy no longer a part of it they became "The Three Stooges" at Columbia from 1934. This is filmed in two-colour Technicolor -- red and green, but no blue. Three-colour Technicolor, reproducing the entire colour spectrum, was introduced in 1934. (It is not sepia, nor hand tinted.)
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They ditched Healey because Moe thought he could be a better manager. Healey was only paying them a small salary and keeping most of the money they made for himself.
gamewizard 4 months ago
INTERESTING!!!!!!! Sounds like a musical play.
johnhrobiii 1 year ago
Those gas powered cameras were really something, huh?
TechnicalEvaluation 1 year ago
One of that guy's children is prematurely balding.
mseales 1 year ago 3
Wallace Beery, Cubby Brocccoli, and gangster Pat DiCicco allegedly beat Healy to death in the parking lot of the Trocadero, according to a book about Howard Strickling and MGM's fixers. The studio immediately sent Beery, one of their hottest properties, to Europe until everything cooled down. It's a crying shame that Curly, the younger brother of Moe and Shemp, couldn't have had as long a performing career as Moe and Larry.
Onlymusical 1 year ago
@Onlymusical I beleave that Healy was celibrating the birth of his first son.Moe learned of his death in a cold way from a stupid reporter, and it was not good news to him. dispite everything written about the man, Healy was I beleave, a very valued childhood friend to Moe Howard, and that left its mark on him, that such an old friend would meet such a death so young.
jmen4ever 10 months ago
@jmen4ever Oddly, a superb onset pencil drawing of Beery drawn by Healy survives! I didn't realize Healy & Moe Howard went all the way back to childhood. I do know that Healy used his aptly named Stooges shamelessly and Cohn at Columbia later did the same thing. The Stiooges, despite runaway popularity, never got a feature or even a raise at Columbia! Like most bullies, Moe was afraid of bigger bully Cohn.. Curly stroked out from cumulative head blows & Shemp was talked into returning to them.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@jmen4ever And you're right about Healy celebrating the birth of his son. Read the fascinating book "The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine" by E. J. Fleming for a full account of how the world's highest paid actor (Wallace Beery), Pat DiCicco (the gangster widely believed to have murdered movie comedienne Thelma Todd), and DiCicco's young nephew Cubby Broccoli (later James Bond movie producer) allegedly beat Healy to death and the studio concealed it.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@jmen4ever Fixers Eddie Mannix, later head of the studio, and Howard Strickling allegedly concocted a story about three college students killing Healy and disappearing. This went unquestioned for decades and I grew up believing it myself. The trio cited in this book, fantastically great actor Wallace Beery (my own personal onscreen favorite), gangster Pat DiCicco, and young future James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli were as far from college students as you can get. Google Mannix and Beery.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@Onlymusical Now, wouldnt a film about the life and murder of Healy, make a great film?
jmen4ever 10 months ago
@jmen4ever Yes, it certainly would. I'd love to see a biography on the guy as well.
ThePhantomThylacine 10 months ago
@jmen4ever Healy appears in quite a few movies, perhaps the best being "Dancing Lady" with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Algonquin Round Table humorist Robert Benchley, Sterling Holloway, Nelson Eddy, and a very early Curly, billed as "Jerry." Shemp, of course, was the original 3rd stooge, then left for a successful solo career (there are a lot of "Shemp Howard" shorts!) until Curly suffered strokes from the cumulative head blows & Shemp returned. Shemp, Moe, & Curly were brothers.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@jmen4ever The ineffably sad thing is that there is no film, aside from a post-stroke quick appearance, depicting brothers Shemp and Curly together. What would they have been like working together?? We'll never know. Moe and Larry were really straight men and Curly and Shemp were the funny ones. After Shemp died, the Stooges wound up as three straight men (Joe Besser and Joe DaRita were not particularly funny, I don't think; maybe Besser was to some degree). DaRita got the post-TV movies.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@Onlymusical I think IF they would have brought shemp in from the beginning, and just called it the four stooges, fans would have accepted him more, then just a replacement, when he was there when the act was formed back in 1925.He had every right to be a stooge.
jmen4ever 10 months ago
@jmen4ever Shemp was the 3rd Stooge in Rube Goldberg's 1930 "Soup to Nuts," the 1st Stooges appearance. He wanted to go solo and was very successful, cast in many movies and with his own series of "Shemp Howard" shorts. He did not want to return to the Stooges after Curly's stroke because he was doing great as a single but was talked into it for the sake of the family. His kid brother Curly only replaced him around 1931 or so only because Shemp wanted to be a single.
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@jmen4ever You're right, though, Shemp certainly had every right to be a Stooge and it would have been wild to see Shemp and Curly work together. Shemp, by the way, was legendarily phobic about all kinds of things. Have you seen "Soup to Nuts?" The interesting thing is how handsome Larry Fine was back then. Moe always kept him in the background but he was actually a fine actor (much better than Moe) and a superb violinist, which he was idiotically forbidden by Moe to use..
Onlymusical 10 months ago
@Onlymusical Lol.....Kinda funny how you said Larry was a "Fine" actor......lol (nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk)
Foolishpleazure 8 months ago
Aww! Curly is so damn cute!!8D
i wanna huggle him! ^^ Lol
I love how Larry's always like " Let him alone. " XD
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classic,just classic. :D lol
TheSpriter2 1 year ago
classic,just classic. :D
TheSpriter2 1 year ago
I'm glad the Stooges lost Ted Healy's phone number in '34.
redheadedgolem 1 year ago 2
good ol' sepia :D
nachoisone 1 year ago
what did Curly die of? Moe Larry A yuk yuk yuk
scottmanduzy 1 year ago
Healy was a narcissistic drunk!
zildj1an 1 year ago
6 people didnt get a bed time story
sgtbadass1 1 year ago
Healy's ego got the best of him. He thought he could make it without the stooges.
mysterymac38 1 year ago
It's more like black, white and red lol
Headbanger142 1 year ago
Ted Healy died a long time ago,the stooges was very young when he died.Healy died back in 1937.
FamilyGuy360 1 year ago
Moe has eyeliner on.
RJS3566 1 year ago
Healy fired the Stooges, then known as Howard, Fine and Howard, because he thought they were holding him back. Not exactly the smartest move ever made!
MFPhoto1 1 year ago 2
this is color?
elchicho25 1 year ago
@Lampshade51: You have to remember that this was only 1933 when this experimental 2-strip Technicolor technology was still being experimented with, and also the quality of the short may seem to differ slightly overall due to the fact that this stars Ted Healy and His Stooges and not The Three Stoges (Moe, Curly and Larry) that everyone is more familiar with.
msu2k9 1 year ago
This short was shot in early, two-color technicolor. Until full technicolor in 1934-35,
this two-color system could not reproduce certain colors properly, but it was not bad. This print is not so good. I have seen better. Check "The Lost Stooges" documentary for the complete version and a better print. Yes, tons of makeup to make the skin tones "pop" better in this crude process.
Lampshade51 1 year ago
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Apparently the stooges were the victims of abuse when they were boys. No wonder they are so violent hahaha!
gajda1984 1 year ago
@nicktoons901 um are you retarded? It's ALMOST one HUNDRED years ago.
Xkjgmcr522X 1 year ago
Never knew Healy was the first Stooge!
BeyondLame 1 year ago
@BeyondLame Healy wasn't the first stooge. Moe Howard was the first stooge.
Healy who had known Moe Howard since childhood needed to add performers to his stage show, so he cast his old friend as a stooge (someone who impersonated a member of the audience who is called on stage).
Shemp Howard joined the act soon after as a heckler, followed by Larry Fine and the Three Stooges were born.
dahoss65 1 year ago
The sound effects made the stooges. If you watch one of the shorts, its "Boink" "Slap" ,, hitting, knocking sounds all the time. The Stooges tried a tv show but the sound effects weren't there, so the eye poke, crackign over the head jokes didnt' work without the sound effects.
xvoy2002 1 year ago 2
@ Moviespast Wait... its a rumor or its real?
NeilThe83 1 year ago
wow look how young they look
cowboyzsuk81 1 year ago
@ moviepast is that how Ted Healy died? By getting knocked off his bar stool by Wallace Beery?
NeilThe83 1 year ago
@NeilThe83 , Apparently that's the story and MGM being MGM they got Beery off according to my informant who dislikes Beery. Tells me all sorts of things he did to Margaret O'Brien on later MGM film sets. This all has fact but then.... is it a Furphy???
Moviespast 1 year ago
@NeilThe83 Healy was out celebrating the birth of his son in a Hollywood bar and (rumor has it) got into a brawl w/not only Beery but Albert "Cubby" Broccoli (the man who brought James Bond to the screen). MGM sent Beery off on a cruise to Europe for awhile until things calmed down. But, if that incident hadn't happened, we may not have had all those Stooges shorts. Crazy, ain't it? Get more about Ted Healy at Wikipedia.
howellfilm 1 year ago
@howellfilm hm... how do you know all this?
NeilThe83 1 year ago
@NeilThe83 I live in Hollywood, and a friend of mine produced a documentary about the Stooges (and did lots of thorough research). I've also been a big Stooge fan since childhood. Most of this info is available on the web if you look for it.
howellfilm 1 year ago
@howellfilm Ah... awesome.
NeilThe83 1 year ago
@howellfilm Moe in his book he wrote just before his passing, wrote about the misserble way a reporter broke the news of Healys death to him, and how much it hurt him to lose a childhood friend as he was.I think that given another 10 years or so, Healy would have become a more well known star.It was not just a tragidy what happened to him but a great miscarage of justice
jmen4ever 1 year ago
Holy Shit! Is that Ted Healy? I've never seen him in The Three Stooges... even though he was an original Stooge before Curly and Shemp.
NeilThe83 1 year ago
@NeilThe83 No he wasn't it was Ted Healy & the Three Stooges and they left him and went to Columbia & he stayed at MGM. Was in San Francisco with Clark Gable and was knocked off a bar stool in a bar by Wallace Beery who got away with it.
Moviespast 1 year ago
I love this stuff! Some of the slapstick humor is done in a contemporary setting with Bob and Rob on OldFartsChannel.
OldFartsChannel 1 year ago
Curly was not gay!!!!
95tahoe1 1 year ago 9
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curley was gay....
darrylhaynes 1 year ago
Just for making fun of Curly you getting blocked to this site.
TheFlicker98 1 year ago
This short isn't exactly lost I have the whole the whole episode on video called THe Lost Stooges on video cassette narrated by Leonard Maltin.
67nairb 1 year ago
@67nairb That's right and it was on laserdisc. Never made to DVD yet. There was one lost short(MGM) and in that documentary Maltin does hold a manilla envelope that I assume should have held the negative or a positive and was labelled with the missing short's name. It may have been found in the interim.
Moviespast 1 year ago
@Moviespast Everybody thought that Curly was the first third stooge. Not true. His and Moe's older brother Shemp came before him when the Stooges got together with Ted Healy in 1925.
67nairb 1 year ago
@67nairb This is absolutely 100% correct. Shemp hated Ted and quit to go solo. Did you know that Ted was killed in a bar brawl ?
hugatag 1 year ago
@hugatag Yes I did know that and it happened in December 1937 just before Christmas and just before his son was son born....shame.
67nairb 1 year ago
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@67nairb That's right and it was on laserdisc. Never made to DVD yet. There was one lost short(MGM) and in that documentary Maltin does hold a manilla envelope that I assume should have held the negative or a positive and was labelled with the missing short's name. It may have been found in the interim.
Moviespast 1 year ago
Nice!
Barclay1987 2 years ago
YOU GOT A MUSICAL HEAD
krells19 2 years ago
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should have stayed lost
dannyrose55 2 years ago
right 2 strip
lpvcrcd 2 years ago
never care for ted the heal much but loved the boys,,,curley and shemp were the best and moe and larry were next ,,,loved them boys and wish they were here to make us laugh in the really messed up times. Thank god for reruns,,,lol
vetttech1999 2 years ago
Color was around since 1914. Thus short probably wasnt cared for
alanicu2 2 years ago
@alanicu2
seriously TV wasnt even invented till the 1930's
freddymercury91 2 years ago
TV was invented in the 20's and shown to the world on the steps of the Franklin Institute in Phila. The world wasnt ready for it till the 30's. The inventor had a rough life. The 3 stooges were not seen on TV back then
Nyc2009ify 2 years ago 2
That's right, they were shown in movie theatures.
5StarGeneralXenoCO 1 year ago
KNOW GOD!
sharpshootermatthew 2 years ago
This short has much more to it... Could you post the full short?
DamStanky 2 years ago
And to think Healy was considered the star and the stooges just sidemen when they started.
fliegeroh 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this great early Stooges film, but it is in sepia tone not color.
cartoonfan1920s 2 years ago
It may look sepia-toned here, but the main title card says, "Photographed by Technicolor Process".
OofusTwillip 2 years ago
I think it is in color, just so degraded that it all looks brown.
Extratexture4 2 years ago
Wow, compare this to today's technology of High Definition.
fussface44 2 years ago
Healy also, it should be noted, loved kids and threw big Christmas parties for underprivledged children, spending hundreds of dollars on toys for them. He may have been a heel to the Stooges, but he was a giving man to the needy. Without him, we wouldn't have them, and a lot of kids would've had sad holidays. Remember the positive about him as well, folks.
DanielKnyphausen 2 years ago 9
Wow.... look how young they are!!! :)
PapagenoJuan 2 years ago
Who's Paul Revere?
oldblubblub 2 years ago
what is the full video called???
XxDeathMetalistxX 2 years ago
Better than being tuned to "F" minor!
BaytekkDesigns 2 years ago
I have the full short on video. The video is called "The Lost Stooges", and is hosted by Leonard Maltin and was released in 1990.
acdc09 2 years ago
Wow. Who would've thought Curly's noggin was tuned to C flat?
A440Hzzz 2 years ago 2
Who would've thought yours was tuned to A above middle C?
xD
Inuyasha44320 2 years ago
Where's the rest??????
stellaluna4u2 2 years ago
There's only two colors in this palette. I think this was an after effect done years later, like when Ted Turner tried to colorize The Maltese Falcon. Actually it looks more like sepia tone. Interesting though. Anybody know the exact story behind this?
ZeropointZero70 2 years ago 2
This was shot at MGM in 1933 in early two-strip Technicolor while the Stooges were still part of Ted Healy's nightclub act (he's the one in the top hat and then the act's star). This particular print is badly faded. I have seen better; complete prints are available. Unhappy with Ted, the boys left him and MGM after a few films and went out on their own to Columbia -- where all of their starring shorts were made (in black and white).
horarwgt 2 years ago
Leonard Malting did a piece on this called The Color Stooges, as this was done for MGM.
scifiradioguy 2 years ago
Sparky427, where did you get this video? Is there any chance of seeing any more of it, I'd love to see what comes next! Great video of early stooges
tezman1990 2 years ago
Agreed. Excellent clip! Please post more!
I've never seen this one, not in 40 years of Stooge Fandom!
Falconius07 2 years ago 8
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Never liked the Three Stooges. The Marx Bros. ruled!!!
dajzilla 2 years ago
It' niice, but the word "short" is correct.
35westst 2 years ago
Anyone else notice the pounds of makeup that were applied to them?
patio87 2 years ago
of course they had makeup. this is maybe a color film, but the most of them are black and white and you had to make up people in black and white movies, to have better effects. Lipstick had to be black to get the viewers impression she is wearing red one afaik
Grimreaper1977 2 years ago
joe sucked
mattgeb84 2 years ago 3
OMG, this is precious!
It's true about Ted Healy, but let's face it--entertainment was and is a cutthroat business. We do have him to thank for the Stooges that we grew to know and love.
Today it seems no one is funny without being lewd or cussing at every other word. The Three Stooges show that good comedy is priceless and doesn't have to stoop into the gutter to get laughs.
Cissy2cute 2 years ago 3
You're so right Cissy, and we do love them, don't we?
antiann52 2 years ago
greatest comedy actors in the world
max3626 2 years ago 25
We all agree...Ted Healy was a nut job, but had he not been, there may not ever have been the Three Stooges as we knew them....that's the only good thing about old Ted...
parkman35 2 years ago 2
Notice that the "X' that Moe put on Curly's head has disappeared at 1:30.
Ted Healy was not a nice man..
br8knrun 2 years ago
Ya, good comparison! I guess Ted Healy is a Stooge fan's 'guy you love-to-hate'. He's taken most of the heat and loathing off Joe Besser, the fake Shemps, and even the animated Stooges!
He's to Stooge culture what Bruce Ismay is to the Titanic tragedy!
jayanxiety 2 years ago 2
Ted Healy makes the later episodes with Joe look good.
rogerrodd 3 years ago
Apparently, while the realistic slaps, pokes and other Stooge violence was done safely and expertly by the trio, Healy actually inflicted the hits on 'his' Stooges many of the times, causing much of the tension. Apparently, that was one of the reasons why Shemp left the first time. Healy actually believed that HE was the star of the show.
jayanxiety 2 years ago
He had a rather interesting demise if you trust the account on wikipedia. Regardless, their parting of ways was almost as fortunate for us as the Beatles deciding to dump Peter Best.
rogerrodd 2 years ago
According to what little I've read, Ted Healy would pull in big bucks from their vaudeville acts (Ted Healy and His Stooges) and pay the stooges only 10% or so to be split 3 ways. He was an abusive drunk and treated them like crap. Columbia wanted the stooges only, not Healy, so the stooges left w/out Healy which started years of court battles. Healy felt that the stooges were stealing his material in their short films. When Healy died, Moe Howard felt immense relief.
dasfmn1997 3 years ago
"When Healy died, Moe Howard felt immense relief."
I heard that Moe actually cried when he heard Healy had kicked off (source: Three Stooges Scrapbook).
It was probably Shemp who felt immense relief!
curlytoes79 2 years ago
I'm WAY too young to know much about the backstage antics of the stooges in their personal lives, but I do recall their relationship with Ted wasn't that good. Am I correct? Anyone know why?
Ken9284 2 years ago
Healy was an abusive drunk. When sober, he could be a nice guy, but the drunkenness (and chronic lapses in paying the Stooges their salaries) strained the business relationship, and they went their separate ways.
And I think the Stooges realized that Healy was a third wheel. They just didn't need him.
curlytoes79 2 years ago 3
In the long run, yes. Healy mentored the Stooges, but also underpaid them and held them back when they tried to strike out on their own.
Extratexture4 2 years ago
I've never seen Ted Healy and his Stooges, and I think you're right, VitruvianMan1452
Mrpastry909 3 years ago
Ted Healy was a real jerk. They were good to be rid of him.
VitruvianMan1452 3 years ago 3
Yeah, I heard Healy was a jerk too.
Mrpastry909 3 years ago 3
Ted Healey = ass
Drumspiracy 3 years ago 2
I first saw this on "Nite Flite",a syndicated block of all night programming in the early 80's. The best way to view the cream of the Stooges MGM stuff is to get "The Lost Stooges",a well paced compilation hosted by Leonard Maltin. Ted Healy was a heel,an arrogant drunk who paid the Stooges a pittance,but he has his place in Stooge history. When Healy was killed in a bar fight,they had to take up a collection for money to bury him,as he made big bucks but lived well beyond his means...
vonsmitty1313 3 years ago
i only see tints and shades of one color. meaning it's monochromatic. it's just not black and white. it's sepia. not full color.
cozymonk 3 years ago
wow i never seen this before good to knwo they did a colour short back then
Sabin06 3 years ago
They almost signed with MGM instead of Columbia Pictures. They would have done movies and not shorts.
Disciple1000 3 years ago 2
The three stooges in an MGM short. hmm.
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TTSmp 3 years ago
Healy had talent but ultimately he could only hold back the three comedy geniuses.
Talking about "lost" Stooges, maybe Sony will issue the Curly version of "Malice in the Palace" this year? Still amazed that apparently no one is interested in finding that footage!
ensconse 3 years ago
dude stop this
420xwaytoomanyx420 3 years ago
Healy was a real jerk, so much the stooges quit and went solo. The guy threatened to bomb the theater if they preformed without him!
ConstantineChernabog 3 years ago
who's healy?
XvMicroHelpervX 3 years ago
the 4th guy in the short, the shmuck in the suit!
ConstantineChernabog 3 years ago
He was a shmuck in real life too. At least that is what I heard.
MelissaMSweet 3 years ago
little fly upon the track a train came along and broke his back! lol
AceripXF 3 years ago
I ain't gonna hang here, but I wanna say that I ain't never heard of this putz Healy before, but this is funny. Also, I heard that Mel Gibson bought the rights to all the Three Stooges. Is that so?
Fersommling 3 years ago
When I was a kid, I kept getting Moe and Hitler confused! hahaha
Fersommling 3 years ago 14
Because of the haircut?
MelissaMSweet 3 years ago
@Fersommling there actually is an episode where they make that joke, it was the first ever tv show to openly mock an enemy of the united states!
IBlogandNooneCares 1 year ago 2
@Fersommling haha. the world was nearly overrun by a guy who looked like moe howard. HA
mvandeven 1 year ago
1:33 -- *Moe's* wearing eyeliner?!? ROTFL; gotta love that heavy-duty 1930s film makeup!!!
looneywoman 3 years ago
There's Moe, Larry and Curly, but who's the putz with them?
Fersommling 3 years ago
Ted Healy. He was their straight man in the early days.
cmn1108 3 years ago 2
healy started the stooges
brabon1 3 years ago