The Stooges got their start when Moe Howard (1897-1975) and his older brother, Shemp Howard (1895-1955), teamed up with Moe's boyhood friend Ted Healy (1896-1937).   They performed on stage for several years, and were joined in 1925 by Larry Fine (1902-1975).   Healy wrote all of the comedy sketches for the act, and played the lead "straight" man to his Stooges antics.   In 1932, shortly after the team started in motion pictures, Shemp decided to leave the act (due largely to Healy's drinking and womanizing) and was replaced by the youngest Howard brother, Jerome (1903-1952) - better known as "Curly".

Fox Feature
featuring Ted Healy with Moe, Larry and Shemp

MGM Short Subjects
featuring Ted Healy with Moe, Larry and Curly

Beer and Pretzels Released on: August 26, 1933 Supporting Cast Bonnie Bonnell (Nightclub Singer) Ed Brophy (Nightclub Manager) Production Crew Director: Jack Cummings Length: 20 minutes Production Number: 690 Release Number: 2 Working Title: Nursery Rhymes

Hello Pop! Released on: September 16, 1933 Supporting Cast Henry Armetta Bonnie Bonnell The Albertina Rusch Girls Production Crew Director: Jack Cummings Song (I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam) by: Irving Berlin Length: 17 minutes Production Number: 696 Release Number: 3 Working Titles: Back Stage; New Musical Short by Suber; and Ted Healy Short

Plane Nuts Released on: October 14, 1933 Supporting Cast Bonnie Bonnell The Albertina Rusch Girls Production Crew Director: Jack Cummings Length: 20 minutes Production Number: 680 Release Number: 4 Working Titles: Aviation Short and Around the World Backwards

The Big Idea Released on: May 12, 1934 Supporting Cast Bonnie Bonnell (Rubbish Girl) Muriel Evans (Becky, Healy's wife) The Three Radio Rogues (Themselves) The MGM Dancing Girls (Themselves) Production Crew Director: William Crowley Dance Sequences by: Sammy Lee Length: 20 minutes Production Number: 628 Release Number: 5

Other Short Subjects
featuring Ted Healy with Moe, Larry and Curly

Screen Snapshots Released by Columbia, Sept. 1933 Supporting Cast An All-Star Cast, including: Jack Holt Anita Page Una Merkel Chico Marx Production Crew Producer: Harriet Parson Director: Ralph Staub Story and Screenplay by: Ralph Staub Photography: Ralph Staub Length: 8 minutes

Feature Films
starring Ted Healy with Moe, Larry and Curly

Meet the Baron Released on: October 20, 1933 (MGM) Supporting Cast Jack Pearl (The Phony Baron) Jimmy Durante (Joe McGoo) Zasu Pitts (Zasu) Edna May Oliver (Dean Primrose) Ben Bard (Charlie) Henry Kolker (The Real Baron) William B. Davidson (Radio Man) Production Crew Director: Walter Lang Story by: Herman Mankiewicz and Norman Krasna Screenplay by: Aleen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson Director of Photography: Al Siegler Film Editor: James E. Newcom Length: 68 minutes Production Number: 710

Dancing Lady Released on: November 24, 1933 (MGM) Supporting Cast Joan Crawford (Janie Barlow) Clark Gable (Patch Gallagher) Franchot Tone (Tod Newton) May Robson (Mrs. Newton) Winnie Lightner (Rosette La Rue) Fred Astaire (Himself) Robert Benchley (Ward King) Ted Healy (Steve) Gloria Foy (Vivian Warner) Art Jarrett (Art) Grant Mitchell (Bradley, Sr.) Maynard Holmes (Bradley, Jr.) Sterling Holloway (Author) The Stooges (Stage Hands) Production Crew Executive Producer: David O. Selznick Associate Producer: John W. Considine Director: Robert Z. Leonard Screenplay by: Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson (from novel by James W. Bellah) Director of Photography: Oliver T. Marsh Dance Sequences by: Sammy Lee and Eddie Prinz Songs by: Burton Lane and Harold Adamson, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, and Arthur Freed Film Editor: Margaret Booth Length: 94 minutes Production Number: 694

Myrt and Marge Released on: December 4, 1933 (Universal) Supporting Cast Myrtle Vail (Myrt Minter) Donna Damerel (Marge Spear) Ted Healy (Mullins) Eddie Foy, Jr. (Eddie Hanley) Grace Hayes (Grace) Trixie Friganza (Mrs. Minter) Thomas Jackson (Jackson) Ray Hedges (Clarence) Howard, Fine and Howard (Mullins' Helpers) J. Farrell MacDonald (Grady) Bonnie Bonnell (Bonnie) Production Crew Director: Al Boasberg Story by: Beatrice Banyard Screenplay by: Al Boasberg Director of Photography: J.A. Valentine Dance Sequences by: Jack Haskell Songs by: M.K. Jerome Length: 65 minutes Production Number: F8

Fugitive Lovers Released on: January 5, 1934 (MGM) Supporting Cast Robert Montgomery (Porter) Madge Evans (Letty) Ted Healy (Withington) Nat Pendleton (Legs) C. Henry Gordon (Daly) Ruth Selwyn (Babe) Larry Fine, Moe and Jerry Howard (Three Julians) Production Crew Associate Producer: Lucien Hubbard Director: Richard Boleslavsky Story by: Ferdinand Reyher and Frank Read Screenplay by: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, and George B. Seitz Director of Photography: Ted Tetzlaff Film Editor: William S. Gray Art Director: Arnold Gillespie Length: 84 minutes Production Number: 716

Hollywood Party Released on: June 1, 1934 (MGM) Supporting Cast Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (Themselves) Jimmy Durante (Jimmy) Charles Butterworth (Harvey Clemp) Polly Moran (Henrietta) Lupe Velez (Lupe) Frances Williams (Herself) Jack Pearl (Baron Munchausen) Eddie Quillan (Bob) June Clyde (Linda) George Givot (Duke) Richard Carle (Knapp) Ben Bard (Charley) Tom Kennedy (Beavers) Mickey Mouse (Himself) Ted Healy and His Stooges Production Crew Directors: Edmund Goulding, Russel Mach, Richard Boleslavsky (musical sequences), George Stevens (comedy sequences), Sam Wood (one skit), Allan Dwan (added scenes), Charles Reisner (remaining scenes) Screenplay by: Howard Dietz and Arthur Kober Music by: Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed Dance Sequences by: Seymour Felix, George Hale, and David Gould Director of Photography: James Wong Howe Film Editor: George Boemler Length: 70 minutes Production Number: 695 Working Title: Broadway to Hollywood