You Nazty Spy - The Three Stooges

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The Three Stooges began in 1922 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called "Ted Healy and His Stooges" ("stooges" being show-business slang for on-stage assistants). The act was also known as "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen" and "Ted Healy and His Racketeers". Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz) joined Healy's act in 1922, and his brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) came aboard a few months later. After several shifts and changes in the Stooges membership, violinist-comedian Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) also joined the group sometime between 1925 and 1928. In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep interrupting him, causing Healy to retaliate with verbal and physical abuse.
In 1930, Ted Healy and His Stooges (plus comedian Fred Sanborn) appeared in Soup to Nuts, their first Hollywood feature film, released by Fox Film Corporation. The film was not a critical success, but the Stooges' performances were singled out as memorable, leading Fox to offer the trio a contract, minus Healy. This enraged Healy, who told studio executives the Stooges were his employees, whereupon the offer was withdrawn. Howard, Fine, and Howard learned of the offer and subsequent withdrawal, and left Healy to form their own act (billed as "Howard, Fine & Howard" or "Three Lost Souls"). The act quickly took off with a tour of the theater circuit.[4] Healy attempted to stop the new act with legal action, claiming that they were using his copyrighted material. Accounts exist of Healy threatening to bomb theaters if Howard, Fine, and Howard ever performed there, which worried Shemp so much that he almost left the act; reportedly, only a pay raise kept him on board.
Healy tried to save his act by hiring replacement stooges, but they were inexperienced and not as well-received as their predecessors.[6] Healy reached a new agreement with his former Stooges in 1932, with Moe now acting as business manager, and they were booked in a production of Jacob J. Shubert's The Passing Show of 1932.[4] During rehearsals, Healy received a more lucrative offer and found a loophole in his contract allowing him to leave the production.[6] Shemp, fed up with Healy's abrasiveness, bad temper, and heavy drinking,[6] decided to quit the act and toured in his own comedy revue for several months.
Shemp had been working for the Vitaphone studio in Brooklyn, New York since 1931. He first appeared in movie comedies playing small roles and bits in the Roscoe Arbuckle shorts, and gradually worked his way up to star comedian. Shemp stayed with Vitaphone through 1937.
With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges (Moe and Larry) needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard. Healy reportedly took one look at Jerry, who had long chestnut-red hair and a handlebar mustache, and remarked that Jerry did not look like he was funny.[6] Jerry left the room and returned a few minutes later with his head shaved (although his mustache remained for a time), saying: "Boy, do I look girly." Healy heard "Curly", and the name stuck.[4] Other accounts have been given for how the Curly character actually came about.[4]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) signed Healy and his stooges to a movie contract in 1933. They appeared in feature films and short subjects together, individually, or with various combinations of actors. The trio was featured in a series of musical comedy shorts, beginning with Nertsery Rhymes. It was one of a few shorts to be made with an early two-color Technicolor process. These also included one featuring Curly without Healy or the other Stooges, Roast Beef and Movies (1934), and the recently rediscovered Technicolor short Hello Pop!. Jail Birds of Paradise (1934) was also shot in Technicolor, but as of 2022, no print has been found. The short films were built around recycled Technicolor film footage of production numbers cut from MGM musicals, such as Children of Pleasure, Lord Byron of Broadway, and the unfinished March of Time (all 1930). The studio concluded the series with standard, black-and-white two-reel subjects: Beer and Pretzels (1933) Plane Nuts (1933), and The Big Idea (1934).[4]
Healy and company also appeared in several MGM feature films as comic relief, including:
Turn Back the Clock (1933)
Meet the Baron (1933)
Dancing Lady (1933) (with Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire and Robert Benchley)
Fugitive Lovers (1934)
Hollywood Party (1934).
Healy and the Stooges also appeared together in Myrt and Marge for Universal Pictures.[4]
In 1934, the team's contract expired with MGM, and the Stooges' professional association with Healy came to an end. According to Moe Howard's autobiography,[7] the split was precipitated by Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness. Their final film with Healy was MGM's Hollywood Party (1934). Healy and the Stooges went on to separate successes, with Healy dying under mysterious circumstances in 1937.

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@alizulqarnain7739 4 ай бұрын

Way ahead of their time😂

@tracyyork1428 3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say that about many Stooges shorts (and I love the team), but in this case it's true. This film was also gutsy; it took nerve to make fun of Hitler at that time. And they did it very well.

@christopheragro1953 3 ай бұрын

Lol 😂

@jameswilliams9685 Ай бұрын

Superbly funny

@garyschreckengost2925 3 ай бұрын

These are still occasionally shown on metv. 😅 still funny as all hell

@user-ws4sm4lz6q 2 ай бұрын

Bring back 'Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips'. Withdrawn from syndication in 1970.

@davidvalensi8616 2 ай бұрын

This was dangerous to do then.

@movieguy5362 Ай бұрын

I love it ❤

@ISIO-George 24 күн бұрын

This is a colorized version. It was actually shot in B&W. It was the first released film from Hollywood to portray/parody Hitler. I never recognized how short they were until watching this. All three, as I checked, were 5' 5" and under. Moe is listed at being 5' 3 1/2". Not having watched a Stooges film from a long long time, I am also struck by how compared to much later films that are mostly slapstick, this has a lot of clever word play and contemporary, for the time, references. One example is the "the boy's from Syracuse" referencing the 1938 musical The Boys from Syracuse. The exclamation "Beblach!" is a Yiddish word meaning "beans" When Moe is imitating Hitler speeches, he is doing it in Yiddish. At one point he says "in pupik gehabt haben" which translates to "I've had it in the bellybutton".