HOLLYWOOD ON PARADE #B9 featuring Ted Healy and his Stooges
Hollywood on Parade # B-9 (March 30, 1934) – a hodgepodge of a variety of Hollywood stars of the time, on a set pretending to be a speakeasy – including Ted Healy and his Stooges in a short bit, as well as Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Ben Turpin, and many others.
Curly The Three Stooges T-Shirt Funny 3 Wise Guys Retro
Ted Healy and his Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard) with Bonnie Bonnell are only onscreen for just over a minute …. But the short itself if only 9 minutes long. The routine deals with Ted Healy coming up to the bar and ordering a beer from bartender Ben Turpin. Then Bonnie Bonnell walks up and asks if he’s “Ted Heel”. Then, she tries to demonstrate what makes him funny — by giving him a slap.
“That’s not right,” says Larry, who proceeds to demonstrate by slapping Moe. Who, in turn, tries to demonstrate the “correct” technique by slapping Curly. And Ted shows them all by doing a triple slap, and walking away.
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Other routines
Frankly, there’s a lot of other things stuffed into this 9 minute short film. Jimmy Durante has to see a man about a dog, Rudy Vallee and Mack Gordon sing, and quite a few others show up, sometimes for only a few seconds. I do enjoy Ben Turpin serving a pair of “small” beers at the end of the short.
Cast of characters
- Baby Peggy Baby Peggy
- Bonnie Bonnell (Plane Nuts) Bonnie Bonnell
- Buster Crabbe (Flash Gordon 1936) Buster Crabbe
- Bing Crosby (Going My Way) Bing Crosby
- Frankie Darro (The Public Enemy) Frankie Darro
- Jimmy Durante (Billy Rose’s Jumbo) Jimmy Durante
- Stuart Erwin (Pillow to Post) Stuart Erwin
- Larry Fine (He Cooked His Goose) Larry Fine
- Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher Richard ‘Skeets’ Gallagher
- Mack Gordon Mack Gordon
- Ted Healy (Hello Pop!) Ted Healy
- Curly Howard (Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise) Curly Howard
- Moe Howard (Some More of Samoa) Moe Howard
- Tim McCoy Tim McCoy
- Ginger Rogers (Shall We Dance) Ginger Rogers
- Ben Turpin (His New Job) Ben Turpin
- Harry Warren Harry Warren
- Bert Wheeler (Merrily We Live) Bert Wheeler
- Anna May Wong Anna May Wong
- Robert Woolsey (Kentucky Kernels ) Robert Woolsey
- Ed Wynn (Mary Poppins ) Ed Wynn