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.
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.
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