Ted Healy(1896-1937)

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Varsity Show (1937)

Ted Healy was was born Ernest Lea Nash and grew up as a very good friend of Moses "Moe" and Samuel "Shemp" Horwitz (later Moe and Shemp Howard). In the '20s he changed his name to Ted Healy and got Moe, Shemp, and a violinist named Larry Feinberg (later Larry Fine) to do vaudeville acts with him as his stooges. As the 1930s started, Ted was becoming addicted to alcohol. Shemp left the act and Moe replaced him with Jerome "Curly" Howard. Those three also left the act because Ted Healy underpaid them and kept getting drunk. He spent the rest of his life doing feature films, most notably "Operator 13," before he was murdered in 1937 by three men at a bar, ostensibly because Ted was drunk and tried to pick a fight with them.

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Ted Healy and Nat Pendleton in Murder in the Fleet (1935)

Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Ted Healy, and Curly Howard in Dancing Lady (1933)

Sterling Holloway, Kenneth Anspach, Scotty Bates, Veda Ann Borg, Johnnie Davis, Lee Dixon, Ted Healy, Carole Landis, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Ethelreda Leopold, Poley McClintock, Spec O'Donnell, Dick Powell, Mabel Todd, Fred Waring, Ben Welden, Betty Wonder, Tommy Wonder, Marie Barde, Jane Doyle, and John George Doyle in Varsity Show (1937)

Leon Ames, Jean Harlow, William Powell, James Ellison, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Rosalind Russell, and Franchot Tone in Reckless (1935)

Jean Harlow, Ted Healy, and Frank Morgan in Bombshell (1933)

Jean Harlow, Ted Healy, Isabel Jewell, and Frank Morgan in Bombshell (1933)

Jean Harlow, Louise Beavers, Leonard Carey, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, and Frank Morgan in Bombshell (1933)

"The Dancing Lady" Joan Crawford, Ted Healy, Dir. Robert Z. Leonard, and the 3 Stooges MGM 1933

"The Dancing Lady" Clark Gable, Ted Healy, and the Three Stooges MGM, 1933

Robert Taylor, Ted Healy, and Jean Parker in Murder in the Fleet (1935)

Known for:

Mad Love

7.2

Reagan

1935

Plane Nuts

5.7

Short

Ted Healy

1933

Nertsery Rhymes

5.6

Short

Papa

1933

San Francisco

7.2

1936

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Love Is a Headache
- Jimmy Slattery
- 1938
Hotel Hollywood
- Fuzzy
- 1937
Varsity Show
- William Williams
- 1937
The Good Old Soak
- Al Simmons
- 1937
Man of the People
- Joe 'The Glut' Dwyer
- 1937
Mad Holiday
- Mert Morgan
- 1936
The Longest Night
- Police Sgt. Magee
- 1936
Sing, Baby, Sing
- Al Craven
- 1936
San Francisco
- Mat
- 1936
Speed
- Clarence 'Gadget' Harrigan
- 1936
It's in the Air
- 'Clip' McGurk
- 1935
Here Comes the Band
- 'Happy'
- 1935
Mad Love
- Reagan
- 1935
Murder in the Fleet
- Mac O'Neill
- 1935
Reckless
- Smiley
- 1935

Writer

Soundtrack

A Ducking They Did Go
- writer: "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are" (uncredited)
- Short
- 1939
Hotel Hollywood
- performer: "Let That Be a Lesson to You" (1937), "Sing, You Son of a Gun" (1937), "Sonny Boy" (1928) (uncredited)
- 1937
Varsity Show
- performer: "We're Working Our Way Through College" (1937) (uncredited)
- 1937
San Francisco
- performer: "Noontime"
- writer: "Noontime" (uncredited)
- 1936
Here Comes the Band
- performer: "Headin' Home" (1935)
- 1935
Fugitive Lovers
- performer: "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are"
- writer: "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are"
- 1934
Myrt and Marge
- performer: "Recreation" (uncredited)
- 1933
Meet the Baron
- performer: "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)" (1864) (uncredited)
- 1933
Plane Nuts
- performer: "Noontime Means Luncheon for Someone", "Dinah" (1925) (uncredited)
- Short
- 1933
Soup to Nuts
- performer: "You Can Only Wear One Pair of Pants at a Time" (1930), "Nellie"
- writer: "Nellie" (uncredited)
- 1930

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Alternative name
- Ted Healy and His Stooges
Height
- 5′ 10½″ (1.79 m)
Born
- October 1, 1896
- Kaufman, Texas, USA
Died
- December 21, 1937
- Los Angeles, California, USA(acute toxic nephritis)
Spouses
Relatives
- Marcia Healy(Sibling)
Other works
Stage: Co-wrote (earliest Broadway credit) book for / appeared in "Earl Carroll's Vanities" on Broadway. Musical revue. Music / Lyrics by Clarence Gaskill. Book by William Grew (also director), Jimmy Duffy, "Bugs" Baer, Blanche Merrill, Julius Tannen, Lester Allen, Owen Murphy, Jay Gorney, Bozeman Bulger, Don Lindley and Harry Jentes. Music interpreted by Ross Gorman. Musical Director: Donald Voorhees. Additional lyrics by Owen Murphy and Fred Phillips. Additional music by Jay Gorney and Irving Bibo. Production Supervised by / produced by Earl Carroll. Set Decoration by Willy Pogany. Costume Design by Charles Le Maire. Scenic Design by Karle O. Amend. Musical Staging by David Bennett. Earl Carroll Theatre: 6 Jul 1925-27 Dec 1925 (199 performances). Cast: Rose Adaire, Basil Allis, Marjorie Bailey, Anita Banton, Suzanne Bennett, Marjorie Bolton, Celia Branz (as "Performer"), Pat Brown, Edith Cardell, Marion Cardell, Aileen Carmody, Vivian Carmody, Dave Chasen (as "Performer"), Gertrude Crouch, Sid Daish, Marion Dale, Dane Daniels, Teddy Dauer, M. De Jari, Marion Dowling, Jessica Dragonette, Pearl Eaton, Olivette Florentine, Bobby Folsom, Evelyn France, Bobby Galvin, Jeanette Gilmore, M. Senia Gluck, Dorothy Gordon, Eve Marie Gray, Vivian Hart, Betty Brown (credited as Betty Healy), Helen Herms, Ross Hertz (as "Ensemble"), Warren Hill, Herman Hoover, Agnes Horter, Ray Hughes, Dave Jones, Marjorie Kelly, Mildred Kelly, Kenneth Lackey, Trudy Lake, Jewel LaKota, Florence Lavalle, Oscar Lorraine, Van Lowe, Polly Luce, Eve Lynn, Virginia Martin, Rita Mayer, Wallace McCutcheon Jr. (as "Performer"; final Broadway role), Ruth Mees, Marcelle Miller, Margaret Miller, Lillian Morehouse, Marie Musselle, Adele Neff, Frances Norton, Jack Norton, Natalie Norton, Blanche O'Brien, Vera O'Brien, Agnes O'Laughlin, Gladys Pender, Marjorie Peterson, Kathryn Ray, Nellie Roberts, Josephine Sabel, Felicia Sorel, Julia Steger, Irene Swor, Earl Taney, Julius Tannen, Esther Tanya, The Whirlwinds, Lillian Thomas, Francis Thorne, Lucille Upton, Velma Valentine, Richard Warren, Peggy Watts, Rose Wenzel, Frank Wisner, Hal Yates (credited as Harold Yates), Marguerite Young.
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Trivia
When Shemp Howard left the act, Moe Howard wanted his younger brother Jerome to take his place. However, Ted disliked Jerome and would not hire him. Some sources say Moe threatened to quit unless he hired Jerome. Whatever the reason, Ted finally agreed to hire him on the condition that he shaved his head, and went by the name of Curly. Healy figured that Jerome would not want to shave his head so he would not have to take him into the act, but Jerome did indeed agree to the terms, and thus became Curly Howard, the most popular of all The Three Stooges.