The best Ted Healy’s comedy movies

Ted Healy

Ted Healy

01/10/1896- 21/12/1937
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Dancing Lady

Dancing Lady
6.8/10
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the rich playboy, discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.

Bombshell

Bombshell
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 13/10/1933
  • Character: Junior Burns
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Hollywood Hotel

Hollywood Hotel
6.4/10
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band has won a talent contest an got a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star Mona Marshall to a movie premiere. But this lady doesn't want to go, so the bosses decide to use for Mona a double, Virginia. When Mona finds out next morning that happened, she insisted to fire her double and Ronny. Ronny finds work as singing waiter in a drive in, and is spotted by a director of the same studio, who wants him to lend his voice for an leading actor in a musical.

Plane Nuts

Plane Nuts
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 13/10/1933
  • Character: Ted Healy
Ted Healy and His Stooges alternate mildly risque vaudeville routines with semi-elaborate Berkeleyesque musical numbers with beautiful chorines.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 24/05/1934
  • Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big party with so that he might use the lions in his next movie. His film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Mad Holiday

Mad Holiday
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 13/11/1936
  • Character: Mert Morgan
The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of starring in murder mysteries, Trent discovers he can't escape typecasting even on an ocean voyage: one of the passengers is murdered in our hero's cabin. The killing is tied in with a stolen diamond and a seemingly unending supply of suspects. To avoid being arrested himself, Trent teams up with pretty detective novelist "Peter" Dean (Elissa Landi) to solve the mystery. As Trent's wisecracking press agent Mert Morgan, Ted Healey has a wonderful moment when he stumbles over a corpse and asks nonchalantly, "What's the matter with him, he crocked?"

Reckless

Reckless
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 19/04/1935
  • Character: Smiley
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Love Is a Headache

Love Is a Headache
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/01/1938
  • Character: Jimmy Slattery
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/12/1935
  • Character: Himself
Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador", engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by Señor Keaton, and musical numbers are provided by Joe Morrison and the Garland Sisters.

Nertsery Rhymes

Nertsery Rhymes
5.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/07/1933
  • Character: Papa
Three boys play are told some "bedtime stories" by their parents.

Here Comes the Band

Here Comes the Band
5.8/10
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."

Meet the Baron

Meet the Baron
5.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/10/1933
  • Character: Head Janitor
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Murder in the Fleet

Murder in the Fleet
5.6/10
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.

Fugitive Lovers

Fugitive Lovers
6.5/10
In a hopeful effort to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict Paul Porter, who quickly allies himself with Letty. With the police in hot pursuit and Legs monitoring his every move with Letty, Paul is running out of both time and ideas.

It's in the Air

It's in the Air
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1935
  • Character: 'Clip' McGurk
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.

Soup to Nuts

Soup to Nuts
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 28/09/1930
  • Character: Ted 'Teddy'
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls for Schmidt's niece Louise, but she'll have none of him. Schmidt's friends Ted, Queenie, and some goofy firemen try to help out; things come to a slapstick head when Louise needs rescuing from a fire.

Myrt And Marge

Myrt And Marge
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/11/1933
  • Character: Mullins
Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his hands on the show's pretty young star, Marge. Myrt teams up with Marge's boyfriend to try to thwart the randy producer and get the show to Broadway.

Beer and Pretzels

Beer and Pretzels
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 26/08/1933
  • Character: Himself
Ted Healy and The 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted is annoying women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos ensues.

The Winning Ticket

The Winning Ticket
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/02/1935
  • Character: Eddie Dugan
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

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