Nertsery Rhymes

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Nertsery Rhymes
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Written by Moe Howard
Ted Healy
Matt Brooks
Directed by Jack Cummings
Starring Ted Healy
Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Bonnie Bonnell
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Running time 20:07
Distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Nertsery Rhymes is a 1933 American Pre-Code short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard), a musical comedy released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Some footage was from the unfinished MGM musical The March of Time (1930), which was originally to feature Healy and the Three Stooges. This was one of two MGM Stooge shorts filmed utilized the then-experimental two-strip Technicolor process. This process would be used again in Hello Pop! (1933) featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges, and Roast Beef and Movies (1934) featuring just Curly. The use of color was predicated by the decision to recycle the "Moon Ballet" sequence from the unreleased color MGM feature The March of Time.[1]

Plot[edit | edit source]

The Stooges are children and Ted Healy is the father. Unable to sleep, the Stooges ask Healy to tell them a bedtime story. He proceeds to tell them of the "Ride of Paul Revere" as well as the "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". Briefly veering away from the slapstick, there are two musical interludes pertaining to the stories.[citation needed]

Cast[edit | edit source]

Uncredited Cast[edit | edit source]

  • Beth Dodge - Turn of a Fan Dancer
  • Betty Dodge - Turn of a Fan Dancer
  • Lottice Howell - Turn of a Fan Singer
  • The Rounders - Woman in Shoe Quintet
  • Ethelind Terry - The Woman in the Shoe

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Three Stooges Journal, threestooges.net; accessed July 26, 2015.

External links[edit | edit source]


Category:The Three Stooges films Category:1933 films Category:1930s musical comedy films Category:American films Category:English-language films Category:Films directed by Jack Cummings Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films Category:American musical comedy films