Vernon Dent: Stooge Heavy (Second Banana to The Three Stooges and Other Film Comedy Greats)
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BASEBALL - Episode 4: A National Heirloom
| Air Date/Released | Wednesday, September 21, 1994 |
|---|---|
| Station/Studio | PBS / Florentine Films |
Ken Burns documentary of the history of American baseball. Episode 4 covers the 1920s, as the national pastime recovers attendance after World War I, and looks for renewed respect after the 1919 betting scandal.
An interesting photo appears in chapter 4 of Ken Burns' documentary BASEBALL (1994), a Ted Healy theater marquee. It's seen during discussion of Red Sox owner / Broadway producer Harry Frazee’s sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees in early 1920. But it's a rare Ken Burns faux paus... this is a 1930 photo (not 1920), and this is New York City’s RKO Palace, not one of Frazee’s theaters.
Ted’s appearance there was the week of Sept. 27 – Oct. 3, 1930. The “New Racketeers” are Jerry Bergen, Eddie Moran, Joe Verdi and Paul Van Dyke. That lineup of “Racketeers” came in shortly after Moe, Larry & Shemp split from Ted in the 3rd week of August 1930, after the studio preview of SOUP TO NUTS. By early 1931, Verdi and Van Dyke were gone, and replaced by Mousie Garner, Jack Wolf and Dick Hakins. Bergen and Moran remained with Ted for the short-lived Broadway show THE GANG’S ALL HERE in January and February, but when Ted joined BILLY ROSE’s CRAZY QUILT in March 1931, the stooges were just Garner, Wolf and Hakins. (Eddie Moran was in CRAZY QUILT too, but he was working a solo by then, no longer part of Healy’s act.)
Cast: John Chancellor (Narrator), Adam Arkin, Mike Barnicle, Philip Bosco, Keith Carradine, John Cusack, Ossie Davis, Loren Dean, Anthony Hopkins, Garrison Keillor, Delroy Lindo, Amy Madigan, Arthur Miller, Michael Moriarty, Gregory Peck, Jody Powell, Jason Robards, Paul Roebling, Jerry Stiller, Eli Wallach (Voices), Roger Angell, Red Barber, Bob Costas, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Shelby Foote, Milt Gaston, Stephen Jay Gould, Manuel Marquez-Sterling, Charles McDowell, Mamie Ruth Moberly, Willie Morris, Buck O’Neil, Daniel Okrent, George Plimpton, Shirley Povich, Jimmy Reese, Clyde Sukeforth, Studs Terkel, John Thorn, George F. Will (Themselves), Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Claire Merritt Hodgson, Herbert Hoover, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Johnson, Tony Lazzeri, Connie Mack, Christy Mathewson, Joe McCarthy, John J. McGraw, Dorothy Ruth Pirone, Branch Rickey, Babe Ruth, Helen Woodworth Ruth (archive footage)
Crew: Ken Burns (Executive Producer, Director, Writer), Geoffrey C. Ward (Writer), Lynn Novick (Producer), Bruce Alfred, Mike Hill, Stephen Ives, David Schaye, Susanna Steisel, Daniel J. White (Asst. Producers)
Crew: Ken Burns (Executive Producer, Director, Writer), Geoffrey C. Ward (Writer), Lynn Novick (Producer), Bruce Alfred, Mike Hill, Stephen Ives, David Schaye, Susanna Steisel, Daniel J. White (Asst. Producers)
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