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NERTSERY RHYMES (1933)

Film Pick of the Day
Thursday, October 22, 2026

The Stooges play Ted Healy's children, and they're giving him a hard time about going to sleep. He tries singing a comic version of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, but it doesn't help. Ted's date "The Good Fairy" (Bonnie Bonnell) tells them her own bedtime story, courtesy of a musical revue.

The team's first musical comedy, and the first of two experimental 2-strip Technicolor shorts they made with MGM, billed as Colortone Musical Revues. Color was used as a means to match the musical numbers, footage from earlier MGM Technicolor feature film productions. The Woman in the Shoe originates from the MGM musical LORD BYRON OF BROADWAY (1930), and The Turn of a Fan from the unreleased THE MARCH OF TIME (1930). See articles in The Three Stooges Journal # 52 (Winter 1989) and The Three Stooges Journal # 63 (Fall 1992).

Details

Average Rating:

[ 6.19/10 ]   21 votes
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
Release Date Thursday, July 6, 1933
Studio MGM
Production Type Short Subject
Duration 20.1 min.

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Births

Charles Howard
(Actor)
b. 1875

Chicago, IL

Detmar Poppen
(Actor)
b. 1879

Ohio

John Sheehan
(Actor)
b. 1885

Oakland, CA

Robert Graves
(Actor)
b. 1888

New York, NY

John L. Balderston
(Screenplay)
b. 1889

Philadelphia, PA

Fred Preble
(Set Construction)
b. 1893

Los Angeles, CA

Dave Dreyer
(Music and Lyrics)
b. 1894

Brooklyn, NY

Harry Davis
(Director of Photography)
b. 1896

New York, NY

Jerry Howard
(Actor)
b. 1903

Brooklyn, NY

John Sutton
(Actor)
b. 1908

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Frances Drake
(Actress)
b. 1912

New York, NY

Philip Lathrop
(Camera Operator)
b. 1912

Merced, CA

Charles Tannen
(Actor)
b. 1915

New York, NY

Sidney Miller
(Actor)
b. 1916

Shenandoah, PA

Joan Fontaine
(Actress)
b. 1917

Tokyo, Japan

Judith Blazer
(Actress)
b. 1956

Dover, NJ


Deaths

Everett Sullivan
(Actor)
d. 1946   (60)

Los Angeles, CA

Tim Ryan
(Actor)
d. 1956   (57)

Los Angeles, CA

Sam Harris
(Actor)
d. 1968   (91)

Los Angeles, CA

Ralph Staub
(Actor)
d. 1969   (70)

Los Angeles, CA

Will Osborne and His Orchestra
(Actor)
d. 1981   (75)

Santa Monica, CA

Napoleon Whiting
(Actor)
d. 1984   (74)

Los Angeles, CA

Mary Wickes
(Actress)
d. 1995   (85)

Los Angeles, CA

Mildred Boyd
(Actress)
d. 1999   (91)

Inglewood, CA

Soupy Sales
(Actor)
d. 2009   (83)

Bronx, NY


Events

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1934-10-22

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1951-10-22 to 1951-10-24

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