''Nertsery Rhymes'' is a 1933 American

Pre-Code Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...

musical comedy

short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...

starring

Ted Healy Ted Healy (born Charles Ernest Lee Nash; October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of The Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy th ...

and His Stooges, released on July 6, 1933 by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and abbreviated as MGM, is an American film, television production, distribution and media company owned by Amazon through MGM Holdings, founded on April 17, 1924 ...

. It is the first of five short films the comedy team made for the studio.

Plot

The Stooges play Ted Healy's children who refuse to go to sleep unless they are told a bedtime story. Healy first tries singing a comic version of '' The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere'' which ultimately fails putting the young lads to sleep. Healy's date, the Good Fairy (

Bonnie Bonnell Bonnie Bonnell (August 1, 1905 – March 14, 1964) was an actress who played "straight woman" in seven early short comedies, most of which featured the Three Stooges when they worked with Ted Healy, between 1933 and 1934. Career According to S ...

) then tells them her own bedtime story, courtesy of a musical revue. The trio eventually turn in for the evening, only to have Curly request a second bedtime story. Healy and the Good Fairy then proceed to tell the children about '' The Woman in the Shoe''. When that fails to work, a frustrated Healy smacks the three lads over the head with a rubber mallet, knocking them unconscious.

Cast

- Papa *

Moe Howard Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), known professionally as Moe Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He is best known as the leader of The Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television ...

- son 1 *

Larry Fine Louis Feinberg (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975), known professionally as Larry Fine, was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is best known as a member of the comedy act the Three Stooges. Early life Fine was born to a Russian Je ...

- son 2 *

Curly Howard Jerome Lester Horwitz (; October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of the American comedy team the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder ...

- son 3 *

- The Good Fairy

Uncredited cast

* 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

Production notes

''Nertsery Rhymes'' was the first of three MGM Stooge-related shorts filmed using the two-color Technicolor process, originally billed as Colortone Musical Revues. This process would also be used in ''

Hello Pop! ''Hello Pop!'' is the third of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 16, 1933. A musical-comedy film, the film also featured the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell (Healy's gi ...

'' (1933), again starring Healy, Bonnell and the Stooges, as well as '' Roast-Beef and Movies'' (1934), a film featuring

's only known solo appearance apart from the Stooges. The use of color was predicated on the decision to build plot devices in ''Nertsery Rhymes'' around the following discarded Technicolor musical numbers from 1930 MGM films: * "The Woman in the Shoe" from the musical ''

Lord Byron of Broadway ''Lord Byron of Broadway'' (1930), also known as ''What Price Melody?'', is an American Pre-Code musical drama film, directed by Harry Beaumont and William Nigh. It was based on a best selling book by Nell Martin, which "was widely praised by ...

''; * "The Turn of a Fan" from the unreleased feature ''

The March of Time ''The March of Time'' is an American newsreel series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was based on a radio news series broadcast from 1931 to 1945. The "voice" of both series was Westbrook Van Voorhis. ...

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