''Hello Pop!'' is the third of five

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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 tha ...

and His Stooges released by

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on September 16, 1933. A musical-comedy film, the film also featured the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell (Healy's girlfriend at the time). The film was considered lost until a 35mm nitrate print was discovered in Australia in January 2013. Stooges

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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 ...

and

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were billed as "Howard, Fine and Howard."

Plot

A theater producer (Healy) is trying to stage an elaborate musical revue. His efforts are constantly interrupted by demanding back stage personalities: a flaky musician (

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), a woman who keeps try to ask him something ( Bonnie Bonnell), and his raucous sons (the Stooges in children's costumes). He is able to get the show ready for presentation, but during the main number, the Three Stooges slip beneath the enormous hoopskirt costume worn by the leading vocalist. They emerge on stage during the performance, ruining the show.

Cast

as Papa *

as Son *

as Son * Bonnie Bonnell as Bonnie *

as Italian Musician *

Edward Brophy Edward Santree Brophy (February 27, 1895 – May 27, 1960) was an American character actor and comedian, as well as an assistant director and second unit director during the 1920s. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently ...

as Brophy * Rosetta Duncan as Singer/Dancer * Vivian Duncan as Singer/Dancer *

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as Themselves *

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as Strongman

Production

Originally planned under the title ''Back Stage'', ''Hello Pop!'' was the third of five short films made by MGM featuring the

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act billed as “Ted Healy and His Stooges.” The act focused primarily on Healy’s wit and caustic commentary, with the Stooges receiving the brunt of the physical slapstick. For the MGM short films, actress Bonnie Bonnell was incorporated into the configuration as Healy’s love interest. ''Hello Pop!'' was the second of two MGM Stooges shorts filmed in the

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process. ('' Nertsery Rhymes'', the act’s first film for MGM, was also shot in color.). The use of color was predicated on the decision to build plot devices in ''Hello Pop!'' around the following discarded Technicolor musical numbers from earlier MGM films: *"I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam" from the feature '' It’s a Great Life'' (1929); *"Moon Ballet" from the unreleased feature ''

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'' (1930)

Preservation status

In the 1930s, studios were offered their two-color negatives by Technicolor, who was at that time storing them. Most studios declined the offer, the camera negatives were junked, and original release prints usually disposed of shortly after a theatrical run. A print existed in MGM's Vault #7, but was destroyed by a fire in 1965. In January 2013, it was announced that ''Hello Pop!'' had been located in an Australian private film collection and was in the process of being restored for public viewing.Three Stooges film found in Australian garden shed
'' Sydney Morning Herald'' , September 29, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013 The film was screened at

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on September 30, 2013.

Home media

Warner Archive released ''Hello Pop!'' on September 24, 2014 on DVD in region 1 as part of the ''Classic Shorts From The Dream Factory'' series, Volume 3 DVD set (featuring Howard, Fine and Howard). The film was released with five other Ted Healy and the Stooges shorts made for MGM, '' Plane Nuts'' (1933), '' Roast Beef and Movies'' (1934), '' Beer and Pretzels'' (1933), '' Nertsery Rhymes'' (1933), and '' The Big Idea'' (1934).
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", September 30, 2014. Retrieved October 13, 2014.

References

External links

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