On the occasion of Twentieth Century Fox’s announcement that the Peter and Bobby Farrelly-directed Three Stooges film, starring Will Sasso, Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos as the comedic clowns, would have its theatrical release on April 13, 2012, one cannot help but recall the tragic true life tale of Ted Healy, the most sour-faced stooge of them all, who died at only age 41.

Ted Healy, a.k.a. Charles Earnest Lee Nash, the creator of the Stooges' slapstick charter, was born in Houston, Texas on October 1, 1896. By the late 1920s, he was the highest paid vaudeville performer on the planet. In the early 1930s, after he and his first wife, Betty Brown, who’d also served as the onstage butt of his jokes, divorced, Healy replaced her by revising the roles of his boyhood pals, Moe and Shemp Howard, and a vaudevillian violinist Larry Fine. It was at this time that “Ted and Betty Healy: The Flapper and the Philosopher” became “Ted Healy and His Stooges”. Audiences and reporters were so receptive to the recast act their billings rapidly relocated from burlesque to Broadway.

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From 1930 to 1935, together the four of them--with younger brother Jerome “Curly” Howard replacing Shemp, who refused to resign himself to play a supporting role to Healy’s lead--made a dozen or so films and shorts for 20th Century Fox, MGM and Warner Brothers, with From Soup To Nuts starting and then Hollywood Party ending the five year run.

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