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Ted Healy

Shows · Ted Healy

Director 1896–1937 On stage 19291931

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 that they later made famous, he had a successful stage and film career of his own and was cited as a formative influence by several later comedy stars.

On stage 3 productions, 2 years

1929 A Night in Venice Shubert Theatre · Original · directed by Lew Morton 175 perf.
1931 Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt 44th Street Theatre · Original 79 perf.
1931 The Gang’s All Here Imperial Theatre · Original · directed by Oscar Eagle 23 perf.

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Worked with more than once3 names

Ruth Martin 2 productions
Irene King 2 productions
Gomez Winona 2 productions

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Also credited on1 work

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In the literature4 passages

  • We had lots of glamour and had rehearsed for many days with a big orchestra and chorus of seventy people and Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones and Robert Young and Ted Healy and Judy Garland and Sophie Tucker and plenty more.ebooks/Willson, Meredith/And There I Stood with My Piccolo - Meredith Willson.txt
  • Brown, J. Harold Murray and Louise Brown, “The Cocoanuts™ with the Marx Brothers, “Song of the Flame” with Guy Robertson and Tessa Kosta and “Sky High” starring Willie Howard. Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert delighted audiences in the British import “By the Way,” and another “Charlot’s Revue” with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence an…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • was in “Yours Truly,” Guy Robertson was in “The Circus Princess,” Eddie Cantor was in “Ziegfeld Follies,” Evelyn Herbert and Warren Hull were in “My Maryland” and Victor Moore and Charles Butterworth were in “Allez-Oop.” Other popular musicals were “Merry-Go-Round” with Marie Cahill and William Collier, “Manhattan Mary” with Ed Wynn, “The…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
  • and Adele Astaire, Frank Morgan and Helen Broderick, “The | Cat and the Fiddle” with Bettina Hall and Georges Metaxa. “America’s Sweetheart” with Jack Whiting and Harriet Lake | (changed to Ann Sothern for films), “The Third Little Show™ | with Beatrice Lillie and Ernest Truex, “The Laugh Parade” with Ed Wynn, “You Said It” with Lou Holtz…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt

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