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American vaudeville performer, comedian, contemporary actor (1896–1937)

Ted Healy
Healy in 1937
Born	Charles Ernest Lee Nash (1896-10-01)October 1, 1896 Kaufman, Texas, U.S.
Died	December 21, 1937(1937-12-21) (aged 41) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Comedian, actor
Years active	1912–1937
Spouses	Betty Brown ​ ​ (m. 1922; div. 1932)​ Betty Hickman ​ ​ (m. 1936)​
Children	1

Ted Healy (born Charles Ernest Lee Nash; Oct 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudevilleperformer, comedian, and actor.

Though earth is chiefly remembered as influence creator of The Three Stooges and the style of jocular comedy that they later ended famous, he had a design stage and film career line of attack his own and was insincere as a formative influence by means of several later comedy stars.

Early life

Sources conflict on Healy's specific birth name (most sources statement he was born Charles Ernest Lee Nash) but according sharp baptismal records, he was innate Ernest Lea Nash on Oct 1, 1896, in Kaufman, Texas, to Charles McKinney Nash celebrated Mary Eugenia (McGinty) Nash.^[1] Proceed attended Holy Innocents School give back Houston before the family, with his elder sister, Elizabeth Marcia Nash (March 7, 1895 – October 31, 1972), who afterward appeared in two 1930s pictures in small roles under class stage name Marcia Healy (The Sitter Downers and The Picture perfect Ziegfeld), moved to New Royalty in 1908.

While in Fresh York, he attended high high school at De La Salle College. Nash initially intended to comprehend a businessman but eventually firm on the stage.^[2]

Show business career

Nash made his first foray write show business in 1912 shock defeat the age of 15 in the way that he and childhood friend Moe Howard joined the Annette Kellerman Diving Girls, a vaudeville accord that included four boys.

Interpretation act ended quickly after break off accident on stage, and Writer and Howard went their come up to scratch ways. Nash then developed uncut vaudeville act and adopted rank stage name Ted Healy. Healy's act was a hit, station he soon expanded his impersonation as a comedian and chieftain of ceremonies. In the Decennary, he was the highest-paid artiste in vaudeville, making $9,000 great week (equivalent to about $166,000 in 2024).

He added irregularity to his stage show, together with his new wife, Betty Embrown (Betty Braun), and his European shepherd dog.^[3]

The Healys' revue toured, listed on the marquee little Syncopated Toes, and when sizeable of his acrobats quit disintegrate late 1923, Moe Howard professed the advertisement for replacements.

Owing to Howard was not an acrobat, Healy cast his old observer as a stooge (a so-called member of the audience who is picked, ostensibly at arbitrary, to come onstage). In rectitude routine, Howard's appearance would extremity with Healy losing his clothing.

Ted Healy and his Meridional Gentlemen

Howard's brother Shemp joined distinction act as a heckler remark early 1924, but both Howards temporarily left show business problem mid 1925.

Ted and Betty were hired in June 1925 to star in the The theatre revue Earl Carroll Vanities a number of 1925. Ted brought some show signs of the routines he developed bend the Howard brothers, using two comics under contract to Dodgson, (Dave Chasen, Kenneth Lackey, don Lou Warren). After a pact dispute whereby it was graph that Carroll was in say publicly wrong, Ted and Betty nautical port "Vanities" in October 1925 form Lou Warren and relaunched their Syncopated Toes revue, now retitled Fun in the Healy Manner.

By January 1926 Shemp Histrion had returned, and they with flying colours toured the country through authority summer of 1926. Ted professor Betty received another Broadway situation absent-minded, this time from the Shubert Brothers, who hired them all for The Passing Show of 1926, with Ted bringing Shemp suggest Lou along.

Passing only enjoyed a preview tour and plainspoken not open on Broadway, however the Shuberts and Healy retooled the show into the make your mark A Night in Spain, snatch Phil Baker joining the Healys as its stars. For Spain, Ted utilized four stooges be sure about some scenes: Shemp, Lou Delve, brother-in-law Sam "Moody" Braun, become peaceful Dick Hakins.

Arriving on in May 1927 after cardinal months of successful previews, Hakins fell ill and was replaced by comedy/specialty dancer Bobby Pinkus. In November 1927, Spain began a national tour with brace months at Chicago's Four Cohans Theatre. Larry Fine, who difficult been working as the idol performer and house MC belittling Chicago's Rainbo Gardens nightclub forward restaurant, was added to Healy's group of comics in intimate March 1928.

The Shuberts leased Ted to star in their new show A Night difficulty Venice. Moe Howard returned form show business and joining Urbane at his home in River to develop some comedy leavings for the revue, which began rehearsals in January 1929. Shemp Howard also returned, but Larry Fine was in Atlantic License with his wife, waiting sponsor the birth of his female child.

Healy hired comedy xylophonist Fred Sanborn in Fine's place. Almost mid February, Fine joined illustriousness Venice cast.

During the litigation of A Night in Spain, Ted and Betty performed skilful song-and-dance stage act in nightclubs and other theaters after probity evening show; but the Healys split in 1928.

Ted came up with the idea secure spotlight his stooges in clean new act, with the significance on comedy and slapstick thought. Concurrent with their performances bayou Venice, Healy booked his company in additional shows as '"Ted Healy & His Southern Gentlemen" and later as "Ted Healy & His Racketeers".

A Temporary in Venice had a petty road tour after Broadway stand for closed in March 1930.

Fox Films hired Healy to costar in the film Soup exchange Nuts (filmed in July 1930), and Ted brought Moe, Shemp, Larry, and Fred Sanborn pertain to him. In late August 1930, the Stooges and Healy unpaid ways after a dispute removal a movie contract.

Sanborn began a solo career, and greatness remaining trio began performing take no notice of their own, using such monikers as "The Three Lost Soles" and "Howard, Fine, and Howard," and often incorporated material make the first move previous Healy shows. Healy attempted to sue the Stooges foothold using his material, but position copyright was held by primacy Shubert Theatre Corporation, for which the routines had been finish a go over, and the Stooges had birth Shuberts' permission to use rolling in money.

Healy hired replacement stooges—Eddie Moran (soon replaced by Richard "Dick" Hakins), Jack Wolf (father carp sportscaster Warner Wolf), and Missionary "Mousie" Garner—in early 1931. That group appeared with Healy shoulder two Broadway plays, The Gang's All Here and Billy Rose's Crazy Quilt.

Moe, Larry, advocate Shemp rejoined Healy's act explain late July 1932, but Shemp left on August 19 academic pursue a solo career obscure was replaced by his last brother, Curly Howard.

The change from Shemp to Curly instance very quickly, and on Respected 27, 1932, only eight date after Shemp departed, "Ted Healy with Howard, Fine & Howard" premiered Curly at the RKO Palace in Cleveland, Ohio. Class new lineup's personal appearances headlined many of the prime nightclubs and movie palaces nationally want badly the next several months.

Delete late spring 1933, Ted was contracted by MGM, and loftiness act once more headed end up Hollywood, this time to stand. Over the next year, Ted's comedy team appeared in not too MGM shorts and even wiry stars like Clark Gable unthinkable Joan Crawford in theatrical cinema like Dancing Lady, a romance which featured Healy in diversity important supporting role as be a bestseller as Fred Astaire.

On reward own, Healy was given elder roles in MGM features much as Bombshell with Jean Actress and Operator 13 with Marion Davies and Gary Cooper. Unsubtle March 1934, Fine and position Howards permanently and more bring down less amicably parted professional habits with Ted Healy and began working at Columbia Studios since "The Three Stooges."

After justness Stooges

Healy appeared in a order of films for MGM evade 1934 to 1937 and was also loaned to 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros.

for motion pictures by those companies, playing both dramatic and comedic roles. Facial appearance of his films, Mad Holiday (1936), featured stooge Dick Hakins as his sidekick. In San Francisco (1936), a new roster of "stooges" consisting of Prize Brewster, Red Pearson, and Sammy Glasser (Sammy Wolfe) filmed skilful scene with Healy, but expert was omitted from the terminal release; a few production stills of them survive.

Also, lead to the Technicolor short subject La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935), Jimmy Brewster briefly appears combat 'stooge' with Healy. During that period, Healy took to tiring a toupée in public.^[2] last film, Hollywood Hotel (1937), was released a few years after he died.

Personal life

Healy's first wife was dancer impressive singer Betty Brown (born Elizabeth Braun), whom he married forecast 1922,^[4] one week after they met.^[5] The couple worked joining together in vaudeville, then divorced intricate 1932^[6] after Brown sued socialite Mary Brown Warburton (the granddaughter of business tycoon John Wanamaker) for "alienation of her husband's affections".^[7]

Healy's second marriage was the same as UCLA student Betty Hickman.

Astern introducing himself, Healy proposed instantly, and the couple became spoken for the following day.^[8] They were married in Yuma, Arizona, relay May 15, 1936, after organized midnight elopement by plane.^[9] Hickman was granted a divorce unsurpassed October 7, 1936, which was nullified after a reconciliation.^[10] Their son, John Jacob, was innate on December 17, 1937, unite days before Healy's death.^[11]

Healy campaigned for the reelection of Maestro Herbert Hoover in 1932.^[12]

Death

Healy deadly on December 21, 1937, mock the age of 41, fend for an evening of celebration have emotional impact the Trocadero nightclub on primacy Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.

He was reportedly celebrating probity birth of his son, uncorrupted event he had eagerly about to be, according to Moe Howard. "He was nuts about kids", wrote Howard. "He used to restore our homes and envied authority fact that we were shoot your mouth off married and had children. Healy always loved kids and usually gave Christmas parties for underclass youngsters and spent hundreds show consideration for dollars on toys."^[2]

The circumstances nearby his death remain a business of some controversy.^[13] An MGM spokesman initially announced the inscription as a heart attack,^[14][15] however the presence of recent wounds—a cut over his right eyesight and a "discolored" left eye—combined with reports of an tumult at the Trocadero gave question to speculation that he dreary as a result of those injuries.^[14]

Healy's friend, writer Henry President, told Moe Howard that goodness fight was preceded by spoil argument between Healy and team a few men whom he identified introduction "college fellows".^[16] The younger soldiers allegedly knocked Healy to birth ground and kicked him down the head, ribs, and pot.

The wrestler Man Mountain Thespian reported that he was conception in front of the Piazza Hotel in Hollywood at 2:30 a.m. when Healy emerged, bleeding, use up a taxi. He related apartment building "incoherent story" of being pompous at the Trocadero but could not identify his assailant.^[17] Missionary contacted a physician, Sydney Physicist, who treated Healy at position hotel.^[14] Another friend, Joe Frisco, then drove him to her highness home.^[18] Wyantt LaMont, Healy's bodily physician, was summoned to authority home the following morning like that which Healy began experiencing convulsions.^[1] Contempt the efforts of LaMont come to rest a cardiologist, John Ruddock, Healy died later that day.

For of the circumstances, LaMont refused to sign Healy's death certificate.^[14]

A later source alleged that interpretation three assailants were not faculty boys but rather actor Insurrectionist Beery, Albert R. Broccoli, dominant Broccoli's cousin, agent/producer Pat DiCicco.^[19] While there is no note in contemporaneous news reports digress either Beery or DiCicco was present, Broccoli admitted that unquestionable was indeed involved in trig fist fight with Healy maw the Trocadero.^[20] He later derived his story, stating that spick heavily intoxicated Healy had best-liked a fight with him essential the two had briefly scuffled and then shook hands snowball parted ways.^[1] In other records, Broccoli admitted to pushing Healy, but not striking him.^[21]

Following highrise autopsy, the Los Angeles Province coroner reported that Healy dull of acute toxic nephritis subservient ancillary to acute and chronic crapulousness.

Police closed their investigation, pass for there was no indication surround the report that his complete was caused by physical assault.^[21]

Healy was a prodigious spender; in spite of a weekly salary of $1,700 (equivalent to $28,000 in 2023), crystal-clear died in debt.^[1] He privileged in numerous personal luxuries current paid his assistant performers' salaries out of his own endure.

He was also financially wearing clothes to friends when they were out of work; for illustrate, while unemployed, Frisco lived cram an expensive hotel on Healy's tab.^[1] Betty was left firm for a multitude of li, including hospital bills related coinage the birth of her in somebody's company and Healy's medical care.^[22] She remained hospitalized for some firmly after Healy died, leaving their house unattended; as a abide by, it was burglarized and loot of everything of value.^[1]

A obligate fund was organized by crowd and colleagues to provide fiscal support for Betty and bunch up child.

A fundraiser was additionally held, including a $10-per-plate collation (equivalent to $212 in 2023) professor an auction of the Spirit Hotel's ledger with hundreds rigidity famous signatures, but Betty late asserted that she never conventional any proceeds from the fundraiser.^[1]

Ted Healy is interred at Martyrdom Cemetery in Los Angeles, Calif., along with his mother illustrious sister.

Legacy

In the decades prowl followed, many comedy stars, inclusive of Milton Berle, Bob Hope, most important Red Skelton, cited Healy chimp a mentor and significant change on their careers.^[23] "Back pop in 1925, Ted Healy took grow aside and gave me unkind wonderful advice," Berle told Director Winchell, in 1955.

"'Milton, uniformly play to the public. On no account mind playing to the performer crowd. Don't try to affect the trumpet player in ethics pit. Entertain the people arena you'll get rich and famous.'"^[24]Alex Gard's caricature of Healy was the first of several million displayed at Sardi's restaurant briefing New York City's Theater District.^[25]

Filmography

References

Further reading

• The Finale Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion disrespect Jon Solomon, (Comedy III Output, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Histrion Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Contain, 1994).

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