Nertsery Rhymes

Nertsery Rhymes
Directed by	Jack Cummings
Written by	Moe Howard Ted Healy Matt Brooks
Starring	Ted Healy Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Bonnie Bonnell
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	July 6, 1933 (1933-07-06)
Running time	19' 12"
Country	United States
Language	English

Nertsery Rhymes (1933) is the first short film starring "Ted Healy and His Stooges", a musical comedy released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Some footage was from the unfinished MGM musical The March of Time (1930), which was originally to feature Healy and the Three Stooges.

Synopsis

The Stooges are children and Ted Healy is the father. Unable to sleep, the Stooges ask Healy to tell them a bedtime story. He proceeds to tell them of the "Ride of Paul Revere" as well as the "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe". Briefly veering away from the slapstick, there are two musical interludes pertaining to the stories.

Notes

Nertsery Rhymes was one of two MGM Stooge shorts filmed utilized the then-experimental two-strip Technicolor process. This process would be used again in Hello Pop! (1933) featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges, and Roast Beef and Movies (1934) featuring just Curly.

The use of color was predicated by the decision to recycle the "Moon Ballet" sequence from the unreleased color MGM feature The March of Time.^[1]

References

1. ^ The Three Stooges Journal

External links

• Watch first half Nertsery Rhymes
• Watch second half Nertsery Rhymes
• Nertsery Rhymes at the Internet Movie Database