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 dates	July 6, 1933
Running time	20 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Nertsery Rhymes is a 1933 American Pre-Code short film starring Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard), 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. This 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]

Plot

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.

Cast

• Ted Healy as Papa
• Moe Howard as one of the boys
• Larry Fine as one of the boys
• Curly Howard as one of the boys
• Bonnie Bonnell as the Good Fairy

Uncredited Cast

• Beth Dodge as Turn of a Fan Dancer
• Betty Dodge as Turn of a Fan Dancer
• Lottice Howell as Turn of a Fan Singer
• The Rounders as Woman in Shoe Quintet
• Ethelind Terry as The Woman in the Shoe

References

1. The Three Stooges Journal, threestooges.net; accessed July 26, 2015.

External links

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