Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Released September 16, 1933
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
MGM
16.4 min. (Short Subject)
16.4 min. (Short Subject)
Ted Healy is an aggravated producer trying to put on his stage show The Ted Healy Follies, but of course he and his stagehand (Ed Brophy) get little cooperation from Ted's three sons, the Stooges, or a tempermental musician (Henry Armetta), and backstage nuisance Bonnie. At the climax of the show the Stooges slip out onto the stage under the hoop skirt of the star vocalist, ruining the scene and the show.
In December 2012, a 35mm nitrate print was found in a private film collection in Australia. Prior to that, the only known print/negative was presumed lost in MGM's 1967 vault fire.
Filmed in 2-strip Technicolor. The use of Technicolor was due to footage of musical numbers from earlier MGM feature films. I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam is from IT'S A GREAT LIFE (1929). The source of Moon Ballet is uncertain, possibly from the unreleased MGM revue feature THE MARCH OF TIME (1930).
Avg. Rating: 
[6.00/10]
[6.00/10]
Ted Healy
Father
Jerry Howard
Son
Larry Fine
Son
Moe Howard
Son
Bonnie Bonnell
Bonny
Henry Armetta
Italian musician
Edward Brophy
Brophy
Grace Hayes
Miss Hayes
Jack 'Tiny' Lipson
Strongman
The Albertina Rasch Girls
Dancers
Ann Dvorak
Albertina Rasch dancer
Lawrence Gray
I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam singer
Unidentified HELLO POP 1
Stagehand
Unidentified HELLO POP 2
Backstage guard
Unidentified HELLO POP 3
Musician
Unidentified HELLO POP 4
Backstage actors
Jack Cummings
Director
Ted Healy
Story
Matty Brooks
Story and Screenplay
Dimitri Tiomkin
Music
Ballard MacDonald
Music and Lyrics
Al Goodhart
Music and Lyrics
Dave Dreyer
Music and Lyrics
Albertina Rasch
Choreographer
Oscar Radin
Orchestra Conductor
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