MYRT AND MARGE (1933) -- ThreeStooges.net

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Released December 04, 1933
Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges

Universal
65 min. (Feature Film)

Film adaptation of the popular 1930s radio serial. Myrt's touring vaudeville revue is full of talent and bound for Broadway, but low on funds. Conniving and lecherous producer Mr. Jackson helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge. Myrt, and Marge's boyfriend Eddie Hanley, step in to save the revue and Marge. Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Curly are stagehands with hopes to join the show, and deal with the antics of backstage crasher Bonnie Bonnell.

Footage from MYRT AND MARGE was used for the movie theater scene in O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? (2000).

Costar Grace Hayes was married to Charley Foy, brother of MYRT AND MARGE producers Bryan Foy and Eddie Foy Jr.; Eddie Jr. also costarred as 'Eddie Hanley.'

Avg. Rating:

[7.00/10]

Cast List

Myrtle Vail
Myrt Spear

Donna Damerel
Marge Minter

Eddie Foy Jr.
Eddie Hanley

Ted Healy
Mullins

Jerry Howard
Curly

Larry Fine
Larry

Moe Howard
Moe

Bonnie Bonnell
Suzannah

Ray Hedges
Clarence Tiffingtuffer

Thomas E. Jackson
Mr. Jackson

Grace Hayes
Grace

Jimmy Conlin
Comedian in show

J. Farrell MacDonald
Mr. Grady

Trixie Friganza
Mrs. Minter

Bo-Ling
Herself

Bo-Ching
Herself

The Colenette Ballet
Dancers

Peter Lind Hayes
OGOK announcer

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Men in theatre box

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Hotel detective

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Sheriff and deputy

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Stage crew

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Cast

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Stage doormen

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Chorines

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Hotel lobby

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Baggage clerk

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NYC Sheriff

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Knickerbocker Theatre manager

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Audience members

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Sound effects man

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Page

Production Crew

Carl Laemmle
Executive Producer

Al Boasberg
Director

Eddie Foy Jr.
Producer

Bryan Foy
Producer

Beatrice Banyard
Screenplay

Al Boasberg
Screenplay

Joseph Valentine
Photography

Arthur Hilton
Film Editor

M. K. Jerome
Music

Joan Jasmyn
Lyrics

Paul Van Loan
Musical Director

W. L. Vogel
Art Director

Jack Haskell
Choreographer

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Stooge Quotes (14)

"Gimme a 3 letter word meaning 'rat'." "Meaning 'rat'?" "Yeah." (Ted points to Curly) "Him."
(Moe and Ted Healy)

"I'll explain everything." "Yeah, Mullins will explain it. Then we'll bring in an interpreter to go over it!" [Slap!]
(Ted Healy and Curly)

"Who are these gentlemen?" "Gentlemen?! Cut out the sarcasm!"
(Thomas Jackson & Ted Healy)

Ted Healy (introducing Chinese girls Bo-Ching and Bo-Ling): Meet Bo-Ching and Bo-Ling. (pointing to Curly): And this is Beau Hunk.
(Ted Healy)

"It's too bad we can't get the mother to acquiesce." "Maybe her mother does... why don't you ask her?" [slap!]
(Ted Healy & Curly)

"You know what I'll bet, these girls will understand me. Savvy? Savvy Confuscious?" "Why bring sex into this?" [slap!]
(Ted Healy & Curly)

"I won't say au revoir because I know you won't understand me, but as I walk out I'll have a piece of mistletoe on my coattail."
(Ted Healy)

"We want a young comic, one that'll sing and dance and hand out some good, old-fashioned belly laughs." "You'll never get one funnier than I am." "Look at the start you got with that face."
(Myrtle Vail, Jimmy Conlin & Larry)

"We was the hit of the show!" "Of course there was only 3 acts." "And 2 of the acts was detained elsewhere."
(Larry, Curly & Moe)

"Hey fellas, do you know The Road to Mandalay?" "Yeah, do you want us to play it?" "No, I want you to take it."
(Ted Healy & Moe)

"I never attended a Strawberry Festival, but I attended a meatball." "Alone?" "No, with spaghetti."
(Ted Healy & Mytle Vail)

"Don't get nervous like I was. I shook so, my handcuffs fell off."
(Ted Healy)

"You know what a burden is don'tcha?" "Yeah, a burden the hand is worth two in the bush."
(Ted Healy & Larry)

"What does he look like?" "Well, I don't remember his face but I know he had had appendicitis."
(Ted Healy & Bonnie Bonnell)

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Fan Reviews (4)

Re: MYRT AND MARGE
Posted 2010-07-15 11:14:24 by Final Shemp

Myrt and Marge probably should have both stayed on radio, because Myrt and Marge the movie doesn't have much promise, and kinda fails to live up to that meager expectation.The movie is OK. It plays out like a random string of scenes with a barely there plot to hold them together. It doesn't have much get-go; very little energy to keep it charged. The music, dancing, and comedy are charming, but the acting is amateurish, its characters are paper-thin, and it just drags itself on by the end.Three Stooges fans will be happy to see that Ted Healy and the boys have very juicy roles in the film, and are a constant presence throughout. They often have the best lines all to themselves…"We sure could use a tomato like Marge in the show.""Don't call a swell dish like that a tomato!"The ending is fun, with a swell musical number with a pretty cool set that resembles a coiled snake. And the cast gets a great send off as the film fades into a radio studio and finishes off with Myrt and Marge singing into the microphone, harking back to the film's roots in radio programming. Too bad everything beforehand feels like half of a movie. Final Shemp's Final Word: 2 1/2 Pokes

Reviewer's Rating:

(6)

Re: MYRT AND MARGE
Posted 2007-06-23 23:18:49 by Justin T
Edited 2007-07-03 14:18:49 by Justin T

I finally tracked down a copy of this movie on E-Bay, its pretty hard to find!

Anyway, I had low expectations for this (the Healy era can be hit or miss with me) but I came away happy, this is a good little movie. Healy and the Stooges get alot of screen time which was great. Most of the gags and lines work, some don't but most of it I thought was funny. The Stooges esp get to shine in the closing number with some antics that would come to be typical of them when they finally left Healy behind. Some of the stuff with Bonnie trying to crash the show and Healy and the Stooges constantly having to get rid of her was good too. The main story was decent and there are some good laughs that don't come from Healy and the boys. I also liked Healy doing the "Mammy!" bit and some Curly like "Woo Woo Woo!" every time he saw Bonnie trying to sneak in. The ending was very cool and inventive with them fading to the radio studio and seeing everyone out of character, esp Healy and the Stooges.

If you are able to track down a copy of this movie, its definatly worth checking out.

Reviewer's Rating:

(9)

Re: MYRT AND MARGE
Posted 2002-07-23 07:14:00 by Del Lord

Stooges get a lot of screen time, but as with most of these pre-Columbian pictures, their personalities are pretty much interchangeable--existing mainly to set up gags and get bopped around by Healy. Note that Healy does a bit of Woo-woooing, and also does the "Mammy! It's your little boy Sammy!" bit Curly later did in ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE. I thought the conclusion of this picture was kind of cool, with the action dissolving to a radio studio interior, and all the actors seen out of make-up as an announcer closes the "show"

Re: MYRT AND MARGE
Posted 2001-05-14 12:06:00 by BeAStooge

Feature film version of a popular radio show, non-radio cast members Healy and the Stooges steal the show. Most of their screen time features Ted and Curly playing off each other... and the results are very funny. Too bad the rest of the film is a so-so "B" effort. But worth your while.

Reviewer's Rating:

(6)

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