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Director
  
Al Boasberg

Producer
  
Bryan Foy

Country
  
United States

7.2/10
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Genre
  
Comedy

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Myrt and Marge (film) movie scenes

Writer
  
Beatrice Banyard (screenplay)

Release date
  
December 4, 1933 (1933-12-04)

Cast
  
Myrtle Vail
(Myrt Spear (as Myrt)),
Donna Damerel
(Marge Minter (as Marge)),
Ray Hedges
(Clarence Tiffingtuffer (as Clarence)),
Eddie Foy Jr.
(Eddie Hanley),
Grace Hayes
(Grace),
Trixie Friganza
(Mrs. Minter)

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Myrt and Marge is a 1933 American Pre-Code Universal Studios feature film, starring Myrtle Vail and Donna Damerel. The film is noteworthy today because it co-stars Ted Healy and his Stooges, shortly before the trio split from him and became the Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard and Larry Fine). The team included Bonnie Bonnell, who was a short-lived female Stooge.

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Synopsis

Film adaptation of the popular 1930s radio serial. Myrt Spear's (Myrtle Vail) touring vaudeville revue is full of talent and bound for Broadway, but low on funds. Conniving and lecherous producer Mr. Jackson (Thomas Jackson) helps the show so he can romance the young star, Marge Minter (Donna Damerel).

Myrt, and Marge's boyfriend Eddie Hanley (Eddie Foy, Jr.), step in to save the revue and Marge. Ted Healy, Moe, Larry and Curly are stagehands with hopes to join the show, but mostly deal with the antics of backstage crasher Bonnie. Also carrying over from the radio show was the comic-relief "pansy" character Clarence, played by Ray Hedge.

Radio program

Myrt and Marge was a popular radio serial created by and starring Myrtle Vail and Damerel. The show aired on CBS Radio from 1931 to 1946, and in syndication from 1946 to 1947.

Cast

  • Myrtle Vail as Myrt Spear
  • Donna Damerel as Marge Minster
  • Eddie Foy, Jr. as Eddie Hanley
  • Ted Healy as Mullins
  • Thomas E. Jackson as Jackson the Angel
  • Ray Hedge as Clarence
  • Grace Hayes as Grace
  • Trixie Friganza as Mrs. Minter
  • J. Farrell MacDonald as Grady
  • Moe Howard as Mullins' Helper
  • Larry Fine as Mullins' Helper
  • Curly Howard as Mullins' Helper
  • Bonnie Bonnell as Suzannah (uncredited)

    • Reception

    The film was a box office disappointment for Universal.

    This film is shown in a scene from the 2000 film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

    References

    Myrt and Marge (film) Wikipedia
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    Myrt and Marge (film) IMDb Myrt and Marge (film) themoviedb.org