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The Big Idea (1934 film)

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Director
  
William Beaudine

Film series
  
Three Stooges Films

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Genre
  
Comedy, Short

Music director
  
L. Wolfe Gilbert

Country
  
United States

Release date
  
May 12, 1934 (1934-05-12) (U.S.)

Cast
  
Ted Healy
(Ted Healy, Scenario Company President),
Moe Howard
(Healy's Stooge),
Larry Fine
(Healy's Stooge),
Curly Howard
(Healy's Stooge)

Similar movies
  
Three Stooges Films movies, Related William Beaudine movies

The Big Idea is the fifth and last of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934.

Production

Like other shorts Healy and the Stooges filmed at MGM, stock footage was utilized to fill out the 20 minutes of time. For The Big Idea, MGM used musical numbers edited out of the feature film Dancing Lady (1933), which ironically had a supporting role by Healy and a cameo by the Stooges.

This is one of the last films and the fifth and final musical-comedy short subject in which the Three Stooges appeared with longtime partner Ted Healy. The Big Idea was edited from footage of Healy and the Stooges filmed for the unfinished MGM variety film The March of Time (1930), which later became the title of a long-running newsreel series.

By the time of the release of The Big Idea, the Three Stooges had signed a new contract with Columbia Pictures to do a series of comedy short films without Healy, beginning with Woman Haters (1934).

References

The Big Idea (1934 film) Wikipedia
The Big Idea (1934 film) IMDb The Big Idea (1934 film) themoviedb.org