Ted Healy met Moses Horwitz in 1909. Healy was 13. ... Larry Fine and Jerome "Curly" Howard signed on with Columbia Studios as the Three Stooges, and comedy legend was born.

Curly Howard became the most popular of the Three Stooges among children — including his own grandson. ... which began on the vaudeville circuit as Ted Healy and His Stooges, ...

Soon after arriving in New York, Healy met and became friends with Moe Howard, one of the Three Stooges. They were both around 12 years old at the time. Soon after, they were appearing together on ...

Even Healy’s death, coming at age 41 in 1937, just days after the birth of his son, is surrounded in mystery and scandal, which is probably why Cassara took up the challenge of researching Healy.

In fact, had it not been for Curly's 1946 stroke, it's unlikely he would have ever rejoined the comedy trio.Shemp was having so much success as a character actor in movies, he didn't need to.

The prolific team, which made 190 shorts for Columbia from 1934-59, started out on the vaudeville stage, as fall guys, or stooges, for comic actor Ted Healy in the mid-1920s.

IN the early hours of December 21, 1937, comedy star Ted Healy staggered out of the Cafe Trocadero, on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, dazed, bruised and bleeding. Taken by taxi to his hotel, he told ...

The Three Stooges began as a Vaudeville stage act in 1928 as part of comedian Ted Healy’s act – Ted Healy and His Stooges. Moe and Shemp Howard and Larry Fine came to the forefront as a crowd ...

IN the early hours of December 21, 1937, comedy star Ted Healy staggered out of the Cafe Trocadero, on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, dazed, bruised and bleeding. Taken by taxi to his hotel, he told ...