Family always lay at the heart of the Three Stooges comedy act, which began on the vaudeville circuit as Ted Healy and His Stooges, but saw its peak of popularity between 1934 and 1946 when ...

Curly Howard was born Jerome Lester Horwitz on Oct. 22, 1903. He got interested in show biz as he watched brothers Moe and Shemp get into the biz as Stooges in Ted Healy's act.

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.

They found success on the circuit and on Broadway as an act informally called Ted Healy and His Stooges. "Shemp was the star of the act from the beginning," says Burt.

Stooges creator Ted Healy’s death still a mystery Comedy actor Ted Healy, best known as the man who created the Three Stooges, staggered out of a nightclub 80 years ago and died under mysterious ...

Marilyn Howard Ellman, the youngest daughter of The Three Stooges star Curly Howard, died May 6 in Simi Valley of heart failure, her son Bradley Server told The Hollywood Reporter. She was 86.

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.

The Three Stooges — Larry Fine, Jerome ‘Curly’ Howard and Moe Howard — with Ted Healy in 1932.

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 ...

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.