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1934 American film by William Beaudine

The Big Idea

Directed by	William Beaudine
Written by	Ted Healy Matty Brooks
Starring	Ted Healy The Three Stooges Bonnie Bonnell Muriel Evans Heinie Conklin Lew Harvey Jimmy Hollywood Eddie Bartell Henry Taylor Tut Mace MGM Dancing Girls
Music by	L. Wolfe Gilbert
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	May 12, 1934 (1934-05-12) (U.S.)
Running time	19:15
Country	United States
Language	English

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 on May 12, 1934.

Plot

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Cast

Ted Healy as Scenario Company President
Moe Howard as Healy's Stooge (as Howard)
Larry Fine as Healy's Stooge (as Fine)
Curly Howard as Healy's Stooge (as Howard)
Bonnie Bonnell as Cleaning Lady
Muriel Evans as Honey, Ted's Fiancée
The Radio Rogues as Themselves (as Three Radio Rogues)
Tut Mace as Dancer
M-G-M Dancing Girls as Themselves

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 films Dancing Lady (1933), which ironically had a supporting role by Healy and a cameo by the Stooges, and Going Hollywood (1933).

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. 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

threestooges.net

External links

The Big Idea at IMDb
The Big Idea at AllMovie
The Big Idea at the TCM Movie Database
The Big Idea at threestooges.net
The Big Idea on Dailymotion

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