Hello Pop!
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| Directed by | Jack Cummings |
| Written by | Ted Healy Matty Brooks Moe Howard |
| Starring |
Ted Healy Bonnie Bonnell Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Albertina Rasch Dancers Henry Armetta Edward Brophy Tiny Sandford Rosetta Duncan Vivian Duncan |
| Music by |
Irving Berlin (song: "I’m Sailing on a Sunbeam") Ballard MacDonald Dimitri Tiomkin Al Goodhart Dave Dreyer |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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16:23 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hello Pop! is the third of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933. A musical-comedy film, the film also featured the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell (Healy's girlfriend at the time). The film was considered lost until a 35mm nitrate print was discovered in Australia in January 2013. Stooges Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were billed as "Howard, Fine and Howard."
A theater producer (Healy) is trying to stage an elaborate musical revue. His efforts are constantly interrupted by demanding back stage personalities: a flaky musician (Henry Armetta), a woman who keeps try to ask him something (Bonnie Bonnell), and his raucous sons (the Stooges in children's costumes).
He is able to get the show ready for presentation, but during the main number, the Three Stooges slip beneath the enormous hoopskirt costume worn by the leading vocalist. They emerge on stage during the performance, ruining the show.
Originally planned under the title Back Stage, Hello Pop! was the third of five short films made by MGM featuring the vaudeville act billed as “Ted Healy and His Stooges.” The act focused primarily on Healy’s wit and caustic commentary, with the Stooges receiving the brunt of the physical slapstick. For the MGM short films, actress Bonnie Bonnell was incorporated into the configuration as Healy’s love interest.
Hello Pop! was the second of two MGM Stooge shorts filmed utilized the two-color Technicolor process. (Nertsery Rhymes, the act’s first film for MGM, was also shot in color.) The use of color was predicated by the decision to recycle two musical numbers from earlier Technicolor-lensed MGM films into the Hello Pop! musical sequences, the Irving Berlin song "I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam", from the MGM film It’s a Great Life (1929), and the "Moon Ballet" sequence from the unreleased MGM feature The March of Time (1930).
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