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Ted Healy
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Actor Born: October 1, 1896 in Kaufman TX Death: December 21, 1937 in Hollywood, CA Biography:While growing up in Texas, "Ted Healy" planned to become a businessman, but a series of financial failures in early adulthood led him to try the theatre as a vocation. He started out in burlesque as a blackface comedian, cadging his best jokes from such well-established performers as "Al Jolson" and "Ed Wynn". He gradually developed into a "singing monologist" in vaudeville, surrounding himself with stooges who would continually interrupt his act and whom he would slap, poke and knock around. Among those stooges were Ted's lifelong friend "Moe Howard", Moe's brother Shemp, and reformed fiddler "Larry Fine". With this trio, Healy graduated to Broadway in such top-dollar reviews as A Night in Spain and A Night in Venice. In 1930, Healy was signed by Fox film studios to star in a musical comedy written by cartoonist "Rube Goldberg", "Soup to Nuts"; while he carried the bulk of the humor, Healy's stooges... Full Biography
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