![]() ![]() Healy attempted to stop the new act with legal action, claiming that they were using his copyrighted material. ![]() The act quickly took off with a tour of the theater circuit. Howard, Fine, and Howard learned of the offer and subsequent withdrawal, and left Healy to form their own act (billed as "Howard, Fine & Howard" or "Three Lost Souls"). ![]() This enraged Healy, who told studio executives the Stooges were his employees, whereupon the offer was withdrawn. The film was not a critical success, but the Stooges' performances were singled out as memorable, leading Fox to offer the trio a contract, minus Healy. Ted Healy and His Stooges (plus comedian Fred Sanborn) appeared in their first Hollywood feature film, Soup to Nuts (1930), released by Fox Film Corporation. In the act, lead comedian Healy would attempt to sing or tell jokes while his noisy assistants would keep interrupting him, causing Healy to retaliate with verbal and physical abuse. After several shifts and changes in the Stooges membership, sometime between 19, violinist-comedian Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg) also joined the group. Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz) joined Healy's act in 1922, and his brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) came aboard a few months later. The act was also known as "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen" and "Ted Healy and His Racketeers". The Three Stooges began in 1922 as part of a raucous vaudeville act called " Ted Healy and His Stooges" ("stooges" being show-business slang for on-stage assistants). History Ted Healy and His Stooges (1922–1934)
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