The Big Idea

The Big Idea (1934)

Ted Healy is the proprietor of the "Big Idea Scenario Company" (Ideas While You Wait). Unfortunately, various visitors to his one-room office constantly interrupt his train of thought. These include a man with a machine gun, a woman who empties waste baskets on the floor, and a trio of musicians who play "Marching Through Georgia" on various instruments.

Date of release
1934-05-12
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (5)
Runtime
19m
Genres
Comedy
Director
William Beaudine

Casting

Interesting facts

The Big Idea was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 12, 1934, and is the fifth and last of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges. The others are Nertsery Rhymes (1933), Plane Nuts (1933), Hello Pop! (1933), and Beer and Pretzels (1933). This act consisted of Ted Healy, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard. The latter 3 left the act in March 1934 to form The Three Stooges.

Production

Like other shorts Healy and the Stooges filmed at MGM, stock footage was utilized to fill out the 20 minutes. For The Big Idea, MGM used musical numbers edited out of the feature films Dancing Lady (1933), which has 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).

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