Hello Pop

Hello Pop (1933)

A stage director is trying to put on a musical/comedy revue, but has to contend with temperamental musicians, an inept stage crew and his three idiot sons.

Date of release
1933-09-16
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
17m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
Jack Cummings

Casting

Interesting facts

Hello Pop was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 16, 1933, and is the third of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges. The others are Nertsery Rhymes (1933), Plane Nuts (1933), Beer and Pretzels (1933), and The Big Idea (1934). A musical-comedy film, Hello Pop! features the Albertina Rasch Dancers and Bonnie Bonnell.

Production

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 Stooges shorts filmed in 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 on the decision to build plot devices in Hello Pop! around the following discarded Technicolor musical numbers from earlier MGM films:

"I'm Sailing on a Sunbeam" from the feature It’s a Great Life (1929);

"Moon Ballet" from the unreleased feature The March of Time (1930)

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