US vaudevillain who in 1923 founded a stage act known as Ted Healy & His Stooges, the latter comprising one Moe Howard and his brother, Shemp Howard, whose roles were to act as foils, or stooges, for Healy's jokes. Joined later by Larry Fine, the Howards later went off on their own, eventually to call themselves The Three Stooges. Over the years there would be six stooges in all. When Shemp left the act to try a solo career, he was replaced by a third Howard brother, the shy, bumbling 'Jerom ...[Read Story]
