Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935)
Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy, Henry Kolker, Keye Luke, May Beatty. Screenplay: Guy Endore, P.J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston, based on a novel by Maurice Renard. Cinematography: Chester A. Lyons, Gregg Toland. Art direction: Cedric Gibbons. Film editing: Hugh Wynn. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.That’s the same Ted Healy (fourth billed, above) who hired the Howard brothers Moe and Shemp and their friend Larry Fine to act as his “stooges”. But he was a MAJOR a-hole and bully who drove Shemp from the act (to be replaced by the other Howard brother, Curly). After they freed themselves from his clutches, they became famous as the Three Stooges (duh) while Healy got drunk, insulted some people and was beaten to death by three men, one of whom was Cubby Broccoli (allegedly), who went on to produce the James Bond films!