This film was a Universal Pictures release. Myrt and Marge (1933), is based on the Myrt and Marge radio program, that was popular at the time. For this film, Bonnie Bonnell returns with Ted Healy and the Three Stooges, on break from their other projects. The story is simple. Myrt is a theater performer, who's theater company has pulled out, due to falling ticket sales. With a few months left on the lease, she decides to lead the company, with a real production and one, that is free of executives. She realizes she is getting old, so they conduct a search for a new actress, to lead the production, thus enters Marge. It's funny hearing Curly say the word "sex" in a film. Myrt and Marge (1933), is a pre-code film, with plenty of mature jokes being tossed around. Myrt and Marge run into all the same problems, found in other vaudeville musicals of the time. Drunk, womanizing producers hitting on the girls, creative differences, frazzled relationships, fisticuffs, arrest warrants and show closings, all plague this production.
The filmmakers really put a lot of time, money and work, into making the grand sets, needed for these 1930s, vaudeville, musical comedies. One of the neat parts to this film, was the wrap-up, explaining to the audience, with cinematic trickery, that the whole film, was just another radio broadcast. When it comes to this film, I thought the overall plot was a little bit boring, with an uneven pace. Healy and the Stooges, along with Healy's girlfriend Bonnie, seemed a little flat. It turns out, this film was a theatrical, box office disappointment. Being as Myrt and Marge (1933), was based on a radio show, plus a box office flop, creates an analogy for today, comparing it to an SNL skit, turned film idea, that sometimes fails at the box office. It is still a classic example of vaudeville musicals from the 1930s. Myrt and Marge (1933), is a cinematic artifact.
5.8 (D MyGrade) = 6 IMDB.
The filmmakers really put a lot of time, money and work, into making the grand sets, needed for these 1930s, vaudeville, musical comedies. One of the neat parts to this film, was the wrap-up, explaining to the audience, with cinematic trickery, that the whole film, was just another radio broadcast. When it comes to this film, I thought the overall plot was a little bit boring, with an uneven pace. Healy and the Stooges, along with Healy's girlfriend Bonnie, seemed a little flat. It turns out, this film was a theatrical, box office disappointment. Being as Myrt and Marge (1933), was based on a radio show, plus a box office flop, creates an analogy for today, comparing it to an SNL skit, turned film idea, that sometimes fails at the box office. It is still a classic example of vaudeville musicals from the 1930s. Myrt and Marge (1933), is a cinematic artifact.
5.8 (D MyGrade) = 6 IMDB.