Beer and Pretzels was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on August 26, 1933, and is the second of five short films starring Ted Healy and His Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). The others are Nertsery Rhymes (1933), Plane Nuts (1933), Hello Pop! (1933), and The Big Idea (1934). A musical-comedy film, Beer and Pretzels features Bonnie Bonnell, Healy's girlfriend at the time.
Some footage of Healy and the Stooges from the unfinished MGM musical The March of Time was included in the film as well.
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Plot
Ted Healy and his Stooges are entertainers. But because Healy is much more interested in women than he is in performing, they are thrown out of the Happy Hour Theatre. Unable to keep a job anywhere else, they are reduced to waiting tables at a high-class restaurant. This, of course, ends up being a disaster as the restaurant is thrown into chaos because of them. So, yet again, they are thrown back out on to the streets.
Cast
Credited
Ted Healy as himself
Moe Howard as Moe
Larry Fine as Larry
Curly Howard as Curly
Bonnie Bonnell as Bonny Latour
Uncredited
Edward Brophy as Theater Manager
Fred Malatesta as Restaurant Manager
Jack Smith as Singing Bartender
Martin Sperzel as Singing Bartender
Al Teeter as Singing Bartender
Home Video Releases
Beer and Pretzels was released on DVD September 14, 2014 as part of the Warner Archive Collection Classic Shorts from the Dream Factory, Volume 3, which includes all 5 Ted Healy and His Stooges MGM shorts as well as the 2-color 1934 MGM short Roast-Beef and Movies featuring Jerome "Curly" Howard.