Pat DeCicco And His Pals

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John Austin termed him a "Bootlegger and Pimp for Louis Meyer".

Michael P. Lentz termed him "A louse & sponge if ever there was one."

I would be hard pressed to improve on that, but I can put in a little more.



We'll start with Wikipedia:

Pat DiCicco

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pat DiCicco
Born	Pasquale DeCicco (1909-02-14)February 14, 1909 Queens, New York, U.S.
Died	October 24, 1978(1978-10-24) (aged 69) New York, New York, U.S.
Other names	The Glamour Boy of Hollywood
Occupation	Agent, movie producer
Spouse(s)	Thelma Todd (m. 1932; div. 1934) Gloria Vanderbilt (m. 1941; div. 1945) Mary Jo Tarola (m. 1953; div. 1960)

Pasquale "Pat" DiCicco (February 14, 1909 – October 24, 1978) was an American agent and movie producer, as well as an alleged mobster working for Lucky Luciano.^[1] He married and divorced both Thelma Todd and Gloria Vanderbilt. He was a cousin of Albert R. Broccoli and gave him his well-known nickname "Cubby."

Personal life

Todd's marriage in 1932 to DiCicco was particularly unstable and frequently erupted in drunken brawls, one of which resulted in a broken nose for DiCicco and an emergency appendectomy for Todd.^[2] They divorced in 1934. Todd died a year later from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
At 17 years old, Gloria Vanderbilt went to Hollywood, where she married DiCicco in 1941.^[3] DiCicco proved to be a temperamental and abusive husband who called her "Fatsy Roo," and regularly beat her. "He would take my head and bang it against the wall," Vanderbilt said. "I had black eyes."^[4] They divorced in 1945.^[5]
In 1953, DiCicco married actress Mary Jo Tarola (born February 27, 1928), also known by her stage name, Linda Douglas. The marriage lasted seven years before ending in divorce in 1960.

Ted Healy incident

DiCicco is alleged to have been involved in an altercation with comedian Ted Healy just before the latter's death in 1937.
A source alleged that actor Wallace Beery, producer Albert R. Broccoli, and Broccoli's cousin, agent/producer Pat DiCicco beat Healy so badly that he fell into a coma and died.^[6] While there is no documentation in contemporaneous news reports that either Beery or DiCicco was present, Broccoli admitted that he was indeed involved in a fist fight with Healy at the Trocadero.^[7] He later modified his story, stating that a heavily intoxicated Healy had picked a fight with him, the two had briefly scuffled, then shook hands and parted ways.^[8] In other reports, Broccoli admitted to pushing Healy, but not striking him.^[9]
There is disagreement over whether Healy died as a result of the brawl or due to his well-known alcoholism.^[1] Because of the authorities' lack of interest in investigating Healy's death, an autopsy was not performed until after Healy's corpse had been embalmed; rendering the examiner's note that Healy's organs were "soaked in alcohol" and useless in determining a cause of death.^[1]
Following the autopsy, the Los Angeles county coroner reported that Healy died of acute toxic nephritis secondary to acute and chronic alcoholism. Police closed their investigation, as there was no indication in the report that his death was caused by physical assault.^[9]

References

1. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b c} Braund, Simon (June 2010). "The Tragic And Twisted Tale Of The Three Stooges". Empire Magazine. Retrieved 19 August 2015. 
2. Jump up ^ "Who killed the Ice Cream Blonde?". Santa Monica Daily Press. May 19, 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2015. 
3. Jump up ^ Vanderbilt, Gloria (2004). ""The Great Thing" (4)". It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir. Rockefeller Center, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020: Simon & Schuster. p. 31. ISBN 0-7432-6480-0. 
4. Jump up ^ Last of the big spenders. Telegraph UK 11/23/2004
5. Jump up ^ Vanderbilt, Gloria. ""Happy Birthday" (6)". It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. p. 36. ISBN 0-7432-6480-0. 
6. Jump up ^ Fleming, E.J. (2004). The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine. McFarland. pp. 174–177. ISBN 978-0-7864-2027-8. 
7. Jump up ^ staff (December 23, 1937). "Wealthy Sportsman Confesses Fight with Ted Healy". The Oxnard Daily Courier. p. 1. Retrieved May 15, 2013. 
8. Jump up ^ Cassara, Bill (2014). Nobody's Stooge: Ted Healy. BearManor Media. ISBN 1593937687. 
9. ^ Jump up to: ^{a b} "Ted Healy Died of Toxic Nephritis". Lewiston Evening Journal. December 23, 1937. p. 8. Retrieved May 15, 2013. 

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Occasionally we come across the story that Pat DeCicco was working for Lucky Luciano.  There is no proof of this. It is more likely that DeCicco was only a small-timer who was not directly associated with Luciano even though he was involved in the same line of business and started out in the same part of the country.

The imdb has the following trivia item for Pat DeCicco:

Acted as procurer for Howard Hughes and Joseph Schenk while acting nominally as a talent agent.

The association of DeCicco with Howard Hughes is well known, and remarked upon by Jane Russell in her autobiography. She said something to the effect that Howard Hughes didn't want her to become involved with him.

The story about Ted Healy is unproven, as is the allegation that Healy had an affair with Thelma Todd, which is part of the same package. But to get back to Thelma Todd -

It seemed to begin all at once. Thelma Todd and Pat DeCicco suddenly eloped to Arizona, where it was easier to get married right away.

Pat DeCicco, Jean Malin, Thelma Todd, and Lois Wilson at the Club New Yorker, 1932. The wife of Jean Malin was involved in prostitution, like DeCicco.

This caption claimed that DeCicco was from Argentina. He wasn't, but that didn't keep them from telling people that. It was a recurring story in Thelma Todd's publicity. Another story was that DeCicco was an Italian count, and that because of that Thelma Todd was a countess.  

At the Brown Derby.

 This one seems to be at the Brown Derby, too. Chester Morris is at left.

Pat DeCicco and Thelma Todd ( center ) at the Coconut Grove.

At the Mayfair opening, 1933.

At the Cameramen's Ball, 1933.

At the premiere of the movie CAVALCADE, 1933.

Thelma Todd and Pat DeCicco with Phil Harris.

Phil Harris later married Alice Faye.

There were rumors that a divorce was imminent after Thelma Todd took a trip to England in 1933.

Thelma Todd filed for divorce in 1934. The divorce became final the following year.

March 2, 1934: Thelma Todd is granted a divorce.

Divorces in Hollywood were quite common, as can be seen by the names on the list.



After the death of Thelma Todd, Pat DeCicco was called back to testify before the grand jury. Here, he bids his mother farewell.

Jeanette Meehan said in a newspaper article that DeCicco had never taken Thelma Todd to Long Island to meet his family, claiming that she was too busy.  

DeCicco photographed during the investigation.

DeCicco was believed to have been one of the last people to have seen Thelma Todd alive., because he had shown up during the Lupino's party at the Trocadero. With him was Margaret Lindsay, who recently had made the movie BORDERTOWN with Paul Muni and Bette Davis.

That movie had a "garage murder" in it. People wondered if that could possibly have some connection with the death of Thelma Todd, since she had been found dead in a garage of carbon monoxide poisoning. 

No one was able to prove anything.

The historical record shows that Pat DeCicco lied about how recently he'd been around Thelma Todd, and how often. He told reporters he hadn't seen her for a year, and that he had last seen her at the Venodome.* 

From PHOTOPLAY, early 1935

 This account mentions him having been around Thelma Todd at the Trocadero earlier in 1935. Jeanette Meehan said that he had been telling his family that Thelma Todd wanted to "patch things up". Some people thought that DeCicco had been trying to get her back. 

Ted Healy had a run-in at the Trocadero a couple of years or so afterwards. Accounts differ as to whether or not this caused Healy's death. That story was in this book.

The story that Ted Healy was involved with Thelma Todd is in this book, too. But we find no mention of this affair from the period in which it was supposed to have taken place. 

The official Carole Landis site says at http://carolelandisofficial.blogspot.com/2011/11/myths-about-carole.html that Pat DeCicco, who was her boyfriend at the time, broke her nose. I didn't know ( or remember ) that story, but I wouldn't put it past him. He used to beat up Thelma Todd when he was married to her. Gloria Vanderbilt, too.

Carole Landis and Victor Mature in ONE MILLION BC. Reblogged from http://www.suspense-movies.com/stars/carole-landis/landis27.html

I guess "Director" sounded better than "Pimp", "Go-Fer", and similar titles for what in current parlance might be termed "Associates".

Pat DeCicco was the "Black Knight" the title referred to.

Some of the things she said about him were not good. She not only said that she had been told that he had killed Thelma Todd, but that he tried to kill her as well. This marriage ended in divorce, the same as the previous one. 

Pat DeCicco with Gorgeous Gussie.

Gorgeous Gussie was one of a great many women whose name was linked with his in later years.

But the last one to marry him was Mary Jo Tarola, in 1953.

Like his two previous marriages, it didn't last.

Pat DeCicco was not important in the underworld or the motion picture industry, and was known only as someone who was around the rich and famous. Today he is remembered mainly for the women he was associated with. 

*When he was summoned by the grand jury, DeCicco testified that "I saw her only about five times in the last two years, after we divorced". He also said that "There was no possibility of any reconciliation between us, and I made no overtures in that line." 

Both statements contradicted what he had previously represented as the truth.

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Rudy Schafer was the son of the manager of Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Café. In his later years he was able to communicate with me by e mail. What he told me about Pat DeCicco wasn't good. 

He said, "I met Pat Diccio (sp) once, but didn't know him.  The talk I heard was that he was rough on her and presumably beat her. There much sympathy for her on this score.

All I recall about this was from conversations I overheard at my grandparents home ( they raised me ) around the Sunday dinner table.  The family usually got together then.  The talk was that he was a sleaze ball and that he treated Thelma badly--verbally and physically.  I have no specifics."

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Although usually cast in some role other than "actor",  Pat DeCicco did act in one movie, 1935's NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS. In this movie he was one of the Greek gods who came to life when a magic potion was used on their statues.

We see him here at right with the wicked-looking blade with which he was supposed to have whacked off the head of Medusa. And we can watch this movie online now that it has been put on youtube.

Watch THE NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS 

Wedding of Pat DeCicco and Gloria Vanderbilt

BORDERTOWN:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2015/06/bordertown.html

 Carole Landis Site Says DiCicco broke her nose:

http://carolelandisofficial.blogspot.com/2011/11/myths-about-carole.html

Pat DeCicco:

http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/66/Pat++DiCicco/

http://www.geni.com/people/Pasquale-Pat-DiCicco/6000000007171275211

Pat DeCicco as Perseus in THE NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS:

benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/11/pat-di-cicco-as-perseus-in-night-life.htm

Pat DeCicco in the news:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19460930&id=zRwqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=k4YFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3014,3336163

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DU4bAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dUwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2297%2C1487892

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qGBSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x3oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6929%2C1654115

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V6IkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OvoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5787%2C3668569

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PuogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SW4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2745%2C3053633

DeCicco Bon-Bons:

https://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2019/01/decicco-bon-bons.html

Ted Healy:

http://hollywoodessays.com/2013/01/06/did-the-creator-of-the-bond-movies-kill-the-creator-of-the-3-stooges/

https://books.google.com/books?id=u30zCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT242&lpg=PT242&dq=pat+dicicco+and+errol+flynn&source=bl&ots=6Wc9j_gb7P&sig=HOqKKZj4h-Hl50bCwcL5l3mvlZc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwievtzRsYjdAhVRZKwKHVgBA3AQ6AEwDXoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=pat%20dicicco%20and%20errol%20flynn&f=false

Virginia Hill:

http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/2016/11/19/egged-by-the-mob/

Howard Hughes:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400652/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes

Patsy Kelly and Jean Malin:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/09/patsy-faces-death.html

George Raft:

benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/10/george-raft.html

Mary Jo Tarola:

http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/667/Mary+Jo+Tarola/index.html

Thelma Todd article by Jeanette Meehan, Part II:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2014/10/thelma-todd-by-jeanette-meehan-part-ii.html

Gloria Vanderbilt and Pat DiCicco

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/gloria-vanderbilt-and-pat-dicicco.html

Gloria Bullfinch and Prince Del Slimo in Wonder Woman comics:

http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/04/gloria-bullfinch-and-prince-del-slimo.html

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There are stories linking Ted Healy of Three Stooges fame to both Thelma Todd and Pat DiCicco.

Ted Healy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ted Healy

Healy in the trailer for
The Casino Murder Case.
Born
Ernest Lea Nash
(1896-10-01)October 1, 1896
Houston, Texas
Died
December 21, 1937(1937-12-21) (aged 41)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death
Nephritis or Possible Murder [1]
Occupation
Comedian and Actor
Years active
1912–1937
Influenced
Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Bob Hope
Website
threestooges.net
Ted Healy (October 1, 1896 – December 21, 1937) was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. He is chiefly remembered as the creator of The Three Stooges, but had a successful stage and film career of his own.

1 Early life and career 2 The beginning of the Stooges 3 After the Stooges 4 Death 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links

 Early life and career

Healy was born Ernest Lea Nash on October 1, 1896 in Houston, Texas,^[1] and was known as Lee. In 1912, as teenagers, Nash and his childhood friend Moses Harry Horwitz (later known as Moe Howard of the Three Stooges) joined the Annette Kellerman Diving Girls, a vaudeville act which included four boys. The work ended quickly, however, after an accident on stage. Nash and Howard then went their separate ways. Nash developed a vaudeville act and adopted the stage name Ted Healy.
Healy's act was a hit, and he soon expanded his role as a comedian and master of ceremonies. In the 1920's he was the highest paid performer in Vaudeville making $9000 a week. He added performers to his stage show, including his new wife Betty Brown (a.k.a. Betty Braun). When some of his acrobats quit in 1922, Moe Howard answered the advertisement for replacements. Since Howard was no acrobat, Healy cast his old friend as a stooge (someone who impersonated a member of the audience who is called on stage). In the routine, Howard's appearance on stage would end with Healy losing his trousers.

The beginning of the Stooges

Howard's brother Shemp joined the act soon after as a heckler in 1923, with Larry Fine joining in 1925. Healy's vaudeville revues (with names like A Night in Venice, A Night in Spain, and New Yorker Nights) included the trio under various names, such as Ted Healy and his Southern Gentlemen, but never as Ted Healy and the Three Stooges^{[citation needed]}.
Moe Howard took a break from show business in 1927 after the birth of his daughter. The group reconvened in 1928 and appeared in several Broadway productions, leading to an appearance in the 1930 film Soup to Nuts. In 1931 the Stooges broke from Healy after a dispute over a movie contract. They began performing on their own (using such monikers as "The Three Lost Souls" and "Howard, Fine and Howard"), often using some of the material from the Healy shows. Healy subsequently sued the Stooges for using his material. However, the copyright was actually held by the Shubert Theatre Corporation (for which the routines had been produced)—and since the Stooges had the Shuberts' permission to use it, Healy lost the suit.

• Ted Healy and his Stooges vaudeville routine from Plane Nuts

Healy then hired a new set of stooges, consisting of Eddie Moran (soon replaced by Richard "Dick" Hakins), Jack Wolf, and Paul "Mousie" Garner. The Howard-Fine-Howard Stooges rejoined Healy's act in 1932, but Shemp quit the act shortly thereafter, soon to be replaced by his younger brother Curly Howard. The reunion did not last, however, and in early 1934, Howard, Fine and Howard parted ways with Healy for good.

After the Stooges

Healy went on to establish a promising career in motion pictures, where he was successful in both comedic roles (where he was often grouped with new "stooges", including Jimmy Brewster, Red Pearson and Sammy Glasser) and dramatic roles. After Larry Fine, Moe Howard and Curly Howard left his act in 1934, Healy appeared in a succession of films for 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and MGM. During this period, Healy took to wearing a full toupée in public.^[2] He was 41 and under contract to MGM at the time of his death on December 21, 1937, a few hours after preview audiences had acclaimed his work in the Warner Brothers film Hollywood Hotel.

Death

A cloud of mystery still hangs over Healy's death. Newspaper accounts attributed it to serious head injuries sustained in a nightclub brawl while celebrating the birth of his first child. Conflicting reports claimed the comedian died of a heart attack at his Los Angeles home.^[3][4][5] The death certificate issued by the state of California lists his cause of death as nephritis, or inflammation of the kidneys.^[6]
Two days before his death, the twice-married Healy had visited Moe Howard's wife, Helen, at their Hollywood apartment with the news that his ex-wife Betty (Hickman) was pregnant. Even though he'd recently been divorced by the 21 year-old,[2] Healey was excited at the prospect of his first child, telling Mrs. Howard, "I'll make him the richest kid in the world." Howard later stated in an interview that Healy had always wanted children and that it was ironic that the impending birth of his first child shortly preceded his own death. Howard recalled, "He was nuts about kids. He used to visit our homes and envied the fact that we were all married and had children. Healy always loved kids and often gave Christmas parties for underprivileged youngsters and spent hundreds of dollars on toys."^[7]
At the time of Healy's death, the Stooges (consisting of Moe, Larry, and Curly) were at Grand Central Terminal in New York City preparing to leave for a personal appearance in Boston. Before their departure, Howard called Rube Jackter, head of Columbia Pictures' sales department, to confirm their benefit performance at Boston's Children's Hospital. During the conversation, Jackter told Howard that the night editor of The New York Times wanted to talk to him. Howard phoned The Times. The editor, without even a greeting, queried curtly, "Is this Moe?" Howard said it was. The editor then asked, "Would you like to make a statement on the death of Ted Healy?" Howard was stunned. He dropped the phone. Folding his arms over his head, Howard started to sob. Curly and Larry rushed into the phone booth to warn Howard that their train was about to leave. They found him crumpled over, crying. Since Howard seldom openly showed his emotions, Larry cracked to Curly, "Your brother's nuts. He is actually crying." Howard did not explain the reason for his emotional breakdown until he boarded the train. When they arrived back in Hollywood, they learned the details of Healy's death from a writer friend, Henry Taylor. Taylor told Howard that Healy had been out drinking at the Trocadero nightclub on the Sunset Strip, and an argument broke out with three college boys. Healy called them vile names and offered to go outside the club to take care of them one at a time. Once outside, Ted did not have a chance to raise his fists. The three men jumped him, knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the head, ribs and stomach. Healy's friend actor Joe Frisco came on the scene, picked him up from the sidewalk and took him to his apartment, where Ted died of what medical officials initially called a brain concussion. ^[8]
However, a very different account asserts that Healy was beaten to death by screen legend Wallace Beery, Albert R. Broccoli (later producer of James Bond films), and notorious gangster (and Broccoli's cousin) Pat DiCicco.^[why?] This account appears in E. J. Fleming's book The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine (2004) about legendary MGM "fixers"[3] ] Mannix and Strickling. Under orders from studio head Louis B. Mayer, MGM sent Beery, one of their most valuable properties, to Europe for several months, while the story of the "three college boys" was fabricated to conceal the truth. (Immigration records confirm a four-month trip to Europe on Beery's part immediately after Healy's death, ending April 17, 1938).^[9]
Despite his sizable salary, Ted Healy died penniless. MGM's staff members started a fund to pay for his burial. Moe Howard later mentioned that producer Bryan Foy of the famed Foy family of vaudevillians footed a sizeable portion of the bill for the funeral. According to Howard, even in the heyday of his stage career, Ted refused to save money and spent every dime of his salary as fast as he earned it. Healy loved betting on horses, and his favorite reading matter was race track charts.
Healy was survived by his widow, Betty Healy (née Hickman, whom he married on May 15, 1936) and his son, John Jacob Nash — who was baptized in St. Augustine's Church, opposite MGM, a week after Healy's death. John Nash, who legally changed his name to Theodore John Healy in 1959, died on July 16, 2011 from liver failure as a complication of prostate cancer in Stone Mountain, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
Ted Healy is interred at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Healy's was the first caricature drawn by Alex Gard to grace the walls of Sardi's restaurant in the New York City Theater District.^[10]

References

1. ^ World War I Draft Registration
2. ^ Maurer, Joan Howard; Jeff Lenburg, Greg Lenburg (1982). The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0946-5.
3. ^ Pittsburgh Press December 22, 1937
4. ^ Lewiston Evening Journal December 23, 1937
5. ^ Prescott Evening Courier December 22, 1937
6. ^ Death Certificate, filed on December 23, 1937
7. ^ Howard, Moe. (1982) The Three Stooges Scrapbook, pp. 14–15; Citadel Press. ISBN 0-8065-0803-5
8. ^ Howard, Moe. (1977, rev. 1979) Moe Howard and the Three Stooges, p. 39; Citadel Press. ISBN 978-0-8065-0723-1
9. ^ Ile de France passenger list, p. 117, line 9, Microfilm roll T715_6140
10. ^ The New York Public Library Inventory of Sardi's Caricatures

Further reading

• The Complete Three Stooges: The Official Filmography and Three Stooges Companion by Jon Solomon, (Comedy III Productions, Inc., 2002).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg (Citadel Press, 1994).

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ted Healy

• Ted Healy at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Healy at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ted Healy at Find a Grave
• Digging though the Hollywood archives

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MYSTERY SEEN AS TED HEALY DIES SUDDENLY

(Special To The News)

Hollywood, Dec. 21 -- The sudden death today of Ted Healy, bald and glowering comedian famous for his stooges, assumed aspects of mystery tonight with reports that he had been severely beaten, a little more than twenty four hours before he died, at the Trocadero Restaurant, Hollywood's premier night spot.

Coroner Frank Nance announced he would perform an inquest after Dr. Wyland Lamont, Healy's physician, refused to sign a certificate of death, Early reports said the comic had died of "a stroke."

From a group of fellow actors came the story tonight of Healy's mysterious beating.

Bobby Burns Berman, New York and Hollywood cafe man, said that Healy sobbing and with tears streaming down his face, approached him early Monday morning as he stood in Vine St. with comedian Joe Frisco and Man-Mountain Dean, motion picture actor and wrestler.

SLUGGED, HE SAYS

"I was slugged out at the Trocadero," Healy told them, Berman said, and exhibited a huge welt on his head.

But he refused to tell who had beaten him or why.

He said he was going for treatment to Dr. Sidney L. Weinberg, who could not be reached at his office tonight.

Reportedly stricken at 3 A. M., Healy died at 11:30 A. M. (3:30 P. M. New York) after oxygen had been administered in a vain attempt to save his life.

Mrs. Healy, the former Betty Hickman, who gave birth to a son on Friday, had not been informed of his death. Her husband had remained at her bedside until only a few hours before he was reportedly stricken.

His latest film, "Hollywood Hotel," was previewed last night.



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Ted Healy's death was linked to the Trocadero. And Ted Healy's death was linked to Pat DiCicco. For Pat DiCicco was said to have been one of the three men who beat him shortly before he died.

One account has it that Ted Healy was romantically involved with Thelma Todd.



                               Ted Healy and his Stooges, from back when their early days.

That's Shemp next to Ted Healy at the right.

Ted Healy and the Three Stooges in Hollywood

Curly, in place of Shemp, is next to Ted Healy at the left.


                
                                                             Ted Healy without Stooges.

Ted Healy with Patsy Kelly in SING, BABY, SING, 1936.

Ted Healy was also associated with Frank Fay, with whom Patsy Kelly had worked in New York.

                                          
                                                       Ted Healy and first wife Betty Healy

                                                       Betty Healy at the Roach studio

With Laurel and Hardy in OUR RELATIONS:

Betty Healy, Lona Andre, Daphne Pollard, Iris Adrian

Gloria Bondell, Katherine Blondell ( Mother ), Joan Blondell.

Gloria Blondell made one Three Stooges short, THREE SAPPY PEOPLE, in 1939. She was also married to Pat DiCicco's cousin Cubby Broccoli at the time.

 Cubby Broccoli in 1936, while he was married to Gloria Blondell.

 Mabel Todd ( not to be confused with Thelma Todd )

with Ted Healy in his last film, HOLLYWOOD HOTEL, 1937.

I beleve that a book published in 2002 was the first to have the story that Pat DiCicco, Cubby Broccoli, and Wallace Beery were the ones that beat up Ted Healy shortly before his death.

Moe Howard's book MOE HOWARD AND THE THREE STOOGES had mentioned the story about Ted Healy having been beaten up, but hadn't named the assailants.

The Forrester's book also has it that Ted Healy was seeing Thelma Todd in 1934, while she was still married to Pat DiCicco.

The source for this story is said to have been Mousie Gardner, one of  Healy's "new Three Stooges",

who had himself come out with a book in 1999.

It hadn't said anything about Thelma Todd, but it did mention that Ted Healy liked to set fire to things, including some belongings of blonde Bonnie Bonnel, who had worked with him and the Three Stooges in the movies.

Bonnie Bonnell next to Ted Healy in NERTSERY RHYMES, with the Three Stooges.

Bonnie Bonnell with Ted Healy and the Three Stooges in PLANE NUTS.

There's also a story from another of the new Stooges, Dick Hakins. After the incident where Pat DiCicco chased Harry Cohn from New York's 21 Club in 1942, shouting "Thelma!"*, it says that Dick Hakins wondered if Cohn had been threatening to expose DiCicco's involvement in the deaths of Thelma Todd and Ted Healy.  "From what I knew of Harry Cohn, I wouldn't put anything past him," Hakins is quoted.

But we don't know just how much DiCicco had to do with the deaths of Thelma Todd or Ted Healy.  The only thing that is certain in this case is that nothing is certain.

*This incident was mentioned by Gloria Vanderbilt ( who was married to Pat DiCicco at the time ) in her autobiography BLACK KNIGHT, WHITE KNIGHT.

HOLLYWOOD PARTY Trailer

MEET THE BARON with Zasu Pitts

Gloria Blondell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Blondell

http://www.threestooges.net/cast/actor/4075


Bonnie Bonnell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Bonnell

http://billcappello.com/articles/Bonnie%20Bonnell.pdf

http://thirdbanana.blogspot.com/2006/05/mystery-of-bonnie-bonnell.html


Cubby Broccoli:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_R._Broccoli


Mousie Garner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Garner


Ted Healy:
http://www.stoogeworld.com/_Biographies/Healy.htm

http://greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-last-days-of-ted-healy.html

http://shatterhand007.com/Section26/TedHealy.html

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?31537-On-This-Day-In-History..../page17

http://ladailymirror.com/

http://hollywoodessays.com/2013/01/06/did-the-creator-of-the-bond-movies-kill-the-creator-of-the-3-stooges/


THE GOOD OLD SOAK ( movie with Wallace Beery and Ted Healy):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Soak



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