The Stooges play Healy's kids. They are trying to ruin the theater play, Ted is trying to direct. This is the first problem with this film. The Stooges doing the kids impersonations starts to get old. This is the third of five films produced over there at MGM. I found a really nice, two-color version of Hello Pop (1933), on YouTube. The two-color, technicolor version is important. It is the second short, of the series, to be done in color. Nertsery Rhymes (1933), was the first and Beer and Pretzels (1933), was done in glorious black and white. So, make sure you watch the two-color version. If you are watching it in black and white, you are missing a good aspect to it, because the filmmakers meant it to be in color.
Bonnie Bonnell is back (they always have her name in the opening title card spelled as Bonny), playing Healy's girlfriend. All she wants to do is ask him a question. It's interesting how these films, back in 1933, were initially geared towards a more adult audience. The cute, bathing suit girls, slapstick violence and alcohol jokes, were key to the success of these pre-code, depression era, grown-up comedies. The filmmakers, for Hello Pop (1933), liked using the lighting, to silhouette the dancers, so they look like shapes moving harmoniously. It was a clever technique, used in some of the dancing numbers. It's more about shapes moving around, instead of dancers bouncing about. They did it in a couple of these short subjects for MGM.
6.1 (D+ MyGrade) = 6 IMDB.
Bonnie Bonnell is back (they always have her name in the opening title card spelled as Bonny), playing Healy's girlfriend. All she wants to do is ask him a question. It's interesting how these films, back in 1933, were initially geared towards a more adult audience. The cute, bathing suit girls, slapstick violence and alcohol jokes, were key to the success of these pre-code, depression era, grown-up comedies. The filmmakers, for Hello Pop (1933), liked using the lighting, to silhouette the dancers, so they look like shapes moving harmoniously. It was a clever technique, used in some of the dancing numbers. It's more about shapes moving around, instead of dancers bouncing about. They did it in a couple of these short subjects for MGM.
6.1 (D+ MyGrade) = 6 IMDB.