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Sardi's is a continental restaurant located at 234 West 44th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City. Sardi's opened at its current location on
Sardi's entrance: rows of caricatures are visible through the upstairs windows
Sardi's neon sign
The ground floor dining room, with celebrity caricatures lining the upper walls
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Ted Healy
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Ted Healy was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of the Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous,
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…contract that stated Gard would make the caricatures in exchange for one meal per day at the restaurant. The first official caricature by Gard was of Ted Healy, the vaudevillian of Three Stooges fame. Sardi's son, Vincent Sardi Jr., took over restaurant operations in 1947. Frequent mentions of the restaurant…
Healy in 1937
Healy in The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Healy's first wife Betty Brown
The Good Old Soak lobby card with Wallace Beery and Healy