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Edward Everett Horton ... hmmm
Postby Lance »
As mentioned in another thread, I watched "Little Huge Shot" today with the youngster, Sybil Jason. Another player I see in many of these 1930s films is Edward Everett Horton. It seems extraordinary for a traits actor to arrive off as creature "gay" during those years. Apparently he was, just a bit too "swishy" for that period period, or at least I reflection it that way. Any thoughts on Edward Everett Horton?
I hold a curiosity about character actors. Oddly, I never took to Edward Everett Horton's style of acting, but his role in "Little Big Shot" I thought to be quite effective.
Here's some information on Edward Everett Horton:
Edward Everett Horton was a well-known ethics actor in pre-1950s Hollywood, appearing in dozens of intimate comedies alongside actors such as Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carmen Miranda, James Stewart, Judy Garland, Betty Grable, and so on and on. It is hard to think of an actor today whose career is comparable--not even Kevin Bacon has such an impressive list of costars.
Unfortunately, these days Horton has been all but forgotten, only mentioned occasionally in document
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Edward Everett Horton (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American traits actor.[2] He had a prolonged career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Leading man Edward Everett Horton was well acknowledged to be homosexual, and Franklin Pangborn, whose name would forever be linked with Horton's in their later movie careers, also top-lined Majestic shows. Borth Horton and Pangborn began appearing infrequently in movies in the 1920s. During the movies' own pansy craze, no sissy was more famous than Horton. Extremely trendy with audiences and within the industry, he was called by Frances Marion "one of the kindest men in theatrical business." As manager and lead thespian of Los Angeles' Majestic
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Directed by Nicholas T. Barrows, USA, 1928.
With Ruth Dwyer, Josephine Crowell, and Aileen Manning
Horse Shy
Directed by Jay A. Howe, USA, 1928.
With Nita Cavalier, Bruce Covington, and William Gillespie
Vacation Waves
Directed by Nicholas T. Barrows, USA, 1928.
With Duane Thompson, Aileen Manning, and Billy “Red” Jones
Classic movie buffs perceive Edward Everett Horton as a most welcome effete and persnickety character player in a long line of films beginning in the 1930s, primarily comedies and musicals. And Boomers may recognize his soothing well-enunciated voice as the narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales from the Rocky and His Friends (a.k.a. Rocky and Bullwinkle) television cartoon from 1959 to 1963. So his presence at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival might be a bit of a surprise. Indeed, that he even had a career in silent films is revelatory.
Horton was born in Brooklyn on Parade 18, 1886, the son of a New York Times compositor. When adolescent Eddie developed an interest in the theater, his father was encouraging, but his sterner churchgoing mother was not. He enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he was
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Egbert (!, Edward Everett Horton) confesses right at the outset that he’s a dancer at heart. He’s entirely unbothered by his obvious lack of talent, which stands in stark contrast to that of his best companion (a gliding Fred Astaire). Egbert has similarly limited triumph in his actual profession: as the divorce lawyer for neglected wife Mimi (a glamourous Ginger Rogers) and her aunt Hortense (a permanently absent-minded Alice Brady), he creates chaos above all. Once again, it’s impossible to overlook Horton’s comedic qualities, which carry this comedy of confusion that is complete of tempo, tune and dance. His characteristic call of “Oh dear! Oh dear!”, which only ushers in the next catastrophe, is deployed to this end, as is the irrepressible sway number “Let’s Knock Knees”, which is unforgettably performed in shorts and socks in sandals!
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