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Author's Favorite Edgar Kennedy Films


FEATURES:

1. Hitler's Madman - Is he a good guy or bad guy? Edgar get executed by Nazi's.
2. In Old California - Edgar is John Wayne's side kick & steals every scene he's in.
3. Duck Soup - Edgar & The Marx Bros. in one of the funniest movies ever made
4. Unfaithfully Yours - A classical music aficionado.
5. The Falcon Strikes Back - Edgar is the killer. Death scene off camera.
6. Cosmo Jones-Crime Smasher - Flat foot Edgar tops the billing.
7. Hey Hey U.S.A. - Edgar in a straight jacket and can't slow burn.
8. Hollywood Hotel - Dick Powell & Ted Healy do a slow burn in front of Edgar.
9. San Francisco - Just to see Clark Gable punch him into unconsciousness.
10. Tillie's Punctured Romance - The first ever feature comedy. Edgar has 2 roles.

SHORTS:

1. The Knockout - A chance to see Edgar as a boxer. With Fatty & Charlie.
2. All the Hal Roach Entries - 'Nuff said.
3. Rough on Rents - One of the funniest of his series.
4. Mabel's Willful Way - Fatty Arbuckle's rival for Mabel Normand's affection.
5. Wished on Mabel - Shot at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Edgar as a cop.
6. It's Your Move - Pushing a washing machine up a long flight of stairs.
7. Hurdy Gurdy - Edgar has the first lines ever recorded for Roach.
8. Gasoloons - Edgar ends this short with a slow burn establishing his trademark.
9. Vocalizing - A very unusual entry from his series. Edgar sings in this one.
10. Dummy Ache - Nominated for an Academy Award. Lucille Ball as a gun mull.

MOST COMPELLING LOST FILMS:

1. Lemon Meringue - The series 1st official entry featuring a pie fight.
2. Daredevil Jack - Edgar fights Champ Jack Dempsey for the cameras.
3. Across the Pacific - Edgar received rave notices regarding his death scene.
4. Brown of Harvard - Edgar's 1st credited film.
5. The Reel Virginian - Edgar directs Ben Turpin.
6. Rough House Rhythm - A forerunner to his Average Man series.
7. All Gummed Up - Also a forerunner, a "Whoopie" comedy for RKO.
8. The Golf Chump - A golf comedy from his Average Man series.
9. Cupid's Boots - Edgar directed and was cast in this Sennett silent comedy.
10. The Wrong Mr. Wright - Edgar plays a detective. Some scenes shot in Carmel.

Edgar Kennedy's Co-Stars

Arbuckle, Fatty
Arden, Eve
Ball, Lucille
Barrymore, John
Beaumont, Hugh
Bellamy, Ralph
Bergen, Edgar
Blondell, Joan
Blue, Monte
Bond, Ward
Brennan, Walter
Busch, Mae
Cantor, Eddie
Caruso, Anthony
Chaney Jr., Lon
Chaplin, Charlie
Chase, Charley
Clyde, Andy
Colbert, Claudette
Cook, Clyde
Cummings, Bob
Darnell, Linda
Darwell, Jane
Day, Doris
Demarest, William
Dempsey, Jack
Denny, Reginald
Dent, Vernon
Devine, Andy
Durfee, Minta
Erwin, Stuart
Eugene, William
Farley, Dot
Fazenda, Louise
Finlayson, James
Frawley, William
Gable, Clark
Gardner, Ava
Garvin, Anita
Gaynor, Janet
Gilbert, Billy
Grable, Betty
Griffith, Raymond
Hall, Charlie
Hamilton, Margaret
Harlow, Jean
Harrison, Rex
Healy, Ted
Herbert, Hugh
Hersholt, Jean
Holt, Jack
Housman, Arthur
Howard, Shemp
Keaton, Buster
Kelly, Gene
Kelly, Patsy
Kennedy, Tom
Keystone Kops
Kibbee, Guy
Lake, Arthur
Lake, Florence
Langdon, Harry
Laurel & Hardy
Littlefield, Lucien
Lloyd, Harold
Lombard, Carole
Loy, Myrna
Mace, Fred
MacMurray, Fred
March, Frederick
Marx Bros.
McCrea, Joel
McFarland, Spanky
Tracy, Spencer
Menjou. Adolphe
Merman, Ethel
Murphy, George
Murray, Charlie
O'Sullivan, Maureen
Oakie, Jack
Oakland, Vivian
Oliver, Edna May
Our Gang (Little Rascals)
Pangborn, Franklin
Pidgeon, Walter
Pitts, Zasu
Pollard, Daphne
Powell, William
Quillen, Eddie
Raft, George
Reagan, Ronald
Rice, Jack
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Will
Ryan, Irene
Sinatra, Frank
Singleton, Penny
Southern, Ann
St. John, Al
Sterling, Ford
Stewart, James
Stone, Lewis
Summerville, Slim
Sutton, Grady
Switzer, Carl "Alfafla"
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Robert
Todd, Thelma
Turpin, Ben
Vallee, Rudy
Wayne, John
West, Billy
Wheeler & Woolsey
Young, Robert


Copyright © 2006-2008 Bill Cassara.

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