Cliff Edwards

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Also Known As

Cliff Edwards (Ukulele Ike), Ukulele Ike, Cliff "Ukulele Ike" Edwards

Birth Place

Hannibal, Missouri, USA

Born

June 14, 1895

Died

July 17, 1971

Biography

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Cliff Edwards was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Edwards landed roles in various films, including the Conrad Nagel musical comedy "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" (1929), "Marianne" (1929) and "So This Is College" (1929). He also appeared in the musical "Those Three French Girls" (1930) with Fifi D'Orsay, "Lord Byron of Broadway" (1930) a...

Filmography

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The Man From Button Willow (1965)

Platinum High School (1960)

Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

Voice of Jiminy Cricket

The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

Salute for Three (1943)

Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1943)

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His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Real Red Menace

Sidewalks Of New York (1931) -- (Movie Clip) There Should Be A Law Against This

Biography

Cliff Edwards was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Early on in his acting career, Edwards landed roles in various films, including the Conrad Nagel musical comedy "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" (1929), "Marianne" (1929) and "So This Is College" (1929). He also appeared in the musical "Those Three French Girls" (1930) with Fifi D'Orsay, "Lord Byron of Broadway" (1930) and the musical "Montana Moon" (1930) with Joan Crawford. He kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring in "Flying Devils" (1933), "Take a Chance" (1933) and the Rudy Vallee musical "George White's Scandals" (1934). He also appeared in "George White's 1935 Scandals" (1935) with Alice Faye. Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the Ronald Reagan adaptation "International Squadron" (1941), "Knockout" (1941) and "Power Dive" (1941). He also appeared in the Ellen Drew crime feature "The Monster and the Girl" (1941) and "American Empire" (1942). Edwards's music was most recently featured in the crime drama "Killing Them Softly" (2012) with Brad Pitt. Edwards passed away in July 1971 at the age of 76.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Man From Button Willow (1965)

Platinum High School (1960)

Fun and Fancy Free (1947)

Voice of Jiminy Cricket

The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

Salute for Three (1943)

Seven Miles from Alcatraz (1943)

Fighting Frontier (1943)

Sagebrush Law (1943)

The Avenging Rider (1943)

Riders of the Northland (1942)

Overland to Deadwood (1942)

Lawless Plainsmen (1942)

West of Tombstone (1942)

Bad Men of the Hills (1942)

American Empire (1942)

Sundown Jim (1942)

Stable proprietor

Bandit Ranger (1942)

Red River Robin Hood (1942)

Pirates of the Prairie (1942)

Knockout (1941)

The Monster and the Girl (1941)

Voice of Dandy Crow

Riders of the Badlands (1941)

Prairie Stranger (1941)

Thunder Over the Prairie (1941)

Power Dive (1941)

"Squid" Watkins

International Squadron (1941)

"Omaha" McGrath

Friendly Neighbors (1940)

She Couldn't Say No (1940)

Pinocchio (1940)

Voice of Jiminy Cricket

Flowing Gold (1940)

High School (1940)

Jeff [Jefferson]

His Girl Friday (1940)

Millionaires in Prison (1940)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Reminiscent soldier

Smuggled Cargo (1939)

The Little Adventuress (1938)

The Girl of the Golden West (1938)

Women Men Marry (1937)

Between Two Women (1937)

They Gave Him a Gun (1937)

Saratoga (1937)

The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937)

"Buzz" McCreedy

The Man I Marry (1936)

Red Salute (1935)

George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

George White's Scandals (1934)

Take a Chance (1933)

Flying Devils (1933)

Young Bride (1932)

Fast Life (1932)

[Franz] Bumpy [Jurgens]

Hell Divers (1932)

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

The Prodigal (1931)

Sidewalks of New York (1931)

Shipmates (1931)

The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)

Stepping Out (1931)

The Great Lover (1931)

Laughing Sinners (1931)

Good News (1930)

Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)

Way Out West (1930)

Those Three French Girls (1930)

Doughboys (1930)

Montana Moon (1930)

Marianne (1929)

So This Is College (1929)

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)

Music (Feature Film)

Killing Them Softly (2012)

Meet Monica Velour (2010)

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

I'm Not Rappaport (1996)

The Avenging Rider (1943)

Cast (Special)

Vincent Van Gogh: A Stroke of Genius (1997)

Cast (Short)

Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos (1940)

The Royal Rodeo (1939)

Pacific Paradise (1937)

Cinema Circus (1937)

Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)

THE CHRISTMAS PARTY (1931)

Crazy House (1930)

Life Events

1936

Broadway acting debut in "George White's Scandals"

Videos

His Girl Friday (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Real Red Menace In the press room at the courthouse, Howard Hawks directs the guys from Ben Hecht’s original play (Roscoe Karns as McCue, Porter Hall as Murphy, Ernest Truex as Roy, Cliff Edwards as Endicott, Frank Jenks as Wilson), and Roz Russell convincing as the title character, their pal Hildy, informing them she’s done, in His Girl Friday, 1940.

Sidewalks Of New York (1931) -- (Movie Clip) There Should Be A Law Against This Landlord Harmon (Buster Keaton), summoned from his bed by aide Poggle (Cliff Edwards), who was unable to collect the rent, means to straighten things out but runs into Clipper (Norman Phillips Jr.) and his sister Margie (Anita Page), early in Sidewalks Of New York, 1931.

Sidewalks Of New York (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Raise Your Right Hand Rich landlord Harmon (Buster Keaton) and minion Poggle (Cliff Edwards) arrive at court where the judge (Oscar Apfel) is investigating the giant neighborhood brawl, in Keaton’s third MGM talkie, into which he had no creative input, in Sidewalks Of New York, 1931.

Sidewalks Of New York (1931) -- (Movie Clip) My Little Friends Harmon (Buster Keaton) has built a gym to impress Margie (Anita Page), sister of neighborhood hoodlum Clipper (Norman Phillips Jr.) but is perplexed when the delinquents don’t show up, in the talking comedy MGM insisted that Keaton make, Sidewalks Of New York, 1931.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Hinky Dinky Parlez Vous After a montage indicating many years of war, Marion Davies (title character) in her French country village is more interested in her pig than in the bunch of American doughboys arriving, Cliff Edwards as Soapy, Benny Rubin as Sam, and Lawrence Gray as soon-smitten Stagg, in Marianne, 1929.

Marianne (1929) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A War Orphan Too! The American soldiers (Cliff Edwards, Benny Rubin, and Lawrence Gray as the more ambitious Stagg) have finagled some food from French single-gal innkeeper Marion Davies (title character), whose fiancè hasn’t been heard from in years, and who begins to thaw a little, in Marianne, 1929.

That's Entertainment! (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Singin' In The Rain Frank Sinatra opens the narration with some of the history of the song by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, especially as it relates to movies and to MGM, in the studio’s hit 50th anniversary documentary feature, That’s Entertainment!, 1974.

Great Lover, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I Can Almost See Her Arriving New York on the ship from a European tour, world class lothario and opera singer Paurel (Adolphe Menjou) and his man (Ernest Torrence) fail to identify the voice of Diana (Irene Dunne), meeting press agent Finny (Cliff Edwards) and reporter Rosco (Ates), in The Great Lover, 1931.

Doughboys (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Want My Mama A rare vocal by Buster Keaton, with “Ukelele Ike” Cliff Edwards, who became a lifelong pal after this picture, reeling off an un-credited vaudeville tune, which they often did between takes, chilling in the barracks, in Keaton’s second MGM talkie, Doughboys, 1930.

Doughboys (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Cold Steel Bloody Business Mostly a riff for Edward Brophy as the manic drill sergeant, given this role after a famous bit in Buster Keaton's first talkie The Cameraman, here in Buster's second showing him (as foppish recruit "Elmer" Stuyvesant) how to use a bayonet, in Doughboys, 1930.

Laughing Sinners (1931) -- (Movie Clip) Rainy Day Girl Opening scenes, delightful young Ivy (Joan Crawford) has driven out 40 miles from Cincinnati to meet traveling salesman boyfriend Howdy (Neil Hamilton) and pals (Roscoe Karns, Cliff Edwards on ukelele) on their train, in MGM's Laughing Sinners, 1931.

Women Men Marry (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Eat A Peck Of Dirt Boss Walter (Sidney Blackmer) with employee Jane (Josephine Hutchinson), realizing Claire (Claire Dodd), with whom he's having an anonymous affair, is married to his host Bill (George Murphy), Jerry (Cliff Edwards) and Sugar (Toby Wing) attending, in Women Men Marry, 1937.

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