Edward Everett Horton

Actor

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Also Known As

Edward Everett Horton Jr.

Birth Place

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born

March 18, 1886

Died

September 29, 1970

Biography

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Charmingly comic character actor who played the ineffectual bumbler in scores of films from the 1920s through the 70s. Among many triumphs Horton is remembered as Fred Astaire's sidekick in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935) and "Shall We Dance?" (1937)....

Filmography

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Cold Turkey (1971)

Hiram C. Grayson

2000 Years Later (1969)

The Perils of Pauline (1967)

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Hutching, the butler

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Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Like Women In Distresses

Front Page, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) L For Listerine!

Biography

Charmingly comic character actor who played the ineffectual bumbler in scores of films from the 1920s through the 70s. Among many triumphs Horton is remembered as Fred Astaire's sidekick in "The Gay Divorcee" (1934), "Top Hat" (1935) and "Shall We Dance?" (1937).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Cold Turkey (1971)

Hiram C. Grayson

2000 Years Later (1969)

The Perils of Pauline (1967)

Sex and the Single Girl (1964)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Hutching, the butler

The Story of Mankind (1957)

Sir Walter Raleigh

Down to Earth (1947)

Her Husband's Affairs (1947)

J. B. Cruikshank

The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)

Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)

Cinderella Jones (1946)

Faithful in My Fashion (1946)

Hiram Dilworthy

Lady on a Train (1945)

Steppin' in Society (1945)

Judge Avery Webster

Summer Storm (1944)

Count Alexander Volsky

The Town Went Wild (1944)

Everett St. John Everett

San Diego, I Love You (1944)

Philip McCooley

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Mr. Witherspoon

Her Primitive Man (1944)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Sir Anthony [Trimble-Pomfret]

The Gang's All Here (1943)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Springtime in the Rockies (1942)

I Married an Angel (1942)

The Magnificent Dope (1942)

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)

Bachelor Daddy (1941)

The Body Disappears (1941)

Professor Shotesbury

Week-End for Three (1941)

[Fred] Stonebraker

You're the One (1941)

Death Valley Joe Frink

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

That's Right--You're Wrong (1939)

Paris Honeymoon (1939)

College Swing (1938)

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

The Marquis De Loiselle

Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)

Hitting a New High (1937)

Lucius B. Blynn

Oh, Doctor (1937)

Edward J. Billop

Wild Money (1937)

The Great Garrick (1937)

Lost Horizon (1937)

[Alexander P.] Lovett

The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)

Shall We Dance (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

The Perfect Specimen (1937)

Hearts Divided (1936)

Let's Make a Million (1936)

Harrison Gentry

Her Master's Voice (1936)

Nobody's Fool (1936)

The Singing Kid (1936)

Davenport Rogers

The Night Is Young (1935)

Your Uncle Dudley (1935)

$10 Raise (1935)

Hubert T. Wilkins

His Night Out (1935)

Homer [B. Bitts]

All the King's Horses (1935)

[Count Josef von Schlapstaat, known as] Peppi

Going Highbrow (1935)

Augie [Witherspoon]

Horace Hardwick

Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)

[Leander] Nolan

The Devil Is a Woman (1935)

In Caliente (1935)

Little Big Shot (1935)

Mortimer [Thompson]

Success at Any Price (1934)

Woman in Command (1934)

Sebastian Marvello

The Poor Rich (1934)

Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood

Uncertain Lady (1934)

Sing and Like It (1934)

Vernon [Thorpe]

The Merry Widow (1934)

Ambassador [Popoff]

Ladies Should Listen (1934)

It's a Boy (1934)

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Egbert ["Pinky" Fitzgerald]

Kiss and Make-Up (1934)

Easy to Love (1934)

A Bedtime Story (1933)

Victor [Rene's valet]

The Way to Love (1933)

[Professor Gaston] Bibi

Design for Living (1933)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

François [Fileba]

Roar of the Dragon (1932)

But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)

Sir George [Kelvin]

Kiss Me Again (1931)

Lonely Wives (1931)

Richard Smith/Felix, the Great Zero

Reaching for the Moon (1931)

Six Cylinder Love (1931)

The Front Page (1931)

Roy V. Bensinger

The Age for Love (1931)

Smart Woman (1931)

Wide Open (1930)

Once a Gentleman (1930)

Take the Heir (1930)

The Sap [Bill Small]

The Aviator (1929)

The Hottentot (1929)

Sonny Boy (1929)

Crandall Thorpe, Attorney

The Terror (1928)

Taxi Taxi (1927)

La Bohème (1926)

The Whole Town's Talking (1926)

Poker Faces (1926)

The Nut-Cracker (1926)

Horatio Slipaway

Marry Me (1925)

Beggar on Horseback (1925)

The Business of Love (1925)

The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)

Try and Get It (1924)

Flapper Wives (1924)

Helen's Babies (1924)

To the Ladies (1923)

Leonard Beebe, a clerk

Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)

Too Much Business (1922)

John Henry Jackson

The Ladder Jinx (1922)

Arthur Barnes, a bank teller

A Front Page Story (1922)

Cast (Special)

Manhattan Tower (1956)

Time Out For Ginger (1955)

Cast (Short)

One Got Fat (1963)

Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Design for Living - Lobby Cards

Here are some Lobby Cards from Design for Living (1932), directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, and Gary Cooper. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

Arsenic and Old Lace - Scene Stills

Here are some scene stills from Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), starring Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, and Raymond Massey.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan - Movie Poster

Here is an original release movie poster from Columbia Pictures' Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Robert Montgomery. This is an Insert poster, measuring 14 x 36 inches.

Videos

Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Like Women In Distresses For reasons not known, Patsy Ruth Miller, not yet identified, using an address stolen from his workplace, has sneaked into the home of neurotic bachelor bookkeeper Simon (Edward Haldane) and removed her wet clothes, shortly after he managed to remove an amorous female colleague, in Wide Open, 1930.

Front Page, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) L For Listerine! The boys in the press room tangle then we meet editor Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou), hunting Hildy (Pat O'Brien, not seen), with some remarkable shots from director Lewis Milestone, early in The Front Page 1931, from the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) It Isn't Gentile Timid bachelor bookkeeper Simon (Edward Everett Horton) is already under assault, by happenstance in the phonograph company’s recording studio, from amorous stenographer Agatha (Louis Fazenda), when the boss, a client and the star salesman (E.J. Ratcliffe, Vincent Barnett, T. Roy Barnes) intrude, in Warner Bros. and director Archie Mayo’s Wide Open, 1930.

Wide Open (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Deluding Yourself! Opening with star Edward Everett Horton embarrassed on his front step, and Louise Beavers as his sensible servant Easter, in the pre-code talkie from Warner Bros. and director Archie Mayo, co-starring Patsy Ruth Miller, Wide Open, 1930.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Know Who You're Talking To? S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall is the promoter with Edward Everett Horton of a fictional wartime benefit show, and they’re being driven nuts by (pretending) egomaniac star Eddie Cantor, so he doesn’t recognize Humphrey Bogart, maybe because of the impressive scruffy beard, in the Warner Bros. morale-Musical variety hit Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) -- (Movie Clip) It's The Same Ocean! With French Riviera hotel staff (Franklin Pangborn accompanied by Armand Cortes) offering new rooms, Gary Cooper as the still not-named American millionaire who’s having trouble sleeping, the surprise appearance of Edward Everett Horton as the Marquis, in Ernst Lubitsch’s Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, 1938, also starring Claudette Colbert.

Design for Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Immorality May Be Fun George (Gary Cooper) romancing Gilda (Miriam Hopkins) in her Paris apartment then bumping into her chivalrous employer Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton), who delivers the same speech he just made to Cooper's roommate, who's also fallen for her, in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.

Design for Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Bassington Speaks! American Tom (Fredric March) at his Paris garret writing "un-produced plays" when Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton), visiting to discourage his pursuit of his employee Gilda (Constance Bennett), inadvertently inspires him, in Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living, 1933.

Design For Living (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Artistic Bums! Max Plunkett (Edward Everett Horton), successful international ad agency executive and chivalrous employer but frustrated suitor of American Paris-based artist Gilda (Miriam Hopkins), visits after having told off her two new romantic interests, a painter (Gary Cooper) and playwright (Fredric March), in Ernst Lubitsch’s Design For Living, 1933.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) If There Is A Prolonged Delay Nearly smarmy Chang (H.B. Warner) now feeds Conway (Ronald Colman), brother George (John Howard) and fellow plane crash survivors (Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell) and mentions their rescue from the Himalayan monastery community could take years, about which they speculate, in Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon, 1937.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Where Civilization Ends Big special effects as Robert (Ronald Colman) and brother George (John Howard) Conway and cohorts (Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton and Isabel Jewell), evacuated from a crisis in China, crash land somewhere beyond Tibet in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, 1939.

Lost Horizon (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Shangri La Robert Conway (Ronald Colman) and fellow crash survivors (Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard and Isabel Jewell) are led into Shangri-La by Chang (H.B. Warner) in Frank Capra's Lost Horizon, 1937, from the James Hilton novel.

Lady On A Train (1945) -- (Original Trailer) Yes, there is a Deanna Durbin murder mystery! The trailer from Universal emphasizing provocative elements for the 21-year old who was by then Hollywood’s highest-paid female star, in Lady On A Train, 1945.

Pocketful Of Miracles (1961) -- (Original Trailer) Bette Davis plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra's last movie, Pocketful Of Miracles (1961).

Great Garrick, The - (Original Trailer) Director James Whale (The Bride Of Frankenstein) brings his quirky view to this portrait of 18th Century Britain's most famous actor.

Going Highbrow - (Original Trailer) Guy Kibbee and ZaSu Pitts try to break into high society in Going Highbrow (1935).

Easy To Love (1934) - (Original Trailer) When she thinks her husband (Adolphe Menjou) has been unfaithful, a woman (Genevieve Tobin) claims to be having an affair of her own.

Arsenic and Old Lace - (Original Trailer) A young man (Cary Grant) about to be married discovers his two aunts are poisoning lonely old men in Arsenic and Old Lace, (1944).

Alice in Wonderland (1933) - (Original Trailer) A trip through the looking glass and down a rabbit hole sends an English girl into a world of fantastic characters and strange potions in Alice in Wonderland (1933).

Cinderella Jones - (Original Trailer) Joan Leslie has to find and marry a genius to inherit $10 million in Busby Berkeley's musical Cinderella Jones (1946).

Thank Your Lucky Stars - (Original Trailer) An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) with guest appearances by Bette Davis, Errol Flynn & Humphrey Bogart.

That's Right - You're Wrong - (Original Trailer) Lucille Ball helps Kay Kyser and his band overcome a film studio head's hatred to make it on the big screen in That's Right - You're Wrong (1939).

Weekend For Three - (Original Trailer) Algonquin wit Dorothy Parker co-wrote Weekend For Three (1941), a comedy about a married woman who can't get rid of an old boyfriend.

I Married An Angel - (Original Trailer) Some husbands say it but Nelson Eddy means it literally in his final pairing with Jeanette MacDonald, I Married An Angel (1942).

Family

Edward Everett Horton

Father

Proofreader for <i>The New York Times</i>.

Isabella Horton

Mother

Bibliography

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