{"id":56756,"date":"2024-10-04T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=56756"},"modified":"2024-10-04T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:03:37","slug":"edward-everett-horton-timid-timorous-and-talented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=56756","title":{"rendered":"Edward Everett Horton: Timid, Timorous, and Talented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-2-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-2-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-2.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>He portrayed befuddled butlers, henpecked husbands, addled aristocrats, and more in a stage, screen and TV career that spanned more than seven decades, and he was one of Classic Hollywood\u2019s busiest supporting players. Chances are, however, that if you\u2019re familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?mod=AP&amp;cr=Edward+Everett+Horton|602225&amp;_gl=1*1nrlgxj*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Edward Everett Horton<\/a> you remember him as either a voice from a cult favorite animated TV series or as one of a group of 1930s and \u201840s character actors who excelled at what came to be known\u2014for better or worse&#8211;as \u201csissy roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in Brooklyn in 1886, Edward Everett Horton, Jr. went to the borough\u2019s famous Boy\u2019s High before his family moved to Baltimore. He would attend Oberlin College in Ohio, but got the boot after a prank involving tossing a dummy off a building roof and pretending he had jumped. Moving on to Columbia University, Horton got involved in dramatics and made his professional stage debut in 1906. At first billed as simply \u201cEdward Horton,\u201d his father talked him into adding his middle name so as to stand out from any other Edward Hortons out there (how many there actually were is open to debate).<\/p>\n<p>A flurry of vaudeville and Broadway performances followed, until Edward convinced his brother George to join him in a cross-country move to Southern California and its blossoming entertainment scene. After working for several years on and behind the stage, Edward made his film debut in a now-lost 1922 Vitagraph comedy, <em>Too Much Business.<\/em> He starred in the title role of the English valet who follows his employer to the American frontier in a 1923 version of <em>Ruggles of Red Gap<\/em> and two years later again took top billing as a composer who must choose between marrying for love or money in <em>Beggar on Horseback<\/em>, adapted from a George S. Kaufman\/Marc Connelly stage play. Edward also appeared alongside John Gilbert and Lillian Gish in M-G-M\u2019s 1926 adaptation of Puccini\u2019s <em>La Boh\u00e8me<\/em> (yes, they made silent movies based on operas).<\/p>\n<p>As Hollywood shifted from silent films to talkies Horton made a seamless switch, headlining a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/edward-everett-horton-8-silent-comedies\/647213970258?_gl=1*1nrlgxj*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">1927-29 silent shorts<\/a>\u2014produced by his friend Harold Lloyd\u2014for Paramount, and then hopping over to Educational Pictures for several sound shorts. He appeared as a Scotland Yard detective in Warner Bros.\u2019 1929 shocker <em>The Terror<\/em>, the first all-talking horror film, and later that year was a browbeaten spouse who makes good in the comedy <em>The Sap<\/em>. At the same time the Horton brothers began buying up land in the Encino area, 22 prime acres of SoCal real estate where Edward would eventually build homes for himself, his family and friends, and seemingly anyone who happened by (F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have stayed at one of his bungalows). Horton gave his fiefdom the punny name Belleigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-5-300x233.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-5-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-5.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The 1930s would offer occasional lead roles for Horton, but he blossomed in an array of supporting turns, often as the hero or heroine\u2019s devoted best friend. He was a fussy reporter who\u2019d rather be writing poetry in the original <em>The Front Page<\/em> (1931), while he spilled the tea\u2014literally\u2014as the Mad Hatter in Paramount\u2019s bizarre all-star, live-action <em>Alice in Wonderland<\/em>. While Edward was at Paramount, director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ernst%20Lubitsch%7C614670&amp;mod=AP&amp;_gl=1*hx3i6*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ernest Lubitsch<\/a> made fine use of his comedic skills\u2014particularly Horton\u2019s trademark double take, where he would nod in agreement with whatever was going on, then slowly look gloomier and gloomier as it dawned on him what he had just agreed to\u2014in a quintet of sophisticated romantic comedies: <em>Trouble in Paradise<\/em> (1932) <em>Design for Living<\/em> (1933), <em>The Merry Widow<\/em> (1934), <em>Angel<\/em> (1937), and <em>Bluebeard\u2019s Eighth Wife<\/em> (1938).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-4-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-4-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-4-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-4-768x561.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-EDWARD-EVERETT-HORTON-4.jpg 1042w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Over at RKO, Horton supplied comedic relief in three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?mod=AP&amp;cr=Fred+Astaire|807769&amp;_gl=1*3k6l6h*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Astaire<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ginger%20Rogers%7C648483&amp;mod=AP&amp;_gl=1*1r0cn0n*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ginger Rogers<\/a> musicals\u20141934\u2019s <em>The Gay Divorcee<\/em> (memorable for a swimsuit-clad Horton dancing with a young Betty Grable to &#8220;Let&#8217;s K-nock K-nees&#8221;), 1935\u2019s <em>Top Hat<\/em>, and 1937\u2019s <em>Shall We Dance<\/em>. Also in \u201937, Edward was one of the travelers who found themselves in the Edenic Himalayan hideaway of Shangri-La in Frank Capra&#8217;s<em> Lost Horizon<\/em> and was valet to famed 1700s actor David Garrick (Brian Aherne) in\u00a0 James Whale&#8217;s <em>The Great Garrick<\/em>. The following year saw the actor cast as Professor Potter in the Cary Grant\/Katharine Hepburn screwball comedy <em>Holiday <\/em>(the same role he played in a 1930 version). In a contemporary New York Times article on the actor, the paper claimed Horton\u2019s recent film roles had led him to develop \u201ca certain muliebrity [womanliness] of manner which has caused certain of the more captious among filmgoers to accuse him of effeminacy.\u201d This, of course, was a polite way of saying his screen persona&#8211;despite often playing a married man&#8211;was secretly gay.<\/p>\n<p>A similar situation occurred in Edward\u2019s personal life. Living for many years with fellow actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?mod=AP&amp;cr=Gavin+Gordon|640884&amp;_gl=1*1u1o8u8*_up*MQ..&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwrMKmBhCJARIsAHuEAPSuSiMeVGR3GjhyTUkl1IBr1lZn78DqL7AjR08r3rqvZ8UjLD8uUXsaAvLHEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gavin Gordon<\/a>, Horton was notoriously tight-lipped about his private affairs, but on the set he sometimes found himself typecast in such &#8220;lavender&#8221; parts, a fate he shared with such performers as Eric Blore, Franklin Pangborn, and others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56809\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-THE-GANGS-ALL-HERE-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-THE-GANGS-ALL-HERE-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-THE-GANGS-ALL-HERE.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>Such stories didn\u2019t affect Horton\u2019s popularity, as the 1940s offered him choice supporting turns as a heavenly messenger in <em>Here Comes Mr. Jordan<\/em> (1941) and the follow-up <em>Down to Earth<\/em> (1947); playing opposite Brazilian bombshell Carmen Miranda in <em>Springtime in the Rockies<\/em> (1942) and <em>The Gang\u2019s All Here <\/em>(1943); as a sanitarium superintendent in Capra\u2019s <em>Arsenic and Old Lace<\/em> (1944); as a widowed schoolteacher who thinks he\u2019s invented a self-inflating life raft in the comedy <em>San Diego, I Love You <\/em>(1944); and as an advertising executive in the Lucille Ball\/Franchot Tone comedy<em> Her Husband&#8217;s Affairs<\/em> (1947).<\/p>\n<p>While he had but one \u201850s movie role (a cameo as Sir Walter Raleigh in Irwin Allen\u2019s 1957 epic<em> The Story of Mankind<\/em>), Edward found new opportunities for work in the nascent medium of television. After debuting on the small screen as Sheridan Whiteside in a 1949 <em>The Ford Theatre Hour <\/em>staging of \u201cThe Man Who Came to Dinner,\u201d he appeared in episodes of <em>I Love Lucy<\/em>, <em>Playhouse 90<\/em>, <em>Burke\u2019s Law<\/em>, and more. Horton had semi-recurring roles as \u201cUncle Ned\u201d on <em>Dennis the Menace<\/em> and as Hekawi medicine man Roaring Chicken on <em>F Troop<\/em> (a part he spoofed as \u201cScreaming Chicken\u201d on <em>Batman<\/em>), but his most famous TV gig was as the oft-perplexed narrator of the \u201cFractured Fairy Tales\u201d segment on the classic cartoon <em>The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-56811\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES-1024x531.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES-768x398.jpg 768w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES-1536x797.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MFF-POCKETFUL-OF-MIRACLES.jpg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When asked about retiring in a 1966 interview, a spry 80-year-old Horton responded, \u201cDear Lord! I would go right out of my mind.\u201d Time, however, was catching up to him. He played a butler in Frank Capra\u2019s final film, 1961\u2019s <em>Pocketful of Miracles<\/em>, and\u2014like nearly all of Hollywood\u2014cameoed in Stanley Kramer\u2019s 1964 slapstick saga <em>It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World<\/em>. After passing away from cancer at 84 in September of 1970, Edward\u2019s final big-screen performance came the following year, a silent turn as the aged&#8211;and flatulent&#8211;head of a tobacco company trying to get a small Iowa town&#8217;s residents to break their \u201cno smoking\u201d pledge, in Norman Lear\u2019s raucous satire <em>Cold Turkey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have my own little kingdom. I do the scavenger parts no one else wants and I get well paid for it,\u201d the actor said in a vintage interview. The parts may not have been to other actors&#8217; liking, but audiences enjoyed them, and Horton had a unique gift for making them his own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He portrayed befuddled butlers, henpecked husbands, addled aristocrats, and more in a stage, screen and TV career that spanned more than seven decades, and he was one of Classic Hollywood\u2019s busiest supporting players. 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