Edward Everett Horton C/D S/D?

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― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

As a kid I preferred his sequences to Fred & Ginger dancing.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

Merry Widow

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

classic as the guy in lost horizon who keeps whining "this place is too MYSTERIOUS!!"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

You're forgetting Holiday. He was fantastic as Pro. Potter, Cary Grant's highbrow-lowbrow buddy.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

IMDB says his first movie was in '22. I didn't know he'd done silents.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Isn't he called Horace in some movie where there is some misunderstanding over whether he or Fred Astaire is actually Horace? Not to be confused with Eugene Pallette's patriarch Horace Pike in The Lady Eve.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

He was the king of a certain kind of double take or surprise take. One that has been cited by Truffaut is the scene in Trouble in Paradise where he is trying to remember where he saw some guy before and he finally looks at a cigarette smoldering in a gondola ashtray and thinks ... Venice! The one I like is the shellshocked look on his face when he comes out to get the paper the morning after his wedding in Design For Living.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Tonsils!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

He is in The Merry Widow? I've got to try to watch that again. I like the part when Maurice Chevalier says "I tried to bring a little moonlight into your life, and you have to pull down the shade!"

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

The thing about The merry Widow is that as Ambassador Popoff he's a bit more manly and slightly more competent than the average Horton role.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

"Immorality may be fun, but it's not fun enough to replace one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day."

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I saw June Foray (voice of Rocky the Squirrel) at a Museum of Broacasting thing on "Bullwinkle" once, and she said EEH showed up at a recording session wearing the most moth-eaten woolen thing. She marveled at it, and Horton, then in his 70s, beamed "It's my COLLEGE sweater!"

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 September 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

That's a beautiful story.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

After creating this thread, I googled him up and learned/was reminded that he played an Indian chief on F Troop.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 17 September 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

k/l, the movie you're talking about, where EEH is Horace Hardwick, is Top Hat. All of the Astaire/Rogers films he appeared in, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Shall We Dance, were utterly classic. He was so good as the befuddled and easily flustered chum of Fred's character.

EEH was also in Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a movie that I barely remember except that it was a lot funnier because of EEH.

― fiofio (fiona), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

wiki

He began his college career at Oberlin College in Ohio. He was asked to leave after an incident where he climbed to the top of the Service Building, and after collecting an audience, threw off a dummy, causing the viewers to think he had jumped. Later, he attended college at Brooklyn Polytechnic and Columbia University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

what a cutup

― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:56 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

born in Brooklyn this day in 1886

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABd84cKnCA

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:30 (eight years ago)

You're forgetting Holiday. He was fantastic as Pro. Potter, Cary Grant's highbrow-lowbrow buddy.

He plays the same part in the earlier version (1930) w/ Mary Astor in the Hepburn role (I think). It's on YouTube.

I saw one of his series of star-vehicle silent two-reelers in January, Behind the Counter (1928). He had a female love interest!

His last role was the elderly tobacco tycoon in Norman Lear's Cold Turkey, in which his character farts, three years before Blazing Saddles.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:38 (eight years ago)

I must humbly apologize to the spirit of Edward Everett Horton, for I have let eleven years pass since this thread was hatched without once confessing my ardent love for his work. As an actor, he stands at the top of my pantheon of farceurs, sharing that eminence only with P.G. Wodehouse as a writer of farce.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 17 March 2017 17:17 (eight years ago)

^It all makes sense now.

A few more scenes with those two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9fHz8fOIPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpoG1LJj7BU

― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2017 15:39 (eight years ago)

Better quality version of the second:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzKELVv3XPg

― Got Your Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 March 2017 15:40 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

Would you like to fund a disc of his silent shorts series?

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/silentfilm/the-edward-everett-horton-dvd-project/

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:28 (five years ago)

I once saw an x-rated cartoon from the 30's and one of the main characters (who was so horny he literally fucked a hole in the wall) was "E. Everett Hard-On."

― henry s, Monday, 3 August 2020 02:15 (five years ago)

Best actor ever

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 August 2020 02:24 (five years ago)

oh dear dear

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 August 2020 03:42 (five years ago)

two years pass...

Post by Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius) from Edward Everett Horton C/D S/D?

I saw June Foray (voice of Rocky the Squirrel) at a Museum of Broacasting thing on "Bullwinkle" once, and she said EEH showed up at a recording session wearing the most moth-eaten woolen thing. She marveled at it, and Horton, then in his 70s, beamed "It's my COLLEGE sweater!"

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:09 (three years ago)

Heh, my trick almost worked. Will try again.

― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 December 2022 02:09 (three years ago)

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