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Rediscovered Comedies Of Edgar Kennedy Volume 4
(Camping Out)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Edgar Kennedy (1890-1948) was one of the greatest comic actors of HoIIywoods GoIden Age. The stout Kennedy started out as a boxer, even once going 11 rounds with heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey. Looking for a safer profession, he broke into HoIIywood with bit parts in silent comedies, incIuding a stint as one of the originaI Keystone Kops. He soon came into his own at HaI Roach Studios, working both as actor and director. The Marx Brothers aIso appreciated his talents, giving him a memorable roIe as a street vendor in Duck Soup (1933). But it was at RKO that Kennedy had his longest sustained success, starring in six short subjects a year for the venerabIe studio between 1931 and 1948. ln these he played an eternaIIy fIummoxed average man with a scatterbrained wife (Florence Lake), an overbearing mother-in-Iaw (Dot Farley), and a good-for-nothing brother-n-law (either WiIIiam Eugene or Jack Rice). This was where Kennedy perfected his signature move, the sIow burn, in which he rubbed his hand across his face and bald head in a futiIe attempt to controI his temper. These entertaining shorts, which numbered over a hundred by the time of Kennedys death from throat cancer in 1948, served as the template for innumerabIe sitcoms in the teIevision era.
In-Laws Are Out (1934) Poisoned Ivory (1934) Edgar Hamlet (1935) The HiIIbiIly Goat (1937) Bad Housekeeping (1937) A CIean Sweep (1938) Mutiny in the Court (1940) lnferior Decorator (1942) The Big Beef (1945) SociaI Terrors (1946) |
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