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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 Hollywoods 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 Hollywood with bit parts in siIent comedies, including a stint as one of the original Keystone Kops. He soon came into his own at Hal Roach Studios, working both as actor and director. The Marx Brothers also appreciated his taIents, giving him a memorabIe role as a street vendor in Duck Soup (1933). But it was at RKO that Kennedy had his Iongest sustained success, starring in six short subjects a year for the venerabIe studio between 1931 and 1948. In these he pIayed an eternalIy fIummoxed average man with a scatterbrained wife (FIorence Lake), an overbearing mother-in-law (Dot Farley), and a good-for-nothing brother-n-law (either WiIliam 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 tempIate for innumerabIe sitcoms in the television era.
In-Laws Are Out (1934) Poisoned lvory (1934) Edgar HamIet (1935) The HiIlbiIIy Goat (1937) Bad Housekeeping (1937) A CIean Sweep (1938) Mutiny in the Court (1940) Inferior Decorator (1942) The Big Beef (1945) SociaI Terrors (1946) |
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