Edward Everett Horton 2013 Birthday Celebration on TCM

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Turner Classic Movies plays Edward Everett Horton movies all day Monday, March 18, in honor of the popular character actor born that date in 1886.

I cobbled together a pretty strong Edward Edward Horton biography about a year and a half ago, which still read pretty good when I checked it out again Sunday evening. You’ll find that post by clicking HERE.

Seemed like a good day to recycle it, especially for newer subscribers!

But the fun for me is to keep digging, so I couldn’t resist scanning the online archives to add something fresh about Mr. Horton. You’ll find a handful of old newspaper quotes from Edward Edward Horton below the complete TCM schedule, which follows for your convenience:

Edward Everett Horton on TCM, March 18, 2013

Note: TCM US Schedule; All times EST.

• 6:30 am – Wide Open (1930) starring Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller, Louise Fazenda, D: Archie Mayo
• 7:45 am – The Front Page (1931) starring Pat O’Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Brian, D: Lewis Milestone
• 9:30 am – Lonely Wives (1932) starring Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Laura La Plante, D: Russell Mack
• 11:00 am – Smarty (1934) starring Warren William, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton, D: Robert Florey
• 12:15 pm – Success at Any Price (1934) starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, D: J. Walter Ruben
• 1:45 pm – That’s Right, You’re Wrong (1940) starring Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, D: David Butler
• 3:30 pm – Cinderella Jones (1946) starring Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Edward Everett Horton, D: Busby Berkeley
• 5:00 pm – Faithful in My Fashion (1946) starring Tom Drake, Donna Reed, Edward Everett Horton, D: Sidney Salkow
• 6:30 pm – Her Husband’s Affairs (1947) starring Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Edward Everett Horton, D: S. Sylvan Simon

After that marathon comes TCM’s third Monday night in March to feature the movies of Star of the Month Greer Garson.

While I like Julia Misbehaves (1948) the best of the bunch (weak ending though) I do want to point to the rarely aired sequel to Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Miniver Story (1950), airing at 1:30 am EST. It’s bit of a bummer and doesn’t hold a candle to the original, but fans of the first movie probably should check it out.

Edward Everett Horton Quotes, 1960-62

On young actors in 1960 — “Gee, they start out with so much. I had nothing–no looks, no voice, no clothes. All I had was this burning desire to be an actor” (Thomas).

“I never started out as a comedian. In fact, when I did stock in the early days I avoided comedy at every turn. It can be so deadly if it doesn’t go over” (Heffernan).

“I was lighting up a cigarette in one of my early pictures. Meantime, someone just off the set was telling a story. I became so engrossed in it that the match burned my finger. I jumped and did what was to become my famous double-take. Everyone howled. The director asked me to repeat it for the scene. After that everything they wanted me for was basically comedy” (Heffernan).

“The first butler I ever played was in “Ruggles of Red Gap” in 1923. And everybody remembers me for that part. I guess you might say I was typed” (Finnigin).

“I’m still using the same three facial expressions I’ve used for forty years” (Finnigin).

“I don’t know of people come to see theater, or me as a museum. ‘Look, it walks,’ they must say” (Finnigin).

On adding rooms to his Encino mansion over the years in 1962 — “We called them the Lubitsch room, the RKO room, according to where the money came from” (Thomas).

Sources

• Finnigan, Joseph. “Edward Everett Horton ‘Buttles’ Back to Hollywood.” Schednectady Gazette 11 Jul 1961: 13. Google New. Web. 17 Mar 2013.
• Heffernan, Harold. “Edward Everett Horton Tells How Mishap Made Him Comedian Against His Will.” Toledo Blade 8 May 1960: 2. Google New. Web. 17 Mar 2013.
• Thomas, Bob. “Edward Everett Horton: 50 Years Of Sly Tricks.” The Evening Independent 13 Jun 1960: 7-B. Google New. Web. 17 Mar 2013.
• Thomas, Bob. “Edward Everett Horton Likes His Home–‘Last of Monstrosities.” Daytona Beach Morning Journal 10 Oct 1962: 5. Google New. Web. 17 Mar 2013.

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