COMEDIAN FOUGHT HIS WAY TO SCREEN
Edgar Kennedy, who appears with Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd in Universal’s ‘ Cnarlie M'Carthy, Detective,’ literally fought his way to a place on the screen. Kennedy was heavy-weight boxing champion of the Pacific Coast in 1911-12, later playing in light opera, musical comedy, and vaudeville. Determined to try pictures, he visited, the Mack Sennett studios, near Hollywood. An altercation arose, and Kennedy was ganged by a half-dozen very rough labourers.
When the dust of battle settled, the labourers tvere on the ground, nursing sore jaivs. Mack Sennett, who had witnessed the battle, immediately asked Kennedy to become one of■ his famous Keystone Cops. Known as “ Slow-Burn Kennedy,” the’actor has appeared iii hundreds of productions. He is noted for his portrayals of an exasperated man. In ‘ Charlie M'Carthy, Detective,’ he is seen as the dim-wit police inspector who is constantly heckled by M'Carthy during the solution of a baffling murder mystery.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 5
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