Edward Everett Horton Autographed 8X10 and similar items

Edward Everett Horton ( March 18, 1886 - September 29, 1970) autographed vintage 1940's double weight 8x10 photo hand signed and inscribed To Mary Jessma Wilson Sincerely Edward Everett Horton. This photo is in fine condition and will come in a clear hard top load for display. Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920's, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros,'early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930's, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934), the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger-Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions. Buy with confidence we have been selling in-person autographs since 1992. Vintage Hollywood