Some of you probably know Edward Everett Horton only as (a) the narrator of Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales" or (b) an occasional guest star on 60's TV shows like Batman and F Troop. Actually, Mr. Horton (1886-1970) had a long, glorious film career that started in silent pictures and continued on up until a posthumously-released silent cameo in the 1970 film, Cold Turkey. He was a dependable character actor who seems to have been in every movie made in Hollywood in the thirties and forties and an awful lot after.
This coming Thursday would have been his 124th birthday so Turner Classic Movies is offering up an Edward Everett Horton Film Festival — five of the umpteen-zillion pictures in which he appeared: The Body Disappears, I Married an Angel, Faithful in My Fashion, Down to Earth and Her Husband's Affairs. This is one of the reasons we love Turner Classic Movies. Who else would do such a thing?