Here are 10 things you should know about Edward Brophy, born 129 years ago today. He began his screen career behind the scenes before becoming an in-demand character actor.
Buster Keaton with Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike. Edwards voiced Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio (1940) he therefore sang the original recording of “When You Wish Upon a Star”. He was also the voice of one of the crows in Dumbo. He recorded the hit song “Singin’ in the Rain” in 1929.
The actor who comes in at the end of the clip is Edward Brophy who was the voice of Timothy Q. Mouse in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941)
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Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 8:00 p.m.
MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe's search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Sunday, Dec. 18 at 5:45 p.m.
IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Mad Love (1935), starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
Mad Love @hat will obsessed surgeon Dr. Gogol do to be with lovely Yvonne Orlac … When her pianist husband’s hands are crushed? How far will he go…
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Bundle Of Joy by #NormanTaurog starring #DebbieReynolds and #EddieFisher, "plods along under the mistaken assumption that the pretty sets and bright cinematography will allow us to excuse the script’s preposterous whims,"
NORMAN TAUROG
Bil’s rating (out of 5): B.5
USA, 1956. Edmund Grainger Productions. Story by Felix Jackson, Screenplay by Norman Krasna, Robert Carson, Arthur Sheekman. Cinematography by William E. Snyder. Produced by Edmund Grainger. Music by Walter Scharf. Production Design by Albert S. D’Agostino, Walter Holscher. Costume Design by Howard Shoup. Film Editing by Harry Marker.
Fifties movies…
Edward Brophy as Dippy and Victor McLaglen in a publicity still for The Big Guy (1939). Ed was born in New York City and had 147 acting credits from 1920 to an uncredited bit in another honorable mention, Two Rode Together. His entries among my best 1.001 movies are The Cameraman, Freaks, Beast of the City, The Thin Man, Mad Love, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Dance Girl Dance, Dumbo (as the voice of Timothy Q Mouse), and Air Force. His other honorable mentions are A Slight Case of Murder and All Through the Night.