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A NUTTY NUT
NEWS NETWORK EXCLUSIVE
BILL
CASSERA INTERVIEW
by Steve Wichrowski
The author of "Edgar
Kennedy: Master of the Slow Burn", Bill Cassera, gives a brief but
informative interview on how the book started off as a hobby and was
changed to a labor of love after a poignant contact with one of Edgar
Kennedy's family members. Hear the details directly from the author of
this very popular book in this 2007 exclusive interview. For more
details of the book please visit
www.edgarkennedy.org
Edgar worked with all the
greats like Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers and Fatty
Arbuckle but in his own right he was very successful starring in hundreds
of films and even directing some shorts for Hal Roach. For every studio in
Hollywood Edgar Kennedy embodied one thing: frustration. Edgar was
therefore hired to play hotheads, cops, prison wardens, blue-collared
workmen or simply a short-tempered, stubborn householder. His Average Man
comedies were said to be the basis of the kind of domestic sit-com later
made famous on television. Edgar passed away on November 9th, 1948.
(The above text is from
The Charlie Hall Picture Archive, page 104)
Hollywood
Hotel (1937)
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