Ernest Truex

b. 19 Sept 1889, Kansas Town, Missouri, USA, d. 26 June 1973, Fallbrook, California, USA. On stage from early years as a child, Truex remained little in stature, which helped gain him happy-go-lucky assisting roles. He is at the Broadway musical comedies Girlies (1910), Dr. Deluxe (1911) and performed the business lead in Very Great Eddie (1915), wherein, as Eddie Kettle, he sang Jerome Kern’s ‘Babes In The Real wood’. He also got the leading part in Pitter Patter (1920), and is at London’s Western End for The Five O’time clock Girl (1929), that the libretto was compiled by Fred Thompson and Man Bolton. In this same period in his profession, Truex also made an appearance in silent movies including Caprice (1913), AN EXCELLENT Small Devil (1914), those two with Mary Pickford, SERIOUSLY In (1918) and Six Cylinder Like (1923). In the 30s and 40s, he continuing making stage looks like the Third Little Display (1931), Frederika (1937) and Helen WOULD GO TO Troy (1944). Truex was extremely active in movies in these years, including looks in Whistling AT NIGHT (1933), Everybody Dance (1936, manufactured in Britain and where he co-starred with Cicely Courtneidge), Begin Cheering (1938, with Jimmy Durante), It’s AN EXCELLENT Globe (1939, a humor automobile for Claudette Colbert and Wayne Stewart), His Young lady Friday, the strike 1940 humor starring Rosalind Russell and Cary Give where Truex was specifically effective. Also in 1940, he is at the star-studded biopic from the popular nineteenth-century musical humor celebrity Lillian Russell (which bore her name as the name). Additional 40s films had been another star-filled musical, Personal Buckaroo (1942), ACCURATE (1943, with Mary Martin, Dick Powell and Victor Moore), Her Primitive Guy (1944), and A Night time In Heaven (1946). In the 50s, Truex made an appearance on Broadway in the musical Flahooley (1951), and in several films like the Natural leather Saint (1956) and Twilight For The Gods (1958), and was also energetic in tv, including a continuing role in the favorite Wally Cox series, Mr. Peepers. In the middle-60s, he produced his last film appearance, in Fluffy (1965), which starred Tony Randall and Shirley Jones, thereafter retiring.