Joseph Cawthorn

Joseph Cawthorn

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872. He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895, 1897 or 1898, and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta The Fortune Teller. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in Mother Goose (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical Little Nemo (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted", he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot. Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club. When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in Gold Diggers of 1935; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar.

  • Title: Joseph Cawthorn
  • Popularity: 1.707
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1868-03-27
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Joseph Bridger Cawthorn, Joseph Cawthorne, Joe Cawthorne, Joe Cawthorn, Джозеф Которн
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  • 1933
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    Blondie Johnson

    Blondie Johnson

    6.1 1933 HD

    A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.

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  • 1942
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    The Postman Didn't Ring

    The Postman Didn't Ring

    1 1942 HD

    Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

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  • 1930
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    Dixiana

    Dixiana

    5 1930 HD

    A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the...

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  • 1932
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    Love Me Tonight

    Love Me Tonight

    6.6 1932 HD

    A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.

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    White Zombie

    White Zombie

    5.9 1932 HD

    In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide...

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  • 1936
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    The Great Ziegfeld

    The Great Ziegfeld

    6.2 1936 HD

    Lavish biography of Flo Ziegfeld, the producer who became Broadway's biggest starmaker.

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  • 1934
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    Sweet Adeline

    Sweet Adeline

    5.7 1934 HD

    In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this...

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  • 1935
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    Naughty Marietta

    Naughty Marietta

    5.1 1935 HD

    In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an...

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  • 1933
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    Best of Enemies

    Best of Enemies

    1 1933 HD

    Buddy Rogers and Marian Nixon playing the grown children of feuding German-Americans Frank Morgan and Joseph Cawthorn. Romance blossoms between...

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  • 1931
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    Peach-o-Reno

    Peach-o-Reno

    6 1931 HD

    After a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters...

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  • 1931
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    Kiki

    Kiki

    4.5 1931 HD

    A young Frenchwoman is determined to get into and stay in show business, no matter what. Then she's determined to win a recently divorced man's...

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  • 1934
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    Young and Beautiful

    Young and Beautiful

    4.5 1934 HD

    Bob Preston, publicity man for Superba Pictures, uses his publicity skills in an attempt to make this fiancée June Dale the most famous movie...

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  • 1927
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    Silk Legs

    Silk Legs

    1 1927 HD

    Male and female sales agents, Phil and Ruth, for rival hosiery concerns try to land an order. For a while Phil succeeds and puts on an exhibition but...

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  • 1934
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    The Last Gentleman

    The Last Gentleman

    3 1934 HD

    In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate...

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  • 1935
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    Sweet Music

    Sweet Music

    5.7 1935 HD

    A midwest band leader and his lead singer share a love-hate relationship as they try for success in New York.

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  • 1936
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    One Rainy Afternoon

    One Rainy Afternoon

    4.6 1936 HD

    Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to...

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  • 1935
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    Harmony Lane

    Harmony Lane

    3.5 1935 HD

    The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.

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  • 1936
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    Brides Are Like That

    Brides Are Like That

    4.8 1936 HD

    Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

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  • 1934
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    Housewife

    Housewife

    7.6 1934 HD

    Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend...

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  • 1936
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    Hot Money

    Hot Money

    4 1936 HD

    Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

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  • 1933
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    Broken Dreams

    Broken Dreams

    6 1933 HD

    Medical intern Robert Morley is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He...

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  • 1929
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    Dance Hall

    Dance Hall

    3.8 1929 HD

    A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.

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  • 1931
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    The Runaround

    The Runaround

    7 1931 HD

    Filmed in an early Technicolor process, The Runaround tells the story of Broadway dancer Evelyn who refuses to play the gold-digging games indulged...

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  • 1932
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    They Call It Sin

    They Call It Sin

    5.8 1932 HD

    An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

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  • 1940
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    Scatterbrain

    Scatterbrain

    1 1940 HD

    A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

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  • 1928
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    Hold 'Em Yale

    Hold 'Em Yale

    6 1928 HD

    A young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.

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  • 1929
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    Jazz Heaven

    Jazz Heaven

    5 1929 HD

    A young songwriter struggles to make good in New York.

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  • 1934
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    Twenty Million Sweethearts

    Twenty Million Sweethearts

    6 1934 HD

    Unscrupulous agent Rush Blake makes singing waiter Buddy Clayton a big radio star while Peggy Cornell, who has lost her own radio show, helps Buddy.

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  • 1934
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    Lazy River

    Lazy River

    7 1934 HD

    Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

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  • 1933
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    Whistling in the Dark

    Whistling in the Dark

    5.6 1933 HD

    A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

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  • 1935
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    Page Miss Glory

    Page Miss Glory

    6.3 1935 HD

    A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

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  • 1935
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    Maybe It's Love

    Maybe It's Love

    6 1935 HD

    Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

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  • 1929
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    Street Girl

    Street Girl

    5.8 1929 HD

    A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

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  • 1935
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    Smart Girl

    Smart Girl

    1 1935 HD

    Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a...

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  • 1934
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    Music in the Air

    Music in the Air

    4.8 1934 HD

    A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

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  • 1936
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    Freshman Love

    Freshman Love

    6 1936 HD

    A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

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  • 1940
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    Lillian Russell

    Lillian Russell

    6.1 1940 HD

    Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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  • 1935
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    Bright Lights

    Bright Lights

    4.5 1935 HD

    Husband-and-wife vaudeville stars separate when success goes to his head.

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  • 1932
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    Men Are Such Fools

    Men Are Such Fools

    1 1932 HD

    An immigrant and his wife arrive in America hoping to make it big in the world of music. Shortly thereafter, though, the husband finds out his wife...

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  • 1929
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    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew

    5.2 1929 HD

    Adapted from Shakespeare's play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca,...

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  • 1941
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    So Ends Our Night

    So Ends Our Night

    6 1941 HD

    An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.

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  • 1931
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    A Tailor-Made Man

    A Tailor-Made Man

    1 1931 HD

    John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs...

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  • 1936
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    Crime Over London

    Crime Over London

    6 1936 HD

    With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

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  • 1927
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    Very Confidential

    Very Confidential

    1 1927 HD

    A young lady impersonates a famous sportswoman while trying to win over a man.

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  • 1935
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    Gold Diggers of 1935

    Gold Diggers of 1935

    6.4 1935 HD

    Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

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  • 1929
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    Speakeasy

    Speakeasy

    5 1929 HD

    Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the...

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  • 1933
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    Grand Slam

    Grand Slam

    3.7 1933 HD

    A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

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  • 1930
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    The Princess and the Plumber

    The Princess and the Plumber

    1 1930 HD

    A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young...

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  • 1934
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    The Human Side

    The Human Side

    1 1934 HD

    The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.

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  • 1927
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    Two Girls Wanted

    Two Girls Wanted

    1 1927 HD

    Marianna Miller, who together with her sister Sarah pounds the pavements, looking for a job. After a period of starvation and deprivation Marianna is...

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  • 1933
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    Made on Broadway

    Made on Broadway

    6.5 1933 HD

    A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he...

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