Harold Peary
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Comic actor Harold Peary is best remembered for playing the colorful, pompous blowhard the Great Gildersleeve on radio and in four feature films. Born in Portugal but raised in California, Peary was 11 when he began touring in a boys choir. In 1929,... more
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Cast: Lloyd Bridges Barton MacLane John Hoyt Nancy Gates Ronnie Ashcroft
Tags: Drama
Length: 89min
Per its title, Wetbacks deals with the smuggling into the US of illegal Mexican aliens. The villains are played by John Hoyt and, of all people, Harold "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary. Hoping to smash Hoyt and Peary's smuggling operation is...
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Gordon M. Douglas Renie Amelita Ward Vernon Walker
Tags: Haunted House Film Political Satire Comedy Fantasy
Length: 64min
The last and least of RKO Radio's B-series based on radio's "Great Gildersleeve", Gildersleeve's Ghost is a standard "scare" comedy redeemed by some enthusiastic performances. The barely relevant title comes from the fact that the film opens in a...
Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943)
Cast: Albert S. D'Agostino Gordon M. Douglas Renie Billie Burke Leonid Kinskey
Length: 65min
Gildersleeve on Broadway was the third in a series of RKO B-pictures inspired by the radio sitcom The Great Gildersleeve. Harold Peary once more stars as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, water commissioner and resident blowhard of the town of...
Cast: Jane Darwell Albert S. D'Agostino Gordon M. Douglas Joey Ray Nancy Gates
Length: 62min
In this comedy, Gildersleeve is assigned to be a contentious jury foreman who refuses, despite the opinions of all the other jurors, to believe that the gangster being tried is really guilty. He seems oblivious to the wealth of evidence around him....
Cast: Edgar Bergen Allan Dwan Ginny Simms Dummy: Charlie McCarthy Gale Gordon
Length: 76min
Filmed on leftover Magnificent Ambersons sets, Here We Go Again is the most endearingly wacky of RKO Radio's Fibber McGee & Molly vehicles. The story begins as the popular radio duo prepares to leave their home town of Wistful Vista and embark upon a...
Cast: Lucille Ball Victor Mature Ginny Simms Robert Wise Renie
Length: 87min
Victor Mature and Lucille Ball top the star-studded cast of RKO Radio's Seven Days Leave. Mature plays Johnny Grey, an eternally smiling GI who suddenly falls heir to 100,000. There's just one catch: Johnny must marry heiress Terry (Ball), whom he's...
Cast: Jane Darwell Albert S. D'Agostino Gordon M. Douglas Mary Field Thurston Hall
Length: 62min
This was the first of five profitable RKO Radio quickies based on the popular radio series The Great Gildersleeve. Harold Peary, a normally slender actor who went through an arduous fattening-up process before shooting started, repeats his radio role...
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