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    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Charles Butterworth
Born:
1896-07-26,
South Bend,
Indiana,
USA
Education:
NA
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1946-06-14
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Charles Butterworth

Charles Butterworth was an American actor specializing in comedy roles, often in musicals. In his obituary, he was described as “the man who could not make up his mind”. Butterworth’s distinct voice was the inspiration for the Cap’n Crunch commercials from the Jay Ward studio. Voice actor Daws Butler based Cap’n Crunch on the voice of Butterworth.

He once worked on a newspaper but was fired and then rehired when it was found out that he was courting the daughter of a big local advertiser. He also worked in the legal profession before going on stage and becoming a comedian in vaudeville in 1924.

Butterworth’s most memorable film role was in the Irving Berlin musical This is the Army as the bugle-playing Private Eddie Dibble. He generally was a supporting actor, e.g., to Mae West in Every Day’s a Holiday; to the Andrews Sisters in What’s Cookin’?, Give out, Sisters, and Always a Bridesmaid; to Jeanette MacDonald in The Cat and the Fiddle and Love Me Tonight; to Myrna Loy in Penthouse; to Lew Ayres in My Weakness; to Laurel and Hardy and Jimmy Durante in Hollywood Party; to Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, and Joan Crawford in Forsaking All Others; to Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor in Magnificent Obsession; to Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray in Swing High, Swing Low; to Bob Hope in Thanks for the Memory; and to Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, and Burgess Meredith in Second Chorus. However, he had top billing in We Went to College, played the title role in Baby Face Harrington, and shared top billing with Ann Corio in The Sultan’s Daughter. He is credited with the quip “Why don’t you slip out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?” from Every Day’s a Holiday. In Forsaking All Others, when Clark Gable, quoting Benjamin Franklin, said, “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” Butterworth replied, “Ever take a good look at a milkman?”

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