Edward Everett Horton
26 titles
Filmography
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Lonely Wives
(1931)A lonely husband whose wife is away hires a lookalike to take his place and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with a pretty coquette.

Fractured Fairy Tales
Featuring a zany cast of characters, this collection of short films takes familiar childhood stories and adds a silly twist.

The Man in the Mirror
(1936)A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.

2000 Years Later
(1969)A Roman general sent to warn the modern-day masses against the hedonism of his empire finds a fad-obsessed America steeped in a Reditus ad Roma.

Shall We Dance
(1937)A ballet dancer and a showgirl fake a marriage for publicity purposes, then fall in love.

Top Hat
(1935)An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

Lost Horizon
(1937)A timeless masterpiece starring Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt in the lavishly-produced vision of Shangri-La.

Holiday
(1930)After a whirlwind courtship, a free-thinking young man gets engaged to a wealthy socialite whose family's conservative values clash with his own.

Sing and Like It
(1934)Annie Snodgrass has an awful singing voice, but love-struck gangster Fenny is so entranced by her that he tries to turn her into a big star anyway.
I Married an Angel
(1942)With a lilting "Tira Lira La," a bevy of Budapest beauties show up for the birthday celebration of the town's most eligible bachelor, Count Palaffi (Nelson Eddy). Weary of their scheming attentions, the wealthy playboy slips away to his room… and dreams the fanciful escape of I Married an Angel. That angel is Jeanette MacDonald, starring with Eddy for the eighth time. The two stars are delightful as ever, harmonizing the Rodgers and Hart title tune, and more, in heavenly fashion. And the story has all the puffy-cloud imaginativeness you'd expect. This whimsical bon-bon of a film marked the end of the legendary MacDonald-Eddy pairings. They were to silver screen operetta what Astaire and Rogers were to dance. There's never been anyone else like them. There never will be again.

Reaching for the Moon
(1930)Wall Street wizard, Larry Day, new to the ways of love, is coached by his valet. He follows Vivian Benton on an ocean liner, where cocktails, laced with a "love potion," work their magic.

The Town Went Wild
(1944)Chaos ensues as two families learn their sons were switched at birth, leading to a hilarious dilemma when a daughter is set to marry her own brother.

Smarty
(1934)A squabbling couple can't seem to make it to the divorce court.

Hitting a New High
(1937)Millionaire opera buff Lucius B. Blynn (Edward Everett Horton) heads to Africa after big game – and bags himself a coloratura.

The Gay Divorcee
(1934)Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sing, dance and find romance in one of their greatest films. While returning home from a job in Paris, American dancer Guy Holden (Astaire) is swept into a whirlwind romance with Mimi Glossop (Rogers), who thinks he is the co-respondent her lawyer has hired to hasten her divorce. Features “The Continental,” which won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The Front Page
(1931)Hildy Johnson's current employer is full of reporters who invent stories as much as write about them. The paper's current story focuses on the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from jail, Hildy seizes upon the opportunity for a unique scoop.

Cold Turkey
(1971)A minister in a small town takes up the challenge of getting the residents to quit smoking for thirty days to collect a 25 million dollar check.

Summer Storm
(1944)A tale of power and passions surrounding a peasant woman who tempts a cynical magistrate away from his publishing heiress fiancée to tragic ends.

Sunny
(1941)Love blossoms between a circus performer and an auto fortune scion at a Mardi Gras celebration, but their clashing backgrounds threaten their future.

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
(1941)When a young boxer dies too early due to a heavenly clerical error, an angel seeks a replacement body to help him return to Earth.