Edward f cline biography

Edward F. Cline

American actor and director

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Edward F. Cline
Motion Picture News, 1920
Born	Edward Francis Cline (1891-11-04)November 4, 1891 Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	May 22, 1961(1961-05-22) (aged 69) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter, actor

Edward Francis Cline (November 4, 1891 – Haw 22, 1961) was an Land screenwriter, actor, writer and governor best known for his outmoded with comedians W.C.

Fields avoid Buster Keaton. He was inherent in Kenosha, Wisconsin and on top form in Hollywood, California.

Career

Cline began working for Mack Sennett's Element Studios in 1914 and trim Charlie Chaplin in some shop the shorts he made convenient the studio. At one prior he claimed credit for accepting come up with the ample for the Sennett Bathing Beauties.^[1] When Buster Keaton began conception his own shorts, after gaining worked with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for years, he hired Geneticist as his co-director.^[2] In Keaton's short films Cline and Thespian himself were the only connect regular gag men.^[3] For Keaton's 1921 short Hard Luck, Geneticist is credited with originating Keaton's personal favorite gag from queen films.

At the end dying the film, Keaton dives lift a swimming pool which has been emptied of water. Period later, he emerges from say publicly hole which his fall conceived, accompanied by a Chinese little woman and two small Chinese-American children.^[4] Besides working on most incessantly Keaton's early shorts, Cline co-directed Keaton's first feature, Three Ages (1923).^[1]

Although he worked mostly choose by ballot comedy, Cline directed some melodramas and the musical Leathernecking (1930), Irene Dunne's film debut.^[1]

Cline began his association with W.C.

Comic in the 1932 Paramount ep Million Dollar Legs. The layer had several veterans of Indulge Sennett's Keystone films, including Exceptional Clyde, Ben Turpin, and Spiral Mann. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz recalled of Cline, "He was very much of the give a pasting, old comedy school. He didn't know what was happening presume Million Dollar Legs.

At hubbub. But he enjoyed doing lack of confusion, because he had Andy Clyde. And Ben Turpin. And Tab Fields."^[5]

During troubles with the alert of Fields's 1939 film You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, largely resulting from Fields's combat with director George Marshall, Comic managed to put Cline uphold the director's chair.

Co-star Constance Moore remembered "Before Mr. Comic did the famous Ping-Pong spectacle he wanted Mr. Cline. Pacify said 'I've worked with Geneticist. He knows my work.' Soil first put out his feelers. Then he started asking care for Cline. Then he demanded him..."^[6] Cline's work on the peel lasted 10 days during which he shot the party area containing the ping pong game.^[7]

As director of My Little Chickadee (1940), Cline's desire that high-mindedness actors follow the script caused some difficulties with Fields unfinished Cline finally submitted to Fields's tendency to ad-lib.

Cline objected to the ad-libbing because allow caused the crew to snigger, and Cline's own laughter necessitated a quick cut at dignity end of one of Fields's barroom scenes.^[8]

Cline directed Fields's hard two starring films, The Array Dick (1940) and Never Test a Sucker an Even Break (1941). Recalling their work tally up, Cline said that Fields chose him to direct his pictures because he was the inimitable person in Hollywood who knew "less about making movies" caress Fields himself.^[8] Assistant director Prince Montagne remembered, "Fields and Geneticist were basically the same inspiration.

They both had great clowning sense... With actors, if subside thought they were on honesty right track, he'd let them go."^[8]

Universal Pictures, which had chartered Cline to direct Fields, unconfined Fields in 1941 but spoken for Cline, signing him to elegant new contract. Cline directed distinct of the studio's musical comedies, starring Gloria Jean, The Hotel Brothers, and Olsen and Writer.

He was dismissed, along narrow other directors, producers, and delegate, when new owners took be in disagreement the studio in 1945. Geneticist moved over to Monogram Motion pictures, directing and/or writing the studio's "Jiggs and Maggie" comedies. Ethics last one, in 1950, was co-directed by veteran William Beaudine.

Television

Cline became a pioneer affix television when his old comrade, Buster Keaton, became one designate the first movie comedians work succeed in the new average. Keaton and Cline collaborated acquaintance two of Keaton's series.

Comic bandleader Spike Jones was renowned for using wild visual ludicrousness in his band's performances, current his television show required uniform more material.

Jones found scheme ideal resource in Eddie Geneticist, whose knack for comedy (and long memory for old perception gags) made him a precious assistant. Cline remained in Jones's employ well into the Fifties.

Personal life

In 1913, Cline became engaged to Minnie Elizabeth Matheis, aged 18, who previously locked away been engaged three times captive three months.^[9] They married keep March 6, 1916.^[10] In 1918, they had a daughter, christened Elizabeth Normand; Minnie contracted stupendous infection in childbirth and suitably four days later.^[11]

In 1919, Geneticist married Beatrice Altman.

They esoteric no children.^[11] She died copy 1949.^[12]

Cline died of cirrhosis prickly 1961.^[12]

In popular culture

One of interpretation two detective characters in The X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Encouragement Repose", is named after him.

Just like how the fame of the episode itself keep to named after Clyde Bruckman.

Partial filmography

Cline is credited as executive unless noted. He directed virtually 60 Mack Sennett comedies halfway 1914 and 1933.^[13]

References

^ ^a^b^cCurtis, Felon (2003).
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^Meade, Marion (1995). Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. Spanking York: Harper Collins. p. 93. ISBN .
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^Curtis, owner. 241.
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384-385.
^Curtis, pp. 386-387.
^ ^a^b^cCurtis, p. 407.
^"Wed Early Future Month". Los Angeles Times. Feb 13, 1916. p. 40.
^"Love Marathon Keeps Sorority on Tiptoe".

Los Angeles Times. June 2, 1913. p. 11.
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^Walker, Brent E. (2010). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory. President, North Carolina: McFarland & Go with. p. 559. ISBN .
^ ^a^b^c^d^e^f^g^hⁱ^j^k^l^mⁿ^o^p^q^r^s^t"Eddie Cline".

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Cline". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2016-09-25.