University of Wyoming
Interviews -- Reel-to-reel audio tapes.
Performances and interviews -- Phonodisc -- 78, 33 1/3, 80, 45 rpm.
Horton (1886-1970) was an actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He acted on the stage beginning around 1910, in silent and talking movies mainly as a comedy character actor, and later in radio and television.
Collection consists of material relating to Horton's acting career, including mainly scripts for plays, motion pictures, radio shows, and television commercials and shows (including many for "Fractured Fairy Tales" which he narrated for the "Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon show). There are also related photographs, programs, correspondence, broadsides and other promotional materials, personal account books, contracts, scrapbooks and other memorabilia. Also included are audiotape recordings of two interviews of Horton (1969, 1970) and many phonograph records of performances and interviews.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
There are no known other archival collections created by Edward Everett Horton at the date of processing.
Finding aid available in repository.
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