Edgar Kennedy - Rediscovered Comedies of Edgar Kennedy, Volume 2 (MOD) (DVD Movie) 840418317051 playing a New York siren

playing a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (Melvyn Douglas) and moves to Wisconsin

Featuring an all-star cast including Janet Leigh ("Psycho")

her father (Ford Sterling

but nevertheless presented two long-lasting characters in Gerald McBoing-Boing (created by Dr

whose own relationship is put to the test

Edgar Kennedy - Rediscovered Comedies of Edgar Kennedy, Volume 2 (MOD) (DVD Movie) 840418317051 playing a New York sirenEdgar Kennedy, the "King of the Slow Burn," began his film career in 1914 as one of the original Keystone Kops. In 1931, at the beginning of the Sound Era, RKO Studios hired Kennedy to portray "Mr. Average Man," in a series of slapstick two reelers that lasted 17 years at a half dozen titles per year. Kennedy is perhaps now best remembered as the peanut vendor, brilliantly performing his famous "slow burn" in the Marx Brothers' 1933 masterpiece, Duck