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Joseph Cawthorn (March 29, 1868, New York City, New York – January 21, 1949, Beverly Hills, California) was an American stage and film comic actor. Cawthorn started out in show business as a child, debuting at Robinson's Music Hall in his hometown of New York in 1872.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oxford Companion to American Theatre: Joseph Cawthorn )〕 He appeared in minstrel shows and vaudeville as a "Dutch" comic, employing a thick German dialect. He later worked in British music halls and American touring companies. Cawthorn made his Broadway debut in 1895,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joseph Cawthorn Biography )〕 1897〔 or 1898,〔 and embarked on a long career lasting over two decades. His first success was playing Boris in Victor Herbert's 1898 operetta ''The Fortune Teller''. Other notable Broadway roles included the title character in ''Mother Goose'' (1903) and inventor Dr. Pill in the fantasy musical ''Little Nemo'' (1908). In the latter, he was called upon to ad lib to buy time during one performance. As "the scene called for him to describe imaginary animals he had hunted",〔 he invented the "whiffenpoof" on the spot.〔 Yale students in the audience appropriated it for the name of their glee club.〔 When his Broadway stardom waned, Cawthorn moved to Hollywood in 1927 and started a second prolific career, appearing in over 50 films, the last in 1942. He played Gremio in the first sound adaptation of ''The Taming of the Shrew'' in 1929, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; Schultz in ''Gold Diggers of 1935''; and Florenz Ziegfeld's father in ''The Great Ziegfeld'' (1936). Cawthorn died peacefully on January 21, 1949. He was survived by his wife, actress Queenie Vassar. ==Partial filmography== *''Speakeasy'' (1929) *''Street Girl'' (1929) *''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1929) *''Dixiana'' (1930) *''Kiki'' (1931) *''A Tailor Made Man'' (1931) *''White Zombie'' (1932) *''Love Me Tonight'' (1932) *''They Call It Sin'' (1932) *''Whistling in the Dark'' (1933) *''Blondie Johnson'' (1933) *''The Cat and the Fiddle'' (1934) *''Glamour'' (1934) *''Twenty Million Sweethearts'' (1934) *''Housewife'' (1934) *''Young and Beautiful'' (1934) *''Music in the Air'' (1934) *''Sweet Adeline'' (1934) *''Lazy River'' (1934) *''Naughty Marietta'' (1935) *''Gold Diggers of 1935'' (1935) *''Page Miss Glory'' (1935) *''Bright Lights'' (1935) *''Harmony Lane'' (1935) * ''Crime Over London'' (1936) *''The Great Ziegfeld'' (1936) *''One Rainy Afternoon'' (1936) *''Lillian Russell'' (1940) *''So Ends Our Night'' (1941) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Cawthorn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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