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Upcoming Shows: Edgar Dearing

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Midwesterner Elmer (Buster Keaton) takes a beauty-contest winner (Anita Page) and her mother (Trixie Friganza) to Hollywood. [NR]

Tue Dec 02 9:30 AM on Turner Classic Movies [501]

Starring: Buster Keaton , Anita Page , Trixie Friganza , Robert Montgomery , Fred Niblo , Edgar Dearing , Gwen Lee , John Miljan , Lionel Barrymore , William Haines , William Collier Sr. , Dorothy Sebastian , Karl Dane , David Burton , Cecil B. DeMille , Jackie Coogan

Directed by: Edward Sedgwick

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Gambler/dancer Lucky (Fred Astaire) falls for dance teacher Penny (Ginger Rogers) while engaged to Margaret. [NR]

Sat Dec 06 6:00 PM on Turner Classic Movies [501]

Starring: Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Victor Moore , Helen Broderick , Eric Blore , Betty Furness , George Metaxa , Landers Stevens , John Harrington , Pierre Watkin , Abe Reynolds , Gerald Hamer , Edgar Dearing , Frank Jenks , Ralph Byrd

Directed by: George Stevens

Producer: Pandro S. Berman

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Here's a scene from Shadow of the Thin Man (1941) that demonstrates the Edgar Dearing four-step plan for paying the rent. Step 1 - Ride motorcycle: Step 2 - Perform an authentically coplike manoeuvre:

(1937), for example, he plays a taxi driver who appears in one scene, looking on with queasy distaste as another taxi driver is forced by the cops to drink a bottle of milk (don't ask): Thankfully, such aberrations were rare. Mostly, Edgar was able to remain in the saddle and in uniform. In 1946, a tiny news snippet appeared on the entertainment page of various newspapers:

He might be on horseback, but he still performs an authentically coplike manoeuvre before delivering a couple of lines in a humorous, cartoonish manner: The four-step plan served Edgar well but, occasionally, a script called for him to dismount and join the ranks of common-or-garden earthbound cop extras. Here he is in After the Thin Man (

Step 3 - Deliver a couple of lines in a humorous, cartoonish manner: Step 4 - Repeat in as many films as possible in your 40-year career, including Sullivan's Travels (1941):

Step 2 - Perform an authentically coplike manoeuvre: Step 3 - Deliver a couple of lines in a humorous, cartoonish manner:

a full-time extra (2). And he wasn't able to act only when on a bike! His four-step plan was freely adaptable to a range of situations, such as this one, in Made for Each Other (1939): He might be on horseback, but he still performs an authentically coplike manoeuvre before delivering a couple of lines in a humorous, cartoonish manner:

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