"Broadway" comic strips - Robert Emmett Keane & Charles Butterworth
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:28 pm
Robert Emmett Keane was a vaudeville and musical comedy straightman before turning to a career in talkies as a prolific supporting player. He is best remembered by Laurel & Hardy fans as the closest thing to a regular cast member in 3 of the team's Fox features. Droll Charles Butterworth had a much more successful career as comic relief in numerous films of the 1930s. Here it's nice to see Keane and Butterworth making fun of the hokey material used in these "Broadway" comic strips.