Frank McHugh authentic autographed 8x10 photo - ??Vintage Hollywood Memorabilia??
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It is inscribed "To Jack. All Good Wishes. Sincerely Frank McHugh 6-15-70"
Francis Curry McHugh (May 23, 1898 ? September 11, 1981) was an American stage, radio, film and television actor.
McHugh debuted on Broadway in The Fall Guy, written by George Abbott and James Gleason in 1925. He also appeared in Show Girl (1929), a musical. In that same year, he made his first film, If Men Played Cards as Women Do, a short produced by Paramount. First National Pictures hired him as a contract player in January 1930.
McHugh played everything from leading man to sidekick. He often provided comic relief, particularly as genial?or obnoxious? inebriates. A wheezy, drawn-out mocking laugh, accompanied by a waving, admonitory finger, was his trademark. He appeared in more than 150 films and television productions and worked with almost every star at Warner Bros. A close friend of James Cagney's, he appeared in more Cagney movies than any other actor?eleven films between 1932 and 1953. Their friendship lasted until McHugh's death.
Cast as Father Timothy O'Dowd in the 1944 Bing Crosby film, Going My Way, McHugh later played William Jennings Depew in the 1962 episode "Keep an Eye on Santa Claus" in the ABC television series, Going My Way, starring Gene Kelly, and loosely based on the earlier film.
From 1954 to 1956, he starred in the radio program Hotel For Pets. By the 1950s, his film career had begun to decline, as evinced by his smaller role in the 1959 film Career.
From 1964 to 1965, he played Willie Walters, a live-in handyman in the 27-episode ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show, which reunited him once again onscreen with Bing Crosby. The show also co-starred Beverly Garland. McHugh's last feature film role was as a comical "sea captain" in the 1967 Elvis Presley caper film Easy Come, Easy Go. McHugh's last television appearance was as handyman Charlie Wingate in "The Fix-It Man", an episode of CBS's Lancer Western series, which starred Andrew Duggan.
On radio, McHugh had the role of Fairchild Finnegan in Phone Again, Finnegan (1946-1947). He also co-starred in Hotel for Pets (1954-1956).
McHugh belonged to a group of friends, known in Hollywood as the ?Irish Mafia,? that included his close friends James Cagney, Pat O?Brien and Spencer Tracy, as well as fellow actors Allen Jenkins, Ralph Bellamy, Frank Morgan, and Lynne Overman.
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