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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began starring in silent films, most of them box-office duds. After sound came, Horton began to win a movie public as a fuddy-duddy Mr. Fixit. In the high-grossing Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire pictures, he became one of the screen's best-known comedians. Of late years he has operated as a "scavenger," making pictures "whenever they have a bad part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Edward & Henry | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Donald Nelson, now Chungking's Mr. Fixit, last week submitted the latest of many recent reports on China (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Salient excerpts from the Nelson* report to President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Upgrade | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...mean the loss of his U.S. citizenship, a quarrel develops. President Roosevelt is treated with Warners' usual restraint; only his shoulder appears in the picture. But Fala (played by a standin) carries notes, and at length his invisible master stoops from the height of history to play Mr. Fixit to the romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1943 | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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