Guy Bridges Kibbee (1882 – 1956). American stage and film actor.
His father was editor of the El Paso Herald-Post newspaper, and Kibbee learned how to set type at age 7. At the age of 14, he ran away to join a traveling show.
Kibbee began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats and became an actor in traveling stock companies.
In 1930, he made his debut on Broadway in the play Torch Song, which won acclaim in New York and attracted the interest of Hollywood. Shortly afterwards, Paramount Pictures signed Kibbee, and he moved to California. Kibbee's specialty was daft and jovial characters; he is perhaps best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Captain Blood (1935), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), though he also played the expatriate inn owner in Joan Crawford's Rain (1932).
He is also remembered for his performance as Mr. Webb, editor of the Grover's Corners, New Hampshire newspaper, and father of Emily Webb in the film version of the classic Thornton Wilder play Our Town.
- "... sporting a a full mane of red hair and weighing under 200 pounds." https://hometownstohollywood.com/texas/guy-kibbee/
- "... under two hundred pounds with a full head of red hair back then..." https://immortalephemera.com/64132/guy-kibbee-biography/
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