Edward Joel Pawley was an American actor of radio, films and Broadway.
23 Facts About Edward Pawley
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Edward Pawley moved to New York City in 1920 to pursue a career in the theater.
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Edward Pawley began his theatrical career in 1920 and reached the Broadway stage in 1923 in The Shame Woman.
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Winchell wrote that Edward Pawley received a standing ovation after his opening night performance in the 1931 play Two Seconds.
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Not long after sound film came into vogue, Edward Pawley left the theater in 1932 and went to Hollywood where he performed in over 50 movies during a relatively brief ten-year span.
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Edward Pawley had feature roles in such movies as The Hoosier Schoolboy with Mickey Rooney, G Men with James Cagney, The Oklahoma Kid with Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, King Solomon of Broadway with Edmund Lowe and Louise Henry, Each Dawn I Die with George Raft and Cagney, Tom Sawyer, Detective with Janet Waldo and Donald O'Connor and Romance on the Range with Roy Rogers and Gabby Hayes.
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Edward Pawley played mostly "bad guy" roles in gangster, horror, comedy and Western films.
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Edward Pawley became friends with Cagney, Jackie Cooper and Francis Lederer.
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Edward Pawley became disenchanted with Hollywood during the attempted infiltration by the communists in the late 1930s and early 1940s and left in 1942.
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Edward Pawley returned briefly to Broadway, where he starred with Gregory Peck in what was Peck's second Broadway play titled The Willow and I In the 1930s, Pawley had performed leading romantic roles on The Collier Hour radio program.
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Edward Pawley resumed work in radio after returning to New York City.
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Edward Pawley had performed with Robinson in 1926 in a comedy play titled "The Stolen Lady" at "Werba's Brooklyn Theater".
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Edward Pawley's audience was estimated at anywhere from 10 to 20 million radio listeners.
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Edward Pawley left Big Town in 1951 and retired near the small village of Amissville in rural Rappahannock County, Virginia.
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Edward Pawley had fallen in love with the state while touring with the 1920 play East Is West, his first professional acting role.
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Edward Pawley would become the quintessential "Virginia gentleman" and was loved for his integrity, patriotism and charm.
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Edward Pawley was admired for his vocabulary and speaking voice, as well as his status as an entertainer in three different media forms.
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Edward Pawley raised and sold championship goats, wrote poetry and was a part-time announcer at local radio station WCVA in Culpeper, Virginia.
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Edward Pawley became a member of The Lambs in 1951.
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Edward Pawley moved to Rock Mills, Virginia, in the mid-1950s and lived on the original site of the Rock Mill near the confluence of the Thornton and Rush rivers, fulfilling a dream of living close to nature.
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Edward Pawley died on January 27,1988, of a heart condition at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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In 1922, Edward Pawley married his high school sweetheart, Martina May Martin, a professional stage actress.
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In 1937, Edward Pawley married the then-popular Broadway singer, dancer and actress Helen Shipman.