Guy Kibbee

At 74 years old, Guy Kibbee has this physical status:

Guy Bridges Kibbee (March 6, 1882 to May 24, 1956) was an American stage and film actor.

Early years

Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas. His father was the editor of the El Paso Herald-Post newspaper, and Kibbee learned how to set type at age 7. At the age of 14, he pushed away to attend a traveling exhibit. Milton Kibbee, his younger brother, was a filmmaker.

Personal life

Helen Shay, Kibbee's first wife, with whom he raised a family in Staten Island before his divorce. Robert Kibbee, an academic who became chancellor of the City University of New York, was one of their sons.

Ethel "Brownie" Reed, Reed's second wife, was his second wife. Shirley Ann, their daughter, was born in 1981 and they were married for 31 years.

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Career

Kibbee began his entertainment on Mississippi riverboats. He became a celebrity in touring stock companies. At 19 years old, he began to lose his hair. He was a romantic leading man from the beginnings on stage.

He made his Broadway debut in Torch Song in 1930, which earned acclaim in New York and piqued Hollywood's attention. Kibbee was signed by Shortly after, Paragraph Pictures released him in California, and he migrated to California. Later, he joined Warner Bros.' stock firm, contract actors who cycled through various productions in supporting roles. Kibbee's specialty was daft and jovial characters; he is perhaps best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers (1935), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), although he appeared in Joan Crawford's Rain (1932). Babbit (1934), a much improved and compressed version of the Sinclair Lewis novel, was one of his few starring performances during this period.

In the film version of Thornton Wilder's classic My Town, he is also remembered for his appearance as Mr. Webb, editor of the Grover's Corners, New Hampshire newspaper, and father of Emily Webb (played by Martha Scott).

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