Dwight Frye's career began in the theater.  He became famous as a character actor who could take on many different kinds of roles, especially comedy.  So it was no surprise that he would return to his theater roots on the silver screen.

In the James Cagney musical (bet you never thought you would hear Cagney and musical in the same sentence) Something to Sing About, Dwight Frye plays the effeminate makeup artist Mr. Easton.  Easton has to make James Cagney look like a movie star.  Luckily, he has the help of Mr. Daviani of Wardrobe and Mr. Farney the Dialogue Coach.  I affectionately refer to them as “The Bitch Squad.”

Sidenote:  I respect James Cagney as an actor but the man can’t sing worth beans.  He can dance though I will give him that.

As Mr. Easton, Dwight has some of the best and most bizarre lines.  “The hairline, gracious, it belongs on an entirely different face, Mr. Regan.”  “When I look at that hairline I could almost cry.” Is he just a little obsessed about hair in this movie or what?  Anyway, here are some more pictures.

The Monocle
Easton Meets Terry 
Easton As Long Suffering Jewish Mother
Easton Doesn’t Like the Hair
Easton Looking Disgusted
Easton Shoots Terry “The Look”
“The Bitch Squad”
Bitch Squad Planning a Smackdown
Easton and Robert Taylor’s Hairline
Getting Up From the Chair
Easton Looks Like He’s Been Goosed
More Talk About Hairlines
Easton Indignant
Yeah!  Terry No Longer Sucks
Getting Tossed
Randomly Looking Like a Wounded Puppy

I know most of the pictures look similar, but Dwight really isn’t in as much of the movie as I would have liked.  I also did not think people really wanted to see the random scenes where he's just background.  That’s what you rent the movie for.; )

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