Three years after that, he was in "Bathing Beauty" with Esther Williams. He eventually did well with the comedy thriller "Whistling in the Dark," 1941.
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His manager wife negotiated a $1,500-a-week movie contract for him with MGM in 1938. His big break came in 1937 on crooner Rudy Vallee's radio show, when his irreverent humor made a hit with the audience. They were married two years later, and soon she was writing his material and managing his career. In 1930, at age 17, he met Edna Marie Stillwell, a 15-year-old usherette. He dropped out of school at 14 to entertain in a traveling minstrel show, making ten dollars a week.Īfter working as a minstrel man on a showboat that cruised the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and as a clown with his late father's circus, he turned to burlesque in the late '20s. Skelton-nicknamed 'Red' by his brothers, began selling newspapers at age seven. Left destitute, his mom worked as a cleaning woman. Skelton was the youngest of four sons of a circus clown who died two months before he was born. Five years later he was nominated for an Emmy as the actor in "The Big Slide." He traditionally ended every show with "Good night and may God bless." In 1951 he received the TV Emmy as best comedian. With his trademark red hair and his characters who poked gentle fun at the foibles of man, he made TV audiences howl from 1951-1971 as Clem Kadiddlehopper, the Mean Widdle Kid and Freddie the Freeloader.
American film, nightclub and Emmy-award-winning TV comedian, world-known and loved.
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