Edward Pawley - Hollywood

Hollywood

Not long after talkies came into vogue, Pawley left the theater after 1932 and went to Hollywood where he performed in over 50 movies during a relatively brief (for Hollywood) ten-year span. He had feature roles in such movies as Hoosier Schoolboy with Mickey Rooney, G-Men with James Cagney, The Oklahoma Kid with James 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. He played mostly "bad guy" roles in gangster, horror, comedy and Western films. He became friends with Cagney (with whom he made five movies), Jackie Cooper (four movies) and Francis Lederer. One of his earliest friends in the entertainment industry was Arthur Hughes who played Bill Davidson on the long-running radio show, Just Plain Bill. Arthur also acted in some Broadway plays and was Pawley's best man at his wedding (in 1922) to stage actress Martina May Martin (his first wife).