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Here are 10 things you should know about Grady Sutton, born 120 years ago today. He stumbled into a movie role in 1925 and kept acting for 55 years.

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Grady Sutton, W.C. Fields, and Franklin Pangborn in Edward Cline's hilarious THE BANK DICK (1940).

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The former apartment building of Grady Sutton, as it looked today.

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The Bank Dick (The Bank Detective) (1940) Edward F. Cline

July 21st 2021

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Barbara Stanwyck, Stanley Ridges, Sam Levene, Henry Fonda and Grady Sutton in The Mad Miss Manton, 1938.

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“The Boy Friends” was a series of American “Pre-Code” comedy short films produced at the Hal Roach studios & released between 1930 - 1932. The series consisted of fifteen films & was spun off from the long running “Our Gang” film series (also known as The Little Rascals). Seen (left to right) are: Grady "Alabam" Sutton, Dorothy Granger, David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger, Mickey Daniels & Mary Kornman.

Mickey Daniels & Betty "no brains" Bolen strike a pose for a still photo on the set of "Too Many Women" (1932) No such action appears in the finished film. “Too Many Women” was the final entry in “The Boy Friends” series.

"Too Many Women" (1932) Eddie Morgan, Ham Kinsey (umpire in glasses), Mickey Daniels & Grady Sutton (Ham Kinsey was also the stand-in & body double for Stan Laurel at the Hal Roach Studios)   

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W.C. Fields, Franklin Pangborn, and Grady Sutton in The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline, 1940)