Harold Peary is best remembered for playing the colorful, pompous blowhard the Great Gildersleeve on radio and in four feature films. He moved to Chicago in 1935 to further his radio career. Two years later, he began appearing regularly on "Fibber McGee and Molly" where he originated the Gildersleeve character as a Fibber McGee neighbor and nemesis in 1938. Gildersleeve proved so popular that it was spun off into it's own radio show in 1941. He moved to Summerfield where he became the guardian of the orphaned children of his late sister, niece and nephew Marjorie and Leroy. Later he became Summerfield's water commissioner. During the radio heyday in the 1940s, Harold Peary brought his Great Gildersleeve to film in four movies. The Great Gildersleeve, Gildersleeve's Bad Day, Gildersleeve on Broadway, and Gildersleeve's Ghost.

The Great Gildersleeve

Small-town eccentric Throckmorton Gildersleeve (of radio fame) has a few problems: Judge Hooker continually questions his guardianship of niece Margie and nephew Leroy; the judge's predatory sister Amelia has matrimony in mind. When a misunderstanding gives Amelia the idea she's all but engaged, the kids form a wild scheme to get Gildersleeve out of trouble; slapstick results.

Starring: Harold Peary, Nancy Gates, Freddie Mercer, Charles Arnt
1943 - BW - 62 Min.

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Gildersleeve's Bad Day

Assorted citizens of Summerfield, including Gildersleeve of radio fame, sit on a jury in the trial of bank robber Louie Barton. Through coincidence, Gildersleeve is wrongly suspected of bribe-taking. His efforts to get out of trouble only get him deeper

Starring: Harold Peary, Nancy Gates, Charles Arnt, Freddie Mercer
1943 • BW • 62 Minutes.

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Gildersleeve On Broadway

Perennial bachelor Gildersleeve (of radio fame) finally gets engaged to Mildred, then must leave for New York, ostensibly on a mission for druggist friend Peavey, but really to locate his niece Margie's erring beau Jimmy. Soon he's dodging three women: a golddigging blonde, his fiancée, and nutty Laura Chandler, the drug supplier Peavey needs to win over; slapstick is the order of the day.

Starring: Harold Peary ,Billie Burke, Lillian Randolph, Richard LeGrand
1943 • BW • 65 Minutes

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Gildersleeve's Ghost

Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve (of radio fame) is running for police commissioner against incumbent Haley. The ghosts (!) of his ancestors Randolph and Jonathan decide to help him get elected, but succeed only in getting him mixed up with mad scientist John Wells, an escaped gorilla, and an intermittently invisible showgirl..

Starring: Harold Peary, Marion Martin, Richard LeGrand, Freddie Mercer, Margie Stewart
1944 • BW • 63 minutes

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