Herbert, Hugh - Comedian - Signed & Insc. Vintage 5x7 Photo - d.1952
5x7 double weight photo signed in black ink,
“To Eugene – With good luck and good health “Woo Woo” Hugh Herbert”.
Slight featuring to a few words in the inscription. Silvering to the image on the lower ¼ of his black jacket. his black jacket, which disappears when viewed head on.
Bio: Hugh Herbert (August 10, 1885 – March 12, 1952) was an American motion picture comedian. He began his career in Vaudeville and wrote more than 150 plays and sketches.
The advent of talking pictures brought stage-trained actors to Hollywood, and Herbert soon became a popular movie comedian. His screen character was usually flustered and absent-minded. He would flutter his fingers together and talk to himself, repeating the same phrases: "Hoo-hoo-hoo, wonderful, wonderful, hoo hoo hoo!" So many imitators (including Curly Howard of The Three Stooges, Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy and Etta Candy in the Wonder Woman comic book series) copied the catchphrase as "woo woo" that Herbert even began to use "woo woo" rather than "hoo hoo" in the 1940s.