Applejack

Just saw this movie for the first time.Edgar was wonderful in his role !
at first I thought they were calling him Uncle jack, then i caught on...
I have only know his "work" from that stupid tv show-I need to look for his
earlier work in films like this one.

What a wonderful tidbit! Thanks for sharing that.

That was my favorite part of the whole movie. He was so sweet!

Ooh, me too! That scene was just "toot sweet."
And when he called her "Peanut"- melt!
Of course, Charles Schultz called his characters Peanuts, but it never really clicked before that babies could actually look like peanuts. But she really did.
I remember hearing that Mowgli (from Jungle Book) meant little frog, and when our third child was our first boy, that finally made sense- it clicked at bathtime, too, as in this movie.
But I never really got the Peanut reference until rewatching Penny Serenade today. (Maybe it helps if the little cutie is mostly bald. :)

And, who knew "Uncle Joe" could shift gears so completely, from movin' kinda slow to full speed ahead? As other commenters have said, it's a pity that this Applejack persona wasn't seen more often
in other films. It was a real winner.

For me, he was a very good character actor in an era that was flush with great character actors. In fact, those great character actors are often my reason for watching many films from the 30's and 40's - the era of my favorite films. To me, Applejack is Edgar Buchanan's piece de resistance. His emotions run the gamut - yet in an understated way. And I marvel that he was not given more roles with such "meat" and breadth. He was mostly typecast as a curmudgeon. Pity.

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