Background
Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas and began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats.
Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas and began his entertainment career on Mississippi riverboats.
He eventually became a successful Broadway actor. In the 1930s, Kibbee moved to California and became part of "Warner Brothers" stock company", contracted actors who cycled through different productions in supporting roles. Kibbee"s specialty was daft and jovial characters, and he is perhaps best remembered for the films 42nd Street (1933), The Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Captain Blood (1935), and Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington (1939), though he also played the expat inn owner in Joan Crawford"s Rain (1932).
Kibbee died from complications arising from Parkinson"s disease in Long Island, New York in 1956. Guy Kibbee eggs is the name for a breakfast dish which consists of a hole cut out of the center of a slice of bread, and an egg cracked into it, all of which is fried in a skillet.
The actor prepared this dish in the 1935 Warner Brothers film Mary Jane"s Pa, hence the eponym. This dish is also known by other names, such as "egg in a basket.".