Clark and McCullough

Bobby Clark was the fast-talking wisecracker with painted-on eyeglasses; Paul McCullough was his easygoing assistant named Blodgett.

In 1928, Clark and McCullough entered the new field of talking pictures, with a series of short subjects and featurettes for Fox Film Corporation.

The RKO comedies are totally dominated by Clark, barging into every scene and monopolizing much of the conversation, with his good-natured buddy McCullough quietly embellishing his partner's antics with subtler gestures and actions.

After he was released from a sanitarium in March 1936, McCullough visited a barber shop where he grabbed a razor, and committed suicide by cutting his throat and wrists.

[2][4] Clark was forced to pursue a solo career; he appeared in Samuel Goldwyn's 1938 musical comedy The Goldwyn Follies (wearing actual eyeglasses instead of his trademark painted-on glasses) and reestablished himself on Broadway as a solo comedian in such revues as Streets of Paris and Mexican Hayride.