- Hosted the Academy Awards in 1935
- Began as a reporter for the Paducah Daily News at the age of seventeen, becoming the nation's youngest managing news editor two years later.
- Wrote 60 books and some 300 short stories.
- American humorist. who started a writing career after being forced to quit school due to his father's alcohol addiction.
- Father of Elisabeth Cobb.
- Grandfather of Buff Cobb.
- Novelist and dramatist who acted in occasional US films of both silent and sound eras.
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