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Willie Best Facts
| Sign | Gemini |
| Born |
May 27, 1913 Sunflower, MS |
| Died |
Feb 27, 1962 Hollywood, CA |
| Age | Died at 48 |
| Total Facts | 3 |
Bob Hope referred to Best, as his comedic co-star in The Ghost Breakers (1940), as one of the finest talents he had ever worked with.
He came to Hollywood serving as a chauffeur for a Mississippi white couple on vacation, and decided to stay and seek a career in show business.
In his earliest film appearances, in the early 1930s, if he was given screen credit he was billed as "Sleep 'n' Eat".