Word: funnyman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Buster Keaton, stone-faced funnyman, 43; and Dancer Eleanor Ruth Morris, 21; in Los Angeles. Said Keaton, already twice divorced: "I feel like smiling, but the studio won't allow it-not in public, anyway...
...Hollywood, Artist Richard Decker unveiled, with flourishes, his latest portrait: a smug, somewhat sinister Queen Victoria, with white wig, ample bosom, the unmistakable face of Funnyman W. C. Fields...
...Francisco, Film Comedian Ned Sparks claimed a deduction of $3,000 on his 1934-35 income of $137,380. The money went for a set of false teeth. Explained his lawyer: the teeth actually cost $3,500, but Funnyman Sparks lopped off $500 because he used them outside of working hours...
...proof enough that one of the coolest heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have you changed your perfume...
Skinny, hatchet-faced, homely and aware of it, Funnywoman Finch could move with a birdlike grace, was a perfect foil for elephantine, moon-faced Funnyman John Bunny. With him she appeared on miles of film...