Word: keaton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective...
...present series were chosen to "exemplify the wide scope and uniqueness of art form that the film achieved" in the period from 1922 to 1928. Other films include two well-known early talking pictures and examples of the animated cartoon and the documentary film: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedies are on the first program, scheduled for November...
...Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting...
Capitalizing on recent interest in movie history, 20th Century Fox has delved back into the files and brought out two scenes of slap-stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance...
...with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital...