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Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
Buster Keaton (his lifelong stage name) was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."
Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made."
A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
Actors: Chris Kattan (actor), Kevin Connor (director), Preston Lacy (actor), Victor Bardack (producer), Chris Jackson (actor), Victor Bardack (writer), Dan Kamin (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ramzi Abed (director), Cinqué Lee (actor), Ramzi Abed (writer), Julie Strain (actress), Jed Rowen (actor), Ramzi Abed (producer), Mark Weiler (actor), Trent Haaga (actor), Trent Haaga (actor), Martijn Berndsen (actor), Ramzi Abed (actor), Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Will Keenan (actor), Stephanie A. Purdy (miscellaneous crew), Werner Herzog (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: An unforgettable journey into the darkness and mystery of Hollywood's most famous unsolved murder case. When the beautiful Lisa Small gets the chance to play the tragic victim of the crime, Elizabeth Short, an entire dreamworld awakens all around her. All the while, a killer is on the loose collecting women and killing them in time for the 60th anniversary of the original murder. A spider's web grows around Lisa, as her nightmares and desires intersect. As Lisa delves deeper into her script, she propels herself into living out the last days of the Black Dahlia.
Keywords: acting, aleister-crowley, art, art-house, audition, based-on-true-story, black-dahlia, blood, blood-spatter, brunetteActors: Neil Meron (producer), Ian Mune (actor), Glenn Jordan (director), Craig Zadan (producer), Glenn Jordan (producer), Bruce Broughton (composer), Ann Dowd (actress), David A. Simmons (editor), Jacobus Rose (producer), Madeline Zima (actress), Russell Newman (actor), Zoe Carides (actress), Jackie Sullivan (miscellaneous crew), Dave Mace (producer), Andrew Robertt (actor),
Plot: After her parents are financially ruined in a lawsuit over a shooting accident, Lucille 'Lucy' Ball pursues her dream of fame as actress. She succeeds in comical parts, often the girl who gets the cake in her face. Then she meets and soon marries the love of her life, Desiderio 'Desi' . Ricky, Latin band leader and aristocratic son of an exiled Cuban mayor. Desi proves a business genius, who gets a revolutionary method adopted to gain production control of the sitcom "I Love Lucy", a format devised for him and Lucy to star in. Despite offspring, their family life soon gets into stormy waters, mainly due to his infidelity, gambling and temper.
Keywords: abuse, character-name-in-title, dancing, face-slap, gambling, hugging, infidelity, jealousy, love, play-within-a-playActors: Walter Avancini (producer), Walter Avancini (director), Ney Latorraca (actor), Walter Avancini (writer), Serafim Gonzalez (actor), Selma Egrei (actress), Zé Trindade (actor), Walter Forster (actor), Marcos Rey (writer), Zilka Salaberry (actress), Castro Gonzaga (actor), Arlete Salles (actress), Ida Gomes (actress), Walter George Durst (writer), Bentinho (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Joe Ploski (actor), William Meader (actor), Joseph Forte (actor), Donald O'Connor (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Peter Lorre (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor), Ralph Dumke (actor), Len Hendry (actor), Keith Richards (actor), Richard Anderson (actor),
Plot: Buster Keaton leaves his family vaudeville act for the movies. He starts out as a bit player but quickly becomes famous as he acts in and directs his own films. Casting director Gloria Brent is in love with him, but he favors a starlet. When she rejects him, he starts drinking, a problem which only worsens when sound destroys silent cinema and his career. Will Gloria's love and his desire to make people laugh win out?
Keywords: character-name-in-title, movie-comedian, silent-film-star, silent-movie-actor, vaudeville-comedianActors: Len Hendry (actor), E. Mason Hopper (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Ken Christy (actor), Joe Gray (actor), William Holden (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor), Eddie Dew (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Larry J. Blake (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Creighton Hale (actor), Buster Keaton (actor),
Plot: The story, set in '50s Hollywood, focuses on Norma Desmond, a silent-screen goddess whose pathetic belief in her own indestructibility has turned her into a demented recluse. The crumbling Sunset Boulevard mansion where she lives with only her butler, Max who was once her director and husband has become her self-contained world. Norma dreams of a comeback to pictures and she begins a relationship with Joe Gillis, a small-time writer who becomes her lover, that will soon end with murder and total madness.
Keywords: abbreviation-in-title, actor, actress, aging, animal-burial, ashtray, assistant-director, astrology, auto-repossession, automobileActors: Bruce Bennett (actor), Stanley Brown (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Richard Fiske (actor), Buster Keaton (actor), Jules White (director), Dorothy Appleby (actress), Jules White (producer), Ewart Adamson (writer), Clyde Bruckman (writer), Elsie Ames (actress),
Plot: The police are hunting for a jewel thief. Two detectives follow a suspect who ducks into Keaton's Snappy Hats, where all hats are four-thirds off. The thief, a good-looking gal, has the clerk model several hats before she picks one; she slips a huge diamond ring into the band and asks the clerk to deliver the hat to her house. At her flat he finds an irrepressible maid, Odette; complications arise when Odette bangs her head and the clerk revives her with too much whiskey. The thief, the clerk, the maid, and a parrot are soon in various forms of duress, distress, and undress.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, thiefActors: Don Ameche (actor), Herbert Ashley (actor), Sam Ash (actor), J. Edward Bromberg (actor), Frederick Burton (actor), John Butler (actor), Chick Chandler (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Chester Conklin (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Jack Cooper (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Alan Curtis (actor), Edward Earle (actor),
Plot: Michael Linnett Connors takes Molly Adair from Broadway understudy to 1913 Hollywood star. Although she is in love with him, she marries her co-star reckoning wrongly Connors thinks of her only in terms of movies. He fires her in pique, apparently terminally damaging his career.
Keywords: actor, actress, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, car-accident, contract, dog, happy-birthday-to-you, hollywood-california, hospital, keystone-kopsActors: Buster Keaton (actor), Joseph M. Schenck (producer), Buster Keaton (writer), Edward F. Cline (director), Buster Keaton (director), Jeffrey Vance (writer), Virginia Fox (actress), Joe Roberts (actor), Fred Gabourie (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very mean captain. A crewman who spills coffee on the captain's hand is thrown overboard. So is anyone else who bothers the captain.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, boat, captain, whaling-ship, written-and-directed-by-cast-member