Directed by:
Edward SedgwickCinematography:
Leonard SmithComposer:
William AxtCast:
Buster Keaton, Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Fred Niblo, Gwen Lee, John Miljan, Lionel Barrymore, William Haines, William Collier Sr., Dorothy Sebastian (more)VOD (1)
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A grease monkey / "talent manager" takes a young beauty contest winner and her frightening mother from Kansas to Hollywood. They manage to get on the MGM lot, where they disrupt sets, wreak scenes, bedevil directors and ultimately gain some unexpected notices of their own. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Buster Keaton
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
The General (1926)
Limelight (1952)
Anita Page
USA
Best movies:
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
This Happy Breed (1944) - a.f.
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Robert Montgomery
USA
Best movies:
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Rage in Heaven (1941)
Inspiration (1931)
Fred Niblo
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Souls for Sale (1923)
Free and Easy (1930)
Gwen Lee
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Double Wedding (1937)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
If I Were King (1938)
Juarez (1939)
Lionel Barrymore
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
Captains Courageous (1937)
William Haines
USA
Best movies:
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Show People (1928)
Souls for Sale (1923)
William Collier Sr.
USA
Best movies:
Up the River (1930)
Hot Saturday (1932)
Free and Easy (1930)
Dorothy Sebastian
USA
Best movies:
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Show (1927)
Show People (1928)
Karl Dane
Denmark
Best movies:
The Big Parade (1925)
The Scarlet Letter (1926)
The Mysterious Island (1929)
Cecil B. DeMille
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Jackie Coogan
USA
Best movies:
The Kid (1921)
Chaplin (1992) - a.f.
The Proud Ones (1956)
Edward Brophy
USA
Best movies:
The Cameraman (1928)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Dumbo (1941)
Adolphe Menjou
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Zelig (1983) - a.f.
Ann Dvorak
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
'G' Men (1935)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Marion Shilling
USA
Best movies:
Free and Easy (1930)
Richard Carle
USA
Best movies:
Ninotchka (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
San Francisco (1936)
Edgar Dearing
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Theodore Lorch
USA
Best movies:
Mad Love (1935)
Stagecoach (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)