When a great film director accepts an academy award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool.
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Buster Keaton | Kelsey Dutton |
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ZaSu Pitts | Selma |
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Joe E. Brown | Arthur Vail |
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Evelyn Ankers | Miss Loving |
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Jack Kruschen | Ernie |
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Jack Elam | Shanks |
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Percy Helton | Barney |
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Joe Corey | Arnold |
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Lyle Latell | Ernie's Friend |
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Charles Horvath | Barber |
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Steve Carruthers | Academy Awards Attendee |
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Heinie Conklin | Saloon Waiter in Western Comedy |
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Russell Custer | Policeman |
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Charles Ferguson | Academy Awards Attendee |
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Rudy Germane | Academy Awards Attendee |
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Bob Hope | Self |
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Jack Kenny | Barfly in Western Comedy |
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Hank Mann | Cameraman |
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Spec O'Donnell | Film Shoot Onlooker |
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'Snub' Pollard | Special Effects Man |
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Jeffrey Sayre | Academy Awards Attendee |
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Cap Somers | Barfly in Western Comedy |
Director | George Marshall |
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Writer | Barbara Avedon, George Marshall | |
Photography | Edwin B. DuPar |