“Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality build-ups. We weren’t really actresses in the true sense. We were just big names–the products of a good publicity department.” —Ann Sothern
Richard Avedon Buster Keaton, New York City, 1952 “The screen was just a white sheet. They had this flickering machine. That was the first time I saw this angel with a white face and these beautiful eyes. I knew this was something special. It was the first time I saw Keaton. He wore a flat pancake of a hat, and I just couldn’t believe the man’s grace.” —Mel Brooks, on first seeing a Buster Keaton film when Brooks was a child.