In Search Of The Sons Of Barnum

Tony Kaye’s studio in Hollywood stores some of his extraordinary work. It emerges that the house was where Holbrook Blinn rehearsed Mary Nash to safely faint for a press scam that would try and make a name at the premier of ‘High Sign’.

The movie was Buster Keaton’s first independent two-reeler. Keaton didn’t consider it funny enough and had it shelved upon its completion in 1920. It was released the following year when his film output was slowed by a broken leg.