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. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.

• Hal Roach Studios
• screen directors guild
• Buster Keaton
• Zasu Pitts
• Joe E. Brown
• Evelyn Ankers
• Jack Kruschen
• Jack Elam
• Percy Helton
• Joseph Corey